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Remove an app from Splunk

May 11, 2016 by Dan B. Lee Leave a Comment

I've been getting deeper into Splunk and along the way I collected some quick and easy tutorials to help me do the easier things. Below is how to remove a Splunk app after it has been installed. Splunk version: 6.3 Log into the console and head to the /opt/splunk/etc/apps directory. Use the command "ls" to list what folders are in the apps folder. Remove the folder there. This will delete the app. An example of what I did to remove the Fortigate App is … [Read more...] about Remove an app from Splunk

Filed Under: Splunk Tagged With: CLI, command line, command-line utility, Fortigate, Splunk

WSUS – Forcibly Adding and Updating Clients

January 30, 2013 by Dan B. Lee 3 Comments

Sometimes there just isn't enough time or patience to wait for Group Policy to push updates. Luckily we have small commands that nudge things along. Here are a few things that get WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) moving in the right direction so you aren't sitting around waiting for Group Policy to update. I'll give you some examples and how to check to make sure forcing worked. Forcing Group Policy We should all be familiar with forcing group policy. Run this command in an elevated … [Read more...] about WSUS – Forcibly Adding and Updating Clients

Filed Under: Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 Tagged With: Command Prompt, command-line utility, WSUS

Restarting services on a server remotely

September 25, 2012 by Dan B. Lee Leave a Comment

I've run into a few instances where I need to restart haywire services, recently with F-Secure services on Windows 2003 R2 Servers. The high CPU loads make it impossible to log into the server. SC.exe will help with this. Here are a few commands to get your started. Open a command prompt on a server within the same domain as your troubled server and run this command: sc \\servername stop "Service Name" sc \\servername start "Service Name" Before running the "start" command you'll want to … [Read more...] about Restarting services on a server remotely

Filed Under: Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2 Tagged With: CMD, Command Prompt, command-line utility, remote servers, Restart Services, Windows, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Servers

Reducing the size of the winsxs folder

February 9, 2012 by Dan B. Lee Leave a Comment

EDIT: This command only works with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. DISM is available to use, but some of the switches and functionality isn't available until SP1. We generally keep the OS partition of our VMs as small as possible. Windows 2008 is great in that we can always increase the size of a drive later on, need be. When our monitors alerted us about low disk space on our vCenter Server I was a little confused. The vCenter server doesn't do much on a day to day basis and really doesn't see a … [Read more...] about Reducing the size of the winsxs folder

Filed Under: Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 Tagged With: command-line utility, DISM, winsxs folder

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