Sunday, February 20, 2011

Installing Weblogic Server 12c

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Points to remember:-

  1. Make sure you dont change default directory from C:\Middleware
  2. Make sure that there is no space in the installation directory 
  3. Java is on the classpath

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Error on Boston.com website


Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in /web/newsprojects/html/newsprojects/scoreboard/connect.php on line 3

Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in/web/newsprojects/html/newsprojects/scoreboard/connect.php on line 4

Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: A link to the server could not be established in /web/newsprojects/html/newsprojects/scoreboard/connect.php on line 4

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in/web/newsprojects/html/newsprojects/scoreboard/scorebelt.php on line 134

Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: A link to the server could not be established in /web/newsprojects/html/newsprojects/scoreboard/scorebelt.php on line 134
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

Saturday, February 12, 2011

MSI installation with no user interaction

msiexec has a lot of options that can be configured according to how you want to install MSI. The following command shows a progress bar with no user interaction and prints a log.

msiexec /I "product_name.msi" /qb /Lv* "C:\install.log" INSTALLLEVEL=200 ALLUSERS=1

 

Here is a complete guide:-

msiexec /Option <Required Parameter> [Optional Parameter]

Install Options
    </package | /i> <Product.msi>
        Installs or configures a product
    /a <Product.msi>
        Administrative install - Installs a product on the network
    /j<u|m> <Product.msi> [/t <Transform List>] [/g <Language ID>]
        Advertises a product - m to all users, u to current user
    </uninstall | /x> <Product.msi | ProductCode>
        Uninstalls the product
Display Options
    /quiet
        Quiet mode, no user interaction
    /passive
        Unattended mode - progress bar only
    /q[n|b|r|f]
        Sets user interface level
        n - No UI
        b - Basic UI
        r - Reduced UI
        f - Full UI (default)
    /help
        Help information
Restart Options
    /norestart
        Do not restart after the installation is complete
    /promptrestart
        Prompts the user for restart if necessary
    /forcerestart
        Always restart the computer after installation
Logging Options
    /l[i|w|e|a|r|u|c|m|o|p|v|x|+|!|*] <LogFile>
        i - Status messages
        w - Nonfatal warnings
        e - All error messages
        a - Start up of actions
        r - Action-specific records
        u - User requests
        c - Initial UI parameters
        m - Out-of-memory or fatal exit information
        o - Out-of-disk-space messages
        p - Terminal properties
        v - Verbose output
        x - Extra debugging information
        + - Append to existing log file
        ! - Flush each line to the log
        * - Log all information, except for v and x options
    /log <LogFile>
        Equivalent of /l* <LogFile>
Update Options
    /update <Update1.msp>[;Update2.msp]
        Applies update(s)
    /uninstall <PatchCodeGuid>[;Update2.msp] /package <Product.msi | ProductCode>
        Remove update(s) for a product
Repair Options
    /f[p|e|c|m|s|o|d|a|u|v] <Product.msi | ProductCode>
        Repairs a product
        p - only if file is missing
        o - if file is missing or an older version is installed (default)
        e - if file is missing or an equal or older version is installed
        d - if file is missing or a different version is installed
        c - if file is missing or checksum does not match the calculated value
        a - forces all files to be reinstalled
        u - all required user-specific registry entries (default)
        m - all required computer-specific registry entries (default)
        s - all existing shortcuts (default)
        v - runs from source and recaches local package
Setting Public Properties
    [PROPERTY=PropertyValue]

Consult the Windows ® Installer SDK for additional documentation on the
command line syntax.

Friday, February 11, 2011

IBM Watson specs

IBM Watson is comprised of ninety IBM POWER 750 servers, 16 Terabytes of memory, and 4 Terabytes of clustered storage. This is enclosed in ten racks including the servers, networking, shared disk system, and cluster controllers. These ninety POWER 750 servers have four POWER7 processors, each with eight cores. IBM Watson has a total of 2880 POWER7 cores.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Windows Defender works!

After using Windows Defender for the past 3 yrs this was the first time I found an alert and the best part was it was successfully cleaned up!

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