by skufel | Dec 8, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin
Some time ago I received request to automate file transfer between FTP server and Development systems. Both, FTP server and Development system, are Windows-based. FTP server was running FTP over SSL only, so that automatically eliminated built-in Windows FTP...
by skufel | Nov 29, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network
/etc/rancid/rancid.conf In this article you can find description of parameters in rancid.conf. By changing parameters in this file you can impact the way RANCID will behave, collect and process collected information. You can also define type of version control...
by skufel | Nov 29, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, Scripting
RANCID is a great automation tool which allows you to collect configuration from network devices and store in repository with version control (CVS or SVN). In this article I will show you how to install RANCID and prepare to work on openSUSE 11.4 with subversion as...
by skufel | Nov 28, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, SysAdmin
Quick installation how-to for Nagios on openSUSE 11.4 “Celadon” platform. Same procedure applies to other versions of opeSUSE platform. I’m using version 11.4 for my LAB purposes. lab-gw-01:~ # zypper install nagios > nagios-devel \ >...
by skufel | Nov 14, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Network, Scripting, SysAdmin
If you need to capture configuration of Windows-based DHCP server for documentation or review purposes, this might be handy: netsh -r lab-dc-01 dhcp server dump > C:\dhcp-lab-dc-01.txt NOTE: lab-dc-01 in example command is name of the Windows server which has DHCP...
by skufel | Nov 14, 2011 | Automation, Infrastructure, Scripting
Here is quick script which connects to Active Directory, reads all computer accounts from Organization Unit (OU) indicated in script and then pings all computers found in that OU. It might be handy if all server accounts are located in one OU. Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE...
