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Prep RHEL/Rocky Template for Virtualisation - Resetting network config and setting
I'm working on creating a template for RHEL/Rocky Linux 9 that I'll use to deply new VMs.
As part of the prep phase I remove UUID and HWADDDR settings from the nmconnection profile under /etc/...
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Provision/instantiate a VM using pre-built templates versus build/provision from scratch
My systems engineering team is promoting building up a VM template (to include architecture, OS, networking, middleware services (tomcat, jboss, etc.) and possibly some 1st party services & apps), ...
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Grafana - Have a View Panel button on email notification
I'm switching from Grafana 8 with legacy alerting to Grafana 10.3 with the new unified alerting system. I'd like the email notifications to have buttons to access the dashboard and panel linked to the ...
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Rsyslog storing only certain type of events in a file
I am collecting TM Deepsecurity events on my syslog server. The TM manager sends logs to my syslog server on port 514. There are two types of events TM sends. Deep Security Agent & Deep ...
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How to handle network changes and restart with Ansible?
I'm currently developping a network configuration role used by Ansible to customize our fresh new virtual machine that came from our Debian 11 template.
The following role changes from DHCP to static ...
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ip xfrm policy template missmatch error (XfrmInTmplMismatch)
I am working in a very simple case for ipsec and I keep getting XfrmInTmplMismatch error in reception (after decapsulating the ESP packet) when checking cat /proc/net/xfrm_stat. nft monitor all shows ...
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Ansible: Loop over template with related variables
Given the variable structure
syncjobs:
- filename: output1.bash
content: data1
- filename: output2.bash
content: data2
I want to loop over it creating the files with ansible.builtin....
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templating file with ansible to get different variable parts (through its index) for different hosts
I'm trying to distribute certificates to its corresponding hosts (I'll just give the example for the private key task):
- name: create certificate private key
community.crypto.openssl_privatekey:
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Templating firewalld zones with ansible - issue with xml or vars
Templating firewalld zones with ansible - issue with xml manipulation
I am running into a small bit of confusion for the rule family.
whats in my CORRECTED vars file:
firewalld_zones:
- name: ...
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Rsyslog 8 dynafile with a template
I'm trying to setup rsyslog to use the template RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat as the default action template, but for some specific messages i need to use another template. In both cases i need ...
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Proxmox & Packer: VM quit/powerdown failed during a Packer build. Anyone have any ideas why?
I am trying to create a Proxmox VM template using Packer. However I am getting a Proxmox error saying Build 'proxmox' errored: Error converting VM to template, could not stop: VM quit/powerdown failed ...
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How to apply HTML layout template to email using EXIM?
My goal is to apply a standard, branded layout template to all emails when sending (on the server, not the client). I have been googling this topic and not found any resources specifically addressing ...
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Templated dict keys in ansible YAML
I am trying to use a dict in an Ansible task, which is defined like this:
in vars/main.yml file:
username: user1
userpass: pass1
users:
"{{ username }}":
pass: "{{ userpass }}"
This doesn't ...
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rsyslog template stop ignored
I try to configure get my template for remote logging working but the stop statement is ignored and everiting is logged duplicate in the syslog and in my generated file %programname%.log. I want the ...
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sys-unconfig equivalent for Fedora 30
I'm trying to prepare a Fedora 30 KVM virtual machine template on Proxmox.
I wanted to use the sys-unconfig command but it was removed in initscripts 9.81-1
virt-sysprep failed when I ran it from ...
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Zabbix service.discovery multiple templates for distinct items and triggers
service.discovery in Zabbix returns a JSON array of all current running services (based on filters) for each host.
I would like to create a template hierarchy where i have a parent template that ...
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How to fix SolusVM Xen-Hvm template error at creation?
The following log contains an error which happens while executing the template creation script on a SolusVM powered CentOS 6 server.
CREATING MBR IMAGE...
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (...
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Is it possible to deploy the 'Start stop VM's during off-hours' solution of Automation account in ARM templates?
I need to deploy an Azure automation account to my resource group.
This to add the module (start/stop VM's during off hours solution to my environment)
For the automation account I succesfully used ...
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Prevent Smart Card prompt when looking for Enrollment Certificate
I'm using an Enrollment Agent user certificate to amend CSRs (in order to add SANs)
My method is working fine - using the following command:
certreq -config "CertAuth" -policy "PathtoCSR" "Path to ...
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Azure ARM template redeploying
I have created first VM from Azure portal interface and it works good. I tried to deploy second VM using ARM template that is available from first VM. And I can't do it quickly. Primarily, I have to ...
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VMSS with custom image (captured)
I'm trying to create VMSS with windows custom image that i captured.
I created custom ARM template to use the but its not working when i'm trying to deploy.
Its the right approach if i want to use ...
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vSphere Customization Specification and Ubuntu 17.10
Has anyone noticed issues with #vSphere Customization Specification and #Ubuntu 17.10 (GNU/Linux 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64) – Now that the network settings are located in: /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml, ...
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Jenkins - How can I lock template Job configurations for normal users but provide them to be copied?
I setting up a Jenkins-Server for our Company.
To make things easy for our developers, I created 2 template Jobs with the usual required configurations. So when users creat new jobs they can use Copy ...
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How to trigger a custom error from inside a Jinja template?
Though Ansible itself has a way for triggering a custom error, I can not find anything similar for Jinja.
