tech notes from my desk
Here we will install Grafana according to their site instructions, lets start by downloading the latest Grafana version from repo From Grafana website Ubuntu & Debian(64 Bit)SHA256: af6592f379bd4b91b202f4845c31e79e0faeff1b4b1f12cbbb720a8980f2edd7 wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana_6.5.2_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i grafana_6.5.2_amd64.deb Read the Ubuntu & Debian installation…
Ever wanted to make your own systems inventory database but just didnt really want to invest the time in making all the mysql statements (huh? no?! well me neither but this is one of those system inventory databases that we…
Assume your interface is eth0.123 here are some excellent tcpdump command options tcpdump -i eth0.123 not port 22 and port 8080 tcpdump -i eth0.123 not port 22 and port 8080 -X In this example lsof (listing open files) we are…
When editing a large file with a common word that needs to be replaced throughout the entirety of the script try using the search and replace feature in vi To perform a global search and replace, use the search and…
Started off this new installation on the bright side of things after having worked through DNS issues, so I muscled thru it and published an article on that solution. Now lets explore what it takes to install Satellite 6.6.0 on…
To prevent a command from being added to the history in the first place, make sure that the environment variable HISTCONTROL contains among its colon-separated values the valueignorespace, for example (add e.g. to .bashrc): $ export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace This will prevent any command with a leading…
Use this boiler template to make just about any case confirmation function #! /bin/bash function confirm () { # call with a prompt string or use a default read -r -p "${1:-Are you sure you want to continue? [Y/n]} "…
I recently completed a project that required to install RHEL Satellite Server 6.6.0 onto a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.7, here are some quick steps on getting the job done. Getting the basics out of the way, the lab…
Use this one all the time, it relies mostly on dmidecode output and keeps it very nicely organized for a database use case later in the process. Meanwhile here is a helpful inventory bash script to get your assets in…