vRo – Active Directory Group Name Dropdown
Goal: Produce a list of AD group names in a dropdown for selection on catalog request for vRa. This can be used for vRa or vRo as an External Source on a field in the…
Ansible – Manage Active Directory Group Membership
Goal: Have Ansible manage the department based groups in an organization. The goal is to use the user department attribute in AD to maintain department based group membership for the organization. Requirements: Ansible - I…
vRealize Orchestrator – RestAPI Action to Input Form…
I have come back to vRealize Orchestrator after some time as I have colleagues that use the product. I have always found it fairly tough to use as it is highly dependent on Javascript and…
Ansible Playbook Basics
Basic on Playbooks - Plays are a collection of key value pairs. Keys in the same pair should share the same indentation. Playbooks are YAML files with the .yml file extension. Indentation is super important…
Running Ad-hoc Commands in Ansible Tower
This should be short but I have trouble finding this every time I look for it. So I am writing about it here because it took me forever to find it in the first place.…
Ansible Tower with Active Directory Integration
Below outlines an example implementation of Active Directory integration with Ansible Tower. Goal.. We want to have a new org implemented in Tower tied to AD groups and Teams built to assign permissions to Job…
SANnav 2.0 – Setup Active Directory Authentication
There are many configuration scenarios for Authentication in SANnav. They all revolve the following. What is the Primary Authentication mechanism for SANnav. What is the Secondary Authentication mechanism and what System is handling Authorization for…
SANnav 2.0 Single Node Install
Roughly a year ago Broadcom / Brocade introduced it's new SAN management software named SANnav. This software will replace BNA as the go forward SAN management platform. The install is only supported on Redhat or…
VM Alarm Script
The python script here does the stuff below. Although I built this to write the attributes you could easily stub in a CMDB or something and it would happen every time on create. Could be…
How I use VSCode and Git
Discussing how my workflows are with other IT folk is always tough. I find I do most things in a unique way. Which is probably why I am always automating. Without it I will do…
Vagrant Ansible Sandbox with VirtualBox
Not too long ago I built a little Vagrant sandbox for VirtualBox with Ansible so that I could develop and test playbooks while offline from the lab and on my laptop. Here is a link…
Getting Started with Source Control Management for the…
Using a scratch and defined repository Throughout the years I have written many a quick-and-dirty script or function to augment a process, standardize input or normalize data. These usually get tossed around the enterprise on…