Oracle InstantClient: TNSNAMES.ORA location
When you install the InstantClient binaries, you often want to use your existing TNSNAMES.ORA file containing all your databases. So how do you specify the location of your TNSNAMES.ORA file?
Mac OS X: Remote Desktop “/admin” switch
In another post, a commenter asked how to resolve the “Windows Server: The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections” error when connecting from a Mac.
Java Service Wrapper 3.5.17 for Windows x64
An anonymous commenter noticed that there was a new version of the Tanuki Service Wrapper available. So I hereby present the latest version of the wrapper. Merry christmas to all of you!
Nagios: Simple Oracle Check
For Nagios, many, many Oracle plugins are available for checking database availability and performance. But if you just want to check if the instance is up and running (and not add more complexity), you can use the simple script provided here.
Java Service Wrapper 3.5.16 for Windows x64
Recently, Tanuki Software released a new version of the Tanuki Service Wrapper (version 3.5.16). I am happy to make a compiled version of the Tanuki Service Wrapper for Windows Server (64-bit) available to you.
VMWare Server 2.0: SSL Exception: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
Last week, someone at work approached me, stating that he was unable to log into the web interface of a VMware Server machine. I was shocked to learn that we still had a VMware Server up and running. Then, I tried to log into the web interface myself and received an SSL error as well.
It turns out the machine was standing under someones desk and still had one single VM running. In order to migrate the machine to our ESXi infrastructure and fix the problem, I examined the logs on the server and found this:
Windows Server: Install basic language IME
To install Windows Servers, we usually prepare our images with nLite, add all our required storage drivers, updates and scripts. Using nLite, we can also use our Volume License Key and automate most parts of our installations.
This way, we can provision new virtual machines within minutes from scratch and provide a minimalistic basic Windows Server installation. Unfortunately, I somehow managed only to include the “US International” keyboard layout and had to manually add the standard “Swiss German” keyboard layout (and all other basic keyboard layouts).
Linux tar: Cannot change ownership to [..]: Permission denied
In a script I was working on, the tar command always reported the following error when I tried to extract an archive:
Cannot change ownership to uid 1000 , gid 1000: Permission denied
Windows Server: “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections”
When working with Windows Server and connecting to a server via Remote Desktop, one might stumble upon the following error message:
Windows Server: The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections
It turns out that even after clicking “OK”, you will not be able to connect to the server and your session will be terminated. But how to fix this problem without physically going to the server?
Java Service Wrapper 3.5.15 for Windows x64
I always like comments in my blog and someone nicely asked if I could provide a new build for the Tanuki Service Wrapper for Windows x64 (Community Edition). Sure I can! Find the download link below.