If you need to find the password for an account logged into the server (eg a service account), you can run a tool called mimikatz (written by Benjamin Delpy) to do this. This tool allows you to read the clear text password stored by LSASS. I did wonder my LSASS would…
If you need to get the serial number of an HP server, and the HP Tools are got showing it, or you want to script it, you can use the WMI command line. Launch Powershell as administrator, then type in the following: This should display the serial number of the…
I had an issue today where a Linux VM’s file system was read only after a SAN issue. When a Linux server like Ubuntu looses access to its disks, the file system can go into read only to protect it from corruption. To resolve this you will need to run the following command:…
I recently had to change the IP Address of a Netbackup Master server, and came into issues with browsing polices and configuration. I checked all of the obvious things like host files, DNS etc. I then found that the issue cause caused by Netbackup host cache. To clear this, run…
If you would like to write out your webpage to a file you can use the ob_start command. This function will turn output buffering on. While output buffering is active no output is sent from the script (other than headers), instead the output is stored in an internal buffer. The contents…
I have the need on one of my sites to send emails after generating results from a questionnaire. I came across phpmailer and really liked it, it has some great functionality and is pretty easy to setup. Here is a code example:
While generating a PDF from a dynamically created HTML file, I found that the PDF generation failed as there were non UTF-8 characters in the HTML file. To try and find these characters, I used the strings command with the -n 8 switch to remove any non UTF characters: I was…
I have recently found the need to generate a PDF from the content of a dynamic HTML page. I found a really useful product that allowed me to change the PDF layout via CSS, which allowed me to have a coloured back ground on my page, but have a white…
By default the nagiosadmin account is one you login to the web interface with. To add your own users, you can follow these commands: Add user to the htpasswd file Next edit the Nagios cgi.cfg file to grant the relevant permissions: I wanted to same level of access as nagiosadmin,…
I recently had the need to generate a GUID as part of a PHP based application. To do this I used the following code: Reference: http://guid.us/GUID/PHP