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On Monday and Tuesday, the 21st and the 22nd of November, our company organized an event. A Hackathon. What’s a Hackathon? “A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others, often including subject-matter-experts, collaborate […]
In the last few weeks I had to create several GitHub repositories for my daily work. To simplify the process I automated the creation with PowerShell. I created and initialized the repositories manually until I recognized that this is a perfect task to automate. First I studied the documentation of the GitHub API v3, which is very well documented! Fortunately […]
To etablish the principle of Behaviour Driven Development in our development process we searched for a possibility to verify, if an acceptance criteria is fullfilled or not. Because we usually host our repositories at GitHub we decided to use the GitHub issue tracker to describe our features and acceptance criterias. Setup Issues As a first step the following two additional […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As announced a couple of days ago we started pushing some of our PowerShell modules to GitHub and NuGet. And soon it became obvious that keeping all the scripts, signatures, versions and packages in sync was some tedious and error-prone work. This should definitely be automated, you might instantly think – and right you are! So here are some small […]
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 […]
This Microsoft PowerShell module contains Cmdlets to work with RabbitMQ queues, send and receive messages. It uses a wrapper I earlier presented that solved the problem of loading the official RabbitMQ .NET client into a PowerShell session. These Cmdlets further facilitate the handling of sending and receiving of messages via AMQP queues. You can download the module on GitHub or […]
This module provides Cmdlets that let you work with Microsoft SQL Server database (regular and LocalDB) by utilising System.Data.SqlClient (instead of relying on the buggy ‘SqlServerCmdletSnapin100’ snapin and its ‘Invoke-Sqlcmd’ implementation. You can set a ‘DefaultPrefix’ or an alias to call it the same as the Microsoft SQL Server supplied ‘Invoke-Sqlcmd’. Furthermore you can work with LocalDB instances (as used […]
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