Jan 18 2010
iLO is a management interface supporting SSH, available on HP Proliant servers. It provides interesting features such as remotely powering the server on and off.
HP released access to Windows in graphics mode through a license, surprisingly. However, Microsoft has developed – for Windows 2003 and 2008 server – Emergency Management Services (EMS) that lets you [...]
Sep 28 2009
TCP Offload Engine (or TOE) transfers network processing load, from the CPU (software) to the network controller (hardware). The network card needs to support TOE such as the HP NC382T. This functionnality is disabled after the server installation.
Check if TOE is enabled
Windows 2003
The activation can only be checked with the registry key EnableTCPChimney under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
Windows [...]
Sep 27 2009
A builtin equivalent to the Unix grep command is available in Windows, a bit less powerful though: findstr. You can do searches based on patterns, still in a measured way.
Options
C:\>findstr /?
Searches for strings in files.
FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file]
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