The Gears Inside My Head

As I sit here I am frequently being annoyed by a nasty little redirect Trojan that "someone" who used my computer picked up.  I am extremely careful, and very cautious about who uses my PC.  Each of my kids has their own PC, as does my wife.  No one outside of my immediate family uses my PC.  So that leaves either myself or my wife. It doesn't really matter and I'm not blaming anyone.  In fact my every-day operating system is Centos Linux so this is little more than an occasional annoyance for me.  It doesn't help that I'm so irritated with Microsoft these days that I only use Windows when and IF I have to.  That boils down to about three programs.  Everything else is on Linux. The Linux side works fine, it's just this Swiss-Cheese OS named Windows that's any issue.  Anyway, I could go on for hours about the various issues I have with Microsoft, but I digress. So I am documenting what I have found so that if anyone else with this issue ...

For any of you that use SAN products from Tegile, they have had a REST API available since 2014 to access the SAN controllers, but it's never been really useful.  They tell me that this will be changing and they will actually have some commandlets available soon. The user guide for the API is written from a PERL viewpoint and all the examples are in PERL.  That's great except that I use very little PERL in my day-to-day life. I decided to try and convert to PowerShell and see what I could see.  There are a number of examples of using REST API via PowerShell around the net.  After trying variations of a number of them I would up with the code below.  It will pull out the Zebi version information from the array. It's still very limited as to what you can do, but it's a start.  The full list of commands available are in the REST API user guide over at the Tegile support site. This script is functional but not pretty.  It was basically just proving...

For anyone reading this that's looking for updated information on our situation, everything is good. For those curious, I live in the Sierra foothills in California.  The Butte fire which started a week ago just ravaged my area.  70,000 acres burned, 360 homes destroyed, 2 fatalities. The fire stopped about 500 yards from my home.  We were EXTREMELY lucky.  Seems to be a freak effect of the area we live in that caused the fire to shift and detour around our street.  All the houses on our street are fine, no damage, and just across the creek are foundations with no houses.  Damn scary. The roads are still closed due to downed power poles and lines.  I understand the need to make things safe, and I am amazed at the herculean effect PG&E is taking to get power back in place,  but I am really getting tired of people telling that "the roads are still closed" just to watch the "special" people drive right down them.  Those would include a...

I like to keep an arsenal of automated scripts that run as scheduled tasks to report on the status of various things I manage.  Here is one of those. Our virtualization environment uses a SAN backend as most do.  We run exclusively in NFS (NAS) mode.  This has numerous advantages (an explanation of which is outside the scope of this post).  I like to keep a rough idea of the gains and losses of each NFS share on a daily basis. I run the following script automatically each day and it emails me the details of the gains or losses due to systems being added or removed.  I included a "noupdate" option that allows testing without processing the files.  That way you can rerun using the current file again and again for testing. Results are very basic and color coded for gain/loss.  The raw dump files are stored in the script folder.  I have another process I use to import them into Excel and graph them over time.  If I get a chance I'll post th...