The product formally known as Ionix Service Manager, formally known as Infra has been moved to VMWare and is now known as VMWare Service Manager. Since the move, there seems to be new material on the website referencing version 9. I know that this version has been talked about by EMC for a while so I am curious if it will really come out.
In other news, Microsoft has granted me access to System Center Service Manager. I am going to dig into that product to see how it compares. If it accomplishes 80% of what Infra accomplished, I may be sold.
Just a note for all of you Infra / Ionix users… The db and wrapper controls that are downloaded ARE NOT 64bit compatible. You must use the 32bit version of IE to launch Infra. This is for version 8, I have not tested version 9 yet.
I needed a quick way to check the type of connection I had running. After a quick Google, I found that the MacOS has the utility, it just needs to be tweaked a little.
Open terminal and create a link to the utility.
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| sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport |
Now that the utility is available, run airport -I for all of your wireless information.
Seems like pppd is no longer setuid anymore. To correct this, fire up terminal and enter the following:
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| sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd |
This will enable NetExtender to once again work its magic.
Looks like Snow Leopard does not boot into a 64bit kernel by default. There are a couple of ways to get some 64bit goodness.
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I am running Windows 7 (build 7100) and I manage quite a few Windows 2003 servers, one of which is running Exchange 2003. I am not a fan of having to RDP to a domain controller just to manage some user settings and I was patiently waiting for Microsoft to release something…
Don’t bother trying to install the Windows 2003 Admin Tool Pack in Windows 7. It will not work.
Microsoft has released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7. Download and install this little jewel. Once installed, hop into your “Control Panel”. Click on “Programs” and then “Turn Windows features on or off”. You will see a new section called “Remote Server Administration Tools”. Mark which tools you need and then click Ok. No reboot needed.
That was half the problem… Now onto the Exchange tools. Microsoft seems to not have much information about the Exchange tools for 2003. I can’t blame them. I would like to be running Exchange 2007 right now but it is not in the cards for another year. By that time, probably jump right into Exchange 2010. In the meantime, I found a download over at Will Dove’s website. What he has done is take the official ESM for Vista build from Microsoft and removed the check for Vista in the install process. This works like a charm. I have not run into any issues using this on my system.
Next up for my admin tool build project, Citrix Tools and OCS.
Updates:
- 20090817 – Updated the link to the Remote Server Administration Tools
Infra has been a great ITIL toolset for my department. The only downfall I have run into is some of the simpler integrations or features come at a steep price point. This integration cannot be that far out of the box for Infra but yet costs thousands of dollars. Instead I have been spending some time understanding the Infra database and have come up with the following VBS to move the manager information stored in AD into the Infra database. We have this script to run each night and it keeps everything in order.
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| LDAPRootDN = "LDAP://OU=HCL Users,DC=hcl,DC=internal"
' Infra database DSN
InfraDSN = "Driver={SQL Server};Server=data01.hcl.internal;Database=infraEnterprise;Trusted_Connection=TRUE"
set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConnection.ConnectionString = InfraDSN
objConnection.open
' Start the process
ProcessOU(LDAPRootDN)
function ProcessOU ( DN )
set CNUsers = GetObject(DN)
for each User in CNUsers
select case User.class
case "user"
' Migrate manager information if a manager is defined
if ( User.manager <> "" ) then
MigrationCount = MigrationCount + 1
MigrateManager User.distinguishedName, User.manager
else
' No manager information on file
end if
case "organizationalUnit", "container"
' This is an OU, recurse into
ProcessOU( User.ADsPath )
end select
next
end function
function MigrateManager ( StaffDN, ManagerDN )
set Staff = GetObject("LDAP://" + StaffDN)
set Manager = GetObject("LDAP://" + ManagerDN)
strQuery = "exec sp_MigrateManager '" + Staff.GUID + "', '" + Manager.GUID + "'"
set rs = objConnection.execute(strQuery)
end function |
The following is the supporting TSQL for the sp_MigrateManager procedure.
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USE infraEnterprise
GO
IF EXISTS ( (SELECT NAME FROM sysobjects WHERE NAME = 'sp_MigrateManager' AND TYPE = 'P'))
BEGIN
DROP PROCEDURE sp_MigrateManager
END
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_MigrateManager
@StaffGUID NVARCHAR(300),
@ManagerGUID NVARCHAR(300)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @ManagerRef INT
SELECT @ManagerRef = COALESCE(REF, 0) FROM AR_USER_ATTRIBUTES WHERE ldap_object_id = @ManagerGUID
UPDATE AR_USER_ATTRIBUTES
SET
MANAGER_REF = @ManagerRef
WHERE
ldap_object_id = @StaffGUID
END
GO |
An update is available now only through Apple Software Update. As of right now, download was not found on the apple.com website.
A while back I posted instructions for getting the Aircard 875 to work with Ubuntu Feisty. I am now updating this for Hardy Heron. For me the configuration was much simpler. Here is some information regarding the hardware/software I am using.
- IBM Thinkpad
- Cingular Aircard 875 (note, this is really a Sierra card)
- Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 (updated system as of 20080510)
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Pressing Apple-Esc will launch Front Row. Pretty slick!
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