IT Professionals

Just run this microsoft application…and the select the application to remove.

http://apps.thenetworkadministrator.net/vb/msicuu2.exe

A few days ago I upgrading a Windows Vista computer to Windows 7 Home premium. The upgrade gave me no issues, anything I ran into i knew of by run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor http://apps.thenetworkadministrator.net/VB/Windows7UpgradeAdvisorSetup.exe

However, after the upgrade my Dell AIO 926 printer would not work. I tried applying the new Windows 7 drivers from support.dell.com, tried using Windows Vista drivers, even tried running the printer  installer using Vista SP2  compatibility mode. Below are the steps i used to solve the problem, hope I can save someone else some time.

1. Disconnect the printer usb cable

 2. From control panel, programs, uninstall programs, locate the Dell AIO printer software and uninstall it, if promted to reboot please do so.

3. Run this utility to uninstall the old printer drivers, http://apps.thenetworkadministrator.net/VB/R166248.zip

3. Visit http://support.dell.com and download the windows 7 drivers, during the software install the setup will prompt you when to connect the printer usb cable.

Download and burn the NT offline password reset  iso from http://apps.thenetworkadministrator.net/VB/Windows_Password_Reset.zip

If you have inheirted  an system or simply lost SU password in most cases you can reset the password. Remember phyiscal access is root or administrator access….

Open SuSE

If using CD/DVD boot media, You need to choose Rescue System

mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda2 /mnt

# cd /mnt
# chroot /mnt
# passwd (new password)

Reboot

As an alternative to more costly software monitoring  solutions this is free, Nagios provides the means to monitor windows and linux servers and other equipment such as

• Monitoring Windows machines
• Monitoring Linux/Unix machines
• Monitoring Netware servers
• Monitoring routers/switches
• Monitoring network printers
• Monitoring publicly available services (HTTP, FTP, SSH, etc.)

To keeps things simple I chose to install Nagios on Open SuSE 11.2 http://software.opensuse.org/112/en. Just go through a typical install, make sure that you install apache2 or httpd (Fedora) and C/C++ development libraries. Also I like to change the default run level from 5 to 3 so that you can put the memory toward the server and not toward the GUI interface. I would also recommend enabling SSH to manager the server.  For the most part you will be modifying conf files and managing the server from http://nagios_server_IP/nagios. Once you have your monitoring server operating system built in my case I chose OpenSuSE, follow these simple steps….

As a quick note, step 1, I had an issue with these commands…..
/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios

/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd wwwrun

so, instead I used….

/usr/sbin/usermod  -G nagcmd nagios
/usr/sbin/usermod  -G nagcmd wwwrun

 Also one more note, after two installs the status map has not worked. I am running OpenSuSE, to fix this problem I did the following.

Make sure these packages are installed.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-opensuse.html

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-ubuntu.html

Debian/ubuntu

apt-get install

libgd

libgd-devel

libpng

libpng-devel

libjpeg

libjpeg-devel

zlib

zlib-devel

Fedora /centos/RHEL/opensuse

Use  yum install Or yast2 -i

gd

gd-devel

png

png-devel

jpeg

jpeg-devel

zlib

zlib-devel

While in the Nagios directory run the following commands. IF YOU ARE RUNNING RUNNING THESE COMMANDS ON AN EXISTING INSTALL YOU WILL LOSE DATA, SO PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF YOU CONFIG FILES.