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Recovery: Recover files from SD Cards or dd image

Hi,

linux has 3 tools for recovering files from a (damaged) SD Card or from an dd image taken by ddrescue. Usually all tools need an empty output directory.

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vSphere: Remove orphaned user from an sso group by command line

Hi,

after migrating a vSphere vCenter instance from Windows to the VCSA appliance some (Windows local user which do no longer exists on linux) orphaned user are member of an SSO group.

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Network: Forwarding SNMP Traps by mail with snmptrapd and snmptt

Hi,

this post describes a simply way to forward all traps by E-Mail received via SNMP.

This process is splited in several steps

  • Receive the traps => snmptrapd
  • snmptrapd calls the trapshandler script after each received trap. The trap details are handed over to the script by STDIN
  • The trap handler is /usr/sbin/snmptthandler. This script spools all traps to /var/spool/snmptt
  • The snmptt gets the traps from the spool folder, translate them in a human readable format and calls a custum script defined by snmptt.conf

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Windows: Prevent windows from installing a specific device(driver)

Hi,

Windows Group Policies have to ability to prevent installation specific devices.

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Windows: Enable policy to prevent connections to multiple networks

Hi,

via Windows Policy it is possible to restrict the access to multiple Networks.
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