Egyptians connect a mosque and a church with the Egyptian flag

Egyptians connect a mosque and a church with the Egyptian flag

Egypt: The camp that toppled a president

This is how Egyptians protests

All rights to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12434787

Egypt: The camp that toppled a president

Cairo's central Tahrir Square was the focal point for anti-Mubarak protesters during 18 days of demonstrations. As the protest neared its peak, the BBC's Yolande Knell took a tour of the area. Explore the protesters' camp by clicking on the links.

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Tanks

Throughout the demonstration, protesters have sat and slept around tanks parked near the Egyptian Museum, to prevent the army from advancing into the square.

Street clinic

This "street hospital", staffed by volunteer doctors, is one of several clinics where injured protesters have their wounds treated. Since Egyptians do not typically have access to free medical care, some say the clinics in the square are an improvement on what they are used to.

Flag sellers

A whole economy has grown up in the square since the protests began. Street vendors sell flags and hats in the colours of the Egyptian flag. A large flag costs five Egyptian pounds (about 50p).

Food stalls

This bean seller is one of many food vendors who have set up stalls inside the barricades. Protesters have also taken over the Hardees fast food restaurant, where they give out free bread and cheese.

Rubbish bins

Egypt has no formal system of recycling so the demonstrators have set up their own, as part of efforts to keep the square clean.

Artwork

This artwork, "Egypt's Heart", is one of many created by the demonstrators. The heart faces down one of the streets through which pro-Mubarak supporters came to clash with the anti-government protesters. Many visitors have had their photographs taken next to the heart.

'KFC clinic'

This Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant has been taken over by protesters and turned into a clinic for the injured and the sick.

Newspaper wall

Every morning Egypt's main newspapers are pasted up on the shutters of this shop, allowing protesters who cannot afford to buy a paper can still follow the latest reports, says our correspondent.

Pharmacy

This pharmacy near the main stage is helping campers and visitors keep clean and healthy. Some of the supplies are being given out for free.

Campsite

Though the majority of demonstrators go home each evening, a hard core have set up campsites on the roundabout, pavements and grass verges. Some sleep in tents, while others shelter under plastic sheets and rugs draped across pathways.

Wall of martyrs

Memorials of protesters who died during the uprising have been erected at the "wall of martyrs". Friends of the victims put up pictures and accounts of how they died. Some are very graphic and accuse the police of brutality.

Toilets

The camp toilets are here in a shed formerly used by construction workers near the Egyptian Museum. After 18 days, the smell is quite incredible.

Kindergarten

Schools in Cairo have been closed during the protests. But there are so many mothers who want to attend the demonstration that many bring their children here - to a kindergarten organised by the demonstrators.

Bloggers

Egypt's internet activists have played a key role in the pro-democracy protests and many are camped together on the roundabout in the centre of the square.

Water point

Drinking water is not easy to come by, so protesters have been filling their bottles at this water point beside a construction site.

Main stage

This platform has become a kind of "Speakers' Corner" for protesters to call comrades to action and pay tribute to those who have died during the demonstrations. The white screen is used to project televised speeches by the government and the army.

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List all policies deployed on your OMW Managed Nodes

Lots of questions has been raised during last few weeks in ITRC about OMW  Nodes - Policies relationship
One of the questions was about how to list all Policies assigned for certain node or all nodes
the answer was typically there is a default report built-in HP Reporter
This report is called OVO/Windows 7.5 ConfInstalledPol "OVO/Windows 7.5 Installed Policies per Node"
You can also rerun the report as Excel.

But the issue is sometimes you need a report for  a certain node or all nodes and HP Reporter requires certain configuration (very easy) but I have given also another solution
To list all policies deployed on nodes based on latest Policy Synchronization

List all nodes from OMU server using opcnodes

By default OMU-L have a utility to control node management called opcnode it is similar to ovonodeutil.bat in OMW

You can use this tool to list all nodes like

/opt/OV/bin/OpC/utils/opcnode -list_nodes

But, in one of ITRC questions the Question Author request to get only the node name which falls under certain OS type

I made some trials and I would like to share them with you:

1st using shell script and opcmon command itself.

 

1: if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then 
2:  echo "Use $0 <windows or unix>"  
3:  echo "To list windows nodes: $0 windows" 
4:  echo "To list Unix nodes: $0 unix" 
5:  exit
6: fi
7: 
<-- more -->
8: windows=( "MACH_BBC_WIN2K3_X64" "MACH_BBC_WINXP_IPF64" "MACH_BBC_WINNT_X86" )
9: unix=( "MACH_BBC_SOL_SPARC" "MACH_BBC_HPUX_IPF32" "MACH_BBC_HPUX_PA_RISC" "MACH_BBC_LX26RPM_X64" "MACH_BBC_LX26RPM_X86" "MACH_BBC_LX26RPM_IPF64" "MACH_BBC_SOL10_X86" "MACH_BBC_AIX_PPC" "MACH_BBC_AIX_K64_PPC")
10: 
11: if [ $1 = "windows" ]; then
12:  for i in ${windows[@]}
13:  do
14:   /opt/OV/bin/OpC/utils/opcnode -list_nodes mach_type=$i |grep "Name"
15:  done
16: 
17: elif [ $1 == "unix" ];  then
18:  for i in ${unix[@]}
19:  do
20:   /opt/OV/bin/OpC/utils/opcnode -list_nodes mach_type=$i |grep "Name"
21:  done
22: fi
23: 

usage  of the command listnodes.sh < unix or windows>

---sample usage---

[root@oml ~]# listnodes.sh
Use ./listnodes.sh <windows or unix>
To list windows nodes: ./listnodes.sh windows
To list Unix nodes: ./listnodes.sh unix

