The ramblings of a computer geek
If you wish to share a password with a user there’s various ways you can achieve it. But not all of them are secure! Let’s say you have the scenario that you are onboarding a user or you’ve had to reset their password for some reason. If that person is on-site, that’s pretty easy, you […]
More...Seen this issue a few times even on the NimbleOS 5.x version, when joining the array to Active Directory for authentication, you get this error when performing via the GUI: The only way i’ve found around this is to perform via the CLI on the Nimble, you should also pre-create the computer object in AD […]
More...NagiosXI and other monitoring tools have ways to determine if your SSL certificates on say a web server are nearing expiry, but what if you have software that uses a certificate but that certificate is not directly poll-able over the standard HTTPS checks. The script which can be found here, is a passive check, so […]
More...IMPORTANT! The below scripts are not supported by Dell nor is there use on a Dell ECS node, you therefore utilise these steps at your own risk. We have these scripts running on Dell ECS nodes in production to collect hardware information and report it back periodically and no issues have been identified yet. The […]
More...A very short introduction into using Python and the InfoBlox Python libraries to interact with the REST API to give you a starting point for development. https://sifbaksh.com/introduction-to-infoblox-api-wapi-using-python/ The easiest approach is to use the InfoBlox-Client library in Python, it is possible to use “requests” and then parse the output, but this approach seems a bit […]
More...I’ve used Clonezilla a few times in the past, its a quick and convenient way to replace a hard disk (e.g. upgrading from a spinning rust disk to an SSD) in your machine without needing to rebuild the OS from scratch. But Clonezilla can also be used to clone the disk to an image, as […]
More...A quick and effective way to get additional desktop space is to use a USB Graphics Adapter, in my case I used the Star Tech USB32VGAPRO. It supports a good range of resolutions but in my case I wanted to use 1680×1050 which is the same as my in-built graphics resolution outputs at. However when […]
More...We recently deployed some hardware Kemp ECS Connection Managers (which are designed to front the Dell ECS storage platform), however we were a bit dismayed to see there was no way to monitor the hardware status via GUI, SNMP or the Rest API. We had this issue raised after we had a PSU failure occur […]
More...Email was never designed to be secure, anyone can use your domain to send an email, “spoofing” as it is known. This can be useful to make sure your receive email if you are using a cloud hosting service, or it can be a complete nightmare; nefarious persons may spoof your domain to trick your […]
More...Sometimes its easy to get wrapped up in the more complicated things and forget about the basics. Something as simple as power to your equipment being fully resilient can be forgotten but if it fails you can find yourself dealing with an outage that you don’t really want to have had to deal with. Balancing […]
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