Rememberall

Rememberall: a blog about finger knots.

  • Ansible example

    Just dropping this here as a starter/reminder about Ansible. This isn’t even scratching the surface, and more than likely not the best or only way. Hopefully, I come back periodically to revise and refine. To run the playbook locally, call it with the following command: If the playbook requires elevated privileges through become, use the…

  • VMware Remote Client command line

    If you have the VMware Remote Client installed (available for most platforms), you can open a VM console directly from the command prompt/terminal – This avoids any overhead of logging in to the vSphere web UI to launch a console session. What you need: When the client launches, it will prompt for the user credentials.…

  • Icinga 2 cheat sheet

    Just a post starter for some Icinga 2 commands. Check config List objects Refresh / dump objects Running icinga in the foreground with debug output Checkcommand definitions SSH agent config On the target, install the Nagios plugins in preparation for executing checks: Create an Icinga user on the target host: su as the Icinga user…

  • Adding a static route to Home Assistant OS

    You might find yourself in a situation where your instance of Home Assistant resides within a network of multiple VLANs and your default gateway, typically a locked-down ISP router, isn’t VLAN-aware. Normally, this wouldn’t be a big hurdle, as most appliances provide a method to define static routes. Unfortunately, Home Assistant OS (HAOS) doesn’t provide…

  • Building a RHEL/CentOS/Fedora device

    This post is primarily aimed as a primer for the installation and post-install config tasks for a RHEL-based Linux install. It’s by no means designed to cover everything that needs to be, or should be, actioned for a Linux device, but will hopefully touch on the main items that can be looked at to get…

  • Windows: Enable network access for local accounts

    How to restore access to admin shares for local accounts on modern releases of Windows.

  • Installing and configuring named-chroot

    A guide on installing and configuring named in a change-root environment.

  • Bookmarks from Connections

    An export of the bookmarks that lived in the IBM Connections Bookmarks app.

  • Securing DNS with stubby

    Configuring Bind to operate with Stubby to provide DNS privacy and security

  • Manually updating ESXi

    Updating ESXi software and packages locally from the host itself