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How to make custom partitioning of hdd via preseed?

According to official debian manual (https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs04.html.en), i saw: #d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \ # boot-root :: ...
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how to get the version of mysql without running anything relate to mysql itself?

there are many ways to retrieve version of a mysql distribution, such as : running a SQL statements in the server by: select version(); or show global variables like 'version'; mysqld --version ...
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How to run different role for different hosts in single ansible playbook?

I have 3 ansible playbook. my_ansible ├── hosts ├── play1.yaml ├── play2.yaml ├── play3.yaml └── roles    ├── role1    ├── role2    └── role3 hosts [play1] host1 [play2] host2 [play3] host3 ...
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dpkg-reconfigure: dialog frontend sets up postfix successfully; non-interactive frontend fails

(N.B. In this question, a leading # indicates a root prompt, not a comment. Also, I have replaced the actual hostname with <myhostname>.) As the debconf (7) man-page states, dpkg-reconfigure ...
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vRealize Automation - Software Component bind variable of second nic IP

So i am having troubles with automating a deployment in vRA. I created a software component with 3 scripts and in one of the script i need to provide as a variable the Reserved/Alocated IP of the ...
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Automated testing in virtual machines using Hyper-V [closed]

I was tasked to automate our department's testing process. To do the testing I first have to install a setup of our application on the host system and run another application, the tester, afterwards. ...
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Running an Ansible ping on a remote host fails

I've just getting started to study Ansible and how it can improves my job. With that said, I'm facing issues when I try to ping a host with Ansible (ansible all -m ping -vv). Ansible is installed on ...
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How to tell (in Powershell) whether Install-ADDSForest is complete?

I have a powershell script that runs Install-ADDSForest to set up a lab environment. The script is actually run via VMware tools. During the Install-ADDSForest process, the Windows server (2012) will ...
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Automatic Image Deploy from Network to Multiple Different Machines

We have multiple different "computers" that uses SD card like drives to store Windows. Those Windows are written to those cards with HDD Raw Copy. Every couple of weeks we manually Write ...
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jenkins - return something from child job

There is a jenkins pipeline job ("parent"). From it - on one stage there is called another pipeline job ("child" - using build job command). Is there any way to return something (for example short ...
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How to automatically accept privacy agreement when installing VS2017 via the command line?

As part of managing environments, I want to install Visual Studio 2017 via the command line. However, I'm running into issues installing 2017 that wasn't encountered setting up 2015. Following the ...
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Configure a new macOS VPN from bash

I need to configure a new VPN configuration on dozens of macOS Siera 10.12.x machines. Obviously automating this is going to be a lot better than trying to get the users to follow the multi-step ...
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How to capture tables with different structure from web

I have thousands of web pages(need login with username and passwords) like https://XXX.incometax.XXX/Preview/ViewDetail?TIN_INFO_NO=11935# where only last four digits(11935 for this example) changes ...
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"duplicate" a running server

Instead of using Ansible or some other configuration management tool, after many months of being the admin of this ubuntu 16.04 server, I made a lot of changes to the system: changed config files in /...
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Is there a way to try to run an ansible task, role, or play again on a different host if it failed?

I have two master/master LDAP servers and an Ansible play that creates a new LDAP user. I would like for the play to run on the first LDAP server. If the first host run is successful, skip running ...
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Copy configuration between multiple RDC sessions

I have a requirement to configure 25 remote desktop sessions identically ready for users to connect and start using them. The type of config that is needed is things like browsing to a site and ...
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Nagios Core - Automation

We are using Nagios Core for monitoring devices and we are currently facing some hurdles with monitoring a large scale environment. It requires a lot of manual tasks such as collecting OID's and MIB's,...
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WinSCP automatically configure runtime

I have a bastion/jump box providing WinSCP for users to carry out transfers to secured hosts. This is integrated into a privileged access management (PAM) service. I want to automate some behaviours ...
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Is there a standard way to update instance template in instance group?

AWS has service named CodeDeploy which can deploy code to Auto Scaling (AS) group. For e.g. if your AS policy got triggered and it spun a new instance (which will use predefined instance image called ...
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Disable Network connection in Windows PE

I am generating a WindowsPE boot stick with the Microsoft Automation Installation Kit 10 (host is Windows 10) for a amd64 target platform. Because i dont need network connections from within the ...
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Move workstations from one OU to another

I have pieced together the below powershell script but when i run it on my DC i get the below error message. My overall goal is to have the script pick up on any workstations within the Computers OU ...
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Automated Shutdown through Batch File

so Im administering 100 desktop PCs at a local university in the pacific (dot in the map) and my boss has told me to write a script to carry out an automated shutdown of all computers at 10pm. I've ...
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AWS CloudFormation - Calling CLI from Init can't get credentials

I'm using a CloudFormation template to boot up a custom windows AMI, which needs to retrieve some code from an S3 bucket and execute it, once it boots up. After quickly being able to do it manually ...
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EC2 instance cross-reference within a CloudFormation template

I'm in a bit of a pickle here. I have a specific application (one that I cannot modify) which I need to automatically deploy on 3 AWS EC2 instances using CloudFormation, and I need all 3 of them to be ...
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Allow ssh access on single Ethernet port

I'm the guy who ask over complicated question and don't see the simple answer. To explain quickly, I have a bunch of server (on debian 9) with 2 physical network interface, a front-end (for the app ...
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Imaging mac fully remote keyboard free?

