vSphere Client Error parsing the server “SERVER IP” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator.

vSphere Client Error parsing the server “SERVER IP” “clients.xml” file. Login will continue, contact your system administrator.

SOLUTION

1. Download system.dll file from . This file is taken from older version of Microsoft .NET installation.
2. Copy this file to C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\lib
On 64 bit OS path would be: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\lib
If lib folder doesn't exist then create it.
3. Open file C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\VpxClient.exe.config in a text editor and just before last line </configuration> paste following code:
<runtime>
<developmentMode developerInstallation="true"/>
</runtime>
4. Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables
In System Variables click New and add following system variable:
Name: DEVPATH
Value: C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\lib
Remember that on 64 bit system instead of Program Files you have to use Program Files (x86)
5. Launch VMware vSphere Client again. This time it should run without any errors.

You are Done, cheers!!!

How to use awk command in linux?

Here is the list of sed commands with examples

1. list content of file myfile
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ cat myfile
apple
orange
mango

banana
GUAVA
ra dish
pineapple

2. delete the first line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '1d' myfile
orange
mango

banana
GUAVA
ra dish
pineapple

3. delete the third line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '3d' myfile
apple
orange

banana
GUAVA
ra dish
pineapple

4. delete the last line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '$d' myfile
apple
orange
mango

banana
GUAVA
ra dish

5. delete the 2nd and 4th line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '2,4d' myfile
apple
banana
GUAVA
ra dish
pineapple

6. delete except the 2nd and 4th line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '2,4!d' myfile
orange
mango

7. delete the 1st and last line of the file
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '1d;$d' myfile
orange
mango

banana
GUAVA
ra dish

8. delete all lines beginning with character 'a'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/^a/d' myfile
orange
mango

banana
GUAVA
ra dish
pineapple

9. delete all lines ending with character 'e'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/e$/d' myfile
mango

banana
GUAVA
ra dish

10. delete all lines ending with either 'e' or 'E'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/# [eE] $/d' myfile
mango

banana
GUAVA
ra dish

11. delete all the blank lines
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/^$/d' myfile
apple
orange
mango
banana
GUAVA
ra dish
pineapple

12. delete all lines which are entirely in UPPER CASE or CAPITAL LETTER
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/^# [A-Z]*$/d' myfile
apple
orange
mango
banana
ra dish
pineapple

13. delete all lines containing the pattern 'an'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/an/d' myfile
apple

GUAVA
ra dish
pineapple

14. delete all lines not containing the pattern 'an'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/an/!d' myfile
orange
mango
banana

15. delete all lines containing the pattern 'an' or 'le'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/an\|le/d' myfile

GUAVA
ra dish

16. delete lines starting from 1st until meeting the PATTERN 'banana'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '1,/banana/d' myfile
GUAVA
ra dish
pineapple

17. delete lines meeting the PATTERN 'banana' till the LAST line
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '/banana/,$d' myfile
apple
orange
mango

18. delete the last line only if it contains the PATTERN 'apple'
# [localhost@localhost ~] $ sed '${/apple/d;}' myfile
apple
orange
mango

banana
GUAVA
ra dish

How to merge contents of 2 files using paste?

This is one of the best command that facilitates the system admin to perform his specific tasks. Below is the list with the examples showing the paste command.

[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file1
apple
orange
mango
banana

[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file2
coldplay
westlife
michael
sunibigyana
piyush

[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -s file1
apple    orange    mango    banana

[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d, -s file1
apple,orange,mango,banana

[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste - - < file1
apple    orange
mango    banana

[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d':' - - < file1
apple:orange
mango:banana

[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste - - - < file1
apple    orange    mango
banana
   
[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d ':,' - - - < file1
apple:orange,mango
banana:,

[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file2
coldplay
westlife
michael
sunibigyana
piyush

[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste file1 file2
apple    coldplay
orange    westlife
mango    michael
banana    sunibigyana
    piyush

[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d, file1 file2
apple,coldplay
orange,westlife
mango,michael
banana,sunibigyana
,piyush

[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file2 | paste -d, file1 -
apple,coldplay
orange,westlife
mango,michael
banana,sunibigyana
,piyush

[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file1 | paste -d, - file2
apple,coldplay
orange,westlife
mango,michael
banana,sunibigyana
,piyush

[localhost@localhost ~]$ cat file1 file2 | paste -d, - -
apple,orange
mango,banana
coldplay,westlife
michael,sunibigyana
piyush,

[localhost@localhost ~]$ paste -d'\n' file1 file2
apple
coldplay
orange
westlife
mango
michael
banana
sunibigyana

piyush
[localhost@localhost ~]$


How to install Observium in linux?

