I have succesfully configured SIPTAPI by IPCOM for use with the Cisco UC520.
Follow the installation instructions and then configure like this.
SIP DOMAIN: IP for the UC520, this can either be the LAN IP or the CallManager IP.
SIP PROXY: leave this empty
user: leave this empty
password: leave this empty
extension: your extension number
If configured like this, whenever you dial from dialer.exe or outlook your own extension will ring, pick it up and the number you requested will be dialed.
When the CUPS printer is in RAW mode (no driver or PPD file), you can send PCL codes to the printer in plain text. You can just insert & append the codes on your job.
Here is how I did it:
#!/bin/bash
#
# Created on 01 march 2011 by Stan Gobien
# http://ares.gobien.be:8080/2011/03/pcl-code-landscape-raw-linux/
#
# Insert PCL code for landscape at beginning and append PCL reset code at end
# PCL codes tested on HP Laserjet
# The script expects input via stdin and sends output to stdout
# usage: cat somefile | ./landscape.sh | lp -dPRINTER
cat | sed -e ‘1i^[&l1O’ | sed -e ‘$a^[E’
Note: You can’t simply copy/paste the ^[ code. This is the VI representation of the ESCAPE character. You have to create it like this: CTRL+V ESC (this means press CONTROL and V key together then press ESCAPE key). Tested on Vi IMproved 7.0
Are you upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1U1 ? Then read on or you will end up like me browsing trough the ZIP file and the XML files inside to find out the correct bulletin name. It’s not pleasant to do this when you just entered maintenance mode in a small time frame to stop production vm’s.
Procedure from the Upgrade guide:
Procedure
1 Download the following upgrade ZIP bundle from the VMware Web site to a location that is accessible
to the vSphere CLI machine.
upgrade-from-ESXi4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.build#-release.zip
The upgrade ZIP bundle contains and esxupdate bulletin and an upgrade bulletin.
2 Power off any virtual machines that are running on the host and place the host into maintenance mode.
3 Install the esxupdate bulletin by running the following command on the vSphere CLI machine.
vihostupdate –server host name or IP address -i -b location of the ESXi upgrade ZIP bundle –
B ESXi410-GA-esxupdate
4 Install the upgrade bulletin by running the following command on the vSphere CLI machine.
vihostupdate –server host name or IP address -i -b location of the ESXi upgrade ZIP bundle -B ESXi410-GA
5 Verify that the bulletins are installed on the ESXi host by running the following command.
vihostupdate.pl –server host name or IP address –query
6 Reboot the host.
What they fail to mention is that the bulletin name in step 4 has changed. So in step 4 the command should now read:
vihostupdate –server host name or IP address -i -b location of the ESXi upgrade ZIP bundle -B ESXi40-TO-ESXi41UPDATE01
PS: After the upgrade I had some problems connecting to the management IP. I did a restart management but no effect. I then changed the mgmt IP and I could connect. However I had to update my client before I could login.
If you have repaired windows XP with an older CD, you could get the windows expired message, after completing setup, asking you to activate first. If you click YES, the activation screen doesn’t show and you get logged off (immediately or after 20 mins with only the background visible). If you choose NO you get logged off as well. Safe mode without networking allows you in, but activation can’t be done under safe mode. Quite the problem.
I found a solution in the newsgroups, I’ll copy it here for keeps sake:
I was having the same issue with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Installing SP2 over SP3 was not the problem for me, though I thought it was at the beginning. I had to change out a motherboard, and then had to reinstall windows. I was unable to enter safe mode or normal mode without the Activation popup, and then after clicking yes to activate, it would show my wallpaper and do nothing else. Have been searching for a few days for an answer with no luck. Found alot of information on wpa.dbl licence and registry fixes and people saying that it was due to having an OEM copy of XP. None of these were the case for me.
HERE’S THE FIX…
Download Internet Explorer 8 and Hotfix KB946501, burn them to disc
Hotfix KB946501 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/946501
Internet Explorer 8 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx
Start your PC and repeatedly hit F8 to get the safe mode menu.
