How to Start/Stop Dell OMSA on Windows

January 26, 2009 / 1 Comment

From Dell’s Support Site:

 

To start Server Administrator, perform the following steps:

  1. Click the Start button and point to Settings® Control Panel® Administrative Tools® Services.
    The Services window appears.
  2. Right-click the Secure Port Server icon.
  3. Click Start.

 

To stop Server Administrator, perform the following steps:

  1. Click the Start button and point to Settings® Control Panel® Administrative Tools® Services.              The Services window appears.
  2. Right-click the Secure Port Server icon.
  3. Click Stop.

Acronis True Image Home (Run List Corrupted)

December 15, 2008 / 1 Comment

I started to receive a message on my new Vista box in Acronis True Image Home that looks like this:

 

Information    12/15/2008 8:07:49 AM    Locking partition C:…
Error    12/15/2008 8:10:00 AM    Operation with partition "2-0" was terminated.
Details:
Run list corrupted (0x7001C)
    Tag = 0x89D94B01B483E221

 

To rectify this issue just run a "CHKDSK C: /R" which should clean up a few NTFS attributes. This usually will happen if you hard-cycle your system for some reason.

Fix errors on Windows 2003 with MySQL 5.0+

December 4, 2007 / 0 Comments

The error “Fatal error: Can’t open and lock privilege tables: Table ‘mysql.servers’ doesn’t exist” is caused by some incomplete privilege tables. Please run the following command at a command prompt:

  # cd "Program FilesMySQLMySQL Server 5.2scripts\"
  # mysql --force -uroot -p mysql < mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql

This did the trick for me – not too sure why this wasn’t part of the install but all is well now.

Disabling performance counters (Windows)

June 19, 2007 / 0 Comments

  1. Backup your registry
  2. Open “regedit”
  3. Navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services”
  4. Find the service you wish to disable performance counters for
  5. Navigate the performance key. If the key does not exist, create it.
  6. Create a DWORD entry called “Disable Performance Counters” and set the value to 1
  7. Enjoy a cool beverage.