Questions tagged [configuration-management]
Configuration Management refers to establishing and maintaining standardized system configurations within an organization. This tag encompasses the process of defining the configuration profiles, and the software used to manage and deploy it.
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CouchDB deleted database shards
Currently running clustered CouchDB v3.1.1 on an AWS EC2 Instance
q=2
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Number of Nodes: 1
I have moved the database directory to another drive on my VM. But can't find any on the documents ...
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How to handle and avoid unmanaged system state with configuration management?
When managing the state of a server using a configuration management tool (e.g. salt, puppet, ansible), one can quite easily develop 'unmanaged' state through application of successive versions of the ...
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Breaking down one prometheus.yml file?
I am using Prometheus for our monitoring and I have a lot of configs (our prometheus.yml main config file is 8000+ lines long).
I would like to divide this out into logical groupings so that it ...
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System Center Configuration Manager using 'Run Script' feature on devices with AllSigned Execution Policy
We have System Center Configuration Manager version 1902 managing our devices.
I would like to use the nice feature "Run Script", which runs PowerShell scripts on an entire collection of devices, but ...
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Can't find jetty config file on Fedora 28
I installed jetty8 on fedora 28, but I do not know where is the configuration file for the server. In Ubuntu the jetty8 configuration file is /etc/default/jetty8.
To install jetty I've used:
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How to distribure sudoers files with REX Configuration Management
When trying to push a sudoers file to other machines, the rexcm task/command gets stuck.
The Problem is (so it seems to me), that the sudoers file is owned by the rex-user when writing and "other" ...
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Ansible ini_file module does not create sections when no options specified
I use Ansible to build configuration files in ini format. When I use the ini_file module with option and value pair it works as expected, for example:
- name: Create configuration file
ini_file:
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Switch not connecting to all computers
I need help configuring a switch (Datacom DM4000).
It has 2 ports, one for management and one for console (obviously more 24 ports for normal use).
With a RJ-45 to serial cable I was able to ...
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How do I keep 6 Hyper-V machines in sync?
Our build server setup looks like this:
6 x Windows Server 2012 R2, physical machines, each running:
one Hyper-V Windows 7 VM each basically using all the resources of the host
When we need to add ...
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How do I configure the iDRAC on a static IP?
I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 in colocation. When I set it up at home, the machine was assigned two IP's from my router (using DHCP): one for the OS and one for the iDRAC. Now that the server is in ...
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Configure management tool to auto-configure by reading config file
The use-case is as given below:
The user has a Flat File in his Linux system. This file is a human readable/editable file which contains the configurations for all the needed components of his ...
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What do you use to monitor and deploy linux config files? [duplicate]
I'm working in an environment where multiple groups share servers. I was wondering what tools are used to check if configurations files were modified, maybe able to say who modified them, and revert ...
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How can I WSUS and AV update and manage compliance reporting on air-gapped Windows boxen?
A.k.a "WSUS via Sneakernet?"
(Similar question asked in 2013 here, but some key differences and no strong answers to that one.)
Most of my environment consists of AD-joined Windows 7 workstations; I'...
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Bacula configuration management in git, without passwords
I'd like to to use git to start managing our Bacula configuration files, but want to keep out (or mask) the passwords in these files.
I've considered:
looked for a setting within Bacula that allows ...
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Using Management classes with cobbler
So, I've been working on creating a standardized install image, and worked out all the kinks, now I need to deliver it. What I decided to do is to use cobbler to create templated kickstart installs, ...
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System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 - accessing property of returned item
I've got an Orchestrator runbook that is using the Query Configuration Manager activity from the Configuration Manager Integration Pack to query SCCM for all pending application requests. It appears ...
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SCCM 2012 R2: Email / Alert on component status errors
I know that as of SCCM SP1 we are now able to monitor and alert on a few more things in SCCM. We can now alert if there are problems with not only AV / malware alerts but also client and database ...
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Tool to parse Dell PowerConnect switch configs to make them more readable and diff friendly
I've been working with many Dell PowerConnect switch configurations over the years, and even though their configuration console is quite IOS like, it doesn't manage configuration statements the same ...
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Create Mobile Device Management Server for iPhone Management on Windows Server
I need to create Mobile Device Management server to manage my enterprise's iPhone devices. I need to configuration it on Windows 2008 server. What are the steps to configure Mobile Device Management ...
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Is there a method or application which compares server configurations?
I have windows staging and live servers for hosting our companies asp .net web applications.
Recently, there have been issues with changes existing between the staging environment and the live ...
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Used SQL Svr 2008 Config Manager to Set Service Account to Local System: What Did It Change?
Direct shot to foot moment...
While setting-up individual non-admin accts for MSSQLSERVER services, I temporarily set Server service login to Local System account.
I remembered later that:
SQL ...
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Using MCollective to run Puppet
I have to administrate a big cluster of servers in the cloud and now I want to automate the installation process of these machines. Therefore I use puppet as configuration management system.
I want ...
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Ansible: how to manage hosts if they are not always online?
My apologies if this question has been asked before, but I may not be using the correct terminology in my searches...
In my spare time I'm managing a limited amount of hosts (desktops and laptops ...
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Recommended approach for configuration management of the small but vital changes on Linux servers [closed]
Folks - what is the recommended approach for controlling and recording small but vital changes on the Linux servers - creation of the group, adding users to a sudo, etc.?
We use Salt for the major ...
