EVE-NG (VMware) Connecting to the Internet
KB ID 0001432 Problem I did an article a while back on doing this with UNL, so I thought I’d revisit it today for EVE-NG. I really like EVE-NG, for proof of concept work, testing, and just learning new products I cant think of any product better. But what if you want to connect your labs to the outside world? Solution In all honesty a lot of this article you can skip, I’m just showing you what’s going on down at the...
Safari Keeps Re-opening Compromised/Spammy Web Pages
KB ID 0001431 Problem To be honest it was my own fault, I was trying to get some software and was on a ‘dubious’ file sharing site, when ‘Boom’ loads of popup windows and scripts executing! Normally I’d just’ force quit’ Safari, and open it again then get on with my life, but Safari ‘Helpfully’ remembered which URL I was on, and reopened it as soon as it launched, and the whole...
VMWare: Virtual Machine Disks Consolidation Needed
KB ID 0001430 Problem You may see a ‘warning triangle’ over one of your VM’s, and on its summary page you see the following; Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed. Virtual machine Consolidation Needed status. Solution Basically theres a problem with the machine snapshots, If you right click the VM > Snapshots > Consolidate. Yes – Job done, that was easy. Related Articles, References,...
Cisco ASA: Allow VPN Traffic “Through” A Cisco Firewall
KB ID 0001428 Problem I got asked to put in a VPN for a client, this week, it went from a simple site to site, to a site to site with a Fortigate firewall at one end, to a VPN from and ASA to a Fortigate ‘through’ another ASA. It’s been a few years since I had to tunnel ‘through’ a firewall, and experience tells me, if you don’t have control of BOTH ends of a new VPN tunnel, anything that stops...
Dell iDRAC “The Webpage Cannot Be Found”
KB ID 0001427 Problem I needed to reboot one of my ESX hosts yesterday, so I jumped on the DRAC and got this? An internet search turned up, “The best way to fix this is, firmware update the iDRAC”, which I did. But sadly it didn’t fix the problem. Solution In IE11 they have done a good job of hiding compatibility settings > Options > Compatibility View Settings > Type in the IP/URL > Add > Close >...
Audacity: ‘Click Track’ Missing?
KB ID 0001426 Problem While attempting to generate a ‘Click Track’ in Audacity, I could not find the option? Solution There are a couple of reasons why this can happen, firstly you don’t have the ‘Nyquist’ effect enabled, (Audacity > Preferences> Effects). But that wasn’t the case for me. Open a Terminal window, and execute the following command; sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine...
Event ID 1006
KB ID 0001425 Problem Seen on an Exchange 2016 Server Log Name: Application Source: MSExchangeDiagnostics Date: XX/XX/XXXX XX:XX:XX Event ID: 1006 Task Category: Triggers Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: EX2016 Description: The performance counter ‘\\EX2016\MSExchange Assistants – Per Database(msexchangemailboxassistants-2016-mailbox-database)\Event Dispatchers Catching Up’ sustained a value of...
Remote Desktop Services: Balancing Sessions Hosts and Connection Brokers
KB ID 0001424 Problem I got an email from a colleague who was setting up an RDS farm, (2012 R2). He was having some problems and asked me; “If the Connection Broker brokers the connections to the Session Hosts, how do I RDP to the Session Broker?” This threw me completely, I usually jump on the console in VMware or use a third party remote management tool, I don’t tend to to RDP onto servers. I had fallen into the...
Cisco ASA: Group-Lock WARNING
KB ID 0001423 Problem You will see this error if you are pasting configuration into a Cisco firewall. This week I was manually converting an old 8.2 version firewalls configuration, to run on a modern (version 9) firewall, when I saw this; Petes-ASA(config)# username fred.bloggs attributes Petes-ASA(config-username)# group-lock value SOME-VALUE WARNING: tunnel-group SOME-VALUE does not exist Solution The reason you are seeing this...
Cisco ASA 5506-X: Bridged BVI Interface
KB ID 0001422 Problem When the ASA 5506-X appeared there was much grumbling, “This is not a replacement for the ASA 5505, I need to buy a switch as well!” and “I have six ports on the firewall I cant use” etc. While I understand that, and if truth be told the ASA 5505, was SUPPOSED to be used in SOHO environments where an all in one device, (with PoE) was a great fit. The problem was, people started throwing...