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How can i certify cabling with a cat5 certifyer if the cabling is mixed cat5 and cat6 thanks
Hello I'm getting ready to certify some cabling and realized it is mix matched cat5 and 6 but my certifier is only for cat5. So I wonder if I needed a speacial certifier to do that thanks.
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How to verify installation on a (linux) server?
Problem:
Should start off with saying that this is for a software house, and it's internal. None of the guys are "users", they are all staff.
We test on servers, including upgrading ...
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Can I run Cloud Automation (azure/aws) for web apps in background doing other manual work parallel?
my goal is to automate some tests for a web app and in parallel do some other staff manually (like writing code locally or research or writing reports) and don't collide with it. I used softwares like ...
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Running Tests in a Kubernetes cluster
We have code that deploys new kubernetes clusters with core infrastructure services like cert-manager, external-dns, load balancer controllers etc in a cloud environment. We provision these with the ...
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How to cause a network down event on a server?
This may seem weird, but I actually would like to cause a network failure on a project I'm working on. It's a microcontroller that is running tcp/ip and I just want to see what would happen if the ...
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How to install google-chrome as non-root user on a remote server?
In order to use google-chrome for selenium-testing purposes (to be run headless of course) I want to install this on a remote server where I do not have root access. This server does not even have ...
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Is there a kind of a/b test for checking CPU Usage?
Our team try to find a way to compare CPU and Memory usage between the current version and the new version. I found some answers.
(1) Using load balancer
By using load balancer, we can divide our ...
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I want to test IGMP capability of a OpenWRT based router. How caan i test?
This is what I want to test out,
SEE IMAGE: Router connected to users and is accessible over the internet as well
PC1 and PC2 should be able to join some group(s).
Should be able to leave group as ...
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Purpose of Selenium in load testing
What is the role of Selenium in load testing a webpage if it cannot generate 200 or 300 requests?
I understand, the client side automation can be done. But how do I test my web application for a real ...
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Comparing file differences between an offline and an online linux image
so I hired a freelancer to do some work on my server that required admin access.
Before hiring him I took a backup of my debian installation on that server.
I have a basic level of trust with this guy ...
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Prove that software works via SOCKS
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I have ruby software that utilizes a network during its execution.
Recently I got feedback from a user who works behind a firewall and use SOCKS, this software doesn't work for him
So I need to ...
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monitoring real time file access in chroot system
I was wondering if it's possible to write a shell script that:
runs chroot for a given userspec and group
monitors/intercepts system calls all processes started, and what libraries they attempt to ...
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Route host through a docker openvpn container
I am new to networking so I am trying this for the first time. I created an openvpn docker that connects to a VPN server. Running wget -q -O - https://api.myip.com inside the docker container confirms ...
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Is there a list of public "POST test" webpages like this one? [closed]
For various automated tests that I do, I need to be able to make a POST HTTP & HTTPS request to some external URL and essentially have that webpage "echo" what I sent. For example, if I ...
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Compiling and running untrusted code on a server
In teaching CS, students submit their code to our server and we compile and run with unit tests. Similar to Codeforces, Codewars, and HackerRank.
How should we be configuring servers for this? Launch ...
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Staging environment keeping up to date with new prod data
In most companies I've seen, the prod/staging dichotomy is articulated as follows, using Facebook's live feed as a running example:
prod (obviously) stays up to date with new incoming posts, messages,...
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Windows 2016 Password Hash Table Location
Sadly, it is not self evident just how important it is to get a penetration test done at this company. I am rather rusty to this. Where is the hash table stored on a Win2016 DC these days?
I want to ...
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How to verify that Windows application respects proxy settings?
I want to solve the following problem:
I have a Windows desktop application which does a number of things that requires internet access. I want my application to be able to use a proxy. This is ...
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SELinux Regression Test Failing
I have cloned the selinux-testsuite regression tests from: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-testsuite
I am running the tests in a CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) VM. Which I don't ...
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Powershell - test http with specific adapter - multiple nics
Do you know a way to test if an HTTP server is reachable with a specific nic ?
My scenario is the following : our company is using laptop for all our employees. To use the network we can either use ...
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Redis sentinel: force switch to another master
Context:
I have 3 redis nodes, and 3 sentinels. The failover works properly. When I'm taking the master down, another master is elected.
Need:
I need a way to test the behavior, to make sure ...
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Installing OpenSSL from Debian testing on a Debian stable installation
I would like to install OpenSSL 1.1.1a on a Debian stable server, which currently has OpenSSL 1.1.0j installed. So, I created the necessary files according to this answer in the /etc/apt/preferences.d ...
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How to test fcgi?
I try to use foo.pl, but using /usr/lib/fcgi-bin as my fcgi directory in the given directive.
I made foo.pl executable and after editing my apache2.conf I have restarted apache2.
But if I launch my ...
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How to implement partial mirroring in nginx?
I want to test an early new version of a server, and to do so I want to mirror part of the real requests that come to the production server on my testing server.
The mirror module allows me do to ...
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Ungracefully terminating pods
To test that the high-availability mode does what it should, I need to kill the instances during testing, and I need to kill them in such way that they can't report they are disconnecting or similar.
