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Migrating Hyper-V Virtual machines between clusters and forests

By Antti Hurme 25/08/2019 2 Comments 6 Min Read

Word of Warning: Hyper-V and it’s components suck, this guide is sketchy at best as i’m writing it out of memory, and there’s probably something form the hours of debugging. If the guide is missing something crucial, please leave a comment so I can correct it. Verify and validate everything before running it in your production environment. By jumping through all these hoops, I was able to live migrate VM’s…

Ignoring Windows Services in Zabbix Windows Template Low-Level Service Discovery

Microsoft Zabbix

By Antti Hurme 27/12/2017 2 Comments 2 Min Read

With Zabbix 5.x, 6.x and 7.x Zabbix has the option to use User Macros in LLD (Low-Level Discovery) rather than to use Global Regular Expressions. To exclude Windows Services from Windows Discovery, you should either edit the Template that will take effect for all hosts with the template or override template settings on a host level. It’s recommended to make changes on the template level and disable items on a…

Zabbix Windows Security event id 5156

Microsoft Zabbix

By Antti Hurme 31/10/2016 No Comments 0 Min Read

Noticed in one case the Zabbix agent was spamming the Windows Security eventlog with events “filtering platform connection” of status success and event id 5156. This was especially true when disk space was low and the agent seemed to query the disk space a lot more frequently. This caused the log file to fill up even faster which helped the disk space to fill up. To get around this, I…

Preparing to configure Windows. Do not turn off your computer…. Time to kill a remote process!

Microsoft Miscellaneous

By Antti Hurme 16/03/2015 No Comments 1 Min Read

Now and then, when installing Windows Updates, the server hangs and just refuses to shut down. You will see a message on the screen as following “Preparing to configure Windows. Do not turn off your computer…”, and it won’t shutdown. Prashant Deshpande wrote an excellent guide back in 2011 which is still valid here, but it relies on a software called Remote Process Explorer, which does have a free 30…