We recently starting testing the SCOM 2012 Management Agent for Linux on a test server running CentOS 6.4 x86_64. Since we just installed a minimal set of packages via an automated kickstart the hostname of the machine wasn't set to the DNS resolved name.
After the SCOM agent was installed and even after we changed the hostname and setup the proper DNS the SCOM console was still barking about an SSL certificate common name matching the hostname of the server.
Every once in a while when I'll try to drag and drop something like an email in my Outlook Inbox to a sub-folder, or drag and drop files in my GUI FTP program and it just won't work.
My fix was just to hit the Escape key on my keyboard a few time. Poof! I can now drag and drop again.
If this doesn't work for you, make sure that one of the special keys like Alt or Ctrl aren't stuck.
Drag and drop away.
One of my resolutions for 2013 is to write and post articles more frequently. Here's my first attempt.
At my company we are heavy users of VMware/ESX/ESXi. It's what we have used for well over 8 years. One of the reasons why: it just works, it's stable, and (as it related to this post) the virtual networking is just simpler (in my opinion).
Trying to put a host into maintenance mode in vCenter and one machine wouldn't VMotion because it said VMware Tools were being installed or upgraded.
Searching Google came up with this article which applies to ESX 4.x:
http://lonesysadmin.net/2009/12/11/how-to-cancel-a-stuck-vmware-tools-in...
Well vmware-cmd is gone in ESXi 5.x. Here's how you do it in ESXi 5.x:
cd /vmfs/volumes/[datastore]/[vmname]
vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
Note the VmId of the machine having the issue. Then run:
vim-cmd vmsvc/tools.cancelinstall VmId
We recently upgrade to vCenter Server 5.1 and had an issue with our XenDesktop Desktop Controllers. Version 5.1 significantly changes the authentication method with vCenter by breaking out authentication to a separate service called the vCenter Single Sign On service.
When viewing the information in the XD Desktop Studio the host connection to our vCenter server had a red X indicating there was an issue connecting to the host. The XD Host Service was started so that wasn't the problem.
I was having a heck of a time getting Globalscape CuteFTP Professional 8.3 working for SFTP (FTP over SSH) sites. Since the server on which I was installing the software didn't need any of the "Productivity Tools" listed in the installer, I de-selected that hive.
After installation everything appeared to be working however when I tried to connect to an SFTP site I was greeted with the following error:
*** CuteFTP 8.3 - build Oct 22 2008 ***
STATUS:> [10/28/2012 6:32:47 PM] Initializing SFTP21 module...
We recently upgraded our vSphere infrastructure to ESXi version 5.0 Update 1a and we were having some issues upgrading the VMware Tools.
We were getting a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime error related to TPVCGateway.exe. It appears that this was an issue that was resolved by an ESXi 4.1 patch.
The root cause in our case was that we disable the Print Spooler on all of our servers for security. Well this disabling caused an issue with the VMware Tools uninstaller if the Thin Print virtual print driver was installed.
