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All the articles I've posted.

Icinga2 Downtime Script
Updated:I wanted to automatically trigger downtime when we ran maintenance tasks on our client systems. For this I wanted to add in a bash script to make the call

Bash Script Template
As I find myself writing a few scripts these days I thought I'd sate the template I use to build with. It includes parameter collection. https://gist.githu

Auto Select Client Certificate
Updated:When you visit a site requiring a client certificate you'll be presented with a dialog to select a certificate to use. This is awkward in a kiosk scenario

LDAP Indexes
On the OpenLDAP server I see a lot of entries in the log file about uidNumber not being indexed. If this is the case I should add an index to try to help w

Nginx SSL Certificate Error
Updated:We're using client side certificates on an Nginx host to ensure the credentials of the connecting users and haven't used the site for a while. I tried to l

DRBD and LVM
Updated:To use LVM as a backing store you need to install a locking mechanism and build the volume groups with the --shared option. sudo apt install drbd-utils lvm

iSCSI and Multipath
Updated:If you've installed the open-iscsi and multipath-tools you might still find that you multipaths aren't working. sudo apt install open-iscsi multipath-tools

Docker IP Address Error
Updated:ERROR: could not find an available, non-overlapping IPv4 address pool among the defaults to assign to the network We have a staging environment that runs a

Installing Ansible AWX
Updated:Starting to look at a nice front end for Ansible and found a few quirks with the process that need to be taken care of. The actual installation of AWX need

PowerDNS and ISC DHCPD
Updated:As we host lots of sites we have lot's of DNS. Currently it's a database driven old version of ISC BIND. There are certain tasks we need to do manually to