It’s official, I’m a CCNA
by Ryan on Aug.21, 2010, under Cisco, General, Misc
As per the title.
I booked my exam on the 15th of July and passed my exam on the 20th of August. Took me about 6 weeks of studying for on average 4-5hours a night.
Rehome FCS
by Ryan on Jul.27, 2010, under Coding/Scripting, SCCM SMS, Sys Admin, Windows, vbs
When I was building our SCCM environment I decided it would be a good time to clean up WSUS & FCS and bring them under the new system.
The problem I ran into was “How do I repoint FCS?” without having to uninstall and reinstall it on every machine.
The solution, a bit of VB script based on the information here: http://blogs.technet.com/fcsnerds/archive/2008/11/12/changing-the-management-group-to-which-an-fcs-client-reports.aspx
Cisco Wireless AP – VLANs and Multiple SSIDs Part 3
by Ryan on Jul.13, 2010, under Cisco, Sys Admin, VLANs, Wireless
Introduction
Hello again, welcome to the third and final part of this tutorial. Hopefully you have enjoyed reading Part 1 & Part 2 and have understood it all, so without further adue lets get started.
rname.pl
by Ryan on Jul.12, 2010, under Coding/Scripting, Perl
This is a perl script to normalize video file names for TV series, it will run under windows or linux.
Note: I have tested this and do use it however I may have missed something or there may be a bug I have not encountered, I would advise backing up the files to be renamed before running the script and then verify that it has worked as expected. If so delete the backups if not please leave a comment detailing what has happened and I’ll try to fix it asap.
Disclaimer: I am not responsible if this causes WWIII or nukes your computer, use at your own risk.
Supported naming schemes
Name
- Single
- Double.1
- Double 2
- Double-3
- Double_4
Season-Episode
- 101
- 0102
- 1×03
- 1×4 (continue reading…)
CPUInfo
by Ryan on Jul.09, 2010, under Coding/Scripting, Linux, Sys Admin, shell
Small shell script that returns the details in /proc/cpuinfo in a more human readable and relevant way.
Sample output
Processor seems to be quite old guessing number. ####################################### # CPU Information # ####################################### CPU Architecture is: x86_64 CPU Manufacturer is: AMD CPU Model is: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252 CPU Speed is: 1800 1800MHz Number of physical CPUs: 2 Number of cores per CPU: 1 Number of logical CPUs (cores & hyperthreading): 2 Hyperthreading enabled (Intel only): N/A #######################################
Cisco Wireless AP – VLANs and Multiple SSIDs Part 2
by Ryan on Jul.07, 2010, under Cisco, Sys Admin, VLANs, Wireless
Introduction
Hopefully after reading Part 1 you have a general idea of what is going on. In this part we will do the configuation needed on CS1 and start to configure wlan1. I strongly recommend connecting via the console for this but it should be possible (if you are careful in which order you enter the commands that you could do this over ssh/telnet). During this period wlan1 will be unavailable to the users but wlan2 will be running fine so they shouldn’t notice any down time.
Cisco Wireless AP – VLANs and Multiple SSIDs Part 1
by Ryan on Jul.07, 2010, under Cisco, Sys Admin, VLANs, Wireless
Introduction
The purpose of this document is to explain how to setup and Cisco Aironet 1130ag with two SSIDs one for internal users which will authenticate via a radius server and the other for visitors that will use a wpa pass-phrase and will restrict users to Internet access only. This has (hopefully) been written in such a way that even someone with virtually no knowledge of Cisco should be able to read it and deploy a system successfully.
I should add at this point that I am not a Cisco guru in any way shape or form (though I am intending to get a CCNA & CCNP). So (I got my CCNA on the 20th August 2010) If you are and are reading this and happen to notice any bits that could be done better or are just plain wrong please leave a comment.
This is all based on some work that I have done recently, so I’ll give an example infrastructure and match the config to that example.
The DLC Scam
by Ryan on Jun.08, 2010, under General
This one is a bit off my usual topics but I hope you enjoy the read.
So I like to play games, it’s a weakness of mine. One of which is “Dragon Age: Origins”, I have to say it is one of the best RPGs I have played in a long time. I was talking with a friend today about the addon “Dragon Age: Origins Awakening”, I’d finally got around to completing the original game and had just started the addon. I asked him what he thought and he said “it was a bit easy and the story/characters were a bit weak”. I responded saying I was not surprised as the addon iirc was released soon after the original game and that I thought the other DLC was disappointing as it didn’t take long to get through it.
VBS: Get old computer accounts from AD
by Ryan on May.05, 2010, under Coding/Scripting, Sys Admin, Windows, vbs
The VBScript loops through the AD and lists all of the computer accounts in a csv file.
The Excel Code does the same except places the data in a formated table in excel, note it is only tested with excel 2007.
The following properties are returned:
- Hostname,
- Password Last Set,
- Day Count (since password was last set),
- Recent (was this done within the days specified in the script),
- Disabled?,
- Top Level OU,
- OU,
- Distinguished Name
SCCM Dell Driver Links in report
by Ryan on Apr.07, 2010, under SCCM SMS, Sys Admin, Windows
LAST UPDATED: 2010-04-12
These 2 reports will determine the link to the dell driver page for the systems based on their OS and Architecture.
