If you are operating Ubiquiti wireless gear compatible with the Unifi controller, and running it on a Windows machine, you may have noticed that you need to start the application manually every time you restart the computer. Fortunately, there is a way of adding it “as a service”, just like any OS/system services. Follow the… Read More »
Using “screen” on Linux to perform your important work? Way to go, SysAdmin 🙂 Then you might at some point encountered the following behavior – while attempting to resume a session using “screen -r”, the following message occurred : There is a screen on: 1610.pts-0.host (25/08/18 08:25:36 PM) (Attached) There is no screen to be… Read More »
Similar as what you can do on linux with the Message Of The Day (MOTD), there is a way to display a message to users when they login to their session. Microsoft refer to this as a “legal notice” and can be achieved through the registry. 1. Open the Windows Registry Editor with elevated privileges… Read More »
The easiest way to get hardware serial and related information is using “dmidecode“. The command below should give you exactly what you need : dmidecode -s system-serial-number The command above does not usually work with “clone” computers/servers. Alternatively, you may use the command below, which will output all parts serial number availables : dmidecode |… Read More »
This tutorial will show you the simple steps to upgrade your Ubiquiti Unifi SDN Controller running on Windows. The software can be found on the manufacturer Web site (https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi). We recommend using the LTS (Long Term Support) version unless you need the bleeding edge features. Upgrading to newer version might not allow downgrade in case of… Read More »
Here is a simple PowerShell command that will output the FC host adapter interface WWNs. Get-WmiObject -class MSFC_FCAdapterHBAAttributes -namespace “root\WMI” | ForEach-Object {(($_.NodeWWN) | ForEach-Object {“{0:x}” -f $_}) -join “:”} If your interface have two ports, both will be output in order. This command have been successfully tested with QLogic adapters on Windows 2012 and… Read More »
Here is some useful commands to display a domain Time To Live (TTL) using the DIG command (which is usually included within “bind-utils” package). To display the full information : dig +nocmd +multiline +noall +answer any domain.tld To display the short, default answer : dig +nocmd +noall +answer domain.tld NOTE : Replace “domain.tld” by the… Read More »
If you are not satisfied with the refresh rate of DNS within your active directory environment, there is a way of forcing it by increasing or decreasing the default setting in the registry. First of all, there is a command to find out your curent settings : dnscmd /info /dspollinginterval It should output something similar… Read More »
Here is some useful commands to list the members of a group in Active Directory using PowerShell. Get members of a group : Get-ADGroupMember -Identity “Groupe Name” Get members of a group, recursively (to list all members of sub-groups members of that group) : Get-ADGroupMember -Identity “Group Name” -Recursive NOTE : Replace “Group Name” (keeping… Read More »
You are probably used to all these “get my IP” or “find my IP” kind of site, which show your external / Internet IP on a Web page. However you might be facing some challenge if you are on a CLI only kind of machine. Fortunately there is a few ways to find your public… Read More »