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Ways for managing the installation and configuration of various software applications and settings in linux? [closed]
What are some ways for managing the installation and configuration of various software applications and settings in group of linux development and server computers? Is a set of basic scripts a good ...
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Tracking the linux config with git: how?
I'd like to track my linux configurations with git.
My idea is to have a branch for each server.
/etc is not the only one directory to be tracked (I won't git init in '/etc' )
As far as I could see, ...
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Cisco ASA config management
I read that for Cisco devices which run IOS, there's a scheduler (kron) which can be used similar to Linuxs cronjobs. I followed the guide on http://blog.ioshints.info/2007/08/sample-configuration-...
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Any good yum repository management dashboards?
I'm currently managing hundreds of CentOS/Amazon Linux servers, and our homegrown tools for managing the myriad package versions seems inadequate and unnecessary. What I'm looking for is a tool that ...
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Arbitrary software configuration management with Puppet?
I am evaluating Puppet as a potential replacement for an in-house software configuration and distribution system. I am looking for advice on whether Puppet can satisfy certain requirements for ...
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Remote Control for windows 7 machines
In the past (with windows XP) we have used the Altiris Deployment Console 6.9 SP3 to remote control our users machines. Since windows 7 has been released and deployed the remote control no longer ...
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Altiris gets Disabled?
We use Altiris for software deployment at our organization. Sometimes when we remove a piece of software altiris will turn gray and every feature is disabled in it. The only way to fix that is to ...
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Altiris Deployment Console and PXE booting over multiple vlans
I am rebuilding a 2008 server with sql 2008 and altiris Deployment console 6.9 sp2. It is working now however I am trying to get the clients to be able to pxe boot and load an image from altiris no ...
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Why on EARTH is my windows 2003 Altiris server rebooting itself, once a day?
I mean, it's being awfully nice about it and all. Each and every time it seems like it's a graceful shutdown.
Windows 2003 R2 server. (SP2)
HP Proliant DL380 G4. (BIOS current as of 2007.)
Xeon dual-...
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Ansible lineinfile replace with system variable
I'm encountering an issue while using Ansible to dynamically modify a Zabbix agent configuration file. Specifically, I'm attempting to employ an ansible lineinfile module with a loop to update ...
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Improve MariaDB Execution Time
I have a database with one table and three fields (id, hash, creation time).
This table got around 30 million records, the execution time for a query like
SELECT * from `table` WHERE hash='...
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Using Configuration management tools to synchronize large files
We are looking into using a configuration mangement tool (like Salt or Puppet) to automate what is currently a lot of manual work. One requirement is that we have to distribute rather large files / ...
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Microsoft Intune conflict resolution
I have a number of devices enrolled in Microsoft Intune. Currently, they all share a single set of Intune configuration profiles and compliance policies; our "all employees" group has the profiles/...
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What is Most Reliable/Sustainable Way to Distribute a File to a Group of Windows Servers
In managing one of my applications, I need to distribute a small text file to a specific directory on a number of application servers and restart the service when a new version is pushed out. I have a ...
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What are the pros and cons of using S3 as a data access server? [closed]
I need to manage some configuration files. The files can be stored on AWS S3 and retrieved via the URL. The alternative is to use an application server and store the JSON content to a database and ...
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How to automate cleanup of config files from past pkgs as reported by "dpkg -l | grep ^rc"
There are a number of pkgs that weren't removed with "apt-get purge" and I would like to automate cleaning them up.
You can't apt-get purge apache2.2-common because the pkg is already removed.
You ...
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Configuration Manager sub site codes
I have two sub-sites set up in configuration manager. When the SCCM agent installs on the client machines within the boundaries of those sub sites they are assigned the site code of the Primary site, ...
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ubuntu: server management GUI tools like ebox?
i wonder if there are some GUI management tools for ubuntu to be used to manage all server tasks.
eg. installing server applications, managing them, editing their conf files and so on.
i saw ebox ...
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Office 2007 New Message Window Does Not Respond
I am using Windows XP and every time I open the new message window in Office 2007 the window can't be dragged, can't be closed by clicking on the window. I can close or move or maximize the window by ...
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How to use DNS to reference instances of a Server
I would like to use our internal DNS server for linking names from provisioning to final use. So I imagine it like this.
A server comes into our network and gets a DHCP or a static address and then ...
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Implementing a CMDB [closed]
I have the need for an inventory for servers, storage, network devices, etc. and I'm thinking to have this kind of information in a CMDB.
It would first be used as an inventory, but later could be for ...
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Salt Pillar: How to use different values for prod / dev?
I'm not sure if I am thinking about this the right way, but here is my Problem:
I want to use the same Salt state and pillar configuration for production, development and test servers. The only ...
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ansible Dynamic inventory Hosts value does not accept list of hosts
I am trying to create dynamic inventory for my setup. everywhere i see examples of IPs and hostname as list. but when i provide hosts value as list it error's out and says it has to be dict.
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Which server configuration management tool to use for my personal nextcloud deployment [closed]
I want to deploy a personal nextcloud application.
I already have setup nextcloud using docker-compose, which tool should I use for server configuration management?
I have the following things to ...
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Consul as service discovery and configuration server in on premises local network
We are developing a product that will work as a set of services deployed on-premises (e.g. in the local network of an office, factory, etc.). Since there can be lots of deployment targets for each ...
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Docker remote administration tool for non-clustered workers
I am looking to scale a docker application used to perform periodic performance tests on equipment at several remote locations. This application requires running the same performance tests- using the ...
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