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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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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 …
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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This error can happen on Linux and Windows, and the cause could be the same. On Windows Server 2012R2 I opened a command prompt. To be able to delete a directory from the Tomcat webapps folder, I have issued the shutdown command. When I started the server with the startup command, and navigated to my local …
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 …
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
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 …
The Chocolatey home page is at https://chocolatey.org/ Install Chocolatey Navigate to the Chocolatey website at https://chocolatey.org/ and follow the latest instructions. At the time of writing the instructions were Using the Command prompt Open a command prompt as Administrator, Install Chocolatey with the command @”%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe” -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString(‘https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1’))” && SET “PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin” Using …
When you launch an EC2 instance in AWS and the Chef script is trying to set tags on the instance you may get the error message: The instance ID ‘…’ does not exist It can happen when you launch the instance in one AWS account, and the tagging script tries to find the instance in another …
Artifactory supports multiple repository types, Docker is one of them. To create a new Docker repository in Artifactory Set the Custom Base URL of the Artifactory server From the Artifactory documentation at https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Configuring+NGINX “When using an HTTP proxy, the links produced by Artifactory, as well as certain redirects contain the wrong port and use the http instead …
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