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re: On Dell's PERC 5/i

eriq — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:26:50 GMT

PERC 6 series has the same problems. No audible alarm. I've continued to try to raise the issue with Dell but with little response, other than the technicians agreeing that the audible alarm should at least be an option.

re: On Dell's PERC 5/i

Mårten — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:21:54 GMT

Hi!

Im going for a 2900, is the Perc 6/i any better?

re: On Availability

eriq — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:46:16 GMT

Rusty -

I honestly don't know. I've asked the publisher and will post back as soon as I get a response.

-Q

re: On Availability

Rusty Brown — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:02:11 GMT

Any chance of getting this in Amazon KINDLE format? Rusty

Congrats ERIC – SBS Unleashed heading to resellers

Nicholas King — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:28:44 GMT

One of our MVPs posted this morning about Windows Small Business Server 2008 Unleashed being off

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On Migration - Opening Eyes

OnQ — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:01:23 GMT

If the only thing I do for the community the rest of the year is to get a few more IT Professionals to

re: On RTM

eriq — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:34:48 GMT

Steve -

The 2008 book focuses solely on SBS 2008. You can get much of the Mac stuff for SBS 2003 from my blog posts, or you can pick up a copy of the SBS 2003 book. I've been trying to get Sams to bundle the two books together at a discounted price, but nothing like that has materialized yet.

-Eriq

re: On RTM

Steve Morton — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:28:59 GMT

Does the new book also include 2003 information, or has it been re-focused on 2008 only?

I have several clients with SBS2003 and of course some will be moving to SBS2008 soon. We need the SBS 2003 and Mac information, but don't know if both book s are needed, or just the 2008 edition.

re: On 18 months

Philip Elder — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:26:04 GMT

Eriq,

It is absolutely dumbfounding that another generation of RAID controllers could slip by without any audible alarm!

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On 18 months

OnQ — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:54:18 GMT

Back in March 2007, I put up a couple of posts about the missing audible alarm in the Dell PERC RAID

re: On SBS 2008

eriq — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:19:57 GMT

putting SQL on the second server is an option, but not required. Depending on the expected load on the SQL application, compared to the "beefiness" of the SBS server, it could go on either box. There is nothing in the licensing that requires SQL to be installed on the second server.

re: On SBS 2008

Billy — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:52:56 GMT

Hi Guys,

So is a second server absolutely required for SQL server or will the system allow a monolithic install of all the programs?

re: On Dell's PERC 5/i

Tyler — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:32:29 GMT

I think Dell should place the alarm on the controller. Those admins who do not want the alarm can disable it like you could before yanking it from the card.

re: On Dell's PERC 5/i

jerod h — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:20:49 GMT

I couldn't get the script above to work (my bash didn't like the pipe command in the variables), so I created this one using perl.

#!/usr/bin/perl

# A simple perl program to send alerts if problem found with physical disks

# by using OMSA 5.2 for Dell PowerEdge

# I do not provide any guarantee that this script will work. Use at own risk.

#Written: May 2008

#By: Jerod H

$controller="0";

$emailaddress="jerod\@yourdomain.com";

$omreport="/usr/bin/omreport";

$mail="/bin/mail";

$servername="yourservername";

# run omreport command and put into olist

open(LS, "$omreport storage pdisk controller=$controller |");

while() {

chomp;

push @olist, $_;

}

close(LS);

# Go through each line in olist to look for "Critical", "Rebuilding", or

# "Failure Predicted : YES"

$email=0;

$subject="";

foreach $line(@olist){

if ($line =~ /Critical$/i) {

$email=1;

$subject="$servername Hard Drive Critical";

}

if ($line =~ /Failure$/i) {

$email=1;

$subject="$servername Hard Drive Rebuilding";

}

if ($line =~ /^Failure\sPredicted(\s)+:\sYes$/i) {

$email=1;

$subject="$servername Hard Drive Predicted to Fail";

}

#If something was found email will = 1 so send email

if ($email==1) {

system("$omreport storage pdisk controller=$controller | $mail -s '$subject' $emailaddress");

}

re: On Dell's PERC 5/i

Jerodh — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:57:38 GMT

Great blog article. Very helpful. I'm in the process of putting together a PowerEdge 1900 with Perc 5/i running CentOS 5.1 64-bit for vmware server 1.0.5. Hope to run a Windows and Novell virtual machines on it.

I'm going to try out an altered script that Stephen B. wrote. If I can't get that to work then I'll use the LSI MegaRAID Storage manager. My concern with running the LSI product is that I'm using Dell's megaraid_sas driver version 3.16 and LSI's latest driver is 3.13.

re: On Securing RDP

eriq — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:57:31 GMT

The WinLogon agent has an optional "override" passphrase that is configured for exactly this reason. Either the network could be down at the site that's hosting the AuthAnvil system, or at the site where the WinLogon agent is deployed.

re: On Securing RDP

Ryan O'Dwyer — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:45:51 GMT

What would happen if the internet at your office was down? How do you access the remote servers?

Providing stronger centralized remote administrative access to Windows networks

Scorpion Software Corporate Weblog — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:33:23 GMT

Eriq Neale over at EON Consulting is a customer of ours who, like many of you, has concerns when it comes to opening RDP (port 3389) to his client networks. When managing a lot of client sites remotely, it can be daunting to create a proper protection