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 configuration is created, TeamCity automatically adds Build Step Requirements. The bottom of the same page shows the list …
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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 Indexes Click the New Index button Enter the name of the …
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 Select the HTTP Event Collector link In the upper right corner click the …
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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 event from the Macintosh Bash terminal curl -k https://MY_SPLUNK_SERVER_IP:8088/services/collector -H ‘Authorization: Splunk MY_TOKEN’ …
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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 laptop On a Macintosh laptop press the fn+control+option+delete keys to send Alt-Control-Delete to the server. From a Windows …
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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 data source, click the Set up button Already set up data source To add a …
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 attribute in the atrributes.rb file with a safe default value, to allow the …
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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 network location. For more on this see Configure the Windows virtual machine in VirtualBox …
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 changes. To reload the environment variables into open Command Prompt and PowerShell windows execute refreshenv
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 Navigate to https://git-scm.com/download/win to download Git for Windows. The page automatically downloads the installer for the operating system you use. Install the application Accept the default values, including these: Make …