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Re: How to prevent Windows 10 update from corrupting RamDisk image
8 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
Unfortunately Windows 10 is somewhat "cruel" with applications, services and even drivers that run on it. I guess Microsoft designed it this way to make such slow and heavy system appear to work faster by killing running tasks after a rather short timeout. There is a relevant registry setting that applies to services, though I am not sure if it works for drivers too: HKEY_LOCAL_MA
Re: How to change RAMdisk size used for TEMP folder
8 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
For a RAM disk without an image, its size can easily be changed by editing the disk properties. Once the disk size was altered, a warning message will appear. When using the disk for temp files, we recommend clicking Cancel, gracefully closing all the running programs, and rebooting the computer. Otherwise clicking OK will forcibly remount the disk and may break programs that had open files on th
Re: Setting up separate profiles for different locations
8 months ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
If you want to keep separate usage records for each place, I am afraid this is not supported. However if you only want to monitor usage at home and ignore usage at any other place, there is a setting in NetWorx just for that. Simply go to the Main Settings. You will see a button titled Networks, which lets you exclude certain networks from monitoring. It detects all networks that you connect t
Re: Tracking current WiFi users
9 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
There are a couple of options you could use: You can scan your WiFi IP address range with our network scanner. The number of detected address should be very close to the number of WiFi users. You can also automate the scanning via the command line interface. If your access points support SNMP reporting, you may be able to pull the number of users from their SNMP tables with something like PRTG
Re: Can I use NetWorx on my Android phone to monitor WiFi data?
9 months ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
Unfortunately NetWorx is not available for Android. It only works on desktop platforms like Windows, macOS and Linux. For Android there is a built-in data monitor as well as few third-party apps to monitor your usage.
Re: Feature request: graph with no background
9 months ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
That's right the Y-axis is part of the frame and the X-axis doesn't really exist. It looks great in your setup anyway! Regarding saving the config, everything including the settings and usage is kept in a database. It can be backed up and restored via Usage Report - Backup.
Re: Feature request: graph with no background
9 months ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
That's a good idea, but we've implemented it a bit differently. There is a new setting Graph background transparent added in the Hidden Settings. The latest preliminary build with this setting can be downloaded here. When enabled, the current background color will be rendered as transparent. Any graph lines or text of the same colour will be also treated this way. So you can, for example, set
Re: Solution for a possible conflict with Microsoft Word
9 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
We haven't seen this specific issue with MS Word, but some applications do not work correctly with standalone volumes, which can be seen as I/O errors or simply the inability to access a RAM disk. To solve, try enabling the HDD emulation option in the RAM Disk settings. This option emulates a complete Hard Disk Drive with partitions indistinguishable from a real device, which usually fixes co
Re: Feature request: Specify DNS server per address range
9 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
Maximum flexibility is something we had in mind, so the DNS resolver was implemented as object that can be used from VB script. If you download the latest version from the home page, go to Options - Remote Scripting - New and add the following code: 'Resolve a name or IP address via DNS 'This example performs a reverse lookup 'Create internal DNS object set dnsObj = Internal.CreateObje
Re: Interrogate Cisco Unified IP Phone CP-7942G
9 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
The following regular expression should do the trick: .*Host Name</b></td>\s*<td[^>]*>\s*</td>\s*<td[^>]*><b>([^<]*) .*Phone DN</b></td>\s*<td[^>]*>\s*</td>\s*<td[^>]*><b>([^<]*) .*Model Number</b></td>\s*<td[^>]*>\s*</td>\s*<td[^>]*><b>([^<]*) Basically you
Re: Interrogate Cisco Unified IP Phone CP-7942G
9 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
It depends on what ports the phones are listening and what information cab be retrieved there. For example, if the phones display a web-page on port 80 and that page contains any useful information such as model or serial number, this information can be extracted with the feature called Remote XML. It can be used to retrieve the page and parse it with regular expressions. Here is a screensh
Re: Scanning over 20 SNMP OIDs at once
9 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
Yes, you can scan any number of OIDs. There is a default limitation of 10 SNMP columns, but you can increase that by launching the app with /maxcols:N. For example the following will allow up to 30 SNMP columns: netscan.exe /maxcols:30
Re: Feature Request: Specify DNS server per address range
9 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
Normally the Network Scanner app does not interact with DNS servers directly. Instead it uses system calls like getnameinfo() to resolve a name to IP address and vice versa, which uses system mechanisms and default DNS servers. However it sounds like an interesting idea to be able to query custom DNS servers. Do you have many DNS servers there? I am thinking of just adding a customisable list
Re: How to re-enable Teredo manually
9 months ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
Perhaps this can help? In an admin command prompt type: netsh interface teredo set state type=default
Re: Best CPU for the job: E5 or E7 or I8/9 series
9 months ago, by Andrew in Bandwidth Manager Forum
Well, the faster the better, but generally most CPUs should be able to handle a few hundred rules with up to 400-500 Mbps.
