Software RAID 1 on Windows 2003

This series of articles will show how to set up software RAID on a Windows Server 2003 system. Before you do anything with your disks, make sure you have a good backup. We will start with one Basic drive, create a RAID1 set on a new drive we install, remove the first drive, and recover from the second. First off, we have a single 12 gig drive running in Basic mode:

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Installing Nagios on openSUSE 11.0

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Nagios is an excellent tool that can be used to monitor your systems and devices. For more detailed information check out the main Nagios site : Nagios.org

The scope of this howto is to give specific installation tips for Nagios running on openSUSE 11.x (should also work on openSUSE 10.3 and 11.1). Another aim is to give you an easy way to get graph history setup and more.

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Backup and Restore IIS 6.0 in Windows Server 2003

This article will show how to succesfully backup and restore an IIS 6.0 configuration without any issues to a new server installation. Although it is an easy process to do there are some issues that we have to be aware of.

If we plan to backup and restore IIS 6.0 to the same server installation or repair an IIS we can create a backup without a passsword. This way we are creating a non-portable backup for IIS 6 metabase. Because the machine key is used in case we dont provide a backup we will have to restore it to the same original machine.

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Windows SMTP: SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay

1) Go to: start > settings > control panel > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services
2) Expand the ” (local computer)” node
3) Right click on your SMTP server > go to “Properties”
4) Click “Access” tab
5) Under Relay Restrictions, click the “Relay” button
6) Click “Add”
7) Select “Single Computer” and enter IP address 127.0.0.1
8) Hit OK, OK, OK (until the properties dialog is closed)

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