SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
NetApp: A Complete Setup of a Netapp Filer
Summary: How to setup a Netapp Filer.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
After reinitializing and resetting a filer to factory defaults there is always a time when you want to re-use your prescious 100k+ baby. Thinking, this should be a piece of cake, I encountered some unforeseen surprises which led to this document. Here I'll show you how to setup a filer from the start to the end. Notice this is a filer with a partner, so there is a lot of switching around.
Note that I copied a lot of output from the filers to this article for your convenience. Also note, that I mixed output from the two filers and that all steps need to be done on both filers.
NetApp Scrubbing
Summary: How to perform a scrub on a Netapp Filer.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
What does scrubbing do? The RAID-level scrub finds and corrects parity and checksum errors as well as media errors. The continuous media scrub is to detect and correct media errors in order to minimize the chance of storage system disruption due to a media error while a storage system is in degraded or reconstruction mode. All the information you find below is about the RAID-level scrubbing.
AIX Info
Summary: ALthough AIX is by now on version 7.3 I find these old pages so fascinating I decided to keep them. On this page I'll show you how to retrieve information about the AIX installation and the hardware it's installed on. This page is for AIX 5.3 and 6.1.
Date: Between 2010-2013
Refactor: 21 December 2024: Checked formatting. Translated some stuff from Dutch to English.
Automate compliance in Active Directory
Summary: This page will show you the script for various checks you could do in your environment for compliancy or risk purposes.
Date: Around 2019
Refactor: 8 December 2024: Checked links and formatting. Added a warning for best practices.
The following functionality is used:
- Create reports in excel, and comparing results with previous reports
- Specific accounts in OUs are identified
- Local administrator accounts on all servers are checked
- Sending html emails with a report on found findings
- Upload the report to sharepoint online
- Look for changes causing the findings in the TOPdesk SQL database
- Use a default file with standard functions
The scripts and powershell code I created for this page are not in line with the current best practices for PowerShell. See Cheatsheet PowerShell for more information. I would also prefer to run these scripts from a pipeline and a private build agent.