Category: Windows

Checking time over SNMP

November 3, 2011 - Geek , Linux , Windows - by admin - No Comments

Not content with watching clocks drift on servers, I thought it might be prudent to keep an eye on such things. We already monitor our NTP server drift with Nagios, so why not extend it to all of our Linux servers? The only catch here is that not all servers […]

Automating HP Server Startup

September 2, 2010 - Geek , Linux , Technology , Windows , Work - by admin - No Comments

It may not be much, but I stuck together a small article about how to remotely automate the startup of HP servers. We did this ages, and only now have I gotten around to tidying up the notes! Over here

Track-It Madness

August 31, 2008 - Technology , Windows , Work , Zenworks - by admin - No Comments

Sadly we’re having to migrate to Track-It at work, and muggins here has been tasked with ensuring the agent can deploy nicely. After some initial crazyness with manual installs, or login script launched installs, I managed to wrap it into an MSI. Details can be found over here.

Windows XP SP3

February 5, 2008 - Windows , Work - by admin - No Comments

Sadly, some of us have to test these things before they go public. At work, WSUS will hold it back until I approve it for deployment. Whether I choose to let it loose to one machine, or 700, depends on how well it passes testing. For those of you in […]

KDE4 on Windows…

February 5, 2008 - Geek , KDE , Linux , Windows - by admin - No Comments

It had to be done 🙂 KDE4 on Windows, in VMWare on Linux…