Automation is a wide-ranging term, covering topics from cron to "push-button provisioning and deployment" or system and application stacks. The ultimate goal of some automation projects is the so-called "Zero-Latency Data Center", while for others it may just be sending alerts based on certain ...
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Automate an interactive command which use /dev/tty
well pretty much it's in the title.
I've a interactive command. This one ask for a password through /dev/tty. I use this command within a shell script. So the command should read the information ...
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Open source app to manage and run commands on cloud servers? [closed]
I'm creating a SaaS platform, and I need a component / library that can create, delete and store the connection details for cloud servers. It also needs to support executing shell commands on these ...
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How to deploy new and changed files only via FTP
I'm working for a company who in some circumstances HAVE to deploy php web applications via FTP. I'm in the process of automating the deployment process and need to write a script to FTP the files to ...
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Blocking IPs that make excessive connections with Windows Firewall
Is it possible to automatically ban IPs that make more than 5 to 10 simultaneous connections using Windows Firewall on Windows Server 2008 R2?
Add:
I'm trying to throttle the traffic of the port ...
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Need to trigger a program when Active Directory replicates
I am a .NET developer working on a project I inherited.
I need to execute a small program when AD replicates to keep our DB with user information up to date.
Is there a way when AD replicates to ...
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Is it possible to change a Windows hostname (NetBIOS name) using a script?
How can I change the hostname of a Windows server using a script?
Doing this on a Linux server is very straightforward (change a couple file entries, and run the hostname command), but I don't know ...
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Adding a user to BES via Script?
I am looking for a way to add users to BES using a script to help automate new user creation process. Is this possible with using any of the resource kits from BlackBerry, or other methods than using ...
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How to automate DNS server reconfiguration for TCP/IPv4 and TCP/IPv6 in Windows 7?
I need to switch Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) settings for DNS server configuration from "Obtain DNS server address automatically" to hard coded ...
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How to set ulimits for a service starting at boot?
I need, for mysql to use large-pages, to set a ulimit - I've done this in limits.conf. However, limits.conf (pam_limits.so), doesn't get read in for init, only for "real" shells. I solved this before ...
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Is allowing automated subversion checkins a bad idea?
I'm a Systems Admin supporting a team of developers, and our subversion repository is protected by HTTP basic authentication tied to a single-signon solution. We also share our infrastructure with ...
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How do I remotely deploy a software package on Linux system?
I have a software package I wrote in Mono and I want to be able to deploy it to Ubuntu server as part of my move to continuous integration and deployment work flow.
I was wondering if there is a ...
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Automate wifi connection in bash using glob
Trying to apply these rationals on an ubuntu VM box to automate wifi connections but processing just into an infinite loop as I guess I'm not using glob as it should but can't find why/where the ...
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Can OpenVPN run and connect on startup?
I just set up an OpenVPN Server on an Amazon EC2 Instance. Now I want the client (me in this case) to connect to the server when my computer boots.
I have read that it can be done by modifying a ...
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Start services.msc attached to remote computer
Is there a way to start services.msc already attached to a remote system (e.g. from command line)? I want to avoid clicking Action -> Connect to remote computer, because I have to do it so often...
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Automatically set static routes between two networks without dhcp or default gateway
I have a windows domain network with two different subnets. Both are connected trough VPN gateways.
DHCP and default gateway is an exiting router blackbox. Unfortunately I have very limited control ...
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Removing non-present hardware with Devcon?
I'm automating the removal of a USB printer from machines with Windows XP SP3.
To do this, I'm using Microsoft's Devcon Utility.
Running the command:
devcon findall *hp*
Returns:
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How to copy many Scheduled Tasks between Windows Server 2008 machines?
I have several standalone Win2008 (R1+R2) servers (no domain) and each of them has dozens of scheduled tasks. Each time we set up a new server, all these tasks have to be created on it.
The tasks are ...
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How do I automate the installation and configuration of a local printer?
I'm running Windows XP SP3.
I have a fleet of laptop computers that I'm creating a master clone for.
Each of these computers will have a different function when deployed so I've created a series of ...
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Automatically Configure New Computers
My company is in the process of upgrading all of our users from old Windows XP computers to newer quad-core Win7 computers. This is a good thing - it's long overdue that we upgrade our workstations - ...
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Multiple related resources in chef recipe
I need to run some commands depending on a result of previous execution, which again depends on some package being installed.
On the first run, I'd expect something like:
install package "XXX"
get ...
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Automatically find permission problems of a directory
I often have the problem that a program - e.g. apache - may not access a certain file or directory.
Solving the problem means to manually check the file and every single directory in the path up to ...
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Setting client IP in pppd using scripts?
Is it possible to set a client IP in pppd scripts (e.g. in auth-up) ?
The reason is, we would like to give different IP address ranges to connecting peers based on their username prefix.
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ubuntu 10.04 automated LAMP configuration script with virtual hosts
I am looking for a set of bash scripts which can help me to automate the procedure of getting LAMP server up and running.
Typically what I am looking for is boot a VPS (say linode) with Ubuntu ...
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How can I pass in a FTP username and password to WinSCP?
I'm scripting WinSCP, and need to dynamically pass in a FTP username and password, depending on which environment I'm using.
However, the docs say, "WinSCP does not support providing the passphase ...