Choose safe mode with command prompt only (if you are unable to enter safe mode otherwise)
When the command prompt appears type “explorer”
Should load the Windows GUI behind the cmd window
Install the KB946501 hotfix from your disc (reboot may be needed after this)
Install IE8
Reboot normally in to Windows, you should be able to activate as usual.
Apparently the activation Window is dependant upon IE.
Hope this works, let me know.
All credit goes to RowdyRocket, original topic can be found here.
EDIT: Also read the comments, before implementing.
For a customer at work i was implementing PBR on his Netscreen NS25. Normally you have just 1 virtual router called trust-vr, which contains your trust and untrust interfaces. Inside this trust-vr you then have a routing table with a 0.0.0.0/0 route towards your ISP gateway. My customer had a second ISP connection in place to offload some of the traffic trough this connection. I connected the 2nd ISP to an unused interface and placed it in the “trust-vr” virtual router.
Problem: My new interface was not static, but PPoE (same like DHCP) and thus get it’s IP address automatically. However also the gateway is automatically received and set in the virtual router. Unfortunately automatically received gateway is set as connected type with a higher priority then any statically set default gateway. This means i got a second entry for 0.0.0.0/0 with ISP2 gateway and higher priority (thus making it the default), and all traffic went over this 2nd ISP instead of the 1st. This was not desired.
What to do ?
Make a new virtual router, for example call it “ISP2-vr” and a new zone “ISP2”. Assign your interface with the ISP2 connection to zone “ISP2” and to virtual router “ISP2-vr”. This means your automatically received default gateway is placed in the routing table of “ISP2-vr” and nothing get’s messed up.
Redirect traffic.
To redirect the desired traffic, in my case http & https, i use PBR (Policy based routing). Note the PBR should be created inside “trust-vr” virtual router, because there the traffic is originating. First we create an extended ACL. Give the ACL a number, for example 10 and assign a sequence (example number 1). In this sequence you provide the requirements. Let’s say all trafic to port 80 (http) should be redirected, then you just choose port 80, protocol TCP and leave the rest blank. Next you create a match group what basically is just an ID and name where you can assign multiple ACL’s to. Next you make an action group, where you can define an action. Now this action should be next-hop ISP2gatewayIP (this is important !) and not contain an interface. The reason is that the interface is not known to “trust-vr” virtual router so it won’t work. Combine it all in a PBR policy and assign the policy to the trust-vr.
For the next-hop action to work we need to do some tricks. First of all inside the routing table for “ISP2-vr” you need to create route like this: ISP2-gateway/32 to ISP2-gateway/32 interfaceX. Don’t ask me why but this is needed for the PBR and explained in a Juniper KB.
Now normally this should do it. But in my case my ISP2-gateway IP was not inside the ISP2-ip and subnetmask. This appears strange but is mostly the case when using PPoE. To get around this, i need to add a route in the “trust-vr” virtual router for ISP2-gatewayIP to “ISP2-vr” virtual router. That’s it PBR is operational.
You should create a policy from “Trust” zone to “ISP2” zone and allow traffic AND important enable SOURCE NAT on this policy, because your NAT set on the Trust interface won’t work because you are not routing to Untrust.
In this CLI example ethernet1 is the Trust interface, ethernet3 is the Untrust interface and ethernet4 is my ISP2.
set vrouter "trust-vr"
set source-routing enable
set sibr-routing enable
unset add-default-route
set route 0.0.0.0/0 interface ethernet3 gateway 81.246.22.xx
set route 212.71.0.yy gateway ISP2-vr
set access-list extended 20 dst-port 80-80 protocol tcp entry 1
set match-group name port80
set match-group port80 ext-acl 20 match-entry 10
set action-group name toISP2
set action-group toISP2 next-hop 212.71.0.yy action-entry 2
set pbr policy name PBRport80
set pbr policy PBRport80 match-group port80 action-group toISP2 1
exit
set vrouter "ISP2-VR"
set source-routing enable
set sibr-routing enable
set route 212.71.0.yy/32 interface ethernet4 gateway 212.71.0.yy
exit
set interface ethernet1 pbr PBRport80
UPDATE: GhettoVCB now has it’s own function to send a report mail. It only works on ESXi > 4.1.
