During a recent installation of Red Hat Identity Management or FreeIPA I stumbled upon the following error message: DEBUG The ipa-server-install command failed, exception: RuntimeError: CA did not start in 300.0s ERROR CA did not … Read more
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
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:
While using the Ansible modules get_url and unarchive I recently stumbled upon the following errors:
Recently, I stumbled upon the following issue while installing a Python utility on an older CentOS system:
Doing a recent Puppet agent upgrade from version 3.x to 4.x I stumbled upon the following errors:
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
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
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
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