Observium is one of the best tool ever used by system network admin for monitoring everything about routers, switches and physical machines.

Please follow the following working steps to get Observium installed.

1. instal ncecessary packages
# yum install httpd php php-mysql php-gd php-snmp vixie-cron php-pear net-snmp net-snmp-utils graphviz subversion mysql-server mysql rrdtool fping ImageMagick jwhois nmap OpenIPMI-tools

2. install pear
# pear install Net_IPv6
# pear install Net_IPv4

3. # yum install libvirt

4. # mkdir /opt/observium
    # cd /opt

5. # svn co http://www.observium.org/svn/observer/trunk observium

6. # cd observium

7. Create mysql username and password
# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'passworD321'
mysql> create database observium;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql>grant all privileges on observium. * to 'observium'@'localhost' identified by 'passworD321';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

8. # cp config.php.default config.php

9. vi config.php and add the following part.

$config['fping'] = "/usr/sbin/fping";

# php includes/sql-schema/update.php

10. # mkdir graphs rrd

11. chown apache.apache graphs rrd

12. Allow in httpd

# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/observium.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html/
  ServerName  observium.domain.com
  CustomLog /opt/observium/logs/access_log combined
  ErrorLog /opt/observium/logs/error_log
  <Directory "/opt/observium/html/">
  AllowOverride All
  Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  </Directory>
  </VirtualHost>

13. Create logs directory for apache
# mkdir /opt/observium/logs
# chown apache.apache /opt/observium/logs

14. Add user, use level of 10 for admin
# cd /opt/observium
# ./adduser.php <user-name> <password> <level=10>

15. Add a first device to monitor:
# ./addhost.php <hostname> <community> v2c

16. Discover and add hosts
# ./discovery.php -h all
# ./poller.php -h all

17. Add to cronjobs
33  */6 * * * /opt/observium/discovery.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * /opt/observium/discovery.php -h new >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * /opt/observium/poller.php -h all >> /dev/null 2>&1
and restart the cron
# /etc/init.d/cron reload

18. In case if server rebooted, add to startup
# chkconfig mysqld on
# chkconfig httpd on

Now check,on your browser as http://localhost/observium with the username and password we have created.

Thats All, Have Fun and Informative Monitoring

Monitoring User and Application Activity with psacct


Monitoring User and Application Activity with psacct
One of the big advantages of using psacct on your server is that it provides excellent logging for activities of applications and users. When you are running scripts one of the important aspects of that script is how much resources it may be using and are there any resource limitations that may exist with the application. In addition, there may be times when you run a script as a user. In other words, you create a user with specific rights, maybe even using visudo. You will likely use this to reduce the security risks of a user who must issue a command with root privileges.

Install Process Accounting

# yum install psacct

Start Process Accounting

# /etc/init.d/psacct start
Starting process accounting:                               [  OK  ]

Connect Time
The connect time in hours is based on logins and logouts. The ac command provides a total.

# ac
total     1268.26

Accounting By Day
The system’s default login accounting file is /var/log/wtmp.

# ac -d

Oct 30  total        2.87
Oct 31  total        4.52
Nov  2  total        0.04
Nov  5  total        3.37
Nov  6  total       10.39
Nov  7  total       11.65
Nov  8  total        5.09
Nov 10  total        0.89
Nov 11  total        7.02
Nov 12  total        5.16
Nov 13  total        0.30
Nov 18  total       11.65
Nov 19  total        1.58
Nov 20  total        8.20
Nov 23  total        2.34
Nov 26  total        0.25
Nov 27  total        3.49
Dec  2  total        0.93
Today   total        2.45

Time Totals for Users

# ac -p
        yak                             8.09
        nagios                               0.04
        haywire                              33.76
        hatti                             12.93
        hacker                             334.98
        geddy                            30.89
        usayg                             198.59
        amar                                 0.12
        langoor                             13.82
        aanta                               18.00
        nildana                            105.30
        batley                                 0.00
        maka                              7.94
        hunter                               85.02
        gai                             416.38
        dhon                              2.42
        total     1268.27

Commands of Users
You can search out the commands of users with the lastcomm command which prints out the previously executed commands.

