My goal is to create a network activity light for a specific program. I'm a mechanical guy, so I can figure out the hardware and the logic, but I have no clue where to start with the coding. Ultimately this needs to run without user interaction, so I figured some sort of script would be a good place to start. I tried looking at netstat -e, but I didn't see any obvious way to determine the bandwidth a specific application was using. Thoughts? I'm using Windows 7.
I accomplished my goal using the "typeperf" command:
typeperf "\Process(FlashMediaLiveEncoder)\IO Data Bytes/sec"
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TLDR: How do I automate uninstall of all drivers in two categories without needing to know the OEM number beforehand?
First things first - I'm as far from an expert as they come. I'm an L1 support desk grunt messing with powershell to try automate the tedious parts of my job. A persistent issue we've got with 90% of our machines requires uninstalling all drivers for audio devices, and because I'm too lazy to do this in a remote session, I'm trying to automate it through a script that fires off a bunch of commands through psexec to a specified hostname.
Downside is driver name is not always going to be the same on each machine, and the OEM number for the drivers isn't consistent across multiple machines either. This doesn't matter when you're doing it through device manager - just need to uninstall everything in the Audio I/O and Sound Controllers dropdown - but I've no idea how to specify this in command line.
I'm sure it's possible. I've been poking around at pnputil and Get-WindowsDriver and there's gotta be some way to do it. Might be something with wmic that could work, but I'm not familiar enough with that command. I could just do it manually, but then I'd have to spend five minutes in a laggy remote session making small talk with a user, and I can't stand small talk.
So essentially my question is: Is there a way to query OEM info of every driver in a specific category, and then pipe that info into a cmdlet that'll uninstall them?
I'm a novice with AS/400. I have a bit of coding experience and know that there's always an access to the backend if you're clever enough. But developers in my organisation said that it's hard to communicate with the server and make it run things remotely.
So I'm wondering if you anyone's got any ideas how I can schedule a simple task. I login to the "Personal Communication", which is the client app. Then I go to a certain menu, ie I543, enter a parameter "1". And Press "ENTER" to run a report which have a file output.
I know there is that "Macro" function within Personal Communication. But that relies on send keys which does not work on a locked screen, nor do I want to activate it manually, which really defies the point of automation.
I was hoping I can schedule a simple call command somehow to activate some kind of procedure. Just need to know if possible and where to start looking? Thanks.
Last millennium's AS/400 and today's IBM i both have a basic job scheduler built in.
From a command line WRKJOBSCDE.
You need to find out what happens when you select menu I543 option 1. Assuming it's a simple CALL MYRPT or SBMJOB CMD(CALL MYRPT) then adding a scheduled job to run the report is easy.
However, you probably don't have the authority to do so. Nor should your developers necessarily be able to do so. Your system administrator is the right person. In a small shop, that might be the guy doing development. In a large one, it's another person or team.
But your developers should have at least pointed you toward the admin and the job scheduler.
We have a memcached server that is shared by about two dozen apps. One of the web apps (or perhaps one of our utility apps) is issuing a flush_all command periodically. The frequency seems random, or at least we haven't seen a pattern yet. It happens about 10 times an hour.
Here's the rub. I can't figure out a good way to figure out which app is doing this. The memcacehd logs are not helpful at all. Here's what I've done so far:
* grep all source code - Other than memcached libraries I can't see anywhere where we issue this command.
* Enable verbose logging (-vv) in memcached - I see the commands get issued, but the log doesn't show any information about where the command is being issued from.
* Research how to administratively disable this; without an unapproved source patch to memcached I can't figure out a good way to do it.
Has anyone else had this problem? I'm assuming that this is coming from one of our web apps, but its possible its from somewhere else too. Any suggestions?
My next step is to setup a second memcached server and move applications one by one (which will be slow and time consuming). There must be a better way.
A little late, but in case anyone else hits this...
I'd suggest you set up multiple memcache proxies and configure each application to use a different one. The first proxy I found was twemproxy, no idea how good it is.
After that you can use the logs for the proxy to identify which application is issuing the commands.
I am creating a program, which may or may not run inside a Citrix instance. The program needs to detect this, because it needs to behave in a different way on Citrix. How can it be detected in a reliable way? So far, my best guess was to check whether the computer has a C-drive.
I assume you want to know whether your application runs in a XenApp (aka Presentation Server / Metaframe) session?
Checking for the existence of drive C: is not the right way to do it. Historically, the drives letters on Citrix terminal servers were often remapped, e.g. from C: to M:. But this is not "en vogue" any more.
Please see my earlier answer for the correct way to determine the session type.
If instead you want to determine if XenApp/Presentation Server is installed, look up the corresponding registry values as described in Citrix Knowledgebase article CTX107570.
bool(os.environ.get('citrix_version'))
I think this is the best way to detect in python.
I want my Perl script can handle a large number of users.
I'm going to run the script on Amazon clouds servers.
This is my understanding of how the clouds work.
At first the script instances are run on a single server.
Then at the moment the server gets overloaded by too many users, the second server is added to run script instances.
Do I understand clouds right?
Do I have to do anything special to make this process work?
Or maybe everything is run seamlessly and the only thing I have to do is to upload the script to the image?
That is a bit too narrow of a definition for cloud computing but probably close enough for the purposes of this question. The process isn't seamless, you have to actually detect that you're running too hot for the singe machine and add another instance. You can do this from perl using the API. It does, however, take real time to spin up another instance so it makes more sense to distribute your task initially.
If your perl script is something which can cleanly run in parallel already then you don't have to make many changes. Just shove it onto a number of instances and away you go.