Windows Hello on HP Probook 470 G0

If you are looking for fingerprint sensor drivers for Windows Hello, try to get it from here:

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Biometric-Validity-

Sensor-Driver-Windows-10/td-p/6703491 

I have WH bio-metric sensor successfully running on this platform.

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Ralink RT3290 802.11bgn Wi-Fi Adapter pn HP ProBook 470 G0 does not see channel 13 for Europe

If you are lucky owner of HP Probook 470 with Ralink adapter, you should know that your adapter may be set to USA as a country. It means your adapter will not see a wireless with channel beyond 13 that are allowed in Europe, but restricted in US.

To cha nge country - locate registry with the name of the card.

In my case it is [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0003]

change countryregion from 0 to as example 1.

Reboot ans check if you now able to see wireless on the channel 13...

HP Storage vulnerability

HP security bulletin  report an issue in HP Storage powered by LeftHand OS.

It would be interesting to know if earlier products close to EOL such as EVA 4400 have the same vulnerability. HP has the similar support access method to earlier versions of enterprise storage, but it is not powered by LeftHand OS.

HP Update (HPU)

a software from HP like Windows Updates: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=HU-74441-7&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&os=4062&product=3892964&sw_lang=

HP SIM menu

If menu Discovery has dissapeared from HP Insight manager 6.3 you need to restart "HP Systems Insight Manager" service.

New version of HP Insight Manager is out - 6.2

HP SIM 6.2

Intel NIC low power mode

We have a lot of Event 27 in the eventlogs of dc7900 dc7800 HP business desktops:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: e1kexpress
Event Category: None
Event ID: 27
Date: 03.09.2010
Time: 16:45:58
User: N/A
Computer: xxx
Description:
Intel(R) 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection Link has been disconnected.
Data:
0000: 00 00 04 00 02 00 5e 00 ......^.
0008: 00 00 00 00 1b 00 04 a0 ....... 
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 1b 00 04 a0 ... 


and

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: e1express
Event Category: None
Event ID: 27
Date: 03.09.2010
Time: 14:14:54
User: N/A
Computer: yyy
Description:
Intel(R) 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection Link has been disconnected.
Data:
0000: 00 00 04 00 02 00 5c 00 ......\.
0008: 00 00 00 00 1b 00 04 a0 ....... 
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 1b 00 04 a0 ... 


Apparently many other users seing that: http://communities.intel.com/thread/9913?start=90&tstart=0

It look like the problem is the Intels power saving mode - here is the utility from HP that disables it: sp47442.exe http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=nl&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=3785404&prodNameId=3785039&swEnvOID=2097&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=vc-80464-1

HP Vulnerability and patch management pack

I knew that HP has "the answer" to the problem of the patch management. However reading the details: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00267883/c00267883.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
you can see that it covers only Microsoft and Redhat patches.
What about Adobe, Java, other 3rd party software?

The VPM is obviously only for servers.

HP OpenSSH vulnerability

HP OpenSSH (from HP Proliant pack, HP SIM)comes with C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\bin\cygwin1.dll version 1.5.4
This version is vulnerable according to http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=28330.

to fix it download HP IS 3.0 DVD where you will get cygwin1.dll version 1.5.25.
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=ISDVD&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Quad core

It is funny that HP sell Quad core CPU servers (DL380G5) cheaper than Dual core CPU. I like promotions like that.

HP UPS R5500 XR firmware

Latest firmware for UPS is 2.04, during the upgrade UPS may switch off the segment, althought in theory it should not.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01102953&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3368539

HP DL360G4 HDtach

I'm trying to measure the disk performance of the HP DL360G4,G5, DL380G4 servers.
I have configuration with two disks 72GB 15K in mirror (RAID 1+0 in ACU settings)

HDtach 3.0 gives me burst speed 145 MB/s, which is twice lower than shown SCSI Ultra320. Is it normal? Is it possible to improve the performance without changing from mirror to stripe?

HP Version control agent bug

HP VCA shows drivers with old version, but can not install new ones. For example in my HP DL360G4 it was showing "HP ProLiant Smart Array SAS/SATA Controller Driver for Windows Server 2003" version 5.0.0.32, but when I try to install update to version 6.6.0.32, the system would tell that
"The software will not be installed on this system because the required
hardware is not present in the system or the software/firmware doesn't
apply to this system."

Workaround is to rename folder Discovery in C:\hp\hpsmh\data\cgi-bin\vcagent.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1127033

I believe definitive solution will come with VCA patch soon.

Spoolsv.exe memory leak (again ?!)

Memory leak in spoolsv.exe if you use HP standard TCP/IP port for printers. Non-paged memory pool keeps growing when you print. Solution is to change HP standard TCP/IP port to Microsoft Standard TCP/IP port

Solution was found here: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1143952&page=1

Case was escalated to HP who confirmed that they recommend to change to Microsoft port driver.

Add RAM to HP nc6000

Amazing, but there are video guides on youtube on how to change RAM for quite old PC model HP nc6000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Y4MKI1x0M

Thanks to yourtube poster and shame to HP that I could not find the same info on HP.com when I needed it.

Ticker from HP Insight Manager

Last few days I was trying to get some systems health information from HP SIM on intranet. Finally it works (with spagetti of scripts).
mxquery.cmd script on HPSIM server:
mxquery -e "Critical Systems"|find "DeviceName:"|perl -pe s/DeviceName://|sort

on another server (with IIS):

- installed OpenSSH (from HP) and created password-less connection for local user s-chssh.
- perl script connects to the HPSIM using Net::SSH and calls mxquery.cmd script

Now it should be easy to call this script from Web application. Do not forget to impersonate IIS to act as user s-chssh.

HPSIM also provides reports - call mxreport -e report_name.

All above can be simplified if there is IIS (or other web) on HPSIM server. If I can get PerlEx to work with ssh. If I can get ASP to work with ssh.

HP racks

Warning: HP racks have standard keys, it means that anybody who has HP
rack can open any other HP rack. Nice security feature from HP!

HP temperature meter in MRTG

Tested on DL360G4

Target[server_temp]: WaLK3.1.3.6.1.4.1.232.6.2.6.8.1.4.0&WaLK3.1.3.6.1.4.1.232.6.2.6.8.1.4.0:public@192.168.1.47
MaxBytes[server_temp]: 100
AbsMax[server_temp]: 150
Options[server_temp]: gauge, growright
Title[server_temp]: Sever System Temperature
YLegend[server_temp]: Temperature (C)
LegendI[server_temp]: System temperature:
LegendO[server_temp]:
PageTop[server_temp]: <h1>Temperature analisys for xxxx </h1>