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Linux and UNIX Management with Server Management Suite
MicaPete | 15 May 2012 | 0 comments

This newly published guide is for network administrators who want to use Server Management Suite (SMS) 7.1 SP2 to manage Linux and UNIX servers.

Follow this link to download the guide: http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5583

The guide presents UNIX/Linux-specific information about:

  • Provisioning
    • Imaging
    • Scripted OS installation
    • OEM Hardware integration toolkits
    • Server configuration
  • Configuration Management
    • Symantec Management Agent for UNIX, Linux, and Mac
    • Discovery and Inventory
    • Patch Management for Linux
    • Software Management
    • Managed Software Delivery
    • Virtualization Management
  • Server Health
    • Monitor Solution and Monitor Packs
    • Event Console
    • Historical and Real-Time Monitoring
  • Process Automation - Built-in...
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VM server Farm is spiking CPU utilization
sdmayhew | 01 Dec 2011 | 0 comments

Issue – VM server Farm is spiking CPU utilization

Problem summation: Utilizations are seen at rates 70-90% utilization of host CPU for 1-5 seconds. Trigging monitor alert and email to support

What it looks like is that servers are not being excluded from the workstation inventories.

·         Collect Delta Software – Daily at 11am local machine time

·         Collect Full Inventory- Weekly at 10am local machine time

·         Collect Delta Hardware Inventory  -- Weekly at 2pm local machine time

Server data classes were excluded from the previous inventory collections. These are collected with Collect Delta Server (once a week) , Collect Full Server ( once a month)

The setting is a OOB setting from Symantec.

Fix is create filters that would exclude...

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Dagent filter
Tim Maides | 22 Oct 2010 | 0 comments

Case anyone is interested.

All you have do is excluded the 64 bit or 32 bit depending what you want to capture.

You can also leave out the display version if you only want to capture a total of deployment agents.

 

select guid from vcomputer vc

join inv_addremoveprogram iarp on vc.guid=iarp._resourceguid

where iarp.displayname like 'Altiris Deployment Agent'

and displayversion ='1.0.0'

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How to force the Altiris client to point to a new Deployment Server
Marcello D'Angelone | 10 Mar 2010 | 0 comments
If you have migrated Deployment Server to a new Server but the clients are still pointing to the old Deployment server, you can set up a login script with a batch file containing the following :
 
 
@echo off

net stop "Altiris Deployment Agent"

regedit /s \\"newDSserver"\eXpress\newDSip.reg 

net start "Altiris Deployment Agent"
 
Make sure to place the “newDSip.reg” key in the eXpress share.
 
Copy and past the following text to a notepad file and rename it with .reg extension:
 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Altiris\Client Service]

"UseMCast"=dword:00000001

"TcpAddr"="<FQDN,IP, or NetBIOS NEW DS server>"
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{CWoC} aila version 0.2.4 screen cast: how to use the tool, and what interesting output it provides.
ludovic_ferre | 12 Jan 2010 | 1 comment

With over a month of (evening) work gone into aila (and 131 commits on my Google code svn repository) I am happy to say that aila is at a stage where it can demonstrate it's usefulness and features.

So I have done a screen capture and attached it here (warning: ze French man that I am decideeed not to talk over the video, so take 8 minutes to play some relaxing track -> http://www.jamendo.com for Creative Common licensed music if you need ;-).

Please note that this is a zip container for an Ogv video. I used "recordmydesktop" which natively encodes to (free as in free software) Ogv. The results is pretty good, and conversions to mp4 or avi was just too lossy for me to put these versions up (specially given the screen cast all happens in a terminal, loosing...

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Ever Wondered if Altiris Agent Check Point Recovery Works Over a Reboot? It Sure Does.
ludovic_ferre | 12 Jan 2010 | 0 comments

Here's a quick test I ran this morning for a colleague who need to check if the feature works upon computer reboot (which for the agent is the same as a service stop / start event pair).

