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I can give it a shot... That said, overnight it seems to have sorted itself out after being left alone for hours!

Hi all, I have inherited an Aruba Instant Access wifi system at a secondary school. This is running a cloud controller from around 2017, "type 205", version 6.5.3.2. I've had to add a new AP to the system but do not know how to do this. Googling it says you click on a [+] icon under Access Points when signed in to the web controller. There is a [+] option, but this simply expands the list of access points, rather than being an 'add' button. Under "AP Alerts" the new access point is detected, but says "AP Register fail because of image mismatch" - presumably some sort of firmware is too old or new on the AP. Can someone point me in the right direction to get this working? I'm needing to bypass trial and error of working this one out as the school want it working yesterday The access point is a IAW-205-RW, and is a second hand eBay job, which has been hard reset. TIA!

Hi all, I have inherited a Unify controller which is running on a Windows PC, servicing 15 AC-PRO access points. Today I wanted to sign in to the controller's web page but it was not accessible (signing in at localhost, RDP-ing on to the box). The UbiquityUnify2 and Unifi Controller services are stopped and do not restart. Rebooting has no effect -services still don't start There is a 'start ubiquity' batch file. If you run this as administrator, it takes ages to do anything, then returns "Port 8080 is not available". Services don't start. Sign in page still not available. The localhost controller webpage says connection refused. Being new to Ubiquity: 1) Should the services start on their own? They're set to Automatic in services.msc 2) Do I have to run the 'start ubiquity' batch file, or should it be the services running the show? 3) Why does this seem to have spontaneously died? Any advice welcome

Hi everyone, We are looking to migrate our student data out of our local Windows servers, up in to Google Drive. Have any of you got a tried and tested way to do this for hundreds of users? We were looking at PSGSuite.io but the documentation seems to be old and does not tally with what available in Google anymore. Any advice welcome

Hi all, I need to monitor the health of the physical disks in a Dell VTRX chassis, using PRTG. I can add the disks of the blade servers no problem, but can't seem to get the right sensor type for the physical disks on the storage side of things. Is anyone using PRTG to do this, and what sensor(s) did you use?

Excellent work psydii - thank you!

Hi all, i have a 2012 R2 machine with a broken Sophos installation. The Sophos System Protection component will not uninstall as the original MSI installer cannot be found. Is there a way to force uninstall somehow?

Thanks Mal. This is in a school environment where there is a requirement to remove temporary settings on logout, so it's perfectly fine. For the visudo command if the line for my NOPASSWD is for the current user, or ALL, the line is ignored. It's at the end of the file so that it is run last. Running my script always results in a Permission Denied message. Manually su'ing to root, the script runs. I don't understand why the lines in the file are being ignored.

The script basically deletes previous users' settings on log out. It needs root privs to be able to do this.

If I run the script from Terminal, manually, the script gets to the delete part which needs elevated permissions and sits as a "Password:" prompt, so I think this is just needing to be sudo'd. I've edited my sudoers file to allow this script to be run with sudo, without needing a password but that seems to also be ignored.

Hello, I need a general user to be able to run a script which requires root privileges. The script executes on log out, and deletes some folders. The deletion part is what requires root privs. I have edited my sudoers file using visudo, and added a line at the end ALL ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/script ...which I believe should allow all users to execute the specific script without it prompting for a password to be entered, however, when I test the script in a terminal window as the current user, the prompt asks for a password to be entered. It seems like the line I have entered in visudo/sudoers is being ignored. How can I resolve this?

In case anyone digs this up, another user said that the syntax should be shopt -s extglob cd /Users rm -rf !(administrator|Shared)

Thanks - I will double check. I was under the impression that the Hooks run as root. edit The script is executable by all (chmod a+x), but is not running as root. Running manually it returns a 'permission denied' error when it tries to delete some folders.

Good morning, I'm trying to implement a LoginHook and LogoutHook on a 10.14 Mojave machine. I have created my login script, which works when I run it in Terminal, or send it as a UNIX command to the machine using Apple Remote Desktop as root. I have set defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path-to-my-script. I have made sure the script is executable. If I run defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook, the path to my script is returned. However, the script doesn't run at login. The same goes for my LogoutHook script - I can run it manually, it's all 'there' but it doesn't run. Is there anything I can check, or anything stupid that I am missing here? I'm now at the point where I can't see the wood for the trees! TIA

Thanks - | was what I needed!

