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This is just a very short post about the problems I was facing while trying to configure SSO on NSX Manager using the API. The NSX API documentation contains following: POST https://<nsxmgr-ip>/api/2.0/services/ssoconfig Request Body: While testing with this call I always got a http error 403 back. However the credentials used to authenticate against NSX Manager API and the ssoAdminUsername with ssoAdminUserpassword […]
There are several ways on how to create a PowerShell (script) module. And depending on your environment chances are high you are not the only developer contributing to a module. […]
Introduction This Graylog Output Plugin can send short messages (SMS) via the Clickatell Messaging Provider based on messages that are assigned to a specific stream in Graylog. It is based […]
Introduction This Graylog AlarmCallback Plugin can send short messages (SMS) via the Clickatell Messaging Provider based on alert conditions configured in Graylog. It is based on the new version 1 […]
NSX-V 6.1 Configuration Maximums It was not that easy to find this information on the official VMware website. However, during a current NSX-V integration project, we received the following Configuration Maximums table from VMware PSO, including the permission to share the content with the community. Credit goes to Aleksander Bukowinski. As soon as the information will be publicly available, I will insert the link […]
This post describes how you can extend the Graylog2 AlertCondition mechanism to raise alerts based on the contents of a field (instead of just a message count or a field value). Introduction Currently Graylog2 only allows you to trigger AlarmCallbacks based on either MESSAGE_COUNT Here you define how many messages must be assigned to that stream before an alarm will […]
Introduction UPDATE 2015-02-26 The plugin now works with the Graylog v1 plugin API Following the article about Creating a Graylog2 Output Plugin this post will cover the steps needed to create a filter plugin for Graylog2. While the SCRIPT OUTPUT Plugin enabled a potential user to run scripts for post-processing of messages, the SCRIPT FILTER Plugin will be very creative […]
In this post I will quickly show you how to easily use drone.io and GitHub in combination with Docker to test your self developed Graylog2 plugins. Here is a brief […]
Introduction As described in my last post Sending Gelf messages to Graylog2 via PowerShell we were testing Graylog2 for log and meter collection. It soon became clear that the current […]
Recently I was testing Graylog2 as a store for metering data and had to bulk-load a larger amount of data into its database. My goal was to create synthetic and […]
Introduction While working on a project for one of our customers I had to perform some testing that involved one of the WSO2 product family members, namely the Complex Event […]
Linked clone VirtualMachines share their base disks with their parent virtual machine. Only changes (delta) are stored in the childs virtual disks. These results in two major benefits: Fast Provisioning time Space savings However, linked clones have some limitations: Diskspace cannot be adjusted Performance impact – Depending on storage cache The following PowerCLI snippets will promote all virtual disks […]
GENERAL This Microsoft PowerShell module contains Cmdlets to perform various base actions and utility/convenience functions against the Infoblox REST API (WAPI). You can download this module via GitHub at biz.dfch.PS.Ipam.Infoblox.Api or via NuGet with Install-Package biz.dfch.PS.Ipam.Infoblox.Api. DESCRIPTION This module uses Invoke-RestMethod internally. You can also use the functionality of the provided InfobloxApi.dll assembly that is more efficient. The current implementation […]
Hi, this is Daniel and this is my first post about a small gotcha you might experience with VMware vCloud Director and the surprising resumé that there is no automated solution for fixing that. Since vCloud Director 5.1 it is possible to enable your organization to use an SAML Identity provider. And even if you don’t use it, vCloud Director […]
This is Microsoft PowerShell module is part of our Apache 2.0 based open source automation framework “Cumulus”. You will find all related posts via the “Cumulus” tag. You can use this module to perform operations against VMware vCenter infrastructure (the module makes use and abstracts VMware’s supplied PowerShell PowerCLI snapin). You can download the module on GitHub or on NuGet […]
This is Microsoft PowerShell module is part of our Apache 2.0 based open source automation framework “Cumulus”. You will find all related posts via the “Cumulus” tag. You can use this module to perform provisioning against SCCM 2012 infrastructure (the module makes use and abstracts Microsoft’s supplied PowerShell module ‘ConfigurationManager’). You can download the module on GitHub or on NuGet […]
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