So you have configured your IP related settings in {php}IPAM such as sections, subnets and VLANs and invoked the initial scan of your subnet to discover new hosts. Now, we go away and at some point later on login and check your subnet details to which all your hosts are reporting as unreachable. What is … More {php}IPAM: Configuring auto discovery and host status checks
I was recently evaluating IP address management systems to which I did seem to find a favourite in {php}IPAM which is an open source IP address management system, this is a PHP based application with MySQL database management using jQuery libraries, ajax and some HTML5/CSS3 features. The features list is quite rich and whilst not … More {php}IPAM: Installation and Configuration on Ubuntu
I was recently launching an instance of Kali Linux (1.0.6 | 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI) | Updated: 10/10/14) in Amazon Web Services and as the image only provides the Kali package repository (as per the description”bare-bones”) I was looking to install the complete system (apt-get install kali-linux-full) from the available packages. However, on invoking the installation of … More Updating repository lists and keyrings for Kali Linux on Amazon Web Services
In order to use data bags with Chef Solo there is a requirement to use the knife-solo_data_bag plugin maintained by Tommy Bishop which allows you to work withchef-solo and data bags. Once we have obtained the plugin, we will need to install the rubygem in our existing envrionment and configure the knife-solo plugin. gem install knife-solo_data_bag Once installed we can … More Chef – Creating encrypted data bags with Knife Solo
I was recently enabling SSL on a web application which required the certificate file to be provided as a concatenated certificate container file containing all SSL certificates in the chain. The method to perform the above is relatively simple and just requires each certificate to the chain to be opened in a text editor and the … More Creating concatenated certificate container files using Windows PowerShell
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