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300' Fiber Optic Cable not passing Data [closed]
Just installed a 350' Fiber Optic cable for a client. Customers IT company came in to install the AT&T router and said the fiber optic cable is not working.
IT company installed the router with a ...
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How to deliberately fail DNS resolution in Linux to crash-test a Java app?
The situation is rather simple: to reproduce failures which had happened in a recent outage, I'd like to deliberately fail DNS resolution in JVM's in:
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: ......
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Manually running rsnapshot
this is my first post here. I have configured rsnapshot for backing up remote hosts. Some of them are working fine and for some of them in the morning, I am having email with some error code 255. I ...
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Safely conduct tests that require unplugging server
So, basically I am testing and diagnosing my UPS's as well as the power sources (PSU) of my server. For that purpose I am powering down the server "the hard way", by unplugging it from the wall as to ...
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How to config Ngnix to achieve any possible website error for testing [closed]
I'm developing a website using Django framework and Nginx. Would like to create a false system error and observer how my system responds.
This is a nice article however this only create false Error ...
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How to set DSCP values for outgoing traffic from my linux server to check whether QOS is working correctly or not?
I have to validate whether my router's QOS policies are working correctly.I have come up with an approach to tag the packets with DSCP values using IPTABLES.
Can anyone confirm whether my approach is ...
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Testing Daylight Savings Time Switch
We have a case where we need to test some scripting and application code related to daylight savings time. We wanted to simulate the daylight savings time switch by disabling the NTP service and ...
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Remodelling old backend architecture to use Docker and CI
I'm currently running a backend in production and want to change our current setup to use Docker for deployment and a CI tool for testing.
Right now I have a BitBucket repository with the two main ...
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How to check my network for IP spoofing availability?
I want to test if my network or even my ISP blocks spoofed IP packets. I am running a Debian Linux OS.
I found this nice tool, but it's not working on my system ..
https://www.caida.org/projects/...
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Testing Different Wifi Vendors - Strategies
I am currently looking to trial some new Wifi products for my work place. We currently have around 50 Access Points that link into an HP MSM controller.
I wanted to find out if anyone has any ...
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serverspec if statement for mysql version on server
Is there a way to check which package installed on server by command output?
describe command('mysql -e "select version();"') do
if its(:stdout) { should =~ /5.6.27-76.0-log/ }
describe ...
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Manually trigger file write failures
We're building a custom software program (Java + Spring.io) that writes audit trails to a log file (using logback). When a user takes an action in the system, an auditing entry is logged. This works. ...
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Auto test framework for server deployment
I deploy Linux servers all the time and would like to test each installation. Like a system test.
For applications there a numerous of test frameworks, but I can't find anything for testing the a ...
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How to change server time safely for testing purposes
We have a Debian server (in a VM) running a Java application on a Tomcat server, using a Postgres database. It's a testing environment, so we can do anything we want to it.
Every once in a while, we ...
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Segmentation fault when running nuttcp inside Docker
I am measuring the UDP throughput between two Docker containers that are connected by Docker's native overlay network. I already used iperf but also want to measure the throughput with nuttcp. But ...
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Reliable UK/EU ICMP Targets for Periodic Routing/Connectivity Tests?
I need to test routing between my United States datacenters and United Kingdom and Mainland Europe ISPs. This is used to distinguish between general transcontinental routing issues and specific ...
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Command-line utility to test fwmark in ip rule / ip route?
I am trying to find a tool that will allow me to find the route a packet will take that comes in on a device, and has a particular destination address.
ip route get will do most of what I am looking ...
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Testing a servers ability to serve a particular domain
Say you have Server A set up with your favourite webserver-daemon to serve www.example.com. Now you want to move this to Server B. After a bunch of copying and configuring, the new server seems to be ...
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Is it possible to write a test in rspec-puppet to check if registry exists?
I am trying to install .net framework 4.5.2 using puppet module using exec resource instead of using Package resource due to some reason. I want to write a test case to check if it is installed or not....
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Behavior-driven development for servers?
I've been looking to see if there are any BDD's for servers, something that would be similar in respects to Cucumber or Behat? Something that has some syntactic sugar such as:
Feature: jre
In order ...
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How do I simulate an unreachable host on windows?
I have a windows 8 PC, I am testing a beta program for network socket error handling. One of the ones I am having problem simulating for it to test is host unreachable and network unreachable errors. ...
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Test if iptables would pass a given ip/ip-range [duplicate]
I am currently trying to debug problems relating to our firewall configuration and found myself in the situation where I would like to test a config.
Ideally I would like to take the iptables config ...
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What are the different Status options for Dell show copper-ports command?
When the below command is issued in a Dell N2024P/N3024F switch
show copper-ports tdr
The following output is generated
Port Result Length Date
Gi1/0/1 OK 0 - 10 Jan 1 00:00:...
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How to test for file absence with serverspec?
The serverspec guide on resource types doesn't explain how to test for the absence of a file, rather than its presence. This is the best I could come up with:
describe command('/bin/bash -c "[[ ! -e /...
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Could somebody that has worked with ePolicy Orchestrator in VMWare provide a high level overview of the roles in the stack?
E policy Orchestrator (EPO) is a McAfee product that manages AV MOVE apis. The EPO server works in conjunction with ESX and vcenter.
VISUALLY I don't see the workflow of this entire process very ...
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