Jul/090
Riverbed Steelhead: Purdy kernel panic message :)
So I was playing around with a brand new Steelhead web accelerator appliance. Curiosity made me try to virtualize the darn thing and see if I can get it to work with multiple NICS and without the fancy box. Since nothing is impossible and no one was around to stop me, I created an image of the drive and converted it to a VMware Server virtual appliance… it MUST be a *nix flavor, right? No doubt! Who the heck would ever think of Redmond when it comes to creativity?
I was right because the first thing I ran into was a kernel panic. I decided to screenshot and post it for everyone to see… it’s “slightly” different than a normal kernel panic:
There it is. I leave it to you to figure out why I liked it. To the Riverbed guys: nice touch 
P.S. Don’t ask about what happened after I took care of the panicing kernel… hush!
May/093
Backup Exec: Transfer scheduled jobs, database and settings to a new backup server
My db server crapped out so I’ll have to retype the whole darn thing 
Well… it’s quite easy especially if you are keeping the same server name (skip the SQL commands below and go right to transfer section). If not you will have to change your SQL instance name accordingly.
Start here if you’re changing the server name, otherwise skip the SQL commands below:
Open command prompt and type the following:
osql -E -S servername\BKUPEXEC use bedb press enter UPDATE DataPartition SET PartitionName='SERVERNAME' WHERE PartitionID = 0 press enter SELECT partitionname FROM datapartition press enter go press enter
Then proceed with tranferring your db over to the new server. Two folders under Backup Exec installation folder are needed: Data and Catalog. After backing up your current folders:
- Stop all Backup Exec services. I’d open the console and go to Tools – Backup Exec Services and stop all.
- Stop all SQL services in services console.
- Copy the above folders to your new server and overwrite all existing files.
- Run BEUtility.exe under Backup Exec folder. You will be prompted not to use the utility without supervision… right! Just click it away.
- In the left pane click on All Media Servers, and in the right pane right click on your server name and click Copy Database.
- Browse to bedb_data.mdf (database file) and bedb_log.ldf (database log file) you just copied over from the old server.
- Click OK and proceed with the transfer.
BEUtility will transfer your settings and detach/attach your database and start your BE services automatically. If not then start them manually.
If you don’t see an error message about unsuccessful db detach/attach and your services start in timely fashion then you should be able to see all your jobs, media, devices and even settings and encryption keys transferred to the new server.
Apr/090
Dell: DRAC default logon – user/pass
admin/calvin or root/calvin… one should work. Where “calvin” is coming from beats me (Michael Dell’s ex-boyfriend?).
Mar/090
Tomcat: Redirect default home page to another URL
To create a redirect from default page in Tomcat edit CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/index.html:
nano /CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/index.html
Where CATALINA_HOME is your tomcat directory. Delete the content and replace with the following:
<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=<url>"> </head> <body> </body> </html>
and replace <url> with new destination.
