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Provisioning - manual and/or automated OS deployments to physical and virtual machines.

OS Provisioning is at the base of the System Administrative task list: creating standard server builds that can be repeated either via following manual processes or implementing solutions such as kickstart, jumpstart, unattend, ignite, autoyast, NIM or WDS.

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Server provisioning without PXE

I have a lot of servers in different data centers which should be reinstalled from time to time. I am familiar with Puppet so I am able to configure the O/S after it boots up but I can't perform an automated reinstall. All the tools for bare metal…
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using pgpool doesn't see a list of variables into group_var directory

I am using Ansible + Vagrant to create my infrastructure or make a little simulation of I wish. It installing postgres and creating a ssh directory to store the differents keys for each host. It is my project structure: . ├── ansible.cfg ├──…
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Hardening Ubuntu with Docker.io

I am new to Docker so please keep in mind. The old way: Create cloud instance Add Ubuntu OS Provision / harden Linux via Chef Develop app locally Deploy via Capistrano or some other deployment tool The docker way: Create cloud instance …
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Potential of multiple network interfaces during RHEL deployment

I want to deploy RHEL (6x64, though I think this should be applicable across versions) onto systems which may or may not have more than one NIC card. Will kickstart error if I have multiple lines like network --device=eth0 --bootproto=dhcp network…
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How to make puppet to start all services in the end of the catalogue run?

Especially when setting up a completely new server from the scratch, puppet tends to start dependant services as soon as all their dependencies are satisfied. This sometimes leads to situation that services are started unnecessarily too early while…
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Asset Tracking: Best Practices

We'd like to track I.T. assets across different organizations and I have a bunch of questions: What is a good, systematic method to choose a universally unique asset tag (i.e. name)? What method should we use for PCs? Can we use a serial number…
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Need help with MS SQL SAN disk array provisioning

We have a HP MSA70 with 20x300gb 2,5" 10k disks allocated for our SQL2008 server. Our usage of the SQL server is: 50 concurrent users of our ERP system(Visma business) - 70/30 read/write. 2500 users pr. day on our website (CMS system + eshop) -…
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How to best implement multi-os desktop provisioning?

In our offices we use an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server, and are building a little (8 seats + 1 teacher seat) teaching room. We'd like to implement fast & easy provisioning of the desktops operating systems and applications. This is what we'd like to…
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How to configure almost 3 dozen laptops quickly

I need to configure almost 3 dozen laptops. We need half of them to have different IP addresses. Would configuring one laptop and then ghosting the rest be the fastest way to do this or is there a better way?
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Immutable/ephemeral W10 desktops

(As reader may guess, I'm more familiar & comfortable in the Linux/POSIX world, so please keep that in mind) I'm in the process of rebuiling n+20 laptops, intended for semi-public use (MakerSpace: think classroom or library), and want to set them up…
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Automatically provisioning a Windows Server at OVH

I'd like to automatically run a script to provision Windows Servers when I set them up as Dedicated Servers at OVH. I see that they have an option for an Installation script (URL)], but how do I use it for Windows? []
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Bulk Device Management: Generating and storing the username & passwords for many Linux devices

I have a hundred Linux devices (Raspberry Pis) to provision. That includes generating new username/password pairs and storing them for future use. Once they are deployed in the field, I'll need to access the devices over SSH & VNC. Question What…
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Provisioning a Unidata ICW-1000G WiFi phone

Apologies if this is off-topic here (if so, is there a better place?). I just bought a Unidata ICW-1000G WiFi phone (because I prefer to use just WiFi and not to use DECT). I'm attempting to do auto-provisioning with it by using the instructions in…
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Are there any best practices around moving config files in Ansible?

I have a role for configuring nginx. As you'd expect, it adds files to a directory that is then included by the main config file. I've started to run into issues with the order in which these files are read so I'd like to move some of them into…
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How can I create the large disks in Azure that are currently in public preview?

Azure started supporting extra large disk sizes in September 2018 (as described here) as a public preview, currently available only in the West Central US region. I'm trying to create a new S60 (4-8 TiB HDD) disk in a resource group located in the…
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