http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160891.aspx

Grab that little sucker and then look up the wikipedia article on robocopy to refresh your memory on what the switches mean.

robocopy c:\folder1 c:\folder2 /E /XO

Copy files between two servers and maintain permissions

robocopy c:\folder1 \\server\sharename\destination /E /sec

Robocopy is sweet because you can use it to sync folders, copy permissions, copy encrypted files, pretty much every file copy operation you can think of. Just do a robocopy /? at a command prompt to check it all out

SRI and SANS came up with this sweet predictive blacklist fun. It reminds me of what Symantec used to do with their free log reader software, Deepsight . Symantec used to give this log aggregation software away, feed all the data into it’s own servers and then provide threat analysis to it’s enterprise customers. Nobody had a free central log reader out for windows clients then so it seemed like a good idea at the time.  I didn’t have time to read logs from over 1000 machines. Part of the image was the magic of deepsight. I gave Symantec 1000 private IPs with DNS names to analyze and they gave me a daily email showing where my threats were coming from. It was even HTML email. OOooOOooOOoo. Anyhow under the hood was the same deal as this blacklist “predictor” which predicts nothing… It shows you a current threat and distributes that data based on comparing some logs. Still cool stuff just a funny name for free stuff. I expect it to cost money soon.

Now the open source community catches up! This is super cool. Hooray for open source that currently is exciting and will soon be purchased or boring and unsupported!

go to command line

switch to Hyperic directory

run hq-agent.exe -i

Now open services, and edit to tell it to restart on failure. (it fails a lot)

Now go set up some alarms! Monitoring isn’t worth anything if you don’t have pages set up.

Notice how the squares are grouped is how you tell the path. Right click and hit  explore to get in and delete things.

Look at the silly sample movie on vista ultimate. Not something I want on my puny size solid state disk.

My TAM agreed that this was necessary. We talked to several M$ engineers that said it was necessary. I don’t understand how people can be so lazy when it comes to preventing a stupid failure of pieces of functionality. Oh and here is your WINS maintenance guide so you don’t have to google it all by yourself.

Now you just email that to your pal or coworker. They click a few times for next yes, finish etc and booyah! you can see their machine in your console.

I like windows remote assistance if I’m in a location where there are real IP addresses. Once you start hitting locations with double NAT on both sides it won’t ever find the machine. At the new job I’m at about %30 success for windows remote assistance invites vs 100% for logmein. The advantage of the windows client is that it is lightning fast compared to vnc, log me in etc.

 I was entertained while going through hoops to put on emacs. I know you VI people would scoff but go to hell. You probably have a config file you load or some favorite tools yourself. I’ll tell you to go old school and do without your own favs as well. Being a windows dork, I’m not the best at linux but I try. So we put on glibc-headers, dglibc-devel, kernel-headers, python, blah blah bunch of stuff. After a few hours I fired up emacs and edited my little file. Fun eh? you just have to watch for dependencies, wget them and keep on marching.

Just for reference, you can install your own apache, rails, lighttpd, haproxy etc on a fedora core 4 vps on gate.com. There are a lot of complaints against the company out there which I have proved wrong.  Just keep checking dependencies, set up yum and you are golden. Several blogs say it is the worst investment ever. I think it was pretty cheap and works ok. I just need a test box so for the price of $20 something/mo, I think it is fine. I welcome suggestions for a better provider. For now I give them the thumbs up.