During the past days we started to use our new data center in a new building. One of the first things that needed to be moved was our HPE 3PAR storage system. This storage is used only with VMware vCenter Continue reading Moving an HPE 3PAR storage system to a new location
9 months ago (more now :p), my lovely wife has announced me that our second kid was loading… By adding an event to our family calendar! I saw this event during a work meeting, I can’t tell you how I Continue reading Baby announcements… to a geek
Today everything was annoying and “Apache Directory Studio” drives me nuts. I was unable to use it, all connections will stuck at 14%… Checking the network parameter I changed the “Provider” settings to JNDI and avoiding the Apache default option. After this Continue reading “Apache Directory Studio” hangs at 14% when connecting to an LDAP server
Our HPE OneView was recently updated to the new build 2.07 without difficulties. But today, when adding a the iLO of a ProLiant DL360p Gen8 by the hardware page, the operation has failed with the error: “Unable to retrieve asset tag Continue reading HPE OneView 2.0.7: “Unable to retrieve asset tag information from the iLO.”
Today, we were blocked by a stupid message from Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2 on a user workstation’s. RDC was showing this message : You were disconnected from the Windows-based computer because of problems during the licensing protocol. The problem was that Continue reading Remote Desktop Connection on Mac OS X refuses to connect because of problems during the licensing protocol
There are many ways to add icons to dialog in AppleScript, but I never found a way to easily add a “custom” icon. You can use the command “with icon file” in your script : display dialog “My custom icon Continue reading AppleScript : Add a custom icon to “display dialog”
When you’re using Bash scripts it’s sometimes necessary to show a window to the user asking for specific information or showing warning through AppleScript. After a long Google search, I finally found how to add Bash variables directly into a Continue reading Add Bash variables to “osascript -e” command
After installing some updates on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux that used only for phpMyAdmin tool, we noticed that we’re unable to access our remote MySQL databases. phpMyAdmin returns an “Error 2003 : The server is not responding”. After some investigations I Continue reading phpMyAdmin can’t access remote MySQL databases
Here, you can find some tips/notes to manage Apple Software Updates from the Terminal/Script. Disable Apple Software Update automatic check: /usr/sbin/softwareupdate –schedule off Disable the download of new update in the background: /usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate AutomaticDownload -bool false Disable system Continue reading Apple Software Update CLI and preferences
Recently found a solution to add a printer through a shell script or simply by the Terminal if the computer has nothing other than SSH: Command : sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p <Printer name> -L “<Location>” -E -v lpd://<address IP or DNS> Continue reading Configure printers by script on Mac OS X
