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Avoiding configuration drift
I run 11 Windows 2008 R2 x64 servers. I am looking at a way to manage and avoid configuration drift. Does anyone know any tools that could help with this?
Thanks
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Is there a way to show list of all open sockets on a Windows server and the socket properties?
We are using a third party library in one of our applications. We would like to find a tool which will list all of the open sockets on the machine AND give us the ability to see the various TCP ...
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Who's consuming the most network bandwitdth?
I'm connected to a LAN in my office, which has many users. Using NAT all the machines get a global IP address through which they can access Internet. What i'm trying to figure out is, is it possible ...
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Filesystem speed shaper for Linux
There is an iprelay (or ip_relay) package to shape TCP bandwidth, and it is really useful to test how stuff works on slow connections.
Is there something similar to iprelay, which will allow me to ...
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Monitoring small subsets of multiple networks
What would be good software for monitoring multiple small and disparate networks?
My company sells a product that requires deployment of a number of Linux servers on a customer's network (typically ...
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Load Analysis GUI tools for Linux - individual process and overall
I need to do some load analysis on a Linux server and would like a nice GUI to help me. I don't need any fancy history, logging, or alerting. I need more information than top, and would like it ...
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Managing the Network from a linux machine
I am using Linux at my work, and i am kind of a sys admin / IT support, (not exactly my title but i do this kind of things since there is no one else). There are mostly Windows user in my organization ...
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fedora default traffic monitor tool
On a fedora server i have access using a ssh connection. As a regular user, how can I see what traffic is involved into the server?
I don't have root rights, and I'll like to learn from the default ...
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Linux: grep-able monitoring of network traffic and number of connections
I need to collect certain monitoring data every minute and send it to a monitoring server. The source of that data must be parseable using standard Linux tools. For example, to monitor number of ...
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Online configuration tool for iptables?
Are there any online tools that can spit-out a customised config for iptables? I'm specifically looking for something that has options to include/exclude rules to guard against common attacks.
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List of Different Directory Sizes
I have a list of folders on my network in a .txt, which are stored in different locations throughout the network. Looking for a tool or script to pull the size of those folders and output them to a ...
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Tool for network/infrastructure graph
I search for Linux a graphic tool to document our network/server infrastructure. A script that converts maybe some textual representation into dot (i.e. graphviz) would be enough.
Nodes should be ...
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How do I view NTFS metadata?
On a Windows Server 2008 R2 file server, we are encountering a memory usage problem. We used RAMMap to troubleshoot, and found that 10GB of NTFS Metadata is being cached in memory and never gets ...
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Windows Text Search Tool Including PDFs
Looking for recommendations for tool/process to search through roughly 2TBs of data looking for certain phrases. This would include office docs, .txt, and PDFs.
I see a lot of tools out there for ...
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Far manager for linux?
I've been using far manager under windows for about the last 6 years, and can't find anything like it for linux. mc is not a reasonable replacement, and gnome commander is not either. Are there any ...
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Good malware removal tool(s) for windows XP/Vista/7? [closed]
The goal for this Wiki is to extablish a list of known good tools for cleaning up those pesky malware / virues that haunt windows clients. What tools do you like and what are their strengths and ...
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How to go about traffic forwarding
There's a server (node A), acting as the end point of a GRE tunnel. Also there is an Ubuntu server (node B, it sees Internet) acting as the termination point for the GRE tunnel. Some devices (nodes ...
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Is there a tool like 'route' in Linux to configure the forwarding entry (dst mac address --> interface)
I have a problem in configuring the forwarding table in Linux.
We call IP tables for routing table in layer 3, MAC tables for forwarding table in layer 2.
Now I want to add an entry in forwarding ...
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Does Linux have some tools like mtree in *BSD?
I want to check all system files change every week. So I want to get a tool like mtree in BSD.
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mySQL Administrator can't connect to database server cause Error Host now allowed
it return error can't connect to 192.168.1.100 (ip of server)
Error Host 192.169.1.9 is now allowed
how to fixed this ?
system running on VM CentOS 6, when use phpmyadmin are work well but not work ...
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Usefulness of tablets in the System Admin world
So in my new job as System Admin, more and more I have been looking into tablets but I try to be a frugal person and justify my costs. One application I was attempting to think of was if I could use ...
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Having problems sending Data Packets
I'm using Backtrack on my virtual machine (Host: Windows 7)..
Primarily, I'm having problems sending packets using Scapy..Using the send() and sendp() function, I'm only able to send crafted packets ...
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Any tool to benchmark web server performance
What I wanted to know is if there is any easy tool for me to run in Centos linux to know how good the box is.
Disk IO, CPU, Memory ...not only the data but their performance under high usage, high ...
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SUN X4150 Server - Tools and Drivers CD Request
I have been trying to get my hands on the latest tools and drivers cd for the X4150 Sunfire server. Sun (Oracle) is no help to a guy like me. I don't want a service agreement, I just want the latest ...
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Monitor a window or RDP Session
At my job, I often perform tasks on remote Windows machines using RDP. These tasks can take a long time to finish (hours/days/weeks), so I end up with many RDP sessions open simultaneously, each with ...
