Tuning

Do you ever look at your Recovery Solution job queue and wonder "I wonder how far along that Integrity Check/SSM job is?" Well I did, and was very frustrated since there wasn't a good way I had found to monitor the progress. Well, by using the following Stored Procedure, you too can find out about the progress of the job.

How many of you are (like me) dealing with a lot of virtual layers and (like me) get tired of activating and deactivating them?

Every time you create or update any layer, you have to deactivate every other layer.

Here's a solution.

What if you wanted to take your Local Security Solution (LSS) data, and use Inventory Forwarding to move the data to a destination Notification Server? If you did this, you could have a backup of your managed passwords and have those passwords accessible on the destination server too. You can pull this of with Inventory Forwarding. Here's how to configure your Notification Server to do this.

Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 3.0 has the ability to communicate with BMC and DRAC devices on Dell Server hardware via the Deployment Console. In order to enable this feature however, DRAC and BMC devices must be "discovered" using the Dell Configuration Utility. This process systematically pings a block of IP addresses searching for DRAC or BMC hardware.

One of the most frustrating events when troubleshooting problems is database deadlocking. There are a variety of ways for deadlocking to occur, and you want find what is causing yours specifically, but it is hard to do so. The following information will provide some better detail on how to collect and interpret database deadlocks in the Altiris environment.

No one likes to see too much fat anywhere. It is great when it lightly surrounds a New York strip steak, or slowly tenderizes a roast, but not in too many other places. It definitely does not belong in SQL transaction logs.