My current method uses a syntax error:
{% if 'ansible_mounts' in hostvars[host] %}
# {{ ...
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How to do multiline Jinja2 conditionals in single block? [closed]
The below code is rejected as syntactically incorrect:
{%
if inventory_hostname in groups.aptcache
set cachehost = 'localhost'
else
set cachehost = groups['aptcache'] | first
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Building a properties file with Ansible where the Property should not be added if the value doesn't exist [closed]
I am trying to build a property file with mandatory and optional properties in Ansible with templating.
I want each essentially-static string (each optional property name) to show up only if the ...
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Applying item template to elasticsearch
I am trying to apply an item template to my elasticsearch cluster, to deal with the issue of having fields with content longer than 32kb.
I am using version 2.4.4, as this is the highest supported ...
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Referring to an existing resource in CF Template
We have multiple CloudFormation scripts to create our stack.
Now, we want to write (automate) new scripts which will be used just to updated 1 specific resource (business requirement).
The thing ...
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Deleting Xenserver Virtual Machine used for Template
I created a custom Windows VM in Xenserver 6.5. I took a snapshot and used the snapshot to create a template that can be used for future reference. Is it possible to delete the VM I used to create the ...
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Puppet/hiera : generate sereval files from one template
I'm running puppet 4 and I would like to generate several config files from the same template with different configurations for each one.
for example :
# cat /tmp/a.conf
test1
# cat /tmp/b.conf
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How to pass item.src to a template in Ansible?
I have a Jinja2 template and I want to pass args to it from my vars/main.yml.
For each set of vars, I need to generate a separate file on the remote server.
My vars/main.yml has the following ...
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rsyslog template not working correctly
Can anyone help me out with this exotic problem?
I have some syslog servers forwarding messages to a central syslog server (rsyslogd 7.4.7). In the central syslog server I don't want to add ...
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Format for hdr_sub pattern matching
I am trying to match the value of a header which has a space in it and cannot figure out what regex expressions haproxy likes. The header I'm after looks like this:
X-Request-ID:'Foo: Bar'
I would ...
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Application to import GPO templates into Group Policy Management
I'm trying to find an application that I can load my GPO backups from DomainOne then add some replaces to it such as Find DomainOne -> Replace with DomainTwo. Then click some type of Import button ...
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update azure scaleset - switching from prebuilt image to custom image
I deployed a scaleset in azure and I need to change the underlying debian-image by credativ to a custom image.
I found some good sources that do not really work for me:
https://msftstack.wordpress....
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How to use NGINX with templating?
Is there any way to do templating in nginx? For example, if I have a file like this:
{header}
<h1>This is a header</h1>
This is not a header
{footer}
and then use NGINX to replace {...
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ESXi 5.5: Clone a VM to template using CLI (on Linux)
How can I clone a VM to a template from Linux CLI. I tried using VMware vSphere CLI (vCLI) in vain, couldn't find an option to do so.
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Validate the original certificate template [closed]
I need to verify from what template was copied a certificate template y have searched in all the tabs for info but i have found anything about what was the original certificate template.
**the ...
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Copy folder structure template to current folder
When our users create a new Project folder, I would like it to automatically copy a template folder structure and the template's permissions. So far the only thing I've come up with is a batch script ...
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How to remove hosts from zabbix template?
I have removed a bunch of servers from a template, but all the items and triggers from the template remained in the server configurations.
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Is there a way how to unlink hosts form a ...
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Is there a more idiomatic way to switch Salt state based on host OS?
At the top of my State file, I have:
{% if grains['os'] == 'Ubuntu' %}
{% set ubuntu = True %}
{% set arch = False %}
{% elif grains['os'] == 'Arch' %}
{% set ubuntu = False %}
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get chef template path from template
In my chef erb template, I want to get the path the template is being copied to. So it looks like like:
MY_PATH=<%= ###HOW DO I GET THE TEMPLATE PATH### %>
Is there a way to get that?
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Cacti - Interpreting values for Network statistics
I've downloaded and installed the Percona Linux template. I noticed the values for tx-drop had values of 'm' and 'u' and don't quite understand why I'm getting values of micro and milli.
I was ...
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xen server windows template sysprep Autounattend
Got a Xen Server Template Windows 2008 R2, thats had alot of things already set (disk size, server manager disabled etc, etc)
We spin up, windows patch host and re-run sysprep
My question is, can ...
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Managing ~/.ssh/config for users using puppet?
How do I adjust the "User" line in a ~/.ssh/config file using ERB template files in Puppet so that it contains the correct username that matches the account name?
class accounts_global::tharold {
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salt stack: use state jinja variables in template
What I'd like to do is generate multiple configuration files for each openvpn user.
I have the IP address and additional configuration in pillar.
For example:
openvpn:
- user1:
ip: 1.2.3.4
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How to Seal Windows 7
I'm trying to prepare Windows 7 Template, i have used Sysprep.exe with the following options:
Under System Cleanup Action, select Enter System Out-of-Box-Experience (OOBE).
Tick the Generalize check ...
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Is there something like a VM hardware profile to store VM specifications(vCPU, RAM, Storage) in vCenter?
I am looking for something like a VM hardware specification file in vCenter appliances. A template/file that can be used to deploy VM with the same hardware specifications.
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Puppet, hiera and erb - erb would not recognize array
I have a pretty annoying error I am desperate to fix. I have a puppet module where certain things are kept in a yaml file (hiera) so that people could quickly edit just that part.
The structure is ...
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looking for a fast way to copy a template to a KVM guest
My KVM guests each has a logical volume on the host to be the entire virtual disk. What will be a fast way to copy a template over to the guest's virtual disk? I tried to create a lzop compressed file ...
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