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How do I secure the access token, on Linux, to remote, automated secrets stores like Hashicorp Vault?

There seems to be a bit of a "chicken and egg" problem with the passwords to the password managers like Hashicorp Vault for Linux. While researching this for some Linux servers, someone clever asked, ...
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Puppet Error: undefined method 'captures'

I posted this question on the networkengineering SE site, but it was determined to be off topic.... blah. I'm toying with the idea of using puppet for core network device configuration to increase ...
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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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Automate the LXD configuration interactive setup?

I realize lxd init has an interactive setup for networking, etc. I'm looking to automate some VM's running LXD and was wondering if there is a nice CLI command that documents this configuration as a ...
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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 on premise server deployment

I'm new to automatic deployment and would like guidance from experts on the the best way to efficiently deploy approximately 75 vms (both windows and linux vms) on 7 vmware esxi 5.5 hosts (All hosts ...
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Set-AzureRmAutomationModule is unable to find Automation Account

I am trying to upload a custom DSC module to our Azure Automation account. C:\Code\Epitec DSC [master ≡ +1 ~1 -1 !]> Set-AzureRmAutomationModule -Name "WindowsUpdate" -ContentLinkUri "{ContentURL}....
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Creating an Openstack user with only reboot permissions

What is the best approach for setting up an Openstack user that is limited to only rebooting servers using the Web API. The user needs to be able to access servers under different tenants, by using ...
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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 ...
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Automated Syslog Error Solution Finder

Any automated syslog solution finding frameworks? I want my central syslog server to email a list of problems, their severity and suggested solutions. There have been several questions about ...
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Deploying docker instances based on user input

I have a use case where I would like to automatically deploy some services (say 2-3) whenever a user signs up. The services are available as pre-built docker images that are the same for all users, ...
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How to run jenkins build, in multiple servers with ssh-key

Trying to figure out how can I run a Jenkins build on multiple servers with my ssh-key connection. For now I used SSH remote host plugin, but this plugin is good for 1,2,3,4.. servers and not for 100+....
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RouterOS shell command result with Ansible is different?

You will see, I have a little problem with the execution of an Ansible task, since I am giving it the same command that I work with in the Mikrotik shell, but the result is a little different and I ...
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Automate jenkins slave node cleanup

So here is the scenario: Currently to cleanup space on Jenkins slave we have a job(a jenkins job itself) scheduled to run every day to do the cleanup. But many a times disk get full between scheduled ...
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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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Alternative way to disable cron writing to /var/log/syslog

There are answers that suggest changing this: *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog #cron.* -/var/log/cron.log Into this: *.*;cron,auth,authpriv.none -/var/...
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How to start a data collector upon high CPU load condition?

I have a Windows 2008R2 server that experience high CPU load for several minutes about once every couple of weeks. Unfortunately, when these events occurs, logging into the system through RDP or at ...
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Keep a fifo open by shell-script

I try to start processes by script, which can interact. EDIT: The general issue is to start these processes via php. After the process is started, another php-script (or the same running again) shall ...
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Is it possible to tell what machines I'm logged in to (but disconnected from)?

I infrequently work on about 20 Windows servers via remote desktop. There are times when it'd be really convenient to know if and where I have disconnected sessions open. Is there a powershell script ...
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Creating new VMs for software deployments

At work we're in the process of moving our production apps to a VM infrastructure, and so far so good. One of the ideas we're throwing around is related to our software deployment process. The idea ...
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Stop automatic reboot with gpedit shutdown script in Windows 2k8

I am search for a way to validate and maybe stop an automatic reboot under windows. E.g. automatic reboot is initialized by windows update. When adding a shutdown script with gpedit this script gets ...
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How to export Azure REDIS data to BLOB storage with a Automation Runbook?

I'm struggling with setting up a runbook that overnight exports my REDIS Premium data to a BLOB container. This might be due to my lack of Powershell experience. So far I came up with this: # Ensures ...
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Scripted upload to AWS cloudshell environment

We maintain dozens of developer accounts on AWS and for maintenance purposes it would be amazing if on all cloudshell environments we would have a set of scripts available. It is possible to upload ...
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Add a domain user profile to a machine following offline domain join (DJOIN.exe)

I work for an MSP. I have made an automation script within our RMM system (Connectwise Automate) which when ran on a device will find a domain controller within the same Client container as the device,...
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Unsure how to proceed from DigitalOcean droplets and CircleCI deployments to just automating the whole setup

I work within a small dev team and our current infrastructure is setup with GitHub for code, CircleCI to deploy these to our DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets whenever something is merged into the develop ...
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GPG4Win Decrypt Multiple files to a Different Directory

I have a requirement to download PGP files from a 3rd Party SFTP server and then decrypt them and move to a the company file server. I am going to use WinSCP to download the files to an Inbound ...
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What is the best way to stream 24/7 content from a server, which can be exported as an m3u file?

