Day to day technical how to – by Andrew Lin
This is the content of the inventory file on my Ansible server. The remote server is called test1 under the group web-server. [root@ansible work]# cat hosts [web-server] test1 The playbook …
Read MoreI am learning Ansible and am documenting my progress. I built two Centos 7 test servers, the main one is called Ansible and the remote server is test1. To install …
Read MoreThese are some steps you can take harden a Windows Server. Disable SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and RC4 cipher. Disabling SSL 3.0 will address the Poodle …
Read MoreUse kerberos ticket to mount CIFS shares on a Linux server. You do not need to know the password for the account, nor have the password stored in a file. …
Read MoreVMware vSphere PowerCLI script to change the IP addresses of Windows servers. $TranscriptFile = “.\change-ip-2.txt” #Stop-Transcript Start-Transcript -Path $TranscriptFile $windowsID = “administrator” $windowsPassword = “MyPassword” Function Set-WinVMIP ($VM, $IP, $SNM, …
Read MoreVMware vSphere PowerCLI script to find all guests that have RDMs or raw physical disks. $Servers=”vcenter1″ Connect-VIServer $Servers $vms = get-cluster | get-vm Get-VM | Get-HardDisk -DiskType “RawPhysical”,”RawVirtual” | Select …
Read MoreA VMware vSphere PowerCLI script to find and email a list of all VMware guests that have snapshot older than 3 days. # List all VM with snapshots # Run …
Read MoreHere is a VMware vSphere PowerClI script that will find all datastores that are of the model Hitachi – Open-V, set the multipath policy to RoundRobin if it is anything …
Read MoreAfter you add a new disk on a Red Hat Linux server you can scan for the new disk without rebooting. List the number of scsi host controllers ls /sys/class/scsi_host …
Read MoreTo configure snmp client version 3 on a Red Hat server you will need to install the packages net-snmp-utils and net-snmp. yum install net-snmp-utils net-snmp Make sure the snmpd service …
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