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How to backup / Restore Brocade FC Switch Config

Hi All, Backup of everything is MUST in admins life. This document will help you to backup or Restore the Brocade Fibre Switch Configuration. 1) Login to switch using Utility like Putty / Kitty. 2) Download Portable FTP Server Utility : http://sourceforge.net/projects/smallftpd 3) Start it and add one user. Give LRW Permissions. (e.g. Shown below) Create Temp Folder in C:\ and point it 4) Run the following commands : Commands : 1) configupload (For Backing up Fibre Switch Configuration) 2) configdownload (For restore) Another additional method for ensuring the backup :  1) Login to switch using Utility like Putty / Kitty. 2) You can run the following commands to see additional configuration information that you can copy to a file to save: configShow ipaddrShow licenseShow switchShow Save the commands output in text file. Now your switch is Backup Up!!! Congrats!!!  

How to get on which Cisco Switch Port the Windows Server is connected | Cisco Discovery Protocol

Problem : How to get on which Cisco Switch Port the Windows Server is connected Environment : Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2012 (With all revisions), Cisco Switching Landscape for Network Solution : In our scenario, we have tough time to get the which server is connected on which port of the Cisco Switch. We have to trace it manually or by running some commands on Cisco switch. What if you dont have to goto Network team for getting the desired data. And yes, this is possible using only two tools. With the help of Cisco Discovery Protocol, we can get the information which we require. You need following tools to get your solution Website Link : http://www.winpcap.org/windump/install/ Tool 1 : http://www.winpcap.org/install/bin/WinPcap_4_1_3.exe Tool 2 : http://www.winpcap.org/windump/install/bin/windump_3_9_5/WinDump.exe Steps : 1) Get the tool WinPcap installed on the server of which you need theinformation 2) Copy Windump.exe too on the same server. 3) Open command

Unable to access Admin Shares (e.g. D$, E$, F$, G$) remotely in Windows Server 2012

Problem :  Not able to access windows Admin shares  (e.g. D$, E$, F$, G$) from remote location on Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machine hosted on VMware ESXi 5.1 Infrastructure. Observations :  You get access denied error (I dont have screenshot of it) when you try accessing the drive from remote location. Even if you add permissions for required ID, it behaves in same manner. In event Viewer, you will get the event as below : It was the Virtual Machine created on VMware ESXi 5.1 Visualization platform Solution :  This behavior of windows is because of the Group policy applied on the server is restricting Removable storage access from remote location. Solution can be either from Windows side(Editing Group Policy) or VMware side(Disable Hotplug / HotAdd). I prefer VMware side solution as we done have to compromise on the security of Windows System. Steps : To disable HotPlug capability using the vSphere Client:     - Connect to the ESXi/ESX host or vCenter Server u