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Tool to manage CITRIX application dependency libraries
I need to use some tools to help me during the release and deployment management of package application. I would like to use HP release control and maybe HP quality centre.
But I do not ...
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Parallel execution of different commands on multiple hosts
I'm looking for a tool for running a series of commands like the existing tool:
parallel -h
parallel [OPTIONS] command -- arguments
for each argument, run command with argument, in parallel
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Free tool/script for directory size calculation
Does anyone know of a free command-line tool or script that calculates the size of a directory including all subdirectories?
It needs to be compatible with Windows 7, work with hard links and ...
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Diagnosing a Memcache server with a high cache miss rate
What tools are available to debug a memcache server with a high miss rate (62%)?
Ideally I would like to know the keys for the top cache misses, but I would just settle for seeing the keys of live ...
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Why does dstat show zeroes for disk activity on my virtual private server running Ubuntu?
I'm trying to monitor the number of disk reads and writes on my VPS (Rackspace in this case) running Ubuntu 9.04. I realize there are many tools to do this, but when using dstat 0.7 I tried the ...
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Any ideas why Ettercap filters aren't seeing packet data?
I'm using an Ettercap filter to detect a query response coming back from a particular service on a remote machine. When I see a response from the service, I'm searching through the data in the packet ...
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compare windows server for patch/update/hotfix installs
Are there any tools that can be used to connect to windows 2008 servers, and get a comparison of the installed patches/updates on the servers, showing what is installed on one and not on the other?
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Is there a browser based crontab editor?
I would like to incorporate in one of our systems it if there is one. Or perhaps just know how it works.
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Finding the previous nameservers for a domain
We are investigating an issue we had with DNS lookups to a specific domain (nyc.gov).
Does anyone know of a tool or website to find out the previous nameservers of a domain? We suspect the ...
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Redirect TCP connections from machine on internet to a machine behind a NAT
I would like to find a tool that allows me to do the following:
I have machine A behind a NAT\Router with a web application, then I have server B accessible on the internet.
Using some application all ...
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How do you lift heavy servers into a rack?
In this video can I see that they use a dedicated "server lift", which looks quite expensive.
Does anyone know of cheap server lifts or other tools that can be used for this?
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Tools to monitor users activity on Linux/Unix servers
Is there any specific open source tool which can be used to monitor what users are doing on linux system. I have multiple servers and with access to some users on them. I want to monitor which user ...
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Tool to change user information in AD and Exchange
Is there any tool that can be used by HR to fill and change user details in AD and Exchange?
(eg: company, department, telephone numbers, etc.)
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Centralized backup method recommendation for SMEs with various OSes
Hi I was wondering what in your opinion is the "best" method for having "everything" backed-up in the following situation.
We are a SMEs with 10 computers in total.
Three of those computers are ...
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Tools to test multicast routing
I am looking for a good simple tool that runs on a standard OS (Windows or Linux) that I can used to test that multicast is being passed properly by a router.
I have been asked by a client to enable ...
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hpasmcli documentation or manual
I use the HP health suite for a Proliant server and i get following output:
# hpasmcli -s "show fans;"
Fan Location Present Speed of max Redundant Partner Hot-pluggable
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Tool to manage IP map?
Is there a tool which can manage the maintenance of an IP map?
If no, it is possible to make a Powershell script which can get hostnames and their IPs, but it'd be nice if a tool exists to do this ...
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How to detect weak points in my lan
I am starting to "polish" the LAN here at my new work and since it's the 1st time I face sommething that big (almost 300 clients a switches, proxy) I would like to understand easily where I get weak ...
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Looking for easy to use remote server monitoring tool for Windows Server 2008 R2 [closed]
We are a very small ecommerce business and we are trying to find a remote monitoring tool something in the lines of the ResMon/PerfMon in Windows in order to monitor our dedicated Windows 2008 R2 ...
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What tools, parts, accessories do you keep in your Colo?
I know Colo is less popular these days with the Cloud, but I thought I'd ask people what tools and extra parts, etc they like to keep in their Colo cages or racks.
Here are some of my favorites:
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Desktop GUI tools to administer Apache2
Are there any (Linux compatible) desktop GUI tools to administer Apache2?
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IP/host-based traffic grapher
Do you know/recommend any tool for graphing traffic based on IP or host? In this case, I will get a graph for every IP that passes through my gateway. Of course, I will use a predefined list of source ...
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What tool for tracking application/db/service installations and dependencies?
In our organisation, we have 4 layers of environments (DEV, INT, UAT, PROD). In each layer there are 1-3 sets of the following SOA environment (one per GUI application project):
Around 5-10 ...
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Physical/portable Hard drive tester/diagnostics tool
Are there any tools that I can plug into a hard drive and say... tell if there are smart errors? I work with alot of commodity hardware and need to check if some of the disks laying around are good. ...
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Is there anything available from Microsoft to make gathering and interpreting of logs easier?
In the process of planning for an upcoming deployment of an AD structure with a single forest, a top level empty root domain and two child domains—which will house two business units. Within each ...