Process  Flag    Username    Terminal   Time
ping     S       dhon        pts/3      0.00 secs Thu Nov 30 18:09

# lastcomm dhon

hostname                dhon   pts/1      0.00 secs Mon Dec  3 18:41
bash               F    dhon   pts/1      0.00 secs Mon Dec  3 18:41
id                      dhon   pts/1      0.00 secs Mon Dec  3 18:41
su                S     dhon   __         0.02 secs Mon Dec  3 10:58
bash                  X dhon   __         0.04 secs Mon Dec  3 10:58
sshd              SF    dhon   __         0.04 secs Mon Dec  3 10:58

Search Logs for Commands
Using the lastcomm command you will be able to view each use of an individual command.

# lastcomm grep

grep                    aanta     pts/6      0.00 secs Thu Nov 30 13:28
grep                    aanta     pts/6      0.00 secs Thu Nov 30 13:28
grep                    aanta     pts/5      0.00 secs Thu Nov 30 12:57
grep                    aanta     pts/5      0.00 secs Thu Nov 30 12:57

Print Summary
The sa command will print a summary of commands that were executed. It will also condense the information into a summary file called savacct which contains the number of times that the command was executed. The useracct file keeps a summary of the commands by user.

Output Fields
cpu   -  sum of system and user time in cpu minutes
re    -  actual time in minutes
k     -  cpu-time averaged core usage, in 1k units
k*sec -  cpu storage integral (kilo-core seconds)
u     -  user cpu time in cpu minutes
s     -  system time in cpu minutes

# /usr/sbin/sa

Print User Information
Use the -u option to provide information on individual users.

# /usr/sbin/sa -u

root       0.00 cpu      598k mem accton
root       0.00 cpu     1081k mem initlog
root       0.00 cpu      920k mem initlog
root       0.00 cpu     1172k mem touch
root       0.00 cpu     1402k mem psacct
bomb       0.01 cpu     7282k mem kdeinit          *
bomb       0.00 cpu     6232k mem gnome-panel      *
bomb       0.02 cpu     4848k mem gnome-terminal

Display Number of Processes
An increase in these fields indicates a problem. This prints the number of processes and the number of CPU minutes. If these numbers continue to increase it is time to look into what is happening.

# /usr/sbin/sa -m

195         220.31re           0.09cp     2220k
aanta                                  65          198.37re           0.08cp     2135k
root                                  88          21.86re           0.00cp     1084k
postgres                              40          0.09re           0.00cp     4879k
smmsp                                 2           0.00re           0.00cp     1827k

Display All Names
This option will show each of the programs on your server so you may evaluate, real time, memory usage and which programs are running.

# /usr/sbin/sa -a

221      83.36re       0.01cp     1414k
1       0.01re       0.00cp     1471k   rpmq
7       0.33re       0.00cp     2465k   sendmail*
1      40.78re       0.00cp     1844k   sshd
37       0.00re       0.00cp      964k   bash*
32       0.00re       0.00cp      604k   tmpwatch
27       0.00re       0.00cp     4984k   postmaster*
26       0.00re       0.00cp     1116k   df
15       0.00re       0.00cp      959k   id
11       0.00re       0.00cp      709k   egrep
8       0.00re       0.00cp      636k   sa
7       0.00re       0.00cp      817k   grep
6       0.00re       0.00cp      562k   ac
5       0.01re       0.00cp      789k   awk
3       0.41re       0.00cp     1219k   crond*
3       0.40re       0.00cp      674k   run-parts
3       0.00re       0.00cp      774k   dircolors
3       0.00re       0.00cp      673k   consoletype
2      40.98re       0.00cp     1344k   bash
2       0.14re       0.00cp     1628k   sshd*
2       0.00re       0.00cp      914k   logrotate

# /usr/sbin/sa -a  It will sort the programs in percentage distributions.

How To Capture Packets with TCPDUMP?

