Restore damaged fonts on Vista

No commentsUncategorizedJuly 1st, 2009rutger

Open a DOS box and run:

sfc /scannow

Next, open the Control Panel/Fonts, right click Install New Font, select all fonts in C:\Windows\Fonts and click Install.

Fonts are repaired now.

Jul

Create USB disk on key (bootable USB drive)

No commentsUncategorizedJuly 1st, 2009rutger

Go get a DOS or Win95 ISO image, such like from here, then go get HP’s USB disk storage format tool and, using HP’s format tool, build a bootable USB key.

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

Jun

uCMDB: logging helper

No commentsUncategorizedJune 25th, 2009rutger

Useful for setting loglevels with a higher degree of granulatity than just the “info”, “debug” and “error” options coming with the default logger.

def debugPrint(*debugStrings):
    try:
        logLevel = 1
        logMessage = '[LogHelper] '
        if type(debugStrings[0]) == type(DEBUGLEVEL):
            logLevel = debugStrings[0]
            for index in range(1, len(debugStrings)):
                logMessage = logMessage + str(debugStrings[index])
        else:
            logMessage = logMessage + ''.join(map(str, debugStrings))
        if DEBUGLEVEL >= logLevel:
            logger.debug(logMessage)
        if DEBUGLEVEL > logLevel:
            print logMessage
    except:
        excInfo = logger.prepareJythonStackTrace('')
        logger.debug('[debugPrint] Exception: <%s>' % excInfo)
        pass

Jun

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-25

No commentsPrivateJune 25th, 2009rutger

@stittel Is die oppo van T K bij Rabo dat joppie voor 4 weken? #

tweet, twitter

Jun

uCMDB: read Windows registry using WMI

No commentsScripting, uCMDBJune 25th, 2009rutger

This here is a way to read registry settings from uCMDB/DDM on remote Windows hosts using WMI. WMI exposes various classes, among which the stdRegistryProvider class which can be used to read in the remote registry, especially handy when remote registry access nor remote command execution are permitted. Using something like this it becomes possible to inventory things like policies, perhaps even SCOM objects. But that`s something for another day.

import re
import string
import sys
import logger
 
# Java imports
from java.lang import Boolean
from java.util import Properties
 
# MAM specific imports
from appilog.common.system.types import ObjectStateHolder
from appilog.common.system.types.vectors import ObjectStateHolderVector
from com.hp.ucmdb.discovery.library.clients.agents import AgentConstants
 
# This function queries the registry by a defined filter, using the given credentials
def getRegValues(wmiClient, keypath, filter):
  result = {}
  table = wmiClient.getRegistryKeyValues(keypath, 1, filter)
  keys = table.get(0)
  values = table.get(1)
  for i in range(keys.size()):
    key = keys.get(i)
    end = key.find('\\' + filter)
    key = key[0:end]
    logger.debug('[getRegValues] end is: ', end, ', key is: ', key, ', value is: ', values.get(i))
  result.update({key : values.get(i)})
  return result
 
def DiscoveryMain(Framework):
  OSHVResult = ObjectStateHolderVector()
  props = Properties()
  props.setProperty(AgentConstants.PROP_WMI_NAMESPACE, 'root\\DEFAULT')
  wmiClient = None
  wmiClient = Framework.createClient(props)
  regObject = getRegValues(wmiClient, 'SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows', Run')
  wmiClient.close()
  myKeys = regObject.keys()
  if len(myKeys) &gt; 0:
    for name in myKeys:
      value = regObject.get(name)
      logger.debug('------- Name is:  ', name, '----- Value is: ', value)
  if wmiClient != None:
    wmiClient.close()
  return OSHVResult

python, registry, uCMDB, windows, wmi

Jun

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-22

No commentsPrivateJune 22nd, 2009rutger

Back from my brother`s 40th birthday party in Copenhagen. Great people, great food, great atmosphere, #
Never realized Windows Movie Maker was such a satisfactory movie editing tool for small presentations #

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Jun