Juniper : Netscreen/ScreenOS to HTML (ns2html) + audit your firewall config (nipper)
A short while ago, I came across 2 really nice tools that will help – visualizing screenos configs into html pages – auditing firewall configs Converting screenos to html The first tool, called ns2html, was developed by Rodrigo Pace de Barros and can be found at http://ns2html.sourceforge.net/ It is written in perl and both […]
Monitoring your network with Powershell
I have written a small powershell script that will help you to monitor various hosts on your network. Instead of using ping to see if a host is alive, this script will connect to tcp ports, so you can also monitor hosts behind firewalls (or hosts that cannot be pinged). In addition to this, you […]
Exchange 2007 : Powershell script to select optimal database for a new mailbox
If you have multiple Storage Groups / Databases on your Exchange 2007 server, you may want to try to spread your mailboxes over all databases. You could use your “gut feeling” and/or select a database at random, or you could use a simple script to select the “best” database for hosting a new mailbox. The […]
How to backup VMWare ESX virtual machines
Today, I will try to explain 2 techniques that will allow you to backup your vmdk files (virtual machines) on a VMWare ESX 3.0.x server. My lab runs on 3.0.2, but this will work on 3.0.1 (and maybe earlier versions) as well. Before continuing, let’s make a couple of assumptions : I will explain how […]