Amazon Web Services – AWS CLI Command Reference

November 20, 2020
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You may use this link to access the documentation for the AWS CLI Command Reference. Additionally, according to the official AWS documentation “The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool that provides a consistent interface for interacting with all parts of AWS.”

Amazon Web Services – Configure Password Policy with AWS CLI

November 20, 2020
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You may use the following command from the AWS Command Line Interface to configure the account password policy. This is an example configure and more information may be found here.

aws iam update-account-password-policy –minimum-password-length 8 –require-uppercase-characters –require-lowercase-characters –require-numbers –no-require-symbols –max-password-age 60 –hard-expiry –allow-users-to-change-password –password-reuse-prevention 24

VMware – Linux CentOS VMware Tools Installation

September 23, 2020
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The article in this link provides step by step instructions for installing VMware Tools on Linux virtual machines.

Additionally, upon executing the command ./vmware-install.pl, as the root user, I was met with an access denied error. The solution was to run the command perl ./vmware-install.pl.

Amazon Web Services – Certification

July 29, 2020
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I am officially an Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect.

Ubuntu – Eth0 Missing after Virtual Machine Migration

May 8, 2020
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I recently performed the migration of a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) running Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS to VMware using the VMware vCenter Converter. After the migration the VM would not connect to the network. Upon research I found that the eth0 network interface was renamed to ens160. This was determined by running the following command:

dmesg | grep eth0

There was a line that said:

vmxnet3 0000:03:00.0 ens160: renamed from eth0

The final step was to create a backup of the /etc/network/interfaces file then edit it using the vi editor by removing all entries of eth0 and replacing them with the new network interface name of ens160.

VMware ESXi 6.7 – View the ARP Table

April 30, 2020
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Recently, I needed to select the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for various VMkernel adapters. In selecting IP addresses you must be certain that the IP address is not already in use to avoid an IP address conflict. One way to determine this is to ping the IP address in question. However, what do you do if ICMP traffic is filtered?

In that case, you can ping the IP address in question from another host on the subnet and view it’s Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) table. The command below may be used to view the ARP table of a VMware ESXi 6.7 host.

esxcli network ip neighbor list

Microsoft Windows Command Prompt – Configure Network Settings

April 24, 2020
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You may use the following commands from the Windows command prompt to configure the IP address and DNS server of a server running Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard. You will need to modify the name of the network interface card, IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, and DNS server.

netsh
interface ip set address name=”ethernet” static 10.0.25.100 255.255.255.0 10.0.25.1
interface ip set dns “ethernet” static 10.0.50.100
interface ip show config
exit

Lastly, more information may be found here.

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 – Get IP Address

April 24, 2020
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Have you ever connected to a remote server but didn’t know what it’s Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) Internet Protocol (IP) address was?

Well, you may use the following command to get the IP address of an iDRAC8.

racadm getniccfg

Additionally, more information may be found here.

Microsoft Hyper-V – View All Virtual Machines in a Failover Cluster

April 16, 2020
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You may use the following Microsoft Windows PowerShell cmdlet to view all of the virtual machines in a Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Failover Cluster. In order for this cmdlet to provide the list of virtual machines it will need to be run from a Hyper-V host in the cluster.

Get-ClusterGroup | ? {$_.GroupType -eq ‘VirtualMachine’ } | Get-VM

Microsoft Office 365 – Export Group Members

April 16, 2020
AutomationMicrosoft Office 365Microsoft Windows PowerShell

You may use the following commands to connect to Microsoft Office 365 from Windows PowerShell then export the members of a group to a file of your choice.

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
$UserCredential = Get-Credential
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking
Get-UnifiedGroup -Identity “<<<INSERT_GROUP_NAME>>>” | Get-UnifiedGroupLinks -LinkType Member | Out-File -Filepath “<<<INSERT_FILE_PATH>>>”
Remove-PSSession $Session