I’m using an excellent script to backup my virtual machines called GhettoVCB. This script works perfect. I wanted to get the daily logfile in my e-mal inbox. I have ESXi (4.0) and i don’t know whether it can e-mail by itself, i think not. But i used a linux VM i am running, to pull the logfile and mail it to me. The linux VM is set up with sendmail and outgoing mailhost is configured. I you don’t have a linux VM, a windows VM or PC can work too. You can use wget for windows to pull the file (syntax would maybe change a little bit) and then blat to mail the file. I won’t go in detail about this.
I have altered the GhettoVCB script to make the backups & logiles use this date syntax “date +%F”. I find it easier to read for humans. You have to adjust this in the Cronjob that calls the ghettoVCB script, the logfile is given as a paramter.
In the script below, please adjust the youruser and yourpass to valid login credentials for browsing the datastore trough https. Usually the user you login with directly on the ESXi. Also adjust the you@domain.tld, place your e-mail address. Pretty simple & basic but it works excellent. Last point, adjust the 192.168.x.y to your ESXi’s IP address.
#grab esxi backup log file and mail it v0.1
#Note the WGET part should be 1 line, no line breaks
#Adjust the youruser & yourpass to valid credentials for logging in to ESXi (browse the datastore)
#Adjust the IP address (192.168.x.y) to your ESXi ip addresss
#In the wget line below, my logs were located in a folder called backup on a datastore called 750GBdisk2
#You could check the syntax of the link by browsing to your datastore and locate the backup log files then look at the addressbar
cd /tmp
wget "https://192.168.x.y/folder/backup/ghettoVCB-backup-$(date +\%F).log?dcPath=ha-datacenter&dsName=750GBdisk2" --user youruser --password yourpass --no-check-certificate
cat /tmp/ghettoVCB* | mail -s "Backup log ESXi4" you@domain.tld
rm -rf /tmp/ghettoVCB*
/etc/munin.conf
# Example configuration file for Munin, generated by ‘make build’
# The next three variables specifies where the location of the RRD
# databases, the HTML output, and the logs, severally. They all
# must be writable by the user running munin-cron.
dbdir /var/lib/munin
htmldir /var/www/munin
logdir /var/log/munin
rundir /var/run/munin# Where to look for the HTML templates
tmpldir /etc/munin/templates# Make graphs show values per minute instead of per second
#graph_period minute# Drop somejuser@fnord.comm and anotheruser@blibb.comm an email everytime
# something changes (OK -> WARNING, CRITICAL -> OK, etc)contact.yourname.command mail -s “MUNIN – [${var:host}] ~ ${var:graph_title} ~ warnings: ${loop<,>:wfields ${var:label}=${var:value}} ~ criticals: ${loop<,>:cfields ${var:label}=${var:value}}” your.email@domain.tld
