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Thoughts on the new Windows Management Framework

Published November 1, 2009 by Carlos Veira

You may already know that the new Windows Management Framework has been published recently. For those who don't know what services and benefits provides, just a brief presentation:

“Windows Management Framework, which includes Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0, was officially released to the world this morning. By providing a consistent management interface across the various flavors of Windows, we are making our platform that much more attractive to deploy. IT Professionals can now easily manage their Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 machines through PowerShell remoting – that’s a huge win!”

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Node list as a CLI option. Why not?

Published October 20, 2009 by Carlos Veira

If you have ever tried NMTools you may wonder why there is not an CLI option to allow something like this:

PS C:\> C:\.\nmagent.ps1 -profile main -cmd exec -src hlist @('host1','host2','1.2.3.4')

The answer is that it is planned but it is not a priority. Why? Because you can get similar results on the mean time using the following work around:

PS C:\> 'host1','host2','1.2.3.4' | % { .\nmagent.ps1 -profile main -cmd exec -src host $_ }

Unfortunately, both sentences are not exactly the same.…

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Possible uses for PLEX modules

Published October 17, 2009 by Carlos Veira

Here you have some possible samples that you may use as templates for your own purposes. In any case, the main goal of this post is give you an idea of what it is possible using PLEX modules.

The Samples or “Templates”

Remote log Distributed search using findstr.exe

"for /f `"tokens=*`" %i in ('dir /s /b *.log') do @findstr `"MyRegExPattern`" `"%i`"" | .\nmagent.ps1 -profile plex -cmd exec -src file -save

Remote log Distributed search using RSaR.exe. “RSaR” means “Regex Search and Rescue” and can be found at rsar.codeplex.com…

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NMTools Framework Services explained

Published October 16, 2009 by Carlos Veira

Those who have tried NMTools may have realized that provides certain services that are always needed whenever one have to deal with a large environment.

Network Services

In this context, we understand Network Services as the ability to express your Target Node set through different input sources and the capacity to iterate through it handling every exception that might occur.

For example, your Target might be a host name, an IP address, a collection/combination of host names and/or IP addresses, an IP range or a CDIR network notation.…

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The “Office+Scripting Solution”: The thinking behind OpenSLIM & NMTools

Published August 24, 2009 by Carlos Veira

At this point you might be wondering why OpenSLIM and why NMTools provided that there is plenty of software out there that seems to do the same or, at least,  a similar work. And, yes, it's certainly a good question. Today, you can easily find IT Management Software to deal with Inventory, CMDB, Network Discovery, Distributed Configuration in many of the available software delivery flavors: Commercial, Open Source, ASP, etc… So, why?

The quick answer is that every solution has strengths, weaknesses and particular approaches that make them different even when they share the same market segment.…

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OpenSLIM & NMTools v3.33b0!

Published August 15, 2009 by Carlos Veira

It's finally here! It's been a pretty hard task because this new version represents a very important step forward not only in functionality but also in reliability.

As previous versions, documentation is something I must work on. Unfortunately, I don't have time to do it the way it should. But, I will be posting working samples, screenshots, and demo videos that will help on the training aspects of this tools.

Anyway, if you want to help with documentation or any other aspect, just let me know: I would love to build a team to make this project grow bigger and stronger.…

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OpenSLIM & NMTools v2.9b0

Published March 8, 2009 by Carlos Veira

nmtools-20090308-0-smallThis is the first time a fully working NMTools goes live. This time a Gallery of 14 OpenSLIM modules ship with the package.

As usual, you can download it from CodePlex or SourceForge. You will find the links on the Downloads Section. Hope you like it :-D.

This time I have included a set of sreenshots just for you to figure out the aspect of the final solution.

Anyway, later this week I will post a practical example of one session using NMTools.…

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More on OpenSLIM and NMTools…

Published February 1, 2009 by Carlos Veira

Wow! What an intense week! It's being pretty hard to keep with regular postings. Obviously, working 12 hours a day doesn't help at all, but projects keep progressing successfully :D.

A new version of OpenSLIM and NMTools, v2.7b0, has been released last week. Version 2.8b0 is now on the way!. NMTools have reached a usable state thanks to a contribution from JJ who helped on resolving the last major issue. I am also introducing more Reports to the current OpenSLIM catalog; new UI for Contacts Management; some minor improvements on Tasks and Progress Management, etc.…

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