Entries by Ingmar Verheij

Set Citrix policies via PowerShell

/by

Author : Ingmar Verheij Since Citrix XenApp 6.0 and XenDesktop 5.0 policies are configurable via a new method. As a bonus Citrix made it possible to configure the policies via Group Policy Objects (GPO’s) in Active Directory. This is especially useful if you want to set Citrix policies unattended, or automated. This way you can […]

Virtual (SQL)server impaired by residual snapshot after Veeam backup

/by

Author : Ingmar Verheij Recently I had to troubleshoot a SQL server that performed nightly batch jobs for a management information system. Under normal conditions this required 6.5 hours but this was suddenly increased to 11.5 hours. An increase of 75%! Because of this delay the information wasn’t presented on time with a lot of […]

Configure WANem via PowerShell

/by

If you want to simulate a WAN connection (lower bandwidth, add delay, jitter, etc.) then WANem is a solution that is (relatively) easy to use and free.   Configuring the WAN emulator is done via a webpage, but unfortunately there are no API’s exposed to automate the configuration. Since I needed to automate the configuration […]

PowerShell: Query Cisco (Catalyst 4500) Flow Control statistics

/by

Last week I attended E2EVC in Vienna, a non-commercial,virtualization community Event, and attended a session of Saša Mašić about an issue he had at a customer. In short, the problems where caused by a switch that couldn’t process IP packets because it overflowed, and therefore Ethernet flow control temporarily stopped the transmission of some attached […]

Backup Synology to CrashPlan Pro (on Dutch server at Pro Backup)

/by

I wanted to backup the data from my Synology DS212+ NAS to an offsite, secure, location so that I can retrieve my data in case of an emergency. After some research I ended up at CrashPlan who offer both Windows, Apple as Linux clients. Since there are numerous articles written about how to install the […]

How to install an FTP client on a Synology NAS

/by

Author: Ingmar Verheij A Synology NAS can be used as a FTP server out-of-the-box (after enabling it), but there is no FTP client installed that can be used from a interactive shell. You can install a FTP client, lftp by Alexander Lukyanov, using ipkg. If you haven’t installed ipkg yet, please install it first (link). […]

How to install ipkg on Synology NAS (DS212+)

/by

Author: Ingmar Verheij If you want to install additional packages on your Synology NAS you first need to install ipkg. In this post I’ll explain the steps you need to take to install this package on your Synology NAS. If you don’t have terminal access, please enable that first (link). Ingmar VerheijWas once an enthusiastic […]

How to enable terminal access to Synology NAS

/by

Author: Ingmar Verheij For certain (more complex) tasks you might need terminal access to your Synology NAS. Enabling terminal access to your Synology NAS is done quite easily. You can enable both Telnet (non encrypted – insecure) or SSH (encrypted – more secure) access. Ingmar VerheijWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working […]

OpsMgr: Remove management pack depending on “Default Management Pack”

/by

Author: Ingmar Verheij When you try to remove a (sealed) management pack from System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) you get the following error: This is caused by an override that is targeted on the management pack you want to delete (for instance Citrix Library) and is stored in the Default Management Pack, which is NOT […]