Windows Server 2012 R2 SNMP Configuration using PowerShell
We needed to update the SNMP configuration script to take parameters so that we could pass this through CloudForms, our cloud management platform. Below you’ll find the PowerShell script that we came...
View ArticleUsing virt-install to install Windows Server 2008 in qcow2 format
When installing Server 2008 on Qemu, for the creation of an OpenStack Windows Server 2008 template; I found it easiest to use virt-install. Below is the code that I use to kick off that virt-install....
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vBeers – Columbus, OH (Thursday, March 10th, 2016)
Wolf’s Ridge Tap Room Please join us for the March 2016 edition of Columbus vBeers. We are returning to Wolf’s Ridge Tap Room. The Tap Room is located at the rear of the building on the corner of...
View ArticleEncore Technologies Datacenter Progress – Ceiling is up!
Every week brings major progress on the data center build out. This week the first ceiling went in, most of the drywall in the main room was finished and the sub-floor was sealed. Check out the latest...
View ArticleUsing Puppet to manage virt-who to map virtual guests to physical hosts in...
The virt-who package allows you to map virtual machines to the physical host so that you can take advantage of RedHat Virtual Data Center licensing when using Satellite 6.1. It allows you to use your...
View ArticleInstalling IPA on RHEL 7 and utilizing an Active Directory Trust
This document is dependent on the following assumptions: NetBIOS names of the IPA domain and AD domain must be different. In addtion, NetBIOS names of the IPA server and AD DC server must be different....
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SSH Key Mapping for AD Users authenticating against an IPA trust
Under IPA Server > ID Views > Default Trust View, add the LDAP user you want to override with POSIX settings. Then add the SSH public key to the user: (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle ||...
View ArticleMinio – 100% S3 compatible, free, open-source, object-based storage now ready...
AB of Gluster fame, is off working on another kick-butt storage project. Again, its in the Software Defined Storage realm, this time its called Minio! A play on the minimal-io phrase/mindset. Written...
View ArticleConfigure a datacenter mail relay through Office 365 based on Postfix using...
When standing up a new greenfield environment, one of the first services you typically end up needing is an internal mail relay. We use Office 365, so we wanted to our mail relay to send mail through...
View ArticleBuilding a two-node elasticsearch cluster for Graylog using Puppet
Assumptions: Two servers, in this case: elastica.domain.com – 172.16.100.80 elasticb.domain.com – 172.16.100.81 8 vCPU 16GB vMem A second hard disk of 500GB /dev/sdb1 formatted XFS and mounted as...
View ArticleBuild a 3-node mongodb cluster using puppet (for use with High Availability...
One of the core components to a Graylog installation in MongoDB. Quite possibly the worst database ever to grace the planet :) Hopefully, from a Graylog prospective, MongoDB will disappear from the...
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