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23 June 2025 / chris.newby / Proxmox

Extend WIN Server Eval

Open a powershell and use:slmgr -dlv to show the current countslmgr -rearm to extend by…

16 December 2024 / chris.newby / Uncategorised

Importing an .iso image as a .vdi

Open a cmd box as admin and navigate to C:\Program Files\Oracle\Virtualbox\C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe convertfromraw {input.img} {output.vdi}…

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16 September 2024 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Reload a GD4

Analysis: There is no separate document for the GD4 loading procedure. Follow the below DHCP…

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25 July 2024 / chris.newby / Proxmox

Importing VM’s to Proxmox

Unpack the VM archive until you get to the disk image (.vmkd .qcow2 etc and…

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26 April 2024 / chris.newby / General

How do I Compress a Whole Linux or UNIX Directory?

Q. How can I compress a whole directory under Linux / UNIX using a shell prompt?…

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8 April 2024 / chris.newby / General

VMware root pw reset

How to Reset Forgotten VMware ESXi Root Password Lost or forgot the root password of…

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3 April 2024 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Renewing OPS’s on LAB OxE via CRON

So, you have some OPS files on your test system that don’t match the CPU…

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3 April 2024 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Interphony / auto answer

We all know the issue when the customer reports that the phone is answering by…

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1 April 2023 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Reset OpenTouch Password Lock Out

To reset a locked user in OpenTouch do the following: SSH into the server and…

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15 March 2023 / chris.newby / General

RDP on Linux

In a terminal$ sudo apt install xrdp xorgxrdp -f$ sudo nano /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh Above the line…

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3 March 2023 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Reset Root Password on older OxE’s

This works for LINUX releases only. Plug your favorite PC or LAPTOP to the console…

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20 January 2023 / chris.newby / Alcatel

OXE Passwords & the /etc/shadow file

Information contained in the shadow file If anyone is interested this is how I worked…

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17 January 2023 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Changing Symbolic links in the OxE

The binary files that the ALE handsets use are located in /usr2/downbin/ however these are…

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22 November 2022 / chris.newby / Alcatel

IPCHECK Command

The ipcheck command is used to display the output of specific parameters from OmniPCX Enterprise…

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8 December 2021 / chris.newby / Alcatel

PBX Group commands

Some commands around groups on the OmniPCX Enterprise supgpbx, graphical display of data with options…

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21 April 2021 / chris.newby / Alcatel

MTCL Banner on Alcatel OxE

If you want to add a banner on the login of mtcl then do the…

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26 November 2020 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Testing SMTP via Telnet

Open a command prompt. Type the following command: telnet <mail server name or IP> 25…

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21 March 2020 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Alcatel Represent Command.

Use this with one of the switches to show the end points of an IP…

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21 February 2020 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Listrad Command

In the OxE to remove a MCDU that is stuck you can try the hidden…

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3 July 2019 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Alcatel – Key Sim

After accessing the phone via telnet by running ippstat telnet d ‘ext # t 1440…

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8 April 2019 / chris.newby / Alcatel

evauser

Elevate to SU Create the user with useradd evauser -s /usr2/servers/Eva_toolGive the user a password…

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28 May 2018 / chris.newby / Alcatel

Alcatel – Start, Stop & Status of BICS OV Server

# /opt/Alcatel-Lucent/serviceability/bics_applications/bin/management_cmd start # /opt/Alcatel-Lucent/serviceability/bics_applications/bin/management_cmd stop # /opt/Alcatel-Lucent/serviceability/bics_applications/bin/management_cmd status

11 April 2017 / chris.newby / Alcatel