Cisco ASA: Group-Lock WARNING
Apr12

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...

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RSS Error – Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII”
Nov17

RSS Error – Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII”

KB ID 0000889  Problem I don’t validate and check the sites RSS feed as often as I should, but post server migration I got this error; This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations. Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF8”, but your sever is reporting “US-ASCII” Solution As you can see by the section I’ve...

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VMware error on HP Proliant “Host Baseboard Management Controller status”
Nov17

VMware error on HP Proliant “Host Baseboard Management Controller status”

KB ID 0000418  Problem Saw this today on a HP Proliant DL380 G7 Server. Solution 1. It’s a simple one to solve, the server was built with the HP ESXi build, and the management agents are complaining because the iLO is not connected to the network. 2. When you connect the iLO socket to the network the alarm should change as shown below. 3. Once you have connected or disabled it you can reset the alarm. 4. Take the opportunity to...

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Event ID 1014 and 1002 (Windows IIS Web Server)
Nov17

Event ID 1014 and 1002 (Windows IIS Web Server)

KB ID 0000808  Problem Seen on Server 2003 running IIS 6, about once a week the website would fail, and the client had to reboot the server to bring things back up again. I took a look at the server and noticed that when the failure happened, we had five Event ID 1014 errors; Source W3SVC The World Wide Web Publishing Service encountered an internal error in its process management of worker process ‘<value>’ serving...

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HP MSA P2000 – ‘The Disk May Contain Stale Metadata’
Nov17

HP MSA P2000 – ‘The Disk May Contain Stale Metadata’

KB ID 0000874 Problem The call came in this morning, a client had replaced a failed drive in his SAN, (an MSA P2000 2324sa). He was asking if there was anything he needed to do. I said “Just mark it as a global spare and that should be it”. He rang back some time later to say he was still having problems. When I dialled on I could see his ‘new’ drive was marked as LEFTOVR and was flagged with the following...

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