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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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Is allowing automated subversion checkins a bad idea?

I'm a Systems Admin supporting a team of developers, and our subversion repository is protected by HTTP basic authentication tied to a single-signon solution. We also share our infrastructure with some other teams and subs. The developers want an…
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Removing non-present hardware with Devcon?

I'm automating the removal of a USB printer from machines with Windows XP SP3. To do this, I'm using Microsoft's Devcon Utility. Running the command: devcon findall…
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What have you used Makefiles for (besides build automation)

Makefiles are great for automating builds, installs and tests. But, that is not the end of Make. I have used makefiles to do many tasks like cleaning up logs, keeping mirrored web pages and downloads, hooked them into crontabs and test…
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Linux automated media files transcoding

I'm looking for software that would help to implement above described scenario. By automation i mean minimization of actions needed for that process. For example, it would be nice to run some daemon that will constantly look to some folders and…
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Can capistrano or fabric be used to setup a server from scratch?

I'm hoping there is a light weight, command line utility that I could use to setup a server from scratch. I like python's fabric or ruby's capistrano but from what I was reading they are more used for deployment purposes and not setting up apache,…
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Is there a way to bind a wireless network to a proxy setting?

We have several wireless networks, some of them, doesn't need a proxy, some of them do. Furthermore, when some of our users go to other places, they need to change their proxies. Most of our users are not that well versed with computers. I'd like to…
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How to automate starting a multiuser screen session with adding acl to another user?

I often start a screen session, issue a ":multiuser on" command and then ":acladd someuser". Is there some way to get with a single shell command a screen session to start with these two commands automatically? Thanks!
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VMware ESX Linux Guest Customization

I am interested in deploying several RHEL 4 Update 8 virtual machines for creation of a test environment. Here are the steps I am taking: In off hours, P2V/V2V the production machines and convert them to templates Deploy the virtual machines with…
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Scripted forwarding for Outlook 2003

We have a staff member in sales who has gone onto a 4 day week (getting ready for retirement), so each Thursday afternoon her email needs to be forwarded to another user and each Friday afternoon it needs to be set back. I'm using the VBS script…
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Automate proftpd-basic install on ubuntu using apt-get

I'm trying to build a shell script to automate the installation of several packages onto an Ubuntu 10.04 server, and I'm having problems with proftpd-basic. I'm using the command line apt-get -qy install proftpd-basic >/tmp/install.log For most…
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Automated VM's provisioning

I need to setup a dynamic test environment on top of VMware infrastructure. The goal is to have my test application call some service that triggers the whole provision process: Create a VM Install my application's most recent build Run a list of…
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Portable scripting language for a multi-server admin?

Please Note: Portable as in portableapps.com, not the traditional definition. Originally posted on stackoverflow.com, asking here at another user's suggestion. I'm a DBA and sysadmin, mostly for Windows machines running SQL Server. I'm looking for a…
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Infrastructure - management - Is moving from custom code base in place to Ansible worth it?

Some background: When I started at my current work place ( in server infrastructure ), a bash, perl and python code base already was in place for remote executing jobs on linux systems, the one guy that wrote and maintain this code base have spent…
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How to schedule a task for multiple days of a month using schtasks.exe?

Since task scheduler API has been changed after Vista & Server 2008, scheduling a task with schtasks is (as much as I know) the only way that works on both Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2008 Server. I need to create a task that will run every on…
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Trust gpg key via script

When performing an automated server deployment, I can upload and import gpg keys via script. But I cannot trust keys. I tried gpg --batch --yes --edit-key keyname trust 5 and echo 5 | gpg --batch --yes --edit-key keyname trust - In non-batch mode…
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