Monday, January 28, 2013

How to access shell/console in RHEV Hypervisor

Once you are in the RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) home screen/SSH to the RHEV system press 'F2' to access the console.

RHEV Hypervisor - SSH not working

I have an RHEV 6.3 and by default SSH will be disabled in it. You need to enable SSH from Security and then make sure you are doing the SSH as

ssh admin@<your_ip> because in RHEV 6.3 the default administrator account is not root but admin.

Edit: Please see the anonymous comment #1 below

Friday, January 25, 2013

HP EliteBook 8460p/8560p Fingerprint Sensor/Software

After a days research I could get it working in couple of ways :) Here is the easiest way that I could find to start using the fingerprint sensor in your EliteBook.

1. Install the Validity Fingerpint driver
2. HP ProtectTools Security Manager

I had issues while installing the above version of ProtectTools (could be because I tried different versions of drivers & software from HP to get it work and I could messed up the registry).

These steps by msawyer91 taken from HP Discussion Boards worked for me.
  1. Launch Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
  2. Drill down to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa.
  3. Here you should see a multi-string value (REG_MULTI_SZ) named "Notification Packages".  (In my case this was missing.)
  4. If this value does not exist, create it.  Right-click in the right-hand pane and choose "New > Multi-String Value."  (It's very important you choose Multi-String Value.)  Name it Notification Packages (there is a space in the name).
  5. Double-click on Notification Packages to edit it.
  6. Type the value scecli on the first line, then click OK.
  7. Close Registry Editor.
  8. Retry the installation.
After a reboot you need to enable 'Windows Logon Security' in HP ProtectTools and entroll two of your fingers as your authentication credentials.

You are done :)