Startech SVx41HDI Series Server Remote Control Usage Question – How do I switch away from a dead port?

We have a Startech KVM over IP model SV841HDI and it was stuck pointing a port where the machine has been removed. We ended up having to physically plug something into that port in order to switch ports again, meaning that if someone in support accidentally switches to an empty port, we need to have … Read more

Telnet Terminal F3 Key Transmit

I am creating a new install image for deployment, upgrading from a previous deployment of Fedora Core 4 to Linux Mint 15. I have the telnet session to the server working and all keys are operating as expected, with one exception and that is the F3 key. Wireshark & Ethereal have enabled me to ascertain … Read more

Trouble with “Keyboard Failure” on Dell PowerEdge R410

I own some Dell PowerEdge Servers. One of these servers is a R410 which has some problems at the moment. I have already sent the server in the datacenter and tried to make a remote installation via Lantronix KVM. The first time, all ran fine. I installed CentOS 6 and then SolusVM with the requisite … Read more

How to determine what causes rogue key_up events

I have a Samsung laptop running Windows 8.1 in front of me, which has the following symptoms: When holding down the Windows key, the start menu opens, closes, opens, closes at a high rate Holding down the ALT key causes the following events keyup keyCode=17 which=17 charCode=0 keydown keyCode=18 which=18 charCode=0 keyup keyCode=17 which=17 charCode=0 … Read more

bind 9.11 with views and also-notify with keys: slaves receive notifications with wrong keys

Example error message from a slave shows notification for view avcan received with key vpn May 21 06:37:09 dns5.iciti named[614]: client @0x7f3f0c8472b0 192.168.8.54#49401/key vpn: view avcan: received notify for zone ‘8.16.172.in-addr.arpa’: TSIG ‘vpn’: not authoritative named.conf.options has notify explicit; named.conf.local has acl vpn { !key avcan; key vpn; 172.16.0.0/12; }; acl avcan { !key vpn; … Read more

Can I combine my openssl key and csr creation commands in to one command keeping des3 passphrase encryption?

I am in the process of trying to automate/script via shell, a method of post server build config for one of our teams, and one of the final steps after all is installed, is to generate an SSL key and csr file ready for upload to our internal certificate management/signing tool. The existing process had … Read more

ESXi 6.5 During Installation – when typing ROOT Password, Characters are repeated

All. I have never had this issue before. When I get to the Root Password during the installation of ESXi 6.5. I start typing, and it repeats the characters, and at times it will do it indefinitely, and I have to start madly hitting the backspace key or shutting off the server itself. The keyboard … Read more

Deploying app to Intune with public key

I am trying to deploy an app called: Veyon to Intune (microsoft endpoint manager). The program has been deployed and installed on the clients without problems. But, the Veyon program is a monitoing programs, so it needs a public key to be installed on the clients, and this public key is generated in the master … Read more

No associated key pair, add key pair to EC2 with no key pair

How do you add an existing key to a live EC2 instance that has no key pair? I have tried using Session Manager to vi /.ssh/authorized_keys and add in the public key of the pair, but I get this error: “~/.ssh/authorized_keys” “~/.ssh/authorized_keys” E212: Can’t open file for writing Is this something that has to be … Read more