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Command Line - programmatically add/remove/rename BIND alias records?
For our local dev server, we routinely add and remove name alias records in our BIND/named server for our local network domain. I usually do this manually through Webmin, just out of convenience. But ...
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Setting up Tomcat on shared drive for clustered environment
We have a production environment with externally load-balanced Tomcat servers running on multiple servers, serving HTTP requests and maintaining stick sessions.
Due to lack of complete build and ...
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DIY: automate cloning of Xen VMs, gold templete?
looking for DIY way without commercial tools like XenServer LabManager product.
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Software for scanning installation process?
I forgot what is the name of the very good software which make some kind of restore point (save registry, and program files folder, etc...) before installing any software. After you install some ...
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Deploy across multiple webservers, remove from load balancer on EC2
I'm wondering if there is a 3rd party application that can help me deploy a web project (website) to IIS across multiple web servers. While, taking one server out of the load balancer deploying, ...
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Automatically create test database every week
There is a production db in SQL Server. We still have development on this database and I want to create it's copy in every X day/week/month. Is there any job or something else what can make this on ...
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How can I automate the process of fetching files from remote Windows servers?
We have a handful of machines that we administer: some Windows 2003/8 and some various flavors of Unix. I need to write some sort of script/task/etc (I'm a programmer, so any language/tool is fine) ...
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How to make a script run when Windows connects to a specific wireless network?
What must I do to cause a script or batch file to be run when the computer succeeds connecting to a network with a specific SSID, in Windows 7 Ultimate?
I need it to be triggered by connecting to a ...
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What is the quickest way to read 150+ dvds? [closed]
We have over 150 DVD's that we need to read. There is no time crunch, but I don't want to have someone manually swap DVDs for two weeks. Does anyone know of an automated way to get this done? Is ...
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How to modify configuration file from command line?
For example, I often need to login to a new virtual machine just to open "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" and set "PasswordAuthentication" option to "no".
In this way, I can not automate this process.
How to ...
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Automated Server cloning and deployment
I have an ERP system that requires a local installation on a Windows Terminal Server to operate properly. Right now I pay for each TS that I have the vendor install the software on directly. ...
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How to create a SQL Server database from a mysqldump file automatically on a daily basis?
Recently, a vendor announced that they were upgrading their processes, and an automated, daily data dump we are getting from them will now come in a MySQL datadump format. Unfortunately, we're a ...
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Remotely renaming a domained Win 7 computer
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to rename a Windows 7 computer remotely. This is for automating Win 7 builds in a vSphere 5 environment, and I'm trying to get it as hands-off as I can. So far ...
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Where should I make a GUI program auto start as daemon after auto signing in to Gnome
I have a GUI program written in Java. And it seems it could only be executed in Gnome environment which my box had installed.
The box was set to boot at init 5 (which is Gnome)
I tried to place ...
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How to write robust automation scripts for large scale data management?
I have been needing to automate the moving of quite large amounts of data (possibly around 1TB/day+ in average. 60TB so far, and counting) to a separate, remote storage system.
I have so far been ...
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How can I automate clearing and resetting a Linux user's home directory to a default?
I'm helping to teach two Unix courses next week. Users will be granted an account on a RHEL 5 machine, during which time they'll add files to their /home folder, update their .bashrc and other ...
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What to put in startup / login / logoff scripts?
I certainly hope this question is deemed acceptable, and doesn't violate the Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page. portion of ...
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How to set adequate permissions to a scheduled task for a service controller query?
I'm a programmer, but the problem encountered has stepped beyond the code and into the system administrator realm, at least that is what I think at this time. I will only use one bit of code to show ...
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Creating an Update System With Serial Number Logins
Our company has a server that is a locked down version of Linux (custom shell for users, no direct access). I am currently pushing updates to the user, but it would be more ideal for the users to do a ...
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Automating windows desktop deployment
I’d like to prefix this question by mentioning that I’m a Linux administrator, so managing a network of Windows desktops isn’t really my forte; however I’ve been tasked with upgrading a network of ...
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How can I automatically create/control VMs using vsphere?
Is it possible to automatically create virtual machines using vSphere / ESXi? How would I go about doing that?
I have a script to automatically create + install windows on a VM using VirtualBox. It ...
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Local Admin and Policies
I have company/domain setup with about 150 + users. I don't want to grant the users a local admin account to prevent them from installing programs that may used to attack - harm the network or other ...
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Upgrade the Ubuntu puppet package within kickstart process
My Ubuntu based kickstart-host is almost working like it should, serving Ubuntu 10.04 (both i386 & amd64) and CentOS 5.6 to new (VMware-)hosts.
One of the things that bothers me is that Ubuntu ...
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On my webserver, opinion/advice on automatically adding php-fcgi users?
I am not 100% sure of how to actually add users, however I am choosing Apache over other backends finally and that may be easier.
From what I can gather, adding an fcgi user would mean adding a Linux ...
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Windows Service Based Software to Run Script Everytime a file arrives
Does anyone know of a tool were that is service based which I would be able to run a script every time a file arrives in a directory? I would write the script all I want is the tool to be a service ...
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Securing database credentials in automated deployment of nodes
In a situation where you're deploying nodes (e.g. amazon ec2), what are the recommended best practices for securing things like credentials to other resources? Without solving for scale, we might ...
