uberAgent for Splunk is Here UberAgent Published Feb 27, 2013 Updated Feb 23, 2021The beta version of uberAgent for Splunk is available.Official announcementuberAgent’s websiteDownload
Now you can PROVE that it's not Citrix but the backend!You have been there: end-users are complaining and your boss demands an explanation why “Citrix is slow” - again. You, the XenApp/XenDesktop admin, desperately look at Task Manager and Perfmon, but you cannot find a thing. Your servers are humming along quite nicely, but still: applications are slow, the system feels sluggish and logons are taking forever. And then, all of a sudden, things are back to normal. What was going on? How do you prevent that from happening again?NetworkingJun 5, 2014
Upcoming uberAgent Webinars in English and GermanuberAgent is the perfect monitoring and analysis tool for virtualized and physical Windows workloads. In a nutshell, it tells you what is going on and why things are slow. Seeing is Believing There are a number of easy ways to see what uberAgent can do in practice:uberAgentJan 29, 2015
What DNS Pointer Records and Tweetups Have in CommonTools that monitor network traffic typically work with IP addresses, not server names. Humans, on the other hand, seem to prefer names over cryptic numbers. Most tools deal with that by doing reverse lookups of the IP addresses, i.e. they are looking for DNS PTR records. The result of such a lookup, however, is not always what you expect. Let us look at a simple example:NetworkingJun 12, 2014
SetACL Studio - The Beta is HereSetACL Studio is a management tool for nearly every aspect of Windows permissions. It works with the file system, the registry, printers, services, shares and WMI objects. It supports very long paths (the kind Explorer cannot handle) and shows you every corner of the system, regardless of current permissions. About all that I have written before.SetACL StudioAug 3, 2011
Samba & SMB Web Access Through Sambee With Automatic HTTPSThis article explains how to set up Sambee in a Docker container as a web interface for browser-based access to a Samba or SMB file server. This article is part of a mini-series about running Samba Active Directory and a file server service in a Docker container on a home server:Home Automation, Networking & Self-HostingJul 12, 2026
Home Assistant Entity Availability and Error MonitoringIf you know a bit about my professional past (hint), you may have wondered when something like this would be coming. As for me, I was baffled to find that Home Assistant has no entity monitoring capabilities whatsoever. Nor do many third-party solutions seem to exist. This is all the more astonishing because the desire to be informed when things break should be a strong one among smart-home owners.Helge's ToolsJul 5, 2026
Introducing Sambee, Your Browser-Based File Manager for SMB Shares and Local DrivesSambee is a browser-based viewer and manager for files on SMB network shares and on your computer’s local drives. It supports single-pane and dual-pane views and can replace Windows File Explorer as well as Norton Commander-style tools on your PC and on your phone. And yes, it’s free and open source.Helge's ToolsJun 12, 2026
WSL Disk Space CleanupThe Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) stores its virtual hard disks in the user profile on drive C:. These VHDX files can grow up to 1 TB in size, making it necessary to clean up and reclaim space occasionally. This article shows how.Virtualization & ContainersMay 14, 2026
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