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the field of converting any manual process into one that can be run mostly, or entirely, "hands-free"

Automation is a wide-ranging term, covering topics from cron to "push-button provisioning and deployment" or system and application stacks. The ultimate goal of some automation projects is the so-called "Zero-Latency Data Center", while for others it may just be sending alerts based on certain events. More information can be found here.

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NFS client keytab: multiple machines

How should one go about setting up client-side keytab files for each client machine to access network services? My working example is NFSv4, which requires each client to have a Kerberos keytab locally on the client machines (as well as the NFS…
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Creating an Openstack user with only reboot permissions

What is the best approach for setting up an Openstack user that is limited to only rebooting servers using the Web API. The user needs to be able to access servers under different tenants, by using the instance id for look-up. The user should be…
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Install Java 1.7 non-interatively on Ubuntu 12.04

I need to install Java 1.7 on several machines and hence I want to do it using a script. The problem is the installation asks for certain options (to be specific 'Y', then 'OK' and finally 'Yes'). I came across this question: Automate the…
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How to automatically create a Hyper-V VM and install an app using PowerShell

I am designing a testing infrastructure for a WPF application. I want a system that will create a VM when a new MSI appears in a folder, and install the MSI on the newly created VM. I am using Hyper-V and PowerShell. The folder watching and kickoff…
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Stopping a scheduled task with WMIC

I need to find some method for disabling a scheduled task on a remote machine and waiting until that task has stopped executing if it happens to be running at the moment. I'd like to do this through WMIC if possible. This will be integrated into a…
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When do Dell PowerEdge servers (R210II and R620) automatically shutdown due to over heating?

I've had a hell of a time trying to find out when and how a Dell PowerEdge server (in my case we have a bunch of R210IIs and R620s with iDRACs) deals with overheating. I don't want to wait for the CPU to self-preserve, and ideally the server itself…
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Manage enable - disable nginx site by Hiera puppet?

i got the task to implement hiera puppet script to manage sites_enabled for nginx. Here is my puppet script: common.yaml --- classes: - nginx nginx: enabled: abc.com xyz.com disabled: test.com …
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Installing Debian with PXE and preseed and dynamic IP address, but configure it finally with static IP address

I had setup an infrastructure for automatic installation of Debian based machines. It uses PXE booting with DHCP and TFTP servers, and preseed to automate the OS installation. What I want is: use DHCP for PXE boot use DHCP for Debian installer: it…
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Idea for taking down half of the servers vs rolling restart?

We're setting up HAProxy to balance our application (ASP.NET MVC 3 running on IIS). We want our process to be without scheduled maintenance for deployment. I'm trying to figure out the correct way to do a "see-saw" approach to only serve one version…
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Monitor servers for changes made outside of automation software

The company I work for is currently investigating the deployment of an centralized automation system (like Salt or Puppet) for our servers (all Ubuntu/FreeBSD). We will probably go along with Salt, but I think it is irrelevant to my question. My…
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Chef - how much abstraction is smart?

We have > 20 individual apps that we support. Most do not see changes more than a couple times a year. We think chef will help us down the line. I am trying to find a happy medium between manual configuration and automation. I have two pretty…
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Data Center Automation tools and Novell Suse Linux?

I'm looking for info to automate the patching/updating process for several hundred Suse machines. Apart from Zenworks and SMT is there other patch management/automation tools you know with good support on Novell SLES OS? I found several tools but…
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My PowerShell script won't save to file when running using Task Scheduler; do I need to specify a specific argument?

I have a script that downloads a temporary Excel file, copies parts of it to a new file, and saves it to a specific location on the network. The problem is that the new file is never created/saved. If I run the script locally (through cmd.exe,…
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How do you handle updates on a server?

I have around 25 virtual machines running on Xen. I don't really feel like going through 25 VMs and running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. I would much rather have it do that for me and in some way contact me if there are any packages to…
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How can I systematically shut down Windows services in order?

We have this open source application that has three (3) services. For the purpose of this question, let's call them A, B, and C. Now, they have to be shut down in a specific order. That order would be A then B then C. If B shuts down before A then…
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