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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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Make all computers go to sleep and wake up at a certain time?

Is there a way of making all the computers in our domain/environment go to sleep after say, 8PM and wake up at 7AM in the morning? I understand that this may need some sort of application for the server to communicate with but I believe this will…
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Robot Datacenter Automation, can it be done?

To take the concept of automation to the most time consuming part of an IT infrastructure, rack and stack of a datacenter. What if there was a fully automated system of robots in a datacenter that was able to automatically service broken hardware,…
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Automated Syslog Error Solution Finder

Any automated syslog solution finding frameworks? I want my central syslog server to email a list of problems, their severity and suggested solutions. There have been several questions about centralising system logs and alternative log analysis…
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Auto re-attach EBS volume on start-up?

I'm setting up a database server on EC2, and I need to ensure that an EBS volume is automatically attached and is available before the database service starts up. I'm using SMF so I can test whether a particular filesystem is available before…
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What is a preferred method for automatically configuring and setting up an Ubuntu instance?

I am tired of manually configuring instances of Ubuntu for testing web applications and for setting up workstations. I'm even more frustrated by the issues caused by inconsistent configurations. Is there a method (hopefully not too time consuming…
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ssh authentication nfs

I would like to do ssh from machine "ub0" to another machine "ub1" without using passwords. I setup using nfs on "ub0" but still I am asked to insert a password. Here is my scenario: machine ub0 and ub1 have the same user "mpiu", with same pwd,…
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Splitting build cross the network?

Is there a known solution for splitting build process cross the network machines? Use case: We are an average software development company. We own around 50 development workstations (Quad Core 2.66Ghz, 4 GB ram, 200 GB raid). No need to tell that…
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Replace Whole Site by FTP

I've got a set of tools which periodically (about once a day) generate a complete set of static HTML pages for a site with associated folder structure etc. I then need to put those file onto the production server, my problem is that the server runs…
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How can I bulk update CloudFormation stacks while keeping the parameters unchanged?

Let's say I have a number of CloudFormation stacks created from the same template. After making changes to the template, I want all stacks to be updated to the new version of the template. I have tried doing this by creating a resource group and…
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Totally automating Apache on whatever distro

The problem I'm having seems to be true to all distors but let's assume I use an all-default debian-stable (server), and ran apt update -y. Installing, upgrading, restarting as well as enabling or disabling modules in Apache are all non…
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Automate jenkins slave node cleanup

So here is the scenario: Currently to cleanup space on Jenkins slave we have a job(a jenkins job itself) scheduled to run every day to do the cleanup. But many a times disk get full between scheduled runs then we have run it manually. This is what I…
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jenkins - return something from child job

There is a jenkins pipeline job ("parent"). From it - on one stage there is called another pipeline job ("child" - using build job command). Is there any way to return something (for example short text) from child to parent job without using…
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Is there a standard way to update instance template in instance group?

AWS has service named CodeDeploy which can deploy code to Auto Scaling (AS) group. For e.g. if your AS policy got triggered and it spun a new instance (which will use predefined instance image called AMI in AWS) CodeDeploy will push the code to the…
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Automated extraction of email attachment on Exchange Server

An Exchange email account was created through which I will receive daily emails with three different Excel attachments. Each Excel attachment has to be saved in one of three different folders. Can an Exchange Server be configured to automatically do…
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Disable Network connection in Windows PE

I am generating a WindowsPE boot stick with the Microsoft Automation Installation Kit 10 (host is Windows 10) for a amd64 target platform. Because i dont need network connections from within the WinPE, id like to completely and securely disable…
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