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Mowing the lawn for the first time this year

Anything but the other

Last Monday evening I did mow the lawn for the first time this year. The weather forecast promised rain so I had to do it in a hurry. Killing one bird with two stones by trying to run when doing it to get some more exercise as well.

Need info about how to properly mow the lawn? Google is your friend http://www.wikihow.com/Properly-Mow-the-Lawn-%28Row-or-Column-Method%29

Reinstalling the IBM ECM System Monitor agent fails

Work/Geek

Has just recently upgraded to IBM ECM SM FP 5.1.0.2 and today I wanted to update the configuration after the deployment done yesterday. Pretty straight forward, selected one server – did the needed – and then Install and configure. All files transferred to the server, but when running setup.bat it failed

Executing d:\IBM\ECMSM_AGENT\cala\setup.bat, please wait...
..?
The system cannot find the batch label specified - JAVA_ERROR?


Got confused, tried a second time with same result, was about to create a PMR for IBM Support, but decided to try the other server. Installed without any problems. So I gave the first server a third try…installed without any errors.

Update

Rune,

this can happen if a JAVA monitor is running. To override this issue stop the CALA service for the particular monitoring agent and try again.

Cheers

Alex

Task Execution Manager – stop Cala, then install – no problem.

Me so lonely

Anything but the other

This message was sent to my personal FB-account, quite sure that she (is it really) only did try to contact me

Hello
I saw your nice profile,and something motivated me to communicate with you,My Dear in your usual time may it pleases you to
write me back in email address so that i can send you my pictures and also tell you more about
myself.A friendship is the foundation build on other relative things to come.May God bless you as i wait impatiently to hear
from you. Your lonely friend,
Christiana Edwards
PLEASE CONTACT ME DIRECT TO MY EMAIL ADDRESS. FOR FURTHER COMMUNICATION

Kinda funny finding my profile …nice… since it is blocked as much as possible for outsiders. Well, well, just by looking at my profile picture she guessed that I was such a nice guy.

Dalslands X-Country 2014

Sport

Yesterday Espen and I with Roy as the serviceman headed for Bengtsfors to participate in Dalslands X-Country. 60 km of mostly gravel roads, some single tracks but not very technical. Fun to compete again, and extra fun since we participated as a team – ending up as #7 of 23 teams, not to bad for two fathers of young children.

And when heading home stopping at Töcksfors to eat a burger and get some b vitamins.

(Roy / Instagram: royzvoice)

LED-lights mounted

Anything but the other

Bought a pair of led lamps about a month ago, hoping for an easy job mounting them, but no. Turned out that there was a lot of rust on the roof, so that needed to be repaired. Now that is done, and I have mounted the rear lights.

They turn night into day

How to get uptime for a Windows service

Work/Geek

Needed to know the uptime of a service on a Windows 2012 server to verify that the suggested solution for restarting all Splunk Universial Forwarders did work, see answers.splunk.com/../how-can-i-restart-all-my-forwarders.

Solution found here /blogs.technet.com/…/how-can-i-get-the-uptime-of-a-service, did make some minor adjustments to the vbscript as shown below.

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * From Win32_Service WHERE displayname = 'SplunkForwarder'")
 
For Each objService in colServices

    intProcessID = objService.ProcessID

    Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
        ("Select * From Win32_Process Where ProcessID = " & intProcessID)

    For Each objProcess in colProcesses
        Wscript.Echo objService.Name + "/" + objProcess.Name + " " + objProcess.CreationDate
    Next
Next

Running it from the Powershell prompt like this PS D:\Temp> cscript.exe .\uptime.vbs

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