When terminating EC2 instances, I need to be able to clean up remnants from the servers. Like removing the computer object from Active Directory, Chef, Octopus Deploy, Cyclance, etc...
None of these server applications are aware of the Instance ID in AWS, but they can all be found by the IP address.
When the EC2 instance is terminated, the private IP address is immediately removed and unable to be queried.
Is there anyway to find out what the Private IP address of terminated instance was?
I'm having trouble with my EC2 instance cfn-init script.
I'm attempting to have it install Powershell v5. When I execute the command:
"command" : "C:\\cfn\\install\\Win8.1AndW2K12R2-KB3066437-x64.msu /quiet"
The problem I'm running into is that it installs successfully but returns an exit code of 1641, which is "ERROR_SUCCESS_REBOOT_INITIATED".
This is what I want, but cfn-init seeing this as an error.
2015-11-17 21:09:21,118 P2464 [ERROR] Exited with error code 1641
Am I doing this wrong, or is there a way to have the package report back a different exit code?
Import-Module WebAdministration
$pool = "ChannelServices"
$wp = Get-ChildItem "IIS:\AppPools\$pool\WorkerProcesses"
Get-Process -Id $wp.processId
Restart-WebAppPool $pool
sleep 5
Get-ChildItem "IIS:\AppPools\$pool\WorkerProcesses"
Get-Process -Id $wp.processId
So when I do a Get-ChildItem for the WorkerProcesses of a particular AppPool, then restart that AppPool, I should get a new PID, which I do. However, rerunning Get-ChildItem still shows the old PID. If I close Powershell and reopen, it will not show the correct new PID.
How can I force Powershell to clear it's cache, or whatever is holding onto that incorrect information...
UPDATE Just to be clear, my question is how can I clear the local cache when using the IIS PSDrive.
I noticed the TypeName: Microsoft.IIs.PowerShell.Framework.ConfigurationElement#workerProcesses#workerProcess
Has a method:
Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
ClearLocalData Method void ClearLocalData()
But it hasn't really worked for me... Like someone below stated, this might just be a bug.
I see answers below on how to use WMI, which I'm aware of.
@theJasonHelmick provided a good one:
GWMI win32_process -filter "name='w3wp.exe'" | Select Name, ProcessId, @{n='AppPool';e={$_.GetOwner().user}}
That gives me the Username the AppPool is running under. I modified that a bit to pull the actual apppool name from the CommandLine:
Get-WmiObject -Class win32_process -filter "name='w3wp.exe'" | Select Name, ProcessId, @{n='AppPool';e={($_.CommandLine).Split("`"")[1]}}
We would like the Help Desk to have the responsibility of creating User Home folders instead of our 2nd level support. The help desk global group is already an Account Operator, so in Active Directory they are able to edit all User Attributes just fine.
The problem is figuring out the minimum level of permissions needed on the File Server to create the home share, with out giving them access to everyone home share.
So if they open AD Users and Computer, open the properties for a user, and enter \home\users\%username% in the profile tab and then click OK, they get the following error.
The \home\users\username home folder was not created because you do not have create access on the server. The user account has been updated with the new home folder value but you must create the directory manually after obtaining the required access right.
Right now I have given the Helpdesk group Full Control on the root folder only (no files or subdirectories)
The directory is actually created, but the permissions on the newly created folder only show administrators full control, and no permissions for the configured user account.
It sure sounds like I'd have to make the helpdesk local admins on the file servers, which is what I'd like to avoid. Especially since the file servers are a large cluster hosting much much more than the entire orgs home share structure.
We have an older cluster using 2 Dell 6850's with 64 gigs of RAM.
We are going to be upgrading the cluster to use 2 Dell R900's with 128 gigs of RAM.
However, the plan to upgrade is going to involve having all 4 nodes in the cluster at the same time.
What I can not find is any documentation about running a cluster with dissimilar hardware. Is this even supported? My guess is that it's definitely not a best practice, but my greater concern is if it's even a supported configurtion.
We are migrating our fileservers again.
The original servers were all standalone Windows 2000 Servers. They were migrated to a Windows 2003 cluster with about 10 Servernames that directly represented the standalone servers they replaced.
The volumes contain 100's of shares, disk mount points, SUB mount points. It's just a real mess. Close to 40 Terabytes of data.
We are trying to find the best way to migrate to a Windows 2008 cluster.
I've suggested that we use DFS Consolidated Roots to maintain the legacy links, as to not break the 1,000's of sharepoint links. In addition I'd like to consolidate many of the volumes, and completely get rid of the annoying sub mounts that we have.
On the surface, the Microsoft File Migration Toolkit appears to do exactly that.
So I've created a virutal lab environment, but what I'm finding is that with Mount Point volumes, none of the security settings are copied over, and sub mount points are completely ignored.
The DFS Consolidation Wizard seems to do it's job, which is nice. But I need a solution for consolidating the filesystem. I like the way the FSMT can correctly move the files to appropriate Resource groups based upon the file paths, it also does the nice deed of removing the old volume share once the new share is created.
But the lack of copying the security settings makes it a deal breaker. Is there possibly a tool that can square up the security settings between servers?
I'm trying to square up licensing, and I'm looking at a few SQL 2008 boxes that are in a cluster and I can not see where it says Enterprise Edition anywhere, even though I know that's what it's running.
I need to figure this out, because I have a few Reporting Servers that are on Virtual Machines that may or may not be running Enterprise Edition.
I can't do this through a query since the DB Services are not installed on the Reporting Servers. However, I still have to license those boxes