Tag Archives: host

VMware Powercli: Get CDP infos for the Hosts Networkadapter

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if CDP is enabled the networkswitches gives some informations to the ESXi Hosts physical network adapters.

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VMware: Renew an ESXi host certificate by PowerCli

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these are the steps to renew a ESXi Host certificate signed by the vCenter VMCA by PowerCli.
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Windows: Clipboard not working

Hi,

when have opened a Remote Desktop Connection it sometimes happened that the clipboard stops working.

When you closing and reestablish the Remote Desktop Connection the clipboard functionally comes back.

But its also possible without closing the RDP Session:
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Linux: Regenerate sshd host keys

Hi,

to generate sshd host keys, for example in case of cloning a virtual linux instance, do the following steps:

Checkout the key file names

root@debdevt:~# grep HostKey /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key

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