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Tagging takes some getting used to and knowing what tags are useful or meaningful is something you learn and always has to be adjusted.

Dangit I always forget tags.

@olivier

How does XO deal with hotfixes such as this one, where there are specific steps/rules that must be followed before applying?

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX214305

Mainly:
"In contrast to other XenServer updates, it is important to avoid suspending VMs when applying this hotfix."

Or does XO not even suspend anything. I know it's pretty durn smart.

My importing of VM metadata seems to have worked perfectly.

It did come up with one error, and I'd like to trace that down.

Two questions.

1. When I look at the logs, all the lines are jumbled together. (I downloaded them to my Windows PC.) Is there a special program I need?
   EDIT: answered my question, but will leave this here for future newbies ... don't use NotePad. Almost anything else (WordPad, Word, Vim) will work.

2. What file would you presume such information would be logged to/at?

-rw------- 1 root root     6682 Aug  3 14:29 xcp-rrdd-plugins.log
-rw------- 1 root root  1787686 Aug  3 14:29 xensource.log
-rw------- 1 root root   220519 Aug  3 14:29 daemon.log
-rw------- 1 root root   124351 Aug  3 14:29 xenstored-access.log
-rw------- 1 root root   243116 Aug  3 14:28 audit.log
-rw------- 1 root root    15951 Aug  3 14:28 secure
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Aug  3 14:24 blktap
-rw------- 1 root root   182944 Aug  3 14:24 kern.log
-rw------- 1 root root   179431 Aug  3 14:24 SMlog
-rw------- 1 root root    11429 Aug  3 14:24 user.log
-rw------- 1 root root     1276 Aug  3 14:20 cron
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38273316 Aug  3 14:18 lastlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp    11520 Aug  3 14:18 wtmp
-rw------- 1 root utmp      384 Aug  3 14:08 btmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      396 Aug  3 14:05 ovs-xapi-sync.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    11358 Aug  3 14:04 boot.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1314 Aug  3 14:04 ovs-ctl.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      892 Aug  3 14:04 restoreeswitchcfg.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      696 Aug  3 14:04 interface-rename.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       64 Aug  3 14:04 xenstored.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    57685 Aug  3 14:03 dmesg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     5023 Aug  3 13:58 pbis-open-install.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        0 Aug  3 13:57 ovs-vswitchd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        0 Aug  3 13:57 ovsdb-server.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Aug  3 13:56 xen
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Aug  3 13:56 sa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    57204 Aug  3 13:56 dmesg.old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Aug  3 13:50 installer
-rw------- 1 root root    33124 Aug  3 13:47 yum.log
-rw------- 1 root root        0 Aug  3 13:44 maillog
-rw------- 1 root root        0 Aug  3 13:44 messages
-rw------- 1 root root        0 Aug  3 13:44 spooler
drwx------ 3 root root     4096 Aug  3 13:43 samba
-rw------- 1 root root        0 Aug  3 13:43 tallylog
drwx------ 2 root root    16384 Aug  3 13:40 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Apr 27 10:30 openvswitch
drwxr-xr-x 2 ntp  ntp      4096 Jan 25  2016 ntpstats
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Dec  9  2015 cluster

@travisdh1 said in XS Log Question:

@BRRABill said in XS Log Question:

@travisdh1 said in XS Log Question:

messages generally has everything. That's where I'd look first, do a text search in that bad boy. Do you have any error information from the import?

My message was (at the time of this post) and still is zero size.

Really? XenServer must do things much differently than I'm used to in Linux. Try what @Danp said and look in xensource.log then.

I just went and looked, XenServer doesn't use rsyslog by default, yuck.

Ah:
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/378269-xenserver-7-varlogmessages/

@olivier said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

VM metadata means: VM name, description, number of virtual interfaces, disks etc. Everything except the disk content.

So when we are doing VM backup, we are actually export both disk content and VM metadata.

Otherwise, it would be just a bunch of disks with their UUID, which is a bit useless when you need to restore (unless you can memorize every VM configuration and disk placement with their respective UUID. In this case, please answer the question on the meaning on life and everything).

But you should take a metadata backup separately, too, no?

Let's say your boot device (cough USB cough) decides to die and you don't have a backup.

It's so much faster to reinstall XS and restore the metadata than restore all the VMs through XO, right?

Though of course the XO is also important to protect from loss of the VM itself.

