Back to Work

Good News Everyone,

I'm finally back to work. I managed to complete my apprenticeship as "IT Systemelektroniker" successfully and am still working at my old place.

At the moment, I'm diving into IPv6 and Cisco IPv6 Worlds and already got an Lab up and running - so maybe you get some fresh files and stuff soon.

Thanks for your patience!

Nico

Timeout

Hi there,

some of you might have been wondering why there weren't that much updates in the last weeks.
Reasons are simple:
1.) I'm going to write my finals on 4 of May.
2.) My Convention Managment System JCTixx, which has been in Development for about 10 Months and 1000 Manhours, is going through its Final Live Test on 7. - 8. of May in Ludwigshafen on the Hanami. I'm looking forward to serval 1000 to 10000s of Scans and Transactions. So... I pray for the T-Com to keep their systems up and running!

After that and some vacation, business as usual - at least I hope so.
For the time beeing, I recommend you some Portal 2 ;-).
Have fun!

Yours sincerly,

Nico

[ESXi4.1U1] UMTS Stick on VM [ZTE MF 190 / HUAWEI E160G]

I needed to connect an UMTS Stick (O2 Surfstick) to an VM Machine which should serve as "Router".
No problem - ESXi does support "USB Direct Through" - so you can easily connect an USB Stick to your VM...
At least, thats "normally" the Case:
With UMTS Sticks, this feature doesn't work.
Why?
UMTS Sticks start up with an U3 Partition with all that needed, nice connection software....
And therefor, ESXi does see an CD Rom - which doesn't show up within USB.
And... how to solve that?
Luckily I found this post: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=26045
Which does contain the secret sauce:
Just connect your USB Stick to an already installed System... (your Laptop with the Connection Software and Drivers i.e.)
Look up your UMTS Stick within the Device Manager, get the COM Port.
Open Putty (9600 Baud worked for me, the Original Author does think of: 115200 kbps, 8 data bits, parity none, stop bits 1, Flow control None) with that Com Port.
Type in: AT+ZOPRT=5 and AT+ZCDRUN=8
Thats it!
Now the U3 doesn't show up anymore, and it works!!
To reenable the feature, enter AT+ZCDRUN=9

For Huawei E160G / T-Mobile Surfstick V / Essential:
CD – Rom Funktion deaktivieren at^u2diag=0
CD – Rom Funktion aktivieren at^u2diag=1

Additional Links:
http://3g-modem.wetpaint.com/page/ZTE+AT-commands
http://3g-modem.wetpaint.com/page/Huawei+AT-commands

Switch from Diag to CD-Rom Mode per AT-Befehl unter Macosx

[Snom360] Auto Provisioning

Finally, I got it working.
Its quite easy with these two Tutorials:

Click to access md_rev2.pdf

http://wiki.ip-phone-forum.de/telefone:snom:konfiguration?&#mass_deployment_-_schritt_fuer_schritt

But Things you should really know about:
- If you use an Unix TFTP Server for autoprov. do write the Filename of your phonesettings which does contains your Phones MAC in UPPER LETTERS!... i.e. settings-0023456700AE - otherwise it could fail
- Set right permissions for your settings

And if you would love to upgrade your Snom 360 Phones to Firmware 8, upgrade it from 6 to 6.5, 6.5 to 7 and from 7 to 8.

[ESXi4.1U1] vCenter Server Startup Problems

I got the vmware virtualcenter server error 1000 odbc error on bootup of my Windows Server 2003 (64bit) which did serve my vCenter Server.
In fact this did mean in my case: The MSSQL Server didn't boot / or too slow, so that vCenter Server came up - couldn't access the DB and shutdown - "great!".
Luckily, there is an solution, pointed to by this ( http://communities.vmware.com/message/1247357 ) and this Website ( http://blogs.egroup-us.com/?p=1821 )

In the end I solved my problem following:
cmdline:
sc config vpxd depend= rpcSs/lanmanworkstation/MSSQL$SQLEXP_VIM/ADAM_VMwareVCMSDS

With these new dependencies, vCenter should boot up on boot... at least it did that last time... ^^'.