Year: 2011

Today I had to make similar changes to 10 Windows servers.  The changes consisted of copying a couple specialized programs from a source location and updating the Windows path.  I couldn’t remember how to update the Windows path variable from the command prompt (other than for the current command prompt of course) so I tooled […]

Last month our finance guy came to me in a bit of a panic to point out that our Amazon Web Services (AWS) bill was way higher than expected – by several thousand dollars.  After the initial shock wore off I started digging to figure out just what was going on. From Amazon’s bill I […]

I have a server that is continuously filling it’s drive with temporary files left over from a video encoding process we use.  Every week or so I have to manually delete the old files to prevent the drive from filling.  Finally today I headed on a journey to figure out a way to programmatically clean […]

I recently had to enable some of my mobile Mac clients with Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client for Mac.  Then, of course since the ASA only included 2 SSL VPN licenses and that’s what the AnyConnect VPN Client uses I had to purchase some additional licenses.  I purchased the licenses through a reseller & a couple […]

Recently some of our mobile users needed to connect to one of our networks that’s protected by a pair of Cisco ASA firewalls.  It was no problem for the Windows users as I already had what I needed in place, however it was a different story for our Mac users.  Since it had been a […]

If you’re like me you don’t allocate all disks to a SAN out of the gate.  I like to keep a little in reserve so I can add capacity when needed.  Then, once all the disks are added I’ll usually pickup a couple more disks and keep those in reserve.  In either case once it […]

A few months ago I got a new work computer.  Since it was a good opportunity to start fresh I didn’t transfer all the programs from my old one to the new.  And one of them I neglected to transfer was ASDM.  I wasn’t too worried about it since I often manage my ASA firewalls […]

I’m no fan of Apple, but as a techie I have a profound respect for Steve Jobs and everything he’s done for my industry, for computing in general and for consumer electronics.  Well done Steve!

I’ve been using Amazon EC2’s Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for a couple years now to load balance web applications, and for the most part it’s been great.  The one draw back I’ve run into is that IIS logs the load balancer’s private IP address as the c-ip address, rather than the client’s actual IP address.  Essentially […]

Unfortunately Amazon doesn’t have an easy or native way to copy or move or launch an AWS AMI from one region to another.  There are a number of posts on the Internet about how to do this with a Linux AMI, but I haven’t been able to find clear instructions on how to do this […]