Re: Best CPU for the job: E5 or E7 or I8/9 series
9 months ago, by Andrew in Bandwidth Manager Forum
Internally Bandwidth Manager uses one thread per network interface, so the quantity of cores may not have much effect. The more GHz the better though. There are usually other ways of improving performance, like reducing the number of rules in favour of a smaller ruleset with per-client tracking. If you just outline your setup and perhaps post a screen shot of the main display with rules, I
Re: Shared status lost on RAM disk after reboot
9 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
It is probably indeed the case: a RAM disk is ready after the Server service has started. This is more likely to happen for large RAM disks as they take more time to initialise. The easiest workaround is to change the Server's service to start delayed as shown below. Delayed start usually takes place within 2-3 minutes after boot, by which time the RAM disk should be ready.
Re: Feature requests: comma-separated port list, and quick telnet/ssh to a switch
10 months ago, by Andrew in Switch Port Mapper Forum
Hi Scott, thank you for the feedback! Regarding comma-separated values It is indeed a good point that sometimes one may need the values comma-separated rather than new-line separated. We have just added a way to do that. Download the new builds (installer, portable), hold Shift when copying column values. With Shift down, the result will be comma-separated. With Shift up, the result wil
Re: How to change the taskbar graph font size
10 months ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
There is a couple of settings that help you change the graph appearance. The settings are located in so-called Hidden Options, and can be easily accessed by pressing Ctrl + O in the regular settings dialog. In particular you may want to set Overlay desk band numbers to FALSE and increase the Rates font size. Please note that you could also resize the graph. First, right-click the taskbar an
Re: How to get the real MAC address from behind a virtual MAC address
10 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
I am not sure there is a reliable way because the extender hides those devices behind itself. The way I can think of is to ask those devices directly. If those are Windows-based machines and file sharing is enabled there, the following setting should do the trick: Activate the NetBIOS query option Move it to the top of the list As a result, before sending an ARP query that gets intercept
Re: How to get monitor model and serial number via WMI query or class
10 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
Choose Options - Remote Scripting - New and copy and paste the above script. Give the new entry a name and make sure it's ticked in the list of scripts. After that, there will be a new column with that name, with the script output.
10 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
Again it's an odd error that indicates a resource shortage (not necessarily memory). Perhaps try with a different file system and the Hard Disk Emulation option on and off? If the above doesn't help, try using a logon-time disk instead of boot-time one or vice versa. If still no luck, what about two RAM disks of 4000 MB each?
10 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
Please try with the latest version (4.0.7). In particular we've improved memory allocation strategy in v4.0.5. Does a reboot help?
Re: NT error code C0000184 at loading
10 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
Granted it works with the HDD emulation off, there might be an uninitialised disk device or similar. Could you please launch (Win + R) diskmgmt.msc and post here a screen shot showing all configured disks? This may shed some light on your situation. But even if we can't tell why it happens, you will likely not see any difference with the HDD emulation off. I set this option off on my person
Re: NT error code C0000184 at loading
10 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
The error 0xC0000184 (STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_STATE) generally suggests a requested resource wasn't in the expected state, e.g. not fully initialised. It's hard to tell what may be causing it since, as you say, it was working fine before; my best guess would be a system change or a third-party program installed. Just to confirm - that's a regular RAM disk without an image file? If so, please
Re: How to get monitor model and serial number via WMI query or class
10 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
You could use the following queries in the root\WMI namespace: SELECT UserFriendlyName FROM WmiMonitorID SELECT SerialNumberID FROM WmiMonitorID However those are byte arrays and will be displayed as . For human-readable format use the following VB script under Options - Remote Scripting. It will extract the byte arrays for model name and serial number and convert them to ASCII strings:
Re: How display WiFi traffic graph on Debian
10 months ago, by Andrew in NetWorx Forum
The graphs should work in the same way for wired and wireless connections. The Linux version of NetWorx supports one graph per connection, meaning you could have two graphs displayed: one for WiFi and one for Ethernet. If you share some screen shots, I may be able to advise with more specifics.
Re: How to display Windows version
10 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
I guess something like this should work. Try to connect with a host name, but if that fails, then again with the IP address: On Error Resume Next strComputer = Input.Column("Host Name" Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2" If Err <> 0 Then Err.Clear
Re: Access violation in module 'netscan.exe' - Fixed
10 months ago, by Andrew in Network Scanner Forum
We decided to publish a new build of 7.1.5 instead of releasing 7.1.6 to fix this Access Violation error, which also includes all prior changes initially planned for 7.1.6. Simply download the newest 7.1.5 files from the Network Scanner page: it now includes all the latest fixes and updates, including HTTPS for Remote XML.
10 months ago, by Andrew in RAM Disk Forum
As explained above, error C000009A means insufficient system resources, which typically indicates an out-of-memory condition. It is not necessarily low memory; for example, a similar error would occur if there was no continuous suitable block of RAM due to memory fragmentation. Please make sure you are using the latest version of the RAM Disk. I also recommend to increase the size of pagefile