Recently I’ve been using Ansible to push out updates to vSphere environments that have a lot of hosts, but no working installation of VMWare Update Manager available. During the creation of the below playbook, I found a few interesting caveats to using Ansible to manage your ESXI hosts and vCenter. To resolve this, I’ve created …
Using Ansible to Update ESXI VIB’s and manage vCenter at scale. Read More »
Background If you have an Onkyo receiver, you probably notice odd issues with the network stack at times, causing various services (Spotify, DLNA, Etc) to stop responding to requests. The only resolution for fixing this state on the receiver is a physical power cycle (A soft reboot will not work). This is a well documented …
Onkyo Receiver Service Monitoring and remediation with Python/Grafana/InfluxDB and Vera Read More »
Packaging Python scripts with Docker In Part 1 of this post I covered the creation of the initial MyUsps notification script. There’s quite a few dependencies in the environment required for running this script. At a bare minimum you will need a functional Linux or Windows environment with the following dependencies GeckoDriver Firefox v59 Selenium …
Checking your snail mail with Python/Docker and Slack. (Part 2) Read More »
Background Recently I became aware of a service for USPS called “Informed Delivery”. This service will allow you to view mail items coming to your physical mailbox before they arrive, as well as a get an email with the same information. This is a very cool service but unfortunately there is no way to get …
Checking your snail mail with Python/Docker and Slack. (Part 1) Read More »
I’ve been working on practicing my Python skills by working on getting various temperature statistics from my home server room into Influxdb, Then charting them with Grafana. It’s pretty amazing what you can do with a minimal investment of parts, and a little time. It’s also a chance to get down and dirty on some …
Cheap environmental monitoring with Raspberry Pi/Grafana/InfluxDB Read More »