In the vSphere UI, some hosts will occasionally trigger an alarm of “ESXi Host Certificate Status”. VMware Skyline has a finding for this issue as well — vSphere-HostCertStatusAlarm. The resolution is typically straightforward, right click the host > certificates > renew certificate. However, if you have hundreds of hosts where…
From time to time it is helpful to be able to send a syslog message to confirm that things are working correctly — firewall ports are open, nothing is filtering out the traffic in line, including a timestamp in the message body to show times are being received correctly, etc.…
I may bit a bit late to the party, but I recently found out about Tailscale. I was looking for a remote access solution for my lab, which is behind my ISPs Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT). This means I don’t have a publicly accessible IP address, so I really need…
One service that I use quite frequently in my lab is Jenkins. I have this running on a Windows VM and have a variety of tasks that run from there, some on a scheduled and others consumed by web hooks. For example, I have a job that Aria Automation calls…