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Posts Tagged ‘Short tip’

Short tip: Clone Git repository via SSH and SOCKS proxy

  • 13. August 2019
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When using tools such as GitLab can cloned via HTTP and SSH. Especially the second choice can be handy if there is no VPN available – but keep in mind, also sending DNS via the … Read more

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Short tip: Utilize Ansible role via Vagrant

  • 16. July 2019
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When implementing larger tasks in Ansible, you might thinking about writing your own Ansible role sooner or later. For this, the ansible-galaxy command can help you:

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Short tip: Ansible – “failed to create temporary content file: ‘The read operation timed out'”

  • 17. June 2019
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While using the Ansible modules get_url and unarchive I recently stumbled upon the following errors:

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Short tip: Python TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (4 given)

  • 6. October 2018
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Recently, I stumbled upon the following issue while installing a Python utility on an older CentOS system:

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Short tip: Puppet – “Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue”

  • 25. September 2018
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Doing a recent Puppet agent upgrade from version 3.x to 4.x I stumbled upon the following errors:

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Short tip: VirtualBox 5.2 installation under macOS 10.13

  • 6. September 2018
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VirtualBox enjoys great popularity where it is required to virtualize common operating systems for conventional use-cases at no cost. In comparison with other hypervisors such as VMware Workstation, VirtualBox only offers basic graphics acceleration – … Read more

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Short tip: Install missing SNMP MIBs under Debian Linux

  • 28. August 2018
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Leveraging SNMP is often a pain when appropriate MIB files (Management Information Base) are missing – e.g. because the manufacturer did not document them or only offer them at fee. When utilizing a Perl program … Read more

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Short tip: Find out HP Managepent Processor IP address

  • 28. June 2018
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Recently I needed access to a HP Management Processor (MP) without knowing the appropriate IP address. A possibility is to utilize a serial connection to the MP – but this is kinda complicated if you … Read more

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Short tip: Manage cloned systems with SUSE Manager

  • 22. May 2018
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It is a common procedure to use templates (“golden images“) when deploying virtual machines. Recently I had an issue when deploying SLES machines – newly registered systems within SUSE Manager replaced older one. The management … Read more

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Short tip: Apache and Pacemaker: invalid parameter

  • 22. March 2018
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Recently I had some issues with a Linux cluster running Corosync, Pacemaker and Apache. I was unable to run the redskin as ressource – starting always failed with “invalid parameter“: # crm resource start apache … Read more

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