See the list of interfaces on which tcpdump can listen
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -D

Listen on any available interface
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i any

Verbose Mode
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -v
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -vv
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -vvv
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -q

Limit the capture to an number of  packets N
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -c N

Display IP addresses and port numbers when capturing packets
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n

Capture any packets where the destination host is 192.168.0.1, display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n dst host 192.168.0.1

Capture any packets where the source host is 192.168.0.1, display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n src host 192.168.0.1

Capture any packets where the source or destination host is 192.168.0.1, display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n host 192.168.0.1

Capture any packets where the destination network is 192.168.10.0/24, display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n dst net 192.168.10.0/24

Capture any packets where the source network is 192.168.10.0/24, display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n src net 192.168.10.0/24

Capture any packets where the source or destination network is 192.168.10.0/24,display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n net 192.168.10.0/24

Capture any packets where the destination port is 23, display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n dst port 23

Capture any packets where the destination port is is between 1 and 1023 inclusive, display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n dst portrange 1-1023

Capture only TCP packets where the destination port is is between 1 and 1023 inclusive,display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n tcp dst portrange 1-1023

Capture only UDP packets where the destination port is is between 1 and 1023 inclusive, display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n udp dst portrange 1-1023

Capture any packets with destination IP 192.168.0.1 and destination port 23,display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n "dst host 192.168.0.1 and dst port 23"

Capture any packets with destination IP 192.168.0.1 and destination port 80 or 443,display IP addresses and port numbers
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n "dst host 192.168.0.1 and (dst port 80 or dst port 443)"

Capture any ICMP packets
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -v icmp

Capture any ARP packets
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -v arp

Capture either ICMP or ARP packets
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -v "icmp or arp"

Capture any packets that are broadcast or multicast
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n "broadcast or multicast"

Capture 500 bytes of data for each packet rather than the default of 68 bytes
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -s 500

Capture all bytes of data within the packet
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -s 0

Monitor all packets on eth1 interface
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth1

Monitor all traffic on port 80 ( HTTP )
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 'port 80'

Monitor all traffic on port 25 ( SMTP )
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -vv -x -X -s 1500 -i eth0 'port 25'

Capture only N number of packets using tcpdump -c
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -c 2 -i eth0

Display Captured Packets in ASCII using tcpdump -A
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -A -i eth0

Display Captured Packets in HEX and ASCII using tcpdump -XX
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -XX -i eth0

Capture the packets and write into a file using tcpdump -w
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -w data.pcap -i eth0
.pcap is extension

Reading the packets from a saved file using tcpdump -r
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -tttt -r data.pcap

Capture packets with IP address using tcpdump -n
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n -i eth0

Capture packets with proper readable timestamp using tcpdump -tttt
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n -tttt -i eth0

Read packets longer than N bytes
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -w data.pcap greater 1024

Read packets lesser than N bytes
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -w data1024.pcap  less 1024

Receive only the packets of a specific protocol type
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 arp

Receive packets flows on a particular port using tcpdump port
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 port 22

Capture packets for particular destination IP and Port
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -w data.pcap -i eth0 dst 10.181.140.216 and port 22

Capture TCP communication packets between two hosts
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -w data.pcap -i eth0 dst 16.181.170.246 and port 22

Tcpdump Filter Packets – Capture all the packets other than arp and rarp
# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 not arp and not rarp

How to change the linux hostname?


# hostname
test.com

# hostname server.com

# hostname
server.com

# vi /etc/hostname
server.com

Now restart and see the changes.

How to change MySql root password?

For every database, you should set the root or sa passwords to something other than the default, unless you want to get hacked. For mysql, the system administrator user is called root. You will use the mysqladmin utility from a command line to set the new password.

Syntax:

# mysqladmin -u root password “new_password”

# mysqladmin -u root -h host_name password “new_password”

Example:

# mysqladmin -u root password Pa55w0rD

# mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password linuxgEEks

You need to restart the database server after this change

# /etc/init.d/mysql restart

How To Backup MySQL Database to a file?

Backing up your database is a very important system administration task, and should generally be run from a cron job at scheduled intervals. We will use the mysqldump utility included with mysql to dump the contents of the database to a text file that can be easily re-imported.

Syntax:

# mysqldump -h localhost -u root -pmypassword database_name > dumpfile_name.sql

Example:

# mysqldump -h localhost -u root -pPa55w0rD database110 > backup_file.sql

This will give you a text file containing all the commands required to re-create the database.

How To Set SSH Login Message?

To set ssh login message, its very easy and interesting.
# vi /etc/motd
write the message of your own

######### Welcome to the SSH World #########
### This is the Email Server, please exit properly ###
########################################

Save and Quit

// To check quit the ssh terminal and re-login...


######### Welcome to the SSH World #########
### This is the Email Server, please exit properly ###
########################################

Thats all, Enjoy!!!!!