How can I image a mac remotely over the network with no access to the machine (no keyboard)? UPDATE: We may be having issues with the reboot process after selecting a network boot disk, see edit ...
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Azure Auto Scale - Last minute alone rule?

How can I create a rule that would trigger when the CPU % for the LAST minute is bigger than 90%?
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Auto login Azure VM

I've some processes I want to automate using an Azure VM. I want to automatically start it up, run something, then shut it down and deprovision it until the next scheduled startup. I can start ...
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Selenium ChromeDriver makes blank screenshots

In jenkins taken screenshots are blank or invalid like in example here: Maybe someone knows what kind problem could be with it? Locally everything works fine WebDriver.ChromeDriver.win32 version - 2....
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Limit SSH key to SCP only

Problem: I don't have root access to the server (i.e, I can't/don't want to change any system-wide server configuration), and I want to use scp with an alternative Identity File (e.g, .ssh/...
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Copy from Azure machine to Azure storage

What is the most sensible way to copy data from a VM on Azure to Azure storage. To do things on my local PC I use azure-cli but this requires some setup steps (Azure Login). I want to be able to spin ...
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Automation script won't work if no one is connected to a Windows VPS

I have a automation script (mouse and keyboard automation) which works with a application installed on a Windows Server 2012 VPS. It works perfectly when I am connected to the VPS via RDP. But when I ...
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Does PXELinux Server can perform an Unattended Windows Installation? [closed]

Is a PXELinux Server able to perform an Unattended Windows Installation? If it does, how to config a Windows Installation "kickstart" file? I had deployed a PXELinux server automating Linux Distro ...
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How do I find the name of the second NIC using ansible ?

I'm deploying something with Ansible to a Linux host, and I need it to listen only on the second NIC on the host. Looking at the facts available, I can see ansible_interfaces lists all of my NICs, e....
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Putting RSA keys into azure key vault

How can I store my key pair (typically the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub) in azure key vault. I want to put the public key in my GIT service and allow a virtual machine to download the private key from Azure ...
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Powershell - Compress-archive consuming all memory

Im new to powershell and scripting. I'm trying to compress IIS Log files (60GB total) using compress-archive cmdlet, however everytime I get the error: "Exception of type 'System....
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Schedule & automate Outlook archiving for clients in Windows Domain?

Schedule & automate Outlook archiving for clients in Windows domain? I am open to mechanisms leveraging Group Policy or even other ways if it can be executed for groups of machines without using ...
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How to Find Local Group Policies in the Windows Registry

I've been able to edit a security setting outlined in this article to allow Windows scheduled tasks to run as a user that isn't logged in: SECPOL.MSC | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security ...
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CUPS printers managing script

We are using raspberry pi (Raspbian 8) computers as a print servers. To one raspberry can be connected up to four USB printers (zebra thermal printers). Printers can be unplugged/switched off/...
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Ansible throws an “ ERROR! A worker was found in a dead state ” error

When I run a playbook that simply copies a directory from one place to another, ansible throws ERROR! A worker was found in a dead state Error. After some googling, it looks like this is caused by ...
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Chef create config file based on hostname

New to chef. I have written a recipe to create a file from template based on hostname. If the hostname matches server 1 and server 2 create from template1, else create from default template. However ...
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Remember SSH Password after once entered without SSH Keys

I've to work a lot with SSH on different Servers where I'm not allowed to store a public Key on the remote Server. So i cant use SSH-Keys and SSH-Agent. The Authentication is over LDAP so its always ...
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Ansible JSON Output

Could you please help me fetch Ansible-Playbook output in a JSON Format. I do get a JSON output if I set stdout_callback variable as "json" in ansible.cfg But that output is not in realtime. The ...
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How to automate sending new public key of SSH server to users?

When the key pair of an SSH server, that is, the keys at /etc/ssh/ssh_host_(rsa|dsa|ecdsa|etc)_key and at /etc/ssh/ssh_host_(rsa|dsa|ecdsa|etc)_key.pub are updated, the SSH users should be ...
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Manage passwords stored in web configs located on a server

We have a number of servers that perform different functions and every 60 days we do password refreshes. Normally this isn't an issue but we have these passwords stored in web configs all over the ...
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Display and edit file through jenkins

I have some json and python configuration files in my aws environment which needs to be edited or modified on a daily basis. My intention is to write a job in jenkins which can pull the current file ...
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ansible - Run "command db2 update database manager configuration using svcename db2c_db2inst1" as db2 user

I am setting up ansible to install a DB2 on a linux server. Everything is working except in the last step I need to run: db2 update database manager configuration using svcename db2c_db2inst1 ...
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How to set up automatic atomic transfers over SFTP

I'm working on a personal project. Since I don't have to worry about working with others or deploying from a development environment to a production environment, I am simply modifying files on the ...
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Remove com port using devcon for loop

I started learning command line yesterday. My supervisor asked me to delete extra com ports. I was trying to delete com port using command line. Right now I am using devcon.exe that is a part of ...
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vCenter Prevent VM Deletion

I'm starting to play with automating VMWare vCenter using PyVMomi. I want to take some base images and clone them, do some work on them, then delete them afterwards. However, I'm terrified that I'...
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