#
#
# For those with Nagios, the following might come in handy. In addition,
# the services must be defined in the Nagios server as well.
#contact.nagios.command /usr/sbin/send_nsca -H nagios.host.com -c /etc/send_nsca.cfg# a simple host tree
[location1-wms1.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.30.86
use_node_name yesload.load.warning 15
load.load.critical 30memory.apps.warning 6442450944
memory.committed.warning 8589934592
# memory.committed.warn 8589934592
memory.committed.critical 17179869184df._dev_cciss_c0d0p1.warning 75
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol01.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol02.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol04.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup01_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup02_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup03_LogVol00.warning 90df._dev_cciss_c0d0p1.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol01.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol02.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol04.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup01_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup02_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup03_LogVol00.critical 95[location1-wms2.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.30.88
use_node_name yesload.load.warning 15
load.load.critical 30memory.apps.warning 6442450944
memory.committed.warning 8589934592
memory.committed.critical 17179869184df._dev_cciss_c0d0p1.warning 75
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol01.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol02.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol04.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup01_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup02_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup03_LogVol00.warning 90df._dev_cciss_c0d0p1.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol01.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol02.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol04.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup01_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup02_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup03_LogVol00.critical 95[location1-ts1.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.30.90
use_node_name no
memory.swap.label swap
memory.swap.draw STACK
memory.swap.info Swap memory used[location1m-fc1.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.30.94
use_node_name no
memory.swap.label swap
memory.swap.draw STACK
memory.swap.info Swap memory used[location1-mfc2.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.30.96
use_node_name no
memory.swap.label swap
memory.swap.draw STACK
memory.swap.info Swap memory used[location1-ts2.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.30.92
use_node_name no
memory.swap.label swap
memory.swap.draw STACK
memory.swap.info Swap memory used
memory.apps.label usage
memory.unused.label pagefile[location2-wms1.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.20.20
use_node_name yesload.load.warning 15
load.load.critical 30memory.apps.warning 6442450944
memory.committed.warning 8589934592
memory.committed.critical 17179869184df._dev_cciss_c0d0p1.warning 75
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol01.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol02.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol04.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup01_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup02_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup03_LogVol00.warning 90df._dev_cciss_c0d0p1.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol01.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol02.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol04.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup01_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup02_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup03_LogVol00.critical 95[location2-wms2.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.20.22
use_node_name yesload.load.warning 15
load.load.critical 30memory.apps.warning 6442450944
memory.committed.warning 8589934592
memory.committed.critical 17179869184df._dev_cciss_c0d0p1.warning 75
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol01.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol02.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol04.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup01_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup02_LogVol00.warning 90
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup03_LogVol00.warning 90df._dev_cciss_c0d0p1.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol01.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol02.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup00_LogVol04.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup01_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup02_LogVol00.critical 95
df._dev_mapper_VolGroup03_LogVol00.critical 95[location2-ts1.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.20.24
use_node_name no
memory.swap.label swap
memory.swap.draw STACK
memory.swap.info Swap memory used[location2-ts2.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.20.26
use_node_name no
memory.swap.label swap
memory.swap.draw STACK
memory.swap.info Swap memory used[location2-mfc1.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.20.28
use_node_name no
memory.swap.label swap
memory.swap.draw STACK
memory.swap.info Swap memory used[location2-mfc2.otherdomain.tld]
address 169.254.20.30
use_node_name no
memory.swap.label swap
memory.swap.draw STACK
memory.swap.info Swap memory used[otherdomain.tld;Totals]
update noload1.graph_title Loads-WMS1
load1.graph_order location1wms1=location1wms1.otherdomain.tld:load.load location2-wms1=location2-wms1.otherdomain.tld:load.loadload2.graph_title Loads-WMS2
load2.graph_order location1wms2=location1wms2.otherdomain.tld:load.load location2-wms2=location2-wms2.otherdomain.tld:load.loadload3.graph_title Loads on top of each other
load3.dummy_field.stack location1wms1=location1wms1.otherdomain.tld:load.load location2-wms1=location2-wms1.otherdomain.tld:load.load location1wms2=location1wms2.otherdomain.tld:load.load location2-wms2=location2-wms2.otherdomain.tld:load.load
load3.dummy_field.draw AREA # We want area instead the default LINE2.
