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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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Jenkins 2.x disable initial admin setup

we're using Jenkins as a cron server adding/starting crons via api. We created a vagrant box installing the jenkins. Since version 2.0 jenkins require to create an admin account (link) before disable the security in config.xml. If no admin is…
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How to automate RFC2307 attributes in Active Directory?

How do you automate the population and management of RFC2307 attributes in Active Directory in a scalable and reliable manner now that SFU and IdMU is considered deprecated by Microsoft and won't be available in Server 2016? My goal is to have…
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Debian preseed.cfg - Language not set

I'm trying to write a preseed.cfg which should be used for a full automated installation of Debian wheezy. For some reasons the installer is still asking to select a lanugage even if I set this in my preseed.cfg. I got these options from the…
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Retrieve Information from Cisco router in Parsable Manner

I'm trying to write a script that will pull configuration files over SSH from Cisco routers and parse them, so I can ensure that they meet predefined standards (e.g. password shouldn't be "cisco"). Connecting to the routers and running commands…
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Keeping user's filesystem persistent across AWS EC2 spot instances

I noticed that, after a new Amazon AWS EC2 spot instance is auto-launched (I have that option turned on), the state of filesystem is not current (represent the last state before previous spot instance is auto-shutdown due to current price going over…
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Reloading Salt grains

I'd like to download a grains file from external source during the state.highstate is run. The file is not supposed to change usually - I'm only using this mainly for the initial provisioning. So it seems like I just want a file.managed state that…
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Automated Linux VMs on Hyper-V 2012

I have a requirement to create a ton of linux VMs for our customers (we run managed infrastructure) on Hyper-V 2012 in the coming months and I have an issue with automating it. Here is how I need it to work: User accesses their web page and creates…
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Puppet Error: undefined method 'captures'

I posted this question on the networkengineering SE site, but it was determined to be off topic.... blah. I'm toying with the idea of using puppet for core network device configuration to increase accuracy of the configs my team is generating. I…
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How can I automate a new linux server's initial setup?

Every time I setup a new server, I follow a series of steps on each server in order to get updates, set passwd, remove login via root user, customize a familiar environment (bashrc) and secure the server. Is it possible to do all that using a…
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Tool to collect and read all linux logs in one place

I have two linux servers. I'm an administrator, and part of my daily routine is to check all the logs for errors or strange messages. So, every morning I check: On server #1: /var/log/syslog /var/www/example.com/error.log /var/log/redis.log ...and…
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Why can't “knife data bag from file” find existing json file on chef server?

Summary: I'm running into a problem with "knife data bag from file", where knife doesn't recognize the .json data bag file pulled down from a remote git repo. Background: I'm currently trying to transition from chef-solo use to chef server while…
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How do I automate OS installation on 500+ machines?

My company has to image a large amount of machines by the end of the year. Each of the machines will have hardware RAID 1 and running CentOS 6. What options do I have for automating the OS installation on these systems? I have a little mini desktop…
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Unattended installations of Mac OS X

Is there a way to setup a networked automated OS deployment for Mac OS X? Admins wanting to deploy RedHat can deploy over the network using Kickstart (with the install media on a shared network resource). Perhaps something similar to Windows…
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Expiring Inactive User Accounts

I want to have some method of determining which user accounts have remained unused for a certain period of time, lock the accounts, and then after a further period, delete the accounts (notifying the user at each step). These user accounts (in my…
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Thunderbird - Login Script to create user and email account

Is there anything out there that will let me script via active directory and login scripts the creation of a thunderbird user profile and associated email account? I looked to do this in Outlook 2010, however due to outlooks current slow preformance…
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