I have 24 Lectures for my students, and I teach online to many people. I am trying to setup a server with IPTV software, so they can view the lectures going 24/7 and have VOD for other content related ...
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Child application doesn't start when run from windows scheduled task

I'm trying to schedule an automation script. The 1. .bat file starts monitor script (python) 2. monitor script (python) does network request for jobs from other system 3. if job, monitor script (...
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how to attach snapshot policy by label to all the vms in my project?

I have created the snapshot schedule policy with label daily,weekly,hourly.But I want an automate way so whenever i create the vm label based policy should be assigned to vm. or automatically attach ...
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Configuration management nodes in azure

Viewing the pricing information for Azure automation under Configuration management is lists nodes? What are these? In partciualr Non-Azure nodes I can't work it out from the context https://azure....
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Using Chef for setting Windows Active Directory GPO policies on domain controller

I am looking to use Chef to automate the setting of active directory controlled group policy settings (typically on the primary PDC per forest). I cant find any specific AD GPO functions, on the ...
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How to automate local Outlook to Exchange migration of 40 users

I am currently dealing with a site which has about 40 users, each with his/her own local Outlook setup on their PCs (currently connecting via POP/IMAP to the mail server). They have asked me to ...
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Multi VPS: Best practice for semi-automated upgrades?

I've got many virtual private servers, each needing some apt-get upgrade -y lovin' from time to time. (Ubuntu 18.04) Problems I face: I don't have time to upgrade each one manually. I don't want to ...
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Vagrant ubuntu box configure keyboard layout

I am deploying a vagrant ubuntu 18.04 box, using the default bionic64 box. Installing the gui with these deb packages, via apt install: gnome language-pack-de language-pack-gnome-de even setting ...
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How to add Jenkins slave (Java web start) using CURL?

I was able to create a bash script to use Curl (doCreateItem) to create SSH slave which would show up in Jenkins ---> Nodes without a problem, My question is how to create slave with Java Web start ...
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Puppet caching resources

I'm trying to debug a caching issue with Puppet on RedHat 7. My versions are at the bottom of this question. Below is an excerpt from my site.pp manifest. This is all fine and the Nagios check is ...
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Puppet not passing parameter to custom module

So I have a custom module that just sets up a simple nginx server, to learn how to properly make puppet modules. But it seems that my values when I declare the class aren't getting passed in. It ...
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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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Service monitoring through salt reactor and beacon

I try to monitor the service through salt reactor and beacon. If event happens (eg: nginx service stop on one minion), need to write it to a file in salt master. I have no idea how to call the event ...
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Monitor vSphere DRS concurrent vmotions count

We are going to enable DRS on the vSphere 5.5 cluster and want to enable email notifications if more than X VMs are migrated simultaneously. I found that it's possible to send a message when VM is ...
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How to Auto-deploy with Jboss

How to automatically deploy a project with jboss as 7. Is there a way to automatically deploy a Project using the Jboss-cli.sh in Jboss as 7?
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How to do I create linux VM with ssh public on azure automation

Right now, I am creating Linux VM without public key on azure automation. My aim is to create linux VM with ssh public key on azure automation. How to get ssh public key from "accets" on azure ...
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Puppet device wildcard names for nodes?

I'm using Puppet's device management to mange some Cisco devices. Right now my device.conf looks like this: [someCity] type cisco url telnet://puppet:[email protected]/ [someOtherCity] type cisco ...
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Automate the OOBE setup steps for Windows 10

I am not sure if this is possible. I have been reading a bit about answer files but that seems to be more for the actual installation of windows to me. This is the process we currently use: Install ...
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Kerberos master server to slave server automation?

I've set up Kerberos in my workplace running on Centos 6 boxes, and successfully propagated the master server database to the slave and also set up a cron job to update it automatically every 5 ...
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How to increase heap size for ws_ant.sh when deploying on WebSphere 8.5 (64-bit Linux)

TL;DR -- How do I give ws_ant.sh and/or the <wsInstallApp> task more heap at runtime? I am attempting to deploy a relatively large (~160-MB) EAR file to WebSphere 8.5 running on a 64-bit Linux ...
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Process-wide VPN connection via openconnect

I'm using openconnect to connect to a remote endpoint and SSH onto the machine inside the remote network. The problem is, when I do create the connection, the machine I do it on is unresponsive for ...
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Java Deployment with automatic updates (without user confirmation)

Here in our company our users use 1 Java application which is updated every monday and always needs the latest java update. We install Java on Clients through SCCM 2012 R2. I already know how to do ...
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Start/Stop IIS site automated as an administrator, which is not a built-in "Administrator"

There are several ways to start/stop an IIS site, in a way that does not require logon to the system. For example: 1) Command line via APPCMD: C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe stop site /site....
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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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