When monitoring a host in Zabbix using the "ICMP Ping" template, you may experience the error "ping item must have target or host interface specified" if you create the host without defining an interface (ie. SNMP, agent, etc).

A quick Google search brings you to this Zabbix bug tracker entry: …

While attempting to extract firmware for my Lenovo T500 laptop from an ISO obtained from the Lenovo support site I noticed that the ISO appeared empty.

 1jeff@xyz:~/LenovoBIOS$ file 6fuj46uc.iso
 26fuj46uc.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data '6FET93US' (bootable)
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 4jeff@xyz:~/LenovoBIOS$ sudo mount -o loop …

After fumbling around for a while trying to mount an ISO on my Supermicro motherboard IPMI, I finally figured out that it requires SMB1 in order to mount.

SMB1 is an old and potentially insecure protocol but if you wish to enable it here are the steps.

• Navigate to Services and click on properties for the SMB service. …

If you have a Dell H200, IBM M1015 or other rebranded LSI 9211-8i HBA, you may run into an issue flashing IT firmware due to the error message "Cannot Flash IT Firmware over IR Firmware".

An example of such an error:

 1fs0:\> sas2flash.efi -c 0 -o -f 2118it_19.bin …

Now that the Dell R210 II is unsupported, obtaining firmware is tougher. I was able to generate a bootable ISO using Dell Repository Manager (DRM) which contains the latest firmware updates as of December 2019. I am publishing it here hoping it is useful for somebody.

This worked for my system but your mileage my vary …

I was unable to get esxcli, storcli or MegaCLI to display my 9211-8i (IR mode) adapter information in ESXi:

 1[root@hostname:~] esxcli storage core adapter list | grep mpt
 2vmhba2    mpt2sas    link-n/a    sas.xx     (0000:02:00.0) LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA Adapter
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 4[root@hostname:~] …