So here's the test I conduct:

  • Picked up the 4 biggest packages from my PMS update directories
  • Created a single package with 900+ MiB from 4 files
  • Created a SWD Task and assigned it to my test machine
  • Update the client config on the test machine
  • Disable the NIC after the download started
  • Enabled the NIC and forced the download restart (couldn't wait 4 minutes ;)
  • Stopped the Altiris Agent
  • Started the Altiris Agent
  • Repeated the above 2 steps

And the results are visible here:

...

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{CWoC} Tagged Version 0.3.0 (revision 163) After Adjustments Following a Remote Session with customer
ludovic_ferre | 12 Jan 2010 | 0 comments

Being back to work I had the opportunity to check how aila does behave on real production systems yesterday morning.

And to do so I had to make a few adjustments that took us to tag v0.3.0_Rev163:

  • When aila is executed the following options are now defaults:
    • '-0, --zero'
    • '-pc, --progress-counter'
    • '-dc, --dump-cache'
  • As such the related command line options names have changed:
    • '-0, --zero' is now '-n0, --no-zero'
    • '-pc, --progress-counter' is now '-npc, --no-progress'
    • '-dc, --dump-cache' is now '-ndc, --no-dump-cache'
  • Corrected a problem for very long log entries (over 1024 bytes) by setting the line read buffer to 2048 and updating the cs_uri_query handling section.
  • Change the cache...
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{CWoC} Review Time is Back, with Only a Few Days Left on My Holiday...
ludovic_ferre | 06 Jan 2010 | 0 comments

Free time for coding will soon become scarce again, as my winter holidays are almost over.

So what is it that I still haven't put in aila [1] and that I would like to put in. Looking back should we change anything to the existing code?

Looking forward first: I have started to work on a feature to keep all parsed data (summary and detailed structures) in-memory. The idea is to run the parse process and drop to a command line prompt for interactive operations such as searching entries with a given ip address, a given package guid or a given computer guid. This feature was thought a while back and put in the wish list only to be dropped soon after. But given we have done almost everything though in the first place, I am interested in this coding challenge and I do believe the feature could really help troubleshooting or base lining
operations. 

Looking back: I need to do some work to ensure aila is schema agnostic, i.e. the parse starts and aila...

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{CWoC} aila 0.2.5 is Now the Current Tag, and We Have Now a Win32 Build Available!
ludovic_ferre | 04 Jan 2010 | 0 comments

Time flies by, the New Year is almost an old thing already, and most definitely is aila-0.2.3.

So tonight we have a lot of changes, let's go with the big header tags:

Head Revision 131 was tagged as v0.2.5-Rev131

This is from the main line of code, which is written on Linux systems (32-bit and 64-bit). This is the trunk of the subversion tree. The changes from v0.2.3 are numerous and detailed in the attached diff, but here's a brief highlight:

  • Implemented http to ascii conversion (%22 %20 %97 now display " { } < > etc when you use the --csv-format command line)
  • Added html file type accounting
  • Corrected issue with the asp / aspx file type accounting
  • Added GetLicense.aspx to the accounted Altiris Agent interfaces
  • Added checks to not add invalid ip addresses in the string cache
  • Added context search to find guid types (so we differentiate entries if they are package or computer guids)
    • ...
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{CWoC} Bye bye 2009 -> Welcome v0.2.3-Rev106, and 2010 of Course!!!
ludovic_ferre | 31 Dec 2009 | 0 comments

It'll be soon time to look back upon 2009, and look forward to 2010.

But right now we'll look back at our post v0.2.0 tag [1], and forward to the next tag of course.

What did we mean to put in this tag, and what really made it? Below where the plans drafted in [1]:

  1. [n+] A Simple Linked List implementation (dynamic array)
  2. [n+] IP Address search in the IIS log files
  3. [++] Contextual data for guid and ip searches
  4. [n+] A Win32 branch to ensure code portability
  5. [++] Use of the link list to store all data in memory
  6. [++] Creation of a shell to query in memory data

1. The simple link list was implemented and discarded, as too costly in term of performance (given the file parse is raw in-memory processing taking 100% of a core for the duration of the process). It took the processing time from a fixed 30 seconds to a variable one between 60~100 seconds! Gasp.

2. IP address search was...

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