Network Audit and Documentation, CENTREL Solutions Blog

How do you currently store your server and network device passwords? With XIA Configuration Server you can Store passwords in a single server system, where the passwords are encrypted by the server  Delegate access through the web interface using Active Directory authentication Mass import passwords using a CSV file Create multiple password lists based on your security requirements Audit access to each individual password Export all passwords to a PDF file which can be printed for storage in a safe for disaster recovery (DR) purposes For more information see  Store password lists  on our site

Audit your Active Directory configuration with XIA Configuration Server version 6 including groups, inter-site transports, domain controllers, read-only domain controller (RODC) configuration and trusts. The following video shows how to configure and perform the audit and produce a professional PDF document in under 2 minutes. For more information please see our site Active Directory Audit

In the following video we show you how to easily provision (create) user accounts in Active Directory from your mobile device using XIA Automation Server's mobile template support. For more information about the power and flexibility of XIA Automation Server please see the  Automated User Provisioning  page of our site.

This video demonstrates the XIA Links  Desktop Application Launcher  which allows network administrators to configure the links to applications, web sites, files and directories that are visible to the user. Ideal for schools and public kiosk computers XIA Links allows you to select which users and computers see which links and display based on file existence, operating system architecture and network. For more information please see our site  http://www.centrel-solutions.com/xialinks

In the following video we show you how to easily mass-create user accounts in Active Directory and the corresponding home spaces using a simple text based CSV file. It takes only a few seconds to provision the user accounts using a pre-defined template (available from our site). In the example we create several new student users in a fictitious school however the templates are designed to be flexible enough to support any kind of organisation. For more information see  Mass User Creation  on our web site.

In newer versions of Adobe Acrobat you may notice the right hand pane that has "Export PDF" and "Create PDF" sections. It's not immediately apparent how to close this menu as it's not on the view menu. To close it simply click the tools button.

After installing vSphere 5.5 you encounter the following when you try to login to the VI client "The vSphere client could not connect to " servername ". You do not have permission to login to the server: " servername ". Clear the checkbox and enter the username administrator@vsphere.local  and password as you entered them during the installation. You can then goto the permissions tab and assign permissions to your local and domain Windows accounts. For information about our audit and documentation products for virtualization please see our Hyper-V Audit and Documentation  and  VMware vSphere Audit and Documentation

When starting the VMware vSphere Web Client service the service may fail to start and display the following error The event log shows the same message “The VMware vSphere Web Client service terminated with service-specific error Incorrect function” To resolve this error I found the following blog article that states that you need to increase the amount of RAM on the machine running vCenter. http://vmwiz.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/vsphere-5-1-web-client-service-error/ For information about our audit and documentation products for virtualization please see our Hyper-V Audit and Documentation  and  VMware vSphere Audit and Documentation

When installing VMware vCenter 5.5 you may encounter the error The wizard was interrupted before VMware vCenter Server could be completely installed. If you try and start the VMware vCenter Server service you receive the following error Windows could not start the VMware vCenter server on Local Computer. Error code 2. To resolve this error open the VMware vCenter Server service in the services.msc management console and re-enter the required credentials on the logon  tab. You may find you need to enter domain credentials rather than local credentials. Repeat this for the VMware vCenter Management Webservices service For information about our audit and documentation products for virtualization please see our Hyper-V Audit and Documentation  and VMware vSphere Audit and Documentation