VMware: Find Connected ISO’s
Oct13

VMware: Find Connected ISO’s

KB ID 0001708 Problem If you want to search your VMware estate to find VMs that have connected CD/DVD ISO files, then here are your best two options; Option 1: Use PowerCLI Whilst connected to your virtual infrastructure (Connect-VIServer) issue the following command; Get-VM | FT Name, @{Label=”ISO file”; Expression = { ($_ | Get-CDDrive).ISOPath }} Option 2: Use PowerCLI If you don’t already have RVTools then get it...

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vSphere – Floppy Drive ‘Won’t Appear’
Nov17

vSphere – Floppy Drive ‘Won’t Appear’

KB ID 0001020 Problem “It’s 2015 why are you messing around with floppy drives?” I hear you ask! Well for importing certificate requests, and issued certificates from an offline root CA server, it’s still considered best practice to use a virtual floppy drive rather than connect the offline root server to the production network. So today while deploying a PKI infrastructure, I needed to present a floppy drive...

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Windows – How to Join a Wireless Network
Nov17

Windows – How to Join a Wireless Network

KB ID 0000676  Problem You can still right click the networking icon in your task tray and manually join a wireless network, but with the new UI there is a much more user friendly way. Solution 1. Bring up the Settings menu (Press Windows Key+I, or swipe in form the left on a tablet/tablet) > Select the available networks icon. 2. Select the wireless network you want to connect to. 3. If you want to always connect to this network...

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Cisco Catalyst – Upgrading IOS (via USB)
Nov17

Cisco Catalyst – Upgrading IOS (via USB)

KB ID 0001056 Problem Had a stack of 3560-X Switches to update today, and when I went looking for the notes I used last time, I could not find them. So This time I took the time to document the procedure. Solution Now I could load in the IOS image from TFTP like this, but last time I did this I used a spare USB drive and the image ‘tar’ file, and found it a lot less hassle. 1. Make sure you have formatted your dive at...

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Cisco ASA – Find Out VPN Tunnel Uptime
Nov17

Cisco ASA – Find Out VPN Tunnel Uptime

KB ID 0000863  Problem I needed to get the Uptime/Duration of a particular VPN tunnel this week. It was for a client with multiple VPN tunnels that was having problems with just one. Solution Option 1 via Command Line 1. Connect to to the firewall > Go to enable mode and use the following command, replace 123.123.123.123 with the IP of your VPN endpoint. PetesASA> PetesASA> enable Password: ******** PetesASA# show...

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