TeamCity Agent Unmet Requirements
When a TeamCity configuration is created there are requirements the TeamCity Agent has to meet. The creator of the build configuration can specify Explicit Requirements on the Agent Requirements page of the Build Configuration Settings. When the build…
Create a Splunk index
Splunk stores the events in separate databases based on index names. It is faster to search for events if the event types are separated into multiple indexes. To create an index for the event type you want to send to Splunk In the Settings menu select…
Enable the HTTP Event Collector in Splunk
To send events to Splunk via HTTP posts, enable the HTTP Event Collector functionality on the Splunk Enterprise server. If you operate your own Splunk server Log into the Splunk web interface as an administrator In the Settings menu select Data inputs…
How to send an event to the Splunk HTTP Event Collector
The Splunk HTTP Event Collector is the preferred way to send events to Splunk. The Splunk HTTP Event Collector closes the connection if you don’t use HTTPS when you are sending a POST message. Recv failure: Connection reset by peer To send the…
Send Alt-Control-Delete to a Windows server via Remote Desktop
When you log into a Windows server via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in some cases you need to send the Alt-Control-Delete ( in other notations Alt-Ctrl-Del, Control-Alt-Delete, Ctrl-Alt-Del ) key combination to the remote server. From a Macintosh…
Splunk App for AWS
To collect data from AWS install the Splunk App for AWS plugin. The app currently can collect information from AWS Config, Config Rules, CloudTrail, Inspector, CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs, Billing, S3, Kinesis, Metadata. New data source To set up a new…
Skip steps in an InSpec integration test based on Chef attribute values
To speed up the test of some complex recipes, I use an attribute to skip certain long-running installations when I only need to test the rest of the recipe. We will pass Chef Attribute values into an InSpec test using environment variables. Declare an…
Git Bash and Command Prompt cannot see the VirtualBox shared folder on Windows 10 guest
When you start a Windows 10 guest machine in VirtualBox on your workstation, you can set up shared folders to seamlessly copy files between your workstation and the Windows 10 guest machine. The shared folder appears in Windows Explorer as a mapped…
Refresh the environment variables in the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell window
When the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell windows open, they read the environment variables from the registry. If another process changes the value of an environment variable or creates a new one, the already open windows don’t reflect those…
Install Git on Windows
If you use two-factor authentication see Create a Personal Access Token to use it as password in the command line tools at Switching to 2-factor authentication in GitHub Configure Git for Windows Enable Page Up and Page Down Set up Git Bash to…