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Settings for connecting through the serial port with your Mikrotik:
All RouterBOARD models except 230:
115200bit/s, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity, flow control=none by default.
RouterBOARD 230 parameters are:
9600bit/s, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity, hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control by default.
Backing up CUCM using FreeFTPd
Install FreeFTPd on a server or workstation. Run FreeFTPd and create a user through the users tab. Change it’s home directory to a directory where you want the back-ups tob e placed.
Go to the SFTP tab, check the Listen address, and change the SFTP root directory to the firectory where you want the back-ups to be placed.
Click the Start button on the SFTP tab.
Go to your CUCM. Navigate to the Cisco Disaster Recovery System, and log in.
Navigate to Backup – Backup device.
Add New. Choose a Backup device name, choose Network Directory, and fill in the server name (IP) of the SFTP server, path = /, username and password of the newly created SFTP user. Choose the number of backups to store on the Network Directory, and click Save. If the backup location is valid the status at the top of the page will tell you it could access the network directory succesful.
Navigate to Backup – Scheduler
Add new.
Choose a Schedule Name, the features you want to include in the back-up, the starting date and time, and the frequency. Press Save and then Press Enable Schedule.
Just for sure you can test your back-up configuration by manually creating a back-up.
Navigate to Backup – Manual Backup.
Choose a Schedule Name, the features you want to include in the back-up, and press Start Backup. Your manual back-up will begin, check back in a couple of minutes if your back-up job went succesful.
It’s possible to add a recycle bin to your Samba shares. This way you won’t be bothered with restoring back-ups for a deleted file. What you need to do to enable the recycle bin functionality on your samba shares:
- Create a config file in /etc/samba for the recycle bin config. (I created /etc/samba/rb.conf)
- Place the following config into the file:
##Recycle Bin Configuration File##
name = Recycle Bin
mode = KEEP_DIRECTORIES|VERSIONS|TOUCH
maxsize = 0
exclude = *.tmp|*.temp|*.o|*.obj|~$*|*.~??|*.log|*.trace
excludedir = /tmp|/temp|/cache
noversions = *.doc|*.ppt|*.dat|*.ini
- Edit your Samba configuration file (/etc/samba.smb.conf).
- Add the following lines to the share(s) you want to have the recycle bin functionality:
vfs object = recycle
config-file = /etc/samba/recycle.conf
recycle:repository = Recycle Bin
recycle:keeptree = Yes
recycle:versions = Yes
- Restart Samba (“/etc/init.d/samba restart” or “service samba restart”)
- It could be that you first need to delete a file before the recycle bin folder will show up.
There are lots of options to fine tune to your needs!
Currently I’m running Microsoft Exchange 2007. I’m really happy with it, however, there’s a new version, Microsoft Exchange 2010. I wouldn’t be me if I won’t check out Microsoft Exchange 2010. And what would be a better possibility to check it out and get to know it than to install it for my own!
I will be making sort of a todo-list that I can look back at when installing a Microsoft Exchange 2010 server in the future:
Since last year I have a HTC Hero. Since somewhere end of last year/beginning of this year HTC promised an Android 2.1 update for the HTC Hero. The update still isn’t released. It took me to long, so I just rooted the HTC Hero and put a Custom Android 2.1 ROM (VillainROM) on it. It works like a charm!
This website helped me rooting my HTC and applying a custom ROM on it:
Noticed some strange behaviour with “Send As Permissions” on my Exchange 2007 server. I couldn’t get the send as permissions to work. After doing some research, I found some known problems, that I will list in this post:
- To apply a user “Send As” permissions, the user also needs to have “Send on behalf” permissions on the mailbox.
- A mailbox that is hidden from the Exchange Address List can’t be used for a user to “Send As”.
- Exchange updates its permissions like “Send As” permissions every 120 minutes only. This means it could take 2 hours before your “Send As” permissions are configured. There are people saying that an Information Store restart would force the update of permissions, however there is no proof that this works.
Because most people today use Outlook 2007 with cached RPC over HTTP, the “Exchange Address List” won’t be updated directly when creating new users. This also means it’s not directly possible to use the newly created mailbox to send as this mailbox. Turning of caching will show up the newly created mailbox and enable the functionality to send as this mailbox.
When implementing a Nagios Monitoring solution and looking at the default map output, It’s really boring. I like to give the eye something to, so I decided to find out how to use downloaded icons and/or custom created icons you made yourself.
I will explain how to configure icons for your nagios map: Read More >>
I was checking for a good back-up solution for my ESXi VM’s, because of the lacking Exchange-aware back-up solution in Windows Server 2008. I checked some 3rd party solutions, but wasn’t exactly convinced. Read More >>
I then came by a VMWare thread with a back-up solution using a script on your ESX(i) server, automatically creating a live (or offline) back-up of one or more VMs.
I wanted to configure my MikroTik Router so I can remotely connect to my home network.
I configured my MikroTik to be a PPTP Server.
This is what was needed to configure a RouterOS based router to accept a PPTP Client session: Read More >>
I have a customer who has a Windows SBS2K3 server behind a pretty crappy router (installed by ISP). It’s not possible to create a Site-to-Site VPN between the location where my Nagios Server is located and the location where the SBS2K3 is located.
Because I insist throwing all monitoring traffic over an Encrypted Tunnel, I thought about letting the Nagios Server log in as a PPTP Client onto the WSBS2K3.
I did the following the configure everything for the above: Read More >>