Hi all, I need a script to look in to a folder and delete all it's contents apart from two named folders. This is running on Mac OS, so needs to be Unix/Linux type script, not Windows. I am using the following: shopt -s extglob cd /Users rm -rf !(administrator) ...which removes everything apart from a folder called "administrator", however I want it to delete everything apart from "administrator" and "Shared" how do I structure the syntax to define a second exclusion? I'm also open to any alternative methods... Thanks

If you're still stuck I can walk you through this as we've have the same setup and have been doing it since '05.

Hi all, I need a script to look in to a folder and delete all it's contents apart from two folders. I am using the following shopt -s extglob cd /Users rm -rf !(administrator) ...which removes everything apart from a folder called "administrator", however I want it to delete everything apart from "administrator" and "Shared" how do I structure the syntax to define a second exclusion? Thanks

Hi all, We have a nice, but old, Wordpress site where we host videos for teaching and learning. These videos are categorised by department, searchable, and stream to users on demand. The set-up is based on Flash and we are looking to move to something non-Flash for obvious reasons. As things have moved on during the last 10 years, can anyone recommend, perhaps an off the shelf product, which would allow us to post videos / a video library which we could maintain and control (ie not YouTube) on site? The reason for not using YouTube for this is that a lot of the content has been given permission by the copyright holders on the understanding that it is not made freely available or accessible publicly. All suggestions welcome Stephen

Thanks - we've just been through the process

Hi all, We have a subscription for Adobe CC, which has been set up using Adobe ID accounts. This is a pain to manage. We are looking to integrate with Azure AD, and can see there is a magic button in the Admin Console to switch over to this method of user authentication. My question is, if we switch over to Azure AD, will it nuke the existing Adobe ID users on the system? How do we move these Adobe IDs over to AD based users? Any guidance or tales of experience very much welcome. Stephen

Hi all, We have a Skype for Business system which works fine for our users...except those on OS X. I realise that the Skype experience for those on OS X is not comparable with the features of the Windows client, but we have an issue where users on OS X cannot sign in to Skype at all from home. Users receive the following error upon trying to sign in "There was a problem verifying the certificate from the server. Check your device's clock settings, or contact your support team." We have checked that the clock is correct with time on site. Looking on line, some people have advised that the root certificate that the Skype server uses be installed on the local OS X machine, which we have done, and trusted. We still get the same message. We can reproduce the error with different users on different machines. This is Skype for Business v16.28.142 on OS X 10.13.6 (High Sierra) Any ideas on how we can get an OS X user to log in? Or, is there an alternative client we can use from a 3rd party? TIA

Hi all, Hope everyone is well. We have a few Eaton 5PX UPS devices at our site. We have been overhauling our UPS provision recently and making sure things are ship shape. We have updated the NICs in these to the latest firmware and have started updating the actual UPS firmware too. We have some units that are on firmware version 02 - probably what they shipped with in 2012. The latest version is 14. We are using Eaton SetUPS to update the firmware. The instructions say that with the UPS off, apply the firmware update. The UPS should click and reboot in to a bootloader where the firmware updates, the lights on the front should flash, then we should restart the UPS to complete the process. This was successful one one unit, however on all the devices running version 02, the UPS clicks off but does not reboot in to the bootloader - we have to remove mains, disconnect the battery, then power it all back up again to bring it to life where it says it's still running version 02. Does anyone have experience with these? Is it likely that the jump between 02 and 14 is too high and we need to get an intermediate version before trying to go to 14? We are working offsite so I cannot test this at the moment, but I thought I would ask the group just incase someone can give a definitive answer! Thanks, Stephen

Hello all, We have just purchased a license for Net2 Pro and plan to update our v5 lite installation to v6 pro. Has anyone updated lite to pro on here? Is is a simple over the top / in place upgrade, or is it likely to nuke the v5 lite installation?

At present, we are just focusing on Ruckus but will bear Ubiquity in mind should our direction change.