One of the problems of effective automation and scripting the double-edged sword of (a) achieving a solid enough understanding of what you really want to do, and (b) codifying it’s expression so that your computer also understands the problem. In computer vernacular, the verb grok, or grokking, as coined by Robert A. Heinlein in Stranger […]

Windows Server has many events logs, trace logs, and can support logging to performance, IIS, and other data to databases. In some cases, the activity logs for some services are in plain old fashioned  —  yes, you guessed it  —  text files. While there are many free and pricey tools out in the wild for managing various aspects of […]

In my last post, we learned that the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a computer networking protocol used by hosts, identified as DHCP clients, to retrieve IP address assignments and other configuration information. DHCP uses a client-server architecture. The client sends a broadcast request for configuration information. The DHCP server receives the request and […]

In this post we will revisit an old friend that is used quite often in all of our modern networks, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). The DHCP process allows a server to automatically provision IPv4 addresses, along with other important configurations, to clients as they boot up. The following processes take place when DHCP is […]

In this post we will revisit an old friend that is used quite often in all of our modern networks, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). The DHCP process allows a server to automatically provision IPv4 addresses, along with other important configurations, to clients as they boot up. There are two principle advantages to using a DHCP […]

As presented in previous posts, there are four tools that are used 24/7 in almost every TCP/IP network in the world to help the network layer  –  Layer 3  –  with its task of routing packets end-to-end through an internetwork. These automated tools are identified as: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Domain Name Service (DNS) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Ping […]