ESXi Firewall Commands Command Description esxcli network firewall get Returns the enabled or disabled status of the firewall and lists default actions. esxcli network firewall set –defaultaction Update default actions. esxcli network firewall set –enabled Set to true to enable the firewall, set to false to disable the firewall. esxcli network firewall load Load the… Read More
FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client software with a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable and highly configurable FTP/FTPS server for the Windows platform. FileZilla Homepage
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform… Read More
If you are using subversion(svn), you may or may not know that it has a pluggable architecture that allows you to automate certain aspects of the workflow with hook scripts. These hook scripts are written in bash on Linux and batch files on Windows, today we will be focusing on bash. Below are some basic… Read More
If you are running Dell OpenManage on Ubuntu 12.04 as I previously detailed, then chances are you would also like to automate alerts via email. Since Dell OpenManage does not natively support e-mails we will need to turn to our trusty bash script in order to accomplish this task. The only requirement for my script… Read More
In this tutorial I will show you how to roll your own custom OpenVPN client installer using NSIS. The installer will include the Better OpenVPN GUI Client that I have previously written about. This tutorial is a modified version of Mathias Sundman’s original tutorial which can be found here. Required software NSIS 3.0b3 – Nullsoft… Read More
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. Being a user’s first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With… Read More
The most powerful set of tools available to create your Windows installation experience. Free and Open Source since 2004! The WiX toolset lets developers create installers for Windows Installer, the Windows installation engine. The core of WiX is a set of build tools that build Windows Installer packages using the same build concepts as the… Read More
Zarafa Collaboration Platform is the email server of choice for our new customers. With that said, we have a lot of these installations being maintained in production. Below is the first run through of an automation script I wrote last year to update Zarafa to the latest release for users who are not using apt-get…. Read More
Default serial console settings for Linksys Switch SRW2048 (can be changed): Bits per second: 38400 Data bits: 8 Parity: None Stop bits: 1 Flow Control: None Works great in PuTTy, just set connection type as seen below. You’ll need a “console” cable for this, but its not a rollover – it’s a DB9F to DB9F… Read More