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RETRIEVING DISK NUMBER AND SCSI ID FOR LOGICAL DISKS USING WMI

April 5, 2014

I recently wrote about retrieving hard disks and the SCSI ID using the storage module which is available in Windows 8 and Server 20012 operating systems (http://wp.me/p15Mdc-m7). Now, how would we retrieve this information for operating systems below this version? Well I have a look into this using a selection of WMI methods to retrieve … More RETRIEVING DISK NUMBER AND SCSI ID FOR LOGICAL DISKS USING WMI

Retrieving ESXi Host inventory information using PowerCLI

March 28, 2014

Over time I have produced a number of powershell scripts using the vSphere PowerCLI snap-in to return information from vCenter Firstly, I looked into returning inventory information for all the ESXi Hosts where the following would be retrieved: Name Hardware Vendor Hardware Model CPU Model Datacenter Cluster Hypervisor Hypervisor Version Clock Speed Memory Hyperthreading Active Number … More Retrieving ESXi Host inventory information using PowerCLI

Monitor WUInstall status in Nagios XI

March 25, 2014

I recently wrote about checking the last success time of Windows Update and reporting this to Nagios (http://wp.me/p15Mdc-mj). Now what happens if you do not use Windows Update as your patch management solution. In my case I have been managing the installation of updates using WUInstall (http://www.wuinstall.com). When my updates are installed the registry is … More Monitor WUInstall status in Nagios XI

Automating the start of Rserve with Tableau Server

March 16, 2014

I recently integrated the with Tableau server and with the requirement to ensure the Rserve process was running at computer startup, as the process is not implemented as a Windows service. The below assumes the Rserve package has been installed using the R server console prior to running the below. Firstly, I wanted to ensure … More Automating the start of Rserve with Tableau Server