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Do you have any general rules that you fall back on when you troubleshoot a difficult network/hardware/software problem?
Eg: "i isolate the source of the problem by testing a peripheral with a second computer" or "i remove as much hardware as is possible...
Started by username on
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From ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method )
Define the question Gather information and resources (observe) Form hypothesis Perform experiment and collect data Analyze data Interpret data and draw... .
I like to fall back to the scientific method.
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What are the best tools for troubleshooting SAN performance bottlenecks?
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If....
You can monitor any components of your SAN (that support SMI-S as well as other standards) from one interface and be able to view or query historical data .
If you want an all-in-one enterprisey solution, take a look at TPC for Disk/Fabric from IBM .
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What are the best tools and processes for periodically monitoring and troubleshooting sql server performance issues?
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Perfmon is a great way to get....
I came across a blog by Brent Ozar about it: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2006/12/dba-101-using-perfmon-for-sql-performance-tuning/ .
I was tasked with this same thing.
I got roped into being the 'DBA' for my company .
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How do you troubleshoot Apache redirects in production? I know there's a a logging feature somewhere that lets you log all the redirects that happen...
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Also see the mod_rewrite docs
I know it's....
You need to set the following options:
RewriteLog /path/to/mod_rewrite.log RewriteLogLevel 2
in your Apache config (you can't set them in your .htaccess)
This will give you a log showing you what is going on .
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Is it possible in any way to troubleshoot the build process in Visual Studio? I'd like to see which part of the build specifically takes so much time.
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Watch the output window in visual....
In the Output Window, you'll get a time summary at the end, and you can see at which point in the process there is a long pause .
Tools\Options\Project and Solutions\Build and Run\MSBuild output verbosity -> verbose.
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One of our .NET 2.0 application started to just randomly disappear. There are no records in the Event log, Dr. Watson doesn't generate crash dump, no nothing...
How to troubleshoot this application?
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AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += new UnhandledExceptionEventHandler(CurrentDomain_UnhandledException);
2) Attach a thread exception handler
Application....
Attach an event handler to AppDomain.UnhandledException event and log the exception object .
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I'm looking for some kind of tool that will let me slice and dice IIS web logs, for troubleshooting purposes...
All tools I've found are designed to analyze logs for a "Google Analytics" type of output, but what I want is more like "see all hits made ...
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Http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials....
Http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-4c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&displaylang=en
Here is another great link.
It is a free tool to analyze all kinds of logs including IIS logs .
Use logparser.
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At my prior job of 5 years, I eventually had to leave because I was growing into the go-to guy for production support and troubleshooting. I was spending at least half of my time doing queries in production, event log scraping, etc. Yes, we had a QA department...
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Developers on the project teams would work on new features and... .
I don't know the specifics about how your company works but one of the better situations I've worked in was when we had 2 teams, one project developers and one production support developers .
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I've got a Grails application that does a fairly decent amount of domain object creation and destruction, and it seems to run out of PermGen space at a very, very rapid rate. I've done the usual tweaks (bumped PermGen to 256M, enabled class GC, etc.),...
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I personally....
Eclipse Memory Analyzer is a free tool that is at least as good as Yourkit .
It is commercial, but it has a free evaluation version available for one-shot debugging .
YourKit is a nice tool I have used multiple times to diagnose memory issues .
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Sometimes I have to troubleshoot machines on my LAN which have flaky wireless connections without any seemingly logical reason. Contrary to "normal" network connections in most cases I don't know where to start in order to debug or solve the problem.
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Is there anything iffy between you.
troubleshoot the physical environment.
Be able to connect - kinda.
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