A new Symantec.pl.xml was released (2013-02-19)
Today the Biomni Frontoffice Solution 7.3.1 was added to the Symantec product listing xml as shown in the below change log:Revision: f5c249e2956c Author: Ludovic FERRE <ludovic@15-cloud.fr>...
View ArticleAPT1: Q&A on Attacks by the Comment Crew
Today Mandiant released an detailed report dubbed "APT1" which focuses on a prolific cyber espionage campaign by the Comment Crew going back to at least 2006 and targeting a broad range of industries....
View ArticleThe story of a very expensive filter
One of my customer reported a problem that caused one of their child nothing server to run at 100% CPU and consume almost all memory (out of 32GiB available).I first looked at the timing (it was...
View ArticleHelp Us Improve Veritas Operations Manager
The Veritas Operations Manager team is launching a new version middle of this year, and we want you (current or new customers) to try out the beta and give us feedback. Check out the VOM and VOM...
View ArticleKnowledge Base Articles of ADC Policy
In this blog, I have mentioned the number of articles links which can help and guide about ADC policy. Best Practices for Deploying Symantec Endpoint Protection's Application and Device Control...
View ArticleDetermine why a Scheduled Task or Query failed
How to determine the cause of Scheduled Task or Query failureSolution:The cause of failed schedules can be determined from the Schedule Logs.The logs for the RMS schedules are stored in text format at...
View ArticleAPT1: Comment Crew による攻撃についての Q&A
2 月 18 日、Mandiant 社から「APT1」と題する詳細なレポートが公開されました。このレポートは、多発しているある一連のサイバースパイ活動に焦点を当てており、これに関与している Comment Crew は、少なくとも 2006 年以降さまざまな業種を標的にしてきました。同レポートでは、APT1 インフラに関する最初期の言及としてシマンテックからの発表が引用されています。シマンテックは...
View ArticleEvery IT person's nightmare.
So you have support on the line, and they have a fix for an issue for you. WebEx session, servers configured service restarted, all good right?Not so quick, 5 minutes later, complaint about console not...
View ArticleShould I Worry about Data Corruption? - Unfortunately Yes......
Recently one of my customers had a series of outages in the Communications between their buildings. The upshot of this is because of the way they had deployed their clusters they weren’t protected...
View ArticleConnect Dev Notes: 20 Feb 2013
User Facing: DesktopAdded an RSS Wizard that lets users build an RSS URL that pulls targeted information from Connect based on community, content type, product and more. We've documented this new...
View ArticleNetBackup 7.5.0.5 (NetBackup 7.5 Maintenance Release 5) is now available!
I'm very pleased to announce that the next Maintenance Release for NetBackup 7.5 is now available! NetBackup 7.5.0.5 is the fifth maintenance release for NetBackup 7.5. It is a cumulative release...
View ArticleAltiris Helpdesk: Practical Limit of 63 Characters for Attachment Filenames
Spent the last couple of hours looking into an issue with the Altiris 6 Helpdesk. As I couldn't find the issue reported elsewhere, and its bitten me before I thought I'd just pop this in the blog.In...
View ArticleHow to report on agent based Unix Server hosting multiple databases
How to report on an agent based Unix Server hosting multiple databasesDesired reports:- Reports from the Unix Host- Reports from DB1, DB2, DB3Refer to the diagram below:Solution:To report on the Unix...
View ArticleExcel cells break when a report is exported to CSV format
Issue: When a result of a Collection Evaluation Report job is exported in CSV format, the cells break - giving a non-uniform report output. Cause: When the evidence of the failed checks is large,...
View ArticleUseful SQL Queries
So, I've been cobbling together a few SQL queries lately that help get large amounts of information from EV. I figured I'd provide one of these to everyone. As I post these queries I will also...
View ArticleMaking the most of website analytics
Following on from our recent webinar on the theme of website optimisation we have developed a series of three blog posts that discuss website optimisation. These are high level blogs and not intended...
View ArticleRedirect Enterprise Vault FSA 'Restore'
The question is whether or not you can redirect the restore/recall of archived Enterprise Vault FSA data to a different location, and whether the source server needs to be online or not? Well the...
View ArticleBacking up a UEFI based System
Backing up a UEFI based System:-New Symantec System Recovery 2013 supports the Backup and Restore of UEFI based system.The following document is intended to walk through the backup procedure of UEFI...
View ArticleMalicious Mandiant Report in Circulation
The report, APT1: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units, published by Mandiant earlier this week has drawn worldwide attention by both the security world and the general public. This interest...
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