11

Jun

2019

Rename Files with Python

June 11, 2019 jonny python

Simple wee python script for renaming files in a directory. I had a bunch of mp4 files that had a reference code at the end rather than the front so renaming to put the reference code at the front would keep them in order e.g. myfile-m6-03.mp4 to... » More

10

Jun

2019

Offline PluralSight Videos

June 10, 2019 jonny Uncategorized

I wanted to watch a PluralSight course while on a flight without internet access. This might well be against the PluralSight terms and conditions so I don't recommend doing this. I used a recent version of youtube-dl and used a recent version of... » More

03

Jun

2019

Installing Vault with Zookeeper

June 3, 2019 jonny Uncategorized

Hashicorp Vault supports several backends for secret storage. I was creating a test Vault to play with PKI certificate generation and started with installing Zookeeper After download the Vault binary and extracting it to /usr/local/sbin/vault, I... » More

03

Jun

2019

Terraform with VMWare

June 3, 2019 jonny virtualisation

I didn't find much in the way of examples online for using Terraform against VMWare. So here is the .tf config that worked for me: provider "vsphere" { user = "jonny@dev" password = "CHANGEME!" vsphere_server = "192.168.1.2"... » More

09

May

2019

Apply Export Policy on NetApp 9.1

May 9, 2019 jonny Uncategorized

There have been some changes to the NetApp menu and it took me a few minutes to find the location to apply export policies to a volume. It is currently (version 9.1) found under the 'Junction Paths' menu tab for the SVM. The 'Export Policies' are... » More

02

Mar

2019

Minecraft Spigot Server on CentOS 7

March 2, 2019 jonny Uncategorized

I'm just recording some notes here on the steps I took to run a Minecraft (Spigot) server on a CentOS 7 server. Install Pre-requisites yum install git python-twisted-core python-psutil python-urwid python-twisted-web screen Get... » More

22

Jan

2019

Hostname Completion

January 22, 2019 jonny shell

Courtesy of Pete in work. To enable hostname auto completion in Bash, do the following: dig pop @dns.server.tld axfr | awk '$4 ~ /\yA\y/ && gsub(/.$/,"",$1) {print $1}' > ~/.hosts If you would prefer to filter out hosts e.g. dev and... » More

07

Jan

2019

Changing Dell iDRAC Password with racadm

January 7, 2019 jonny Uncategorized

The default user and password combination for a Dell iDRAC interface is root / calvin It can be manually reset when logging in to the web interface but when doing many machines at once and many actions at the same time the racadm tool is handy. To... » More

06

Nov

2018

Querying Zookeeper from Python

November 6, 2018 jonny python

Install the prerequisites. Below works for Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu/Mint: apt-get install libzookeeper-mt-dev Install python libraries: pip install zkpython pykeeper Example code below shows making a connection, getting the names of some... » More

05

Nov

2018

Install check_mk on Ubuntu 18.04

November 5, 2018 jonny nagios

Ubuntu 18.04 includes check-mk in the repository version but it is an older version 1.2.8 (at the time of writing). Download check mk raw (get the latest stable URL from the website) : wget... » More