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  • Update: Trigger a User event from the VCSA command line

    calendarMar 16, 2018 · 1 min read · Scripts VCSA VMware  ·
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    Disclaimer: This is not officially supported by VMware, please use at your own risk. Recently I faced the challenge with a script running on a VCSA which executes some checks and in case something gets detected it has to trigger a vCenter alarm. My solution is to log a user event which will be captured by an vCenter …


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  • vROps log bundle automation Part 1

    calendarJul 24, 2017 · 2 min read · Scripts Tool VMware vROPs  ·
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    In my role as an onsite GSS Senior TSE at a large VMware customer in Germany I have to collect vROPs log bundles multiple times a week. As this is time consuming manual process I have created a script in my spare-time which fully automates this task. The script triggers the creation of a log bundle using the CASA API, …


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  • Lenovo ix4-300d SSH, root home directory and cronjobs

    calendarJan 8, 2017 · 2 min read · hacking Homelab ix4-300d Lab Lenovo NAS Scripts  ·
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    Couple of weeks ago I got my hands on 3 Lenovo ix4-300d storage boxes. These boxes are no longer produced and sometimes you can get them really cheap. First I had plans to use them as iSCSI storage for my home lab but the performance is not good enough. Therefore I decided to play around with one of the boxes to see …


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  • Get all guest IPs of all your Virtual Machines using Powershell

    calendarAug 10, 2016 · 1 min read · PowerShell Scripts VMware  ·
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    This is a small powershell script to get all Guest IPs from all virtual machines $VCENTER="10.1.1.3" Connect-VIServer -Server $VCENTER $vms = Get-VM | Sort $file = "c:\ip_list.txt" foreach ($vm in $vms){ foreach($ip in $vm.Guest.IpAddress){ Write-Host "$vm $ip" "$vm $ip" | Out-File -FilePath $file -Append } } …


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  • Upload file to webdav using Powershell

    calendarMar 3, 2016 · 1 min read · PowerShell Scripts webdav  ·
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    This is small powershell script to upload a file from your local disk to a webdav server. It is also proxy capable. #Complete path of the file to be uploaded $file = "d:\test_file.txt" #URL without the last "/" $url = "https://YOUR-SERVER/webdav" $proxy = "http=PROXY-SERVER:PORT" …


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  • Monitor System Logs with Logwatch

    calendarMar 2, 2016 · 1 min read · log files logwatch Scripts Ubuntu  ·
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    I’m using the tool Logwatch to get a daily log report from all my servers by email. Install Logwatch: apt-get update apt-get install logwatch Config file: /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf To simplify the access to the config file I use a symlink. cd /etc/logwatch ln -s …


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  • Collect ESXi stats with powershell and send it to Graphite server

    calendarDec 20, 2011 · 2 min read · CentOS PowerShell Scripts VMware  ·
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    I was not quite happy with the statistics from the vCenter. It is not possible to get an overview overall my ESXi servers. 🙁 Someone pointed me to the tool Graphite that this is a cool solution to visualize such kind of statistics. So I decided to give it a try. I created and virtual machine running Centos and Graphite …


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