load3.dummy_field.label dummy # This is needed. Silly, really.memory1.graph_title Memory SWAP WMS
memory1.graph_order location1wms1=location1wms1.otherdomain.tld:memory.swap location2-wms1=location2-wms1.otherdomain.tld:memory.swap location1wms2=location1wms2.otherdomain.tld:memory.swap location2-wms2=location2-wms2.otherdomain.tld:memory.swapmemory2.graph_title Memory Committed WMS
memory2.graph_order location1wms1=location1wms1.otherdomain.tld:memory.committed location2-wms1=location2-wms1.otherdomain.tld:memory.committed location1wms2=location1wms2.otherdomain.tld:memory.committed location2-wms2=location2-wms2.otherdomain.tld:memory.committed# load3.graph_title Loads summarised
# load3.combined_loads.sum location1wms1.otherdomain.tld:load.load location2-wms1.otherdomain.tld:load.load
# load3.combined_loads.label Combined loads # Must be set, as this is
# # not a dummy field![ip-wms1.domain.tld]
address 127.0.0.1
use_node_name yesload.load.warning 15
load.load.critical 30memory.apps.warning 6442450944
memory.committed.warning 8589934592
memory.committed.critical 17179869184[ip-wms2.domain.tld]
address 192.168.101.51
use_node_name yesload.load.warning 15
load.load.critical 30memory.apps.warning 6442450944
memory.committed.warning 8589934592
memory.committed.critical 17179869184[windows-pc.domain.tld]
address 192.168.101.26
use_node_name yes
memory.swap.label swap
memory.swap.draw STACK
memory.swap.info Swap memory used
/etc/munin-node.conf
#
# Example config-file for munin-node
#log_level 4
log_file /var/log/munin/munin-node.log
port 4949
pid_file /var/run/munin/munin-node.pid
background 1
setseid 1# Which port to bind to;
host *
user root
group root
setsid yes# Regexps for files to ignore
ignore_file ~$
ignore_file \.bak$
ignore_file %$
ignore_file \.dpkg-(tmp|new|old|dist)$
ignore_file \.rpm(save|new)$# Set this if the client doesn’t report the correct hostname when
# telnetting to localhost, port 4949
#
host_name location1-wms1.otherdomain.tld# A list of addresses that are allowed to connect. This must be a
# regular expression, due to brain damage in Net::Server, which
# doesn’t understand CIDR-style network notation. You may repeat
# the allow line as many times as you’d like#allow ^127\.0\.0\.1$
allow ^169\.254\.25\.10$
Happy learning !
UDATE: This is an outdated article, since ESXi 4.1 you can enable SSH (remote & local) from the VI client through “security features” in “configuration”.
After my XenServer5.5 experience i decided to use VMWare ESXi, let’s be honest, the leader in the market.
First problem, installation would fail because no supported NIC was found. I tried several NIC’s such as 3Com 3C509 & Realtek RTL8139 but no luck.
I ordered an Intel PRO/1000 Desktop PCI adapter. I tested with the ESXi 4 CD and it was detected and supported.
Success, then I made a custom ESXi 4 CD with FTP & SSH enabled (trough custom oem.tgz) and installed ESXi. All went flawless.
Since it took some time for me to test the different NIC’s and finally order the Intel NIC. I had already installed VMWare Workstation evaluation on my desktop and had recreated my VM’s. Of course my PC was not 24/24 online so the website I’m writing this on was only at some times available.
After ESXi was installed and running, I used the VMWare Converter Standalone to convert my workstation VM’s to ESXi. The Windows VM went excellent.
The Ubuntu VM was installed through VMWare Workstation easy install mode, and on the ESXi it would boot fine but would not load the correct drivers for the NIC.
I was trying different things on it, but without NIC there wasn’t much i could do. I tried compiling the VMware tools and drivers but had failures.
I finally had to make a new VM with Ubuntu server fresh install and copied the files and exported the SQL database (on my VMWare workstation i could still boot the VM with network access). But after at least 6 hours of work ESXi was running with the 2 VM’s and the website was operational.
Since i use Windows 7 I had to follow a how-to because Vsphere Client fails on Windows 7 (have to copy system.dll and make a batch script). After updates from VMWare the latest Vsphere Client works fine on Windows 7.
Yesterday and today I finished up the Windows VM and moved PC’s in to the domain, copied back files & setup shares.
Now on to some last items, torrentflux-b4rt, truecrypt, moblock, RAS, …