This is a handy way to get the model of your computer from the command line. Should work on most systems: wmic csproduct get name This can be useful in a number of situations: Finding the model number on a remote computer where you can’t physically look for the model You don’t want to open […]
Category: Windows Server
N-central error: “…the specified account must have local administrator rights.”
Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to use a tool called N-central. It’s a SolarWinds product targeted towards MSPs. This isn’t the time nor the place to go into any kind of review of the product. Rather, this will be a starting point for what I suspect will be many necessary articles pertaining to N-central. On […]
Status Errors in Nagios
I seem to have a habit of using overly complicated tools to do simple things. I’m using HylaFAX to deliver the fax for a single number to a single email address (a topic for another time) and now I’m using Nagios to basically ping a single Windows server. Well, it’s not about the destination but […]