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Questions tagged [automation]

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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Automated test suite for linux servers and network devices?

Coming from a development background i'm used to automated (unit) testing before stuff goes live.Now i'd like to use the same approach to (new) linux (and some windows) servers and networkdevices. I want to be able to define tests / conditions…
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Automatically set static routes between two networks without dhcp or default gateway

I have a windows domain network with two different subnets. Both are connected trough VPN gateways. DHCP and default gateway is an exiting router blackbox. Unfortunately I have very limited control over it. It is not possible to add a route there or…
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Can I automate XEN? And to what extent

I am wondering about a certain scenario. User on some machine runs a command. This unpacks XEN and boots up domain 0. Domain 0 boots up 3 other domains that are setup in this way. One is a "client" domain One is an apache / php server One is a…
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Automatically create test database every week

There is a production db in SQL Server. We still have development on this database and I want to create it's copy in every X day/week/month. Is there any job or something else what can make this on SQL Server? Thanks in advance..
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Automated Server cloning and deployment

I have an ERP system that requires a local installation on a Windows Terminal Server to operate properly. Right now I pay for each TS that I have the vendor install the software on directly. However, every time an upgrade happens they take all of…
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How to create a SQL Server database from a mysqldump file automatically on a daily basis?

Recently, a vendor announced that they were upgrading their processes, and an automated, daily data dump we are getting from them will now come in a MySQL datadump format. Unfortunately, we're a Microsoft-only shop, so we can't import those files…
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Securing database credentials in automated deployment of nodes

In a situation where you're deploying nodes (e.g. amazon ec2), what are the recommended best practices for securing things like credentials to other resources? Without solving for scale, we might manually type passwords into configuration files, put…
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Web Development with SVN

I am running VisualSVN Server on my server, and I have TortoiseSVN installed on both my dev PC and my server. I want to be able to push through updates to the website over SVN without manually checking out the latest version on htdocs. How can I…
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Windows 2008 R2 Unattended installation example?

In following-up another question, are there any sources of reliable (ie, "just works") unattended response files for Windows 2008 R2 x64 available for modification, or do you have to start with the WAIK?
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Staging to production enviornment automate process?

I am buying 2 dedicated servers (one for live hosting, 1 for staging environment). Four questions: How to keep the live server in sync with staging server? Goal is to run the sync everyday but I cant afford any downtime, so can staging mirror…
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Experience with MQ File Transfer Edition?

We've got several processes that move files across servers - SFTP, FTP, SCP; Windows, Linux, AIX; there is a workflow component (usually require a control file with filenames and hash values to move a batch of related files). The action is often…
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Redirect service on nginx

I have a dynamic list of redirects from a relative url on my site to some other absolute url: my_website_url_1 --> other_website_url_1 ... my_website_url_N --> other_website_url_N This list consists of several hundreds of entries and is changed a…
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Installing postfix on Ubuntu from a boot initialization script

I need to install Postfix on a fresh Ubuntu box on first boot, but the interactive configuration screen that the installer presents to you isn't scriptable. When my startup script attempts the following: apt-get -y install postfix the init script…
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Automatic deployment and configuration for Windows servers

I'm an experienced UNIX and Linux sysadmin who is about to start working for a mixed UNIX/Windows shop. I've been deploying servers automatically using tools like Puppet, Chef, FAI, etc. I haven't worked with Windows for over 10 years. I was…
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Automated method to convert .reg registry file to reg.exe commands

Occasionally I need to put registry entries into batch files to use in login scripts, unattended installers, etc. While it's pretty easy to add one or two registry commands to a batch file using reg.exe, when there is a large amount of registry…
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