Ansible is a buzz word at the moment. Ever since Redhat purchased Ansible back in 2016, it has been rare to hear about anyone deploying alternative automation systems. Recently Ansible has been commercialized into Ansible Tower allowing a wider audience to take advantage of the benefits of automation. I recently
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Just like with VMWare or Hyper-V, Amazon’s AWS supports snapshots and they make it easy to create them and restore from them. But in true AWS style, they don’t make it obvious how it works. I’m hoping to change that in this article. I’ve used the word “snapshot” but strictly
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Zabbix is a great monitoring system but only when you actually get alerted to issues. There is no “Test” button so you have to trigger an event. The good news is (despite what you’ve read in other posts) there is an easy and consistent way to test alerts. The idea
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The Australian government is continuing its push for the public to start using the centralized health record system. The idea being that i could move from one doctor to another with ease – essentially my records follow me. The Health Minister Greg Hunt is under pressure to convince the public
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This article explains and gives examples of how to use Varnish 4 to cache in a fully HTTPS environment. This example was created on a CentOS 7 server. Make sure to make SELinux allowances for NginX to listen on port 81. Here are the facts: Nginx is listening on ports
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This article demonstrates how to delete old data from a MySQL table and recover the disk space from the removed data. This works with MYISAM databases. USE mydatabase; DELETE FROM mytable WHERE time < NOW() - INTERVAL 1 WEEK; The above will remove anything older than 1 week. We're relying
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Scenario: You’re at home and want to log into the office Intranet to finish up some work. But wait, the Intranet is on your corporate network and you’re at home. Sure you can use your corporate VPN – if you have one and can remember the credentials. If not, consider
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Report after report shows that the problem of information security is getting worse at a faster rate than we are getting better. It is an uphill battle and as we climb, the hill is getting taller. The only hope is change. The question is, what change is necessary? That’s the
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All businesses need a way to induct their new staff into the business. So far it’s either paper based, computer based or purely verbal. This article is for those that want to use a computer based system. Here’s an important tip. If you’re going to use an LMS (learning management
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Recently I received an email forwarded-on by a company director who asked the question “How are we treating IT security in our business?”. I was pleasantly surprised. The email was originally sent by someone who had done the course and felt compelled to share it with those in similar positions
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