[root@oml ~]# listnodes.sh windows
Name         = mahmoud-pc.mahmoudthoughts.com

[root@oml ~]# listnodes.sh unix
Name         = oml.mahmoudthoughts.com

[root@oml ~]# listnodes.sh windows |awk '{print $3}'
mahmoud-pc.mahmoudthoughts.com

[root@oml ~]# listnodes.sh unix |awk '{print $3}'
oml.mahmoudthoughts.com
[root@oml ~]#
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For more information read full thread :http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1463140

Get Network Utilization Using VBs script

Last week I have faced challenge in responding to HP support (ITRC) thread regarding collecting Network utilization for Operation Manger to evaluate it against threshold.

Infrastructure SPI contain some policies for Monitoring network utilization but it is quite complicated (but efficient) as it has various  mathematical calculations.

Any way the script I have provided was just for calculating the utilization based on two factors total bytes transferred per second and the bandwidth.

We can get this data using WMI through "Win32_PerfFormattedData_TCPIP_NetworkInterface" class located on namespace "root\CIMV2"
We can use the attributes below to match factors stated above:

BytesTotalPersec
CurrentBandwidth

Network utilization calculation:
BytesTotalPerSec / CurrentBandwidth * 100

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\Root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_TCPIP_NetworkInterface ") 
For Each objItem in colItems
bytesTotal = objitem.BytesTotalPersec * 8
bandwidth = objItem.CurrentBandwidth
result = FormatNumber(( bytesTotal / bandwidth) * 100)
output = objitem.Name & " Network Bandwidth: " & result & " % Utilized"
WScript.Echo output
Next

Screenshot of the output.

source: http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1464068

Copy Files using VBS

 

-----copyfiles.vbs----

Dim nodeName
Dim argsObj
Set argsObj=WScript.Arguments
If argsObj.Count=1 Then
    nodeName = argsObj(0)
Else
    WScript.echo "usage: cscript.exe copyfiles.vbs <nodeName>"
    WScript.Quit (1)
End If
Set objWMIService = GetObject _
    ("winmgmts:\\" & nodeName & "\root\cimv2:Win32_Process")
errReturn = objWMIService.Create _
    ("cmd.exe /c md c:\Temp", Null, Null, intProcessID)
Wscript.Echo errReturns
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & nodeName & "\root\cimv2")
Set colFiles = _
    objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From CIM_DataFile Where Drive = 'C:' and Path = '\\Scripts\\' and FileName Like 'coda%'") 
	'Wscript.Echo colFiles.Count echo number of files
For Each objFile in colFiles
    strNewFile = "C:\Temp\" & objFile.FileName & "." & objFile.Extension 
   	errResults = objFile.Copy(strNewFile)
	Wscript.Echo errResults 'displaying error code
Next

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This script allow copy selected files on a remote machine

usage : cscript copyfiles.vbs computername

Notes:

The script is doing the following:

1. Create Folder Named C:\temp this done by this statement " ("cmd.exe /c md c:\Temp", Null, Null, intProcessID)
   
   
2. Select files located on drive C: on folder named \scripts\ and all files starts with coda this is done by " objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From CIM_DataFile Where Drive = 'C:' and Path = '\\Scripts\\' and FileName Like 'coda%'") "
   
   
3. Writes those files into folder c:\temp “strNewFile = "C:\Temp\" & objFile.FileName & "." & objFile.Extension “

How to use WBEMTEST to get WMI data level 2

I got anonymous reader comment on continuing the series for how to use WBEMTEST to get WMI data

In this article I will add two points to cover in this fabulous tool

1- Connect to remote node

2- Run WQL queries.

 

Connect to remote node

usually we use wbemtest locally to access local classes, but WMI support access to remote computers naturally and for applications like PowerShell version 1 which support local scripting, it uses WMI to expand its functionality and to allow PowerShell access to remote computers.

Anyhow, we can use WBEMTEST utility to achieve this by using the connect button located on the main screen, we usually use root\ to locate our local classes like ROOT\MicrosoftIISv2 to get the status for website hosted on IIS server

but if the IIS is not hosted on my local machine I can query this server by adding \\servername\ROOT\MicrosoftIISv2 so it will look like “unified naming convention” UNC same like the one used for Windows file sharing, also you can use Credentials section to access the remote system with different account.

 

Run WQL query to retrieve data from WMI classes.

WMI supports a subset of Structured Query Language that support WMI event and WMI-Specific features which we can use to filter the content of the data (instances) within a class like select certain attributes or limit the number of instance.

My 1st encounter  to WQL was in Windows Server 2003 group policy where you can filter the group policy application to only certain set of computers based on certain attributes like OS version and Service Pack or disk free space.

In our tool we can use Query button to write our query

Press Apply to get the result

You can try to use

Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk where FreeSpace > 104857600

To list only drives where is have diskspace more than 100 MB

for more statements check http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779036(WS.10).aspx