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Category Archives: Scripting
Automating SSL Certificate Replacement with the Aria Suite Lifecycle API
Someone recently asked me if there was an API to replace the Aria Operations for Logs SSL certificate programmatically. In this case, Aria Suite Lifecycle was already deployed and used to manage multiple Aria Operations for Logs clusters, primarily used … Continue reading
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Getting Started with Bruno: A Beginner’s Guide to Simplifying API Interactions
I’ve recently been working with APIs more than ever. A colleague recently introduced me to Bruno, an offline, open-source API client. For the most part, I had been interacting with APIs using swagger UIs in product or with PowerShell’s Invoke-RestMethod. … Continue reading
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Are my ESXi hosts sending syslog to Aria Operations for Logs?
I was recently working on an issue where a query in Aria Operations for Logs was not returning an event that I really expected to be present. After a bit of troubleshooting, I found that the ESXi host was sending … Continue reading
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Leveraging VMware Aria Operations for Power Consumption Tracking
I’ve been looking for a good reason to try out the Aria Operations Management Pack Builder, ever since a peer of mine built one for Pi-Hole back in early 2023. One thing that I thought would be of particular interest … Continue reading
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Exploring VM Security: How to Identify Encrypted Virtual Disks in vSphere
I was recently looking at some virtual machines in a lab and trying to determine which had encrypted virtual disks vs. encrypted configuration folders only. This data is visible in the vSphere UI. From the VM list view we can … Continue reading
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