These links should help you with backing up metadata and restoring.
Citrix XenServer 
7.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.citrix.com/content/dam/docs/en-us/xenserver/xenserver-7-0/downloads/xenserver-7-0-administrators-guide.pdf
How to Back Up Virtual Machine Metadata to a USB Device
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX121282
How to Reinstall a XenServer Host and Preserve Virtual Machines on the Local Storage
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX136342
Communication is an important one. For me, It took awhile getting comfortable at communicating with users when I first started working in IT.
Sometimes I want to say "This is SPARTA" and then kick these damn copiers into a deep dark hole. Some of these instructors depends to much on them.
We provide students with a laptop and still we have instructors waste so much toner and paper when they could easily provide the students with the documents electronically instead.
I understand that there are times when its necessary for printouts, but every time?
I've been investing my time in learning Ansible and SaltStack to manage Linux and Windows. And started using the native tools available from Linux and Windows through Ansible and SaltStack.
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
SaltStack may be worth it just for managing any additional repositories you may use lol.
I've been reading up about managing Windows minions using SaltStack for awhile now.
Here is a link about managing packages for Windows minions.
http://blandname.com/2017/06/18/getting-started-with-salt-stack-windows-minions/
@net-runner said in Cisco: we're not competent.:
Well, true. But Cisco is a kind of standard for networking equipment nowadays and been those for pretty long time already. What would you recommend as an alternative?
EdgeMax devices is popular here.
I've never confused about it. But I have my WTF moments of why change it to say trial in the first place.
User > HDMI switch box > HDMI wall jack or go wireless.
Ubuntu Desktop certified hardware
https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/
Make a nice big sign right above the wall plate with the following message:
If you keep breaking the HDMI jack wall plate, I can tell you I don't have the time or patience. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
If you stop breaking them, that'll be the end of it.
Thank you, and have a wonderful day.
@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.
Wow!
...insisting that no one was actually injured and that it owed no duty to safeguard the personal information of millions of consumers and financial institutions.
I'm seriously having these moments of trying to use Linux commands on Windows.
I just tried usingsystemctl in PowerShell.
http://glpi-project.org/en/
https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi
sudo dnf -y install nano wget policycoreutils-python-utils git unzip httpd mariadb mariadb-server php php-mysqlnd php-gd php-mbstring php-ldap php-imap php-xml php-xmlrpc php-opcache php-pecl-apcu-bc
sudo systemctl enable httpd mariadb
sudo systemctl start httpd mariadb
#Create a database and a user to access it.
sudo mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE glpidb;"
sudo mysql -e "CREATE USER 'glpiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'glpiuserpw';"
sudo mysql -e "GRANT ALL ON glpidb.* TO 'glpiuser'@'localhost';"
sudo mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
#Secure mariadb. These commands do what mysql_secure_installation does interactively
sudo mysql -e "UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('somesecurerootpassword') WHERE User='root';"
sudo mysql -e "DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User='root' AND Host NOT IN ('localhost', '127.0.0.1', '::1');"
sudo mysql -e "DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User='';"
sudo mysql -e "DROP DATABASE test;"
sudo mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"
Configure web server
sudo tee /etc/httpd/conf.d/glpi.example.com.conf <<EOF
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
<Directory /var/www/html/glpi>
Require all granted
AllowOverride All
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/glpi
ServerName glpi.example.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/glpi.error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
EOF
Installing GLPI using Git
sudo git clone https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi.git /var/www/html/glpi
cd /var/www/html/glpi
sudo wget https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
sudo php composer.phar install --no-dev
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/glpi
Configure SELinux permissions
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t '/var/www/html/glpi(/.*)?'
sudo restorecon -R /var/www/html/glpi
sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on
sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db on
sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail on
sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_connect_ldap on
Restart services and configure firewall
sudo systemctl restart httpd mariadb
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=http --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
Now its time to configure GLPI from a web browser
http://glpi.example.com/ or http://ip-address/
By default you are provided with four accounts: glpi, post-only, tech and normal
glpi is the super-admin account
User name: glpi
Password: glpi
post-only is the self-service account
User name: post-only
Password: postonly
tech is the technician account
User name: tech
Password: tech
normal is the observer account
User name: normal
Password: normal
