Although SQL backups of the content databases for a Windows SharePoint Services farm can be used for data recovery, it’s usually a good idea to also perform backups through the stsadm.exe utility to facilitate site and object-level restores. I recently took on a task to script a more robust solution for the automation of WSS [...]
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In this post, I described the use of PowerShell for the purpose of generating a report of all members of a particular group, including nested groups. The script utilized ADSI calls to the WinNT:// provider to recursively retrieve both local and domain group members. However, it was brought to my attention that the WinNT:// provider cannot [...]
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One of the realities of working with SNMP monitoring is that more often than not, the monitoring data are presented in a raw form that requires some kind of manipulation in order to render meaningful output. For example, required data manipulation may be a simple arithmetic operation on two values to calculate a percentage, or [...]
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For the Cisco Management Pack, a handful of different approaches were required when designing the monitors and rules and their supporting workflows. These approaches can generally be placed into three categories: Simple SNMP GET operations Operations that require data manipulation Operations that require access to previously collected values For example, monitoring of an interface’s operational [...]
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This code snippet can be used to decode Base64 encoded strings into plain text, which I have found useful recently when working on VBscript scripts that require decoding the Base64-encoded SNMP community strings stored in OpsMgr. I thought it would be worth sharing. Function Decode(strB64) strXML = “<B64DECODE xmlns:dt=” & Chr(34) & _ “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes” [...]
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