Fortigate: Show IP (DHCP) From CLI
KB ID 0001712 Problem I was having some problems setting up a Fortigate (VM64-KVM) firewall, and I needed to know, (at command line,) how to view the address that had been assigned to it via DHCP. View Fortigate DHCP address (from CLI) The syntax required is; config system interface edit ? Note: Dont Forget the “?” at the end, it will not show onscreen as seen below. View Fortigate DHCP address (from GUI) If the GUI/Web...
Your vSphere Client Session Is No Longer Authenticated
KB ID 0001711 Problem I updated my vCenter to 6.7.0.45100 yesterday, and since then every time I tried to login to the HTML5 web client, it authenticated, let me in, showed me the error (below), then kicked me out again? Solution I assumed, (wrongly) that the upgrade had overwritten the webclient.properties file that controls timeouts. this may be you problem, see the following article If my ‘fix’ does not work for you....
OVA / OVF Deployment Gets Stuck ‘Validating’
KB ID 0001664 Problem I had this problem (on sphere 6.7) the other day when trying to deploy some OVA files on my test network. Solution Well as stated elsewhere I tried reconnecting to my vCenter using its FQDN, this didn’t solve the problem, using Flash or HTML5 didn’t cure the problem either. What did cure the problem was using a different browser! I switched from IE to Chrome and it worked fine. Update: I Also cured...
Windows Server – Disable ‘Defender’
KB ID 0001710 Problem I got a call last night to help out a colleague, this involved using a ‘dubious’ piece of software that is very old, (I wont elaborate further). But to run it on a modern Windows Server is nearly impossible. The host detects the software as being infected (It may well be, but I’ve never suffered). So I need to keep the software in a password protected Zip file. And only extract it on a Virtual...
Adsense: ‘We’ve detected an error on your IAB TC string’
KB ID 0001709 Problem A couple of weeks ago I logged into Adsense and saw this; ‘We’ve detected an error on your IAB TC string on one or more of your sites or apps. These errors may affect your ability to serve ads to European users. A detailed report is available for you on the EU user consent page’. Solution Well all of that made no sense to me, so I downloaded the report, which is a spreadsheet and it looked like...