Thursday, July 13, 2023

Securing the Netcool EWS Probe

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Background The Netcool Probe for Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS Probe) documentation leads you to create the probe with a very large s...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Configuring the Prometheus JSON Exporter to Parse a JSON Array

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 Background The Prometheus JSON Exporter  allows you to parse arbitrary JSON data into Prometheus metrics. You'll even find some example...
Monday, April 10, 2023

I bet you don't fully understand the power of a CI/CD pipeline

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If your team is delivering something digital, you MUST use a CI/CD pipeline.  I'm sure you've heard of CI/CD (Continuous Integration...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Sending Kibana (free/open source) Alerts via Webhook Using Fluent-Bit (free)

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Background This is a case where we helped a customer save quite a bit of money by using software they already owned rather than paying a lar...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Tunneling X11 over SSH as a different user

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Background X11 tunneling over SSH is pretty straightforward as long as you don't need to su to another user on the target system. When y...

Modify kibana.yml after deploying Kibana with Helm

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If you deploy Kibana using the Elastic helm chart with default values, what you'll find is that you don't have any obvious way to m...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Installing .pak Files on WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x

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Background In WAS 7.0 (and possibly earlier), the WebSphere Update Installer was used to install WAS fix packs, which would have a file exte...