Clickatell Output Plugin for Graylog v1.0.0
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 […]
Clickatell AlarmCallback Plugin for Graylog v1.0.0
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
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 […]
[NoBrainer] Graylog2 AlertConditions based on field contents
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 […]
[HOWTO] Creating a Graylog2 Filter Plugin
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 […]
[NoBrainer] Using drone.io to automatically integrate your Graylog2 Plugins in Docker
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 […]
[HOWTO] Creating a Graylog2 Output Plugin
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 […]
[NoBrainer] Sending Gelf messages to Graylog2 via PowerShell
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 […]
Creating a docker image for WSO2 Complex Event Processor
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 […]
Promote a Linked Clone Virtual Machine to a Full Clone with PowerCli
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 […]
Module: biz.dfch.PS.Ipam.Infoblox.Api
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 […]
vCloud Director: Federation certificate expiration emails / Certificate regeneration troubles in large environments
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 […]
Module: biz.dfch.PS.Cumulus.VI
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 […]
Module: biz.dfch.PS.Sccm.Utilities
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 […]
[Bug] Class Library Service Reference for ODATA service does not handle return type from CRUD operations
Recently I observed a strange behavior when working with an ODATA service via a “System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceContext” that was wrapped inside a class library (via a regular “Service Reference”). The specific ODATA service in question was an Entity Framework v4.1 based service and had defined two different entity sets (“Objects” and “Tasks”) along with its regular CRUD operations. The specialty of the […]
Using LightSwitch with EntityFramework 6 and CodeFirst based ODATA Controllers
Enhancing LightSwitch applications with additional ODATA or WebAPI controllers is a pretty common task. However when you try to build a CodeFirst based controller in combination with EntityFramework 6, you will run into a lot of errors by default. Here are the steps to get this cleared and running: 1. Create a Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML project In this example […]
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