The ramblings of a computer geek
Just like the testing of SMTP using Telnet, you can also perform the same steps if the target server is using TLS, however because telnet won’t do the job here, you can use OpenSSL instead. Here’s a simple example. Firstly get your Username and Password in Base64 format. You’ll get the Base64 encoded strings outputted […]
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I was having trouble with the previous theme, it was not fully compatible with PHP 8.1, so I’ve swapped to a new theme for now.
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Splunk is a great tool for visualising alerts and events, I’ve been creating a dashboard to aggregate all the failed logon attempts from management interfaces of our network switches, firewalls, storage etc. so that if someone tries to brute force password attempt the interfaces we have some visibility. Obviously the queries you need to use […]
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If you’re like me you probably have some home projects or CPD (Continuing Professional Development) on the go. Microsoft VSCode has the concept of Workspaces, so in my case I have a workspace for Personal projects and a workspace for Work projects. But it would be nice to be able to just start Microsoft VSCode […]
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We had a need to upload a large volume of data to AWS S3, obviously we want this to upload as fast as possible, we choose to use the AWS S3 Sync tool; however to get the most performance out of it, you need to perform some tweaks to the configuration. Although you can make […]
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Here’s a quick example configuration. I’m assuming you already have the AWS CLI packages installed, but if you need to use SSO to login to your AWS Organisation/Account, you can use the following example. AWS CLI Configuration File The AWS configuration file that should be located in: ~/.aws/config, with the contents such as: So let’s […]
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Postman is a great tool for testing and using APIs, in this article, I’ll show how you can use a Global Variable within Postman to store a value for reuse in other requests. I’m using an HPE Nimble Storage (Alletra Storage) array as a example for illustrating this. The API requires that you login using […]
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Sometimes it can be useful to generate some files, so you can watch activity, I created this script for this use-case when performing storage updates, I can run this to generate some activity which is made visible to the screen so you can see if and when either expected or unexpected pauses take place. Its […]
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You can quickly create an Ansible Directory structure using something like the following example. In my example the Ansible directory is just within my Home Directory, I then have a directory called “Plays” where the Ansible Play files are stored and another one called “Roles” where the roles are stored. If say we wanted to […]
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Following on from a previous article https://geekmungus.co.uk/?p=4510 we now investigate some more into using Ansible for configuration management and installations. As something we can use as an example, we’re going to setup a simple Bind DNS server, which we can use to explore how to manage the installation of Bind and it’s configuration within Ansible. […]
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