@travisdh1 said in XenServer log files.:

@BRRABill said in XenServer log files.:

@travisdh1 said in XenServer log files.:

I've been setting up a central logging server for this weeks project. It's a week long project I just completed, yay for things not breaking this week.

Anyway, I was looking at an ssh session to the one XenServer host we have, going, "Where'd rsyslog go?" Turns out I was making life harder than it needed to be. Just use the GUI. Much as I dislike relying on a GUI, it's just easy.

What are you trying to do?

Some of that stuff doesn't work, and it's all been changed in XS7 anyway.

Just forward the logging messages to a single place. When something stops working I have one spot to go looking for the problems, and can easily find it by searching for a hostname from the /var/log/messages file on my rsyslog host server.

Oh, that will definitely work, then.

@momurda said in Secondary Domain Controller Setup:

dont forget to check afterwards if everything is ok with
dcdiag /v
repadmin /showrepl
repadmin /replsum

Everything looks good so far.

@Breffni-Potter said in System Fonts: Installing when not an Admin:

@Veet said

I have a way of doing this, but works if UAC is off... .

No, don't do that ever

I nearly went apocalypse on a vendor who did just that, completely broke my ability to work on the client machines remotely because I could not elevate anything as admin and you completely disable the sandbox protections which have been in place since Windows Vista.

https://woorkup.com/install-fonts-without-administrator-access/

I work with a few medical clients, and all their software requires UAC to be off (and some the firewall as well). It's nuts.

@brianlittlejohn said in DC DNS Settings:

@BRRABill I have two DCS,
DC1 has DC2 as primary and itself as secondary. Then for DC2, DC1 is primary and itself secondary.

Seems like that is what is now recommended. Though all the first few posters did not have it set up that way, and that is apparently not the way MS used to recommend.

@BRRABill said in DC DNS Settings:

I do the same, itself as primary.

But it seemed like there were a lot of people on the Internet with the opposite.

Of course, they aren't the geniuses here at ML.

I take it back, my servers were NOT set up like this.

Not that anyone cares. Just wanted to set the record straight.

I'm no help to your discussion, but we're going to be doing something similar soon with iPads.

We are going to be rolling out a few iPads to use as kiosks in remote locations.

Not remote like in the jungle, but remote to not being in our office.

Does anybody use any sort of management platform to manage iPads?

@scottalanmiller said

I'm getting a Mac Mini in September, I'm told.

I have an older Mac at home I use for the kids so they can learn multi OSes) and also teaching myself anything Mac related.

But ML has taught me, business need, business purchase!

Haha, it's a little kludgy.

First it sent a link to reset my password.

Then 3 minutes later it sent a link to confirm signing up.

But throw up a WebRoot malicious warning error.

Ah, Monday!

I'll be buying one shortly, so watching this thread.

(And re-reading all the previous ones.)

@s.hackleman said in iPad Management Platforms:

I have about 65 in service. I use Apple Configurator and Apple Server Profile Manager to control mine. Works like a charm, and $19.99 for server is a pretty good deal if you already have an Apple computer laying around.

Yeah, having no Apple around kind of prices that solution out for me.

Though maybe it is time to request a MacBoook!

I've been using this to backup an application I support that has a full SQL instance running. Not sure if it would fit your needs. (Or even how good it is.)

(And it is free.)

https://sqlbackupandftp.com/

As you probably know from other threads, I am working at getting rid of two physical 2003 DCs and replacing them with VMs.

I have the new virtual DC set up with no issues. I have two questions on the remaining tasks...

1. The physical DC (lets call it BOB) has the DNS server running, as does the other physical DC still running (let's call that one JOE). Should I
   a) install DNS on the new virtual DC, thus having 3 DNS servers, then remove it from BOB once I demote it?
   b) delete it from BOB then install it on the new virtual server
   c) just leave it running on BOB and not the new virtual DC

2. Obviously I have to run DCPROMO to demote BOB, but much like my "DC DNS" questions, the jury is out on whether that is enough, or whether a manual purging (or more) of settings (such as in DNS) needs to be done.

From those of you who have done this, what do you recommend?

@Dashrender said in DC Demotion Question:

Change IP settings of the VM DC for DNS to point to itself

I think we determined in my other thread that that was not the recommended way these days.

@DustinB3403 said

Removing patches from XS is something of a pain in the rear IIRC. I was reading up on how to do this, and the summation was to let it stay there until a fix comes along rather than trying to remove it.

I ended up doing it on my pool.

Not the patch itself, just the reference to it.

Worked fine.