4 May 2020 Jenkins + smartctl + Pushover: Drive Monitoring w/Push Notifications and Jenkins Job History
Featured Dell 12 January 2021 Solution: Dell R640 / Broadcom 57412 Refuses to PXE Install ESXi Unable to PXE install ESXi on a Dell R640 with a Broadcom 57412 Advanced 10/25Gb NIC? Here's how to fix that!
Postgres 18 November 2020 Reload Postgres' pg_hba Changes Without Restart Ever make changes to pg_hba.conf and wish to apply your changes without restarting the Postgres server (impacting users)? Easy! Open a PSQL shell and execute the following query:
Featured Confluence 14 November 2020 Confluence User Macro: Custom Status Tags (w/Font Awesome) Do you like Confluence's status macro but wish you could tweak the colors? Maybe even add an icon to it? Well, here is a user macro for you!
PowerShell 30 August 2020 Enabled Nested Virtualization in Hyper-V VMs Ever wanted nested virtualization inside a virtual machine that you are running on a Hyper-V host? I have! Looking around the GUI, the option cannot be found - that's because it's not there! Here's how to enable it!
Featured Jenkins 4 May 2020 Jenkins + smartctl + Pushover: Drive Monitoring w/Push Notifications and Jenkins Job History Could you use smartd to send emails via Postfix/sendmail on your Linux box? Sure. Could you use Jenkins to trigger individual smartctl queries and then tell Pushover to send a push notification to your devices saying that you have a drive failure? Also, yes.
NetBackup 9 March 2020 NetBackup: Mark Tape Library Drive Online If you're trying to use your tape library via NetBackup and you receive the following error, here's how to fix it! All compatible drive paths
Chrome 24 February 2020 Chromium-based Browsers: Bypass "your connection is not private" even when button not shown Have you ever browsed to a site with a Chromium-based browser and hit the normal, your connection is not private warning but this time, after
Featured Cisco 25 November 2019 Solution: Use non-Cisco DACs or SFP/SFP+ Transceivers in Cisco Nexus Devices With NX-OS devices, you can run a command to allow unsupported transceivers. Obviously, Cisco does not recommend this but it can help when you're in a pinch and need to order more Cisco branded SFPs or DACs. The funny thing is - this command cannot be found in the help so no tab-to-complete!
Fortinet 25 November 2019 Solution: DNS Issues on iOS Devices w/FortiClient and FortiClient VPN DNS resolution on iOS devices when VPN'd in via FortiClient or FortiClient VPN fails. Here's how to fix it!
Jenkins 30 August 2019 Set Jenkins Build Number to Version of App Let's set Jenkins' build number for a specific job to the version of the app we're building. Historical logs will show 1.2.1.61 (the version of the app) over #100 (the number of builds done + 1).
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