There are plenty of plugins for elasticsearch to enable authentication for HTTP API. All of them seem to be a bit beta.

As it is with passwords, one may also have multiple ssh keys on multiple pc’s. I use subdirs in the ssh folder to maintain multiple ssh keys. The following example examines this for my github ssh key.

If you need to use a certificate contained in pfx file for httpd f.e. you could use the following to extract what you need.

Sometimes one may want to define a specific OU as default location for newly joined computers in an Active Directory Domain. This can be done very easy: redircmd <OU> redircmd OU=Clientrechner,OU=main-location,DC=my,DC=domain,DC=de  

Download Adobe Reader: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.06/de_DE/ Adobe Reader Customization Wizard: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/11.x/11.0.00/misc/ Extract Acrobat Reader AdbeRdr11006_de_DE.exe -nos_o”MyFolder” -nos_ne Customize load msi package in Customization Wizard define your settings write transform-file by “Transform–>Write Transform” menu  Set GPO Add MSI package to software installation GPO add mst package as modification in advanced deployment step    

It may happen that your mysql instances face some diskspace problems. Usually this is an application-side problem. Following steps may help to identify the bogus points. Show databases and their sizes SELECT table_schema “DB Name”, Round(Sum(data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024, 1) “DB Size in MB” FROM information_schema.tables GROUP BY table_schema; Display table information […]

If you use curl to get some json in your shell and try to read what you got, this is no fun. I discovered jq as a very nice commandline tool to format json output. Fetching graphite time-series data is a good example on how to use jq. curl -s “http://graphite_host/render?target=my.host.system.cpu.total.*&format=json&from=-5min” | jq ‘.’ [ { “datapoints”: […]