HOW TO GET FREE CREDIT REPORTS IN AUSTRALIA

Generally takes 10 business days.

1. Experian Drop an email to creditreport@au.experian.com Attach scanned copy of your driver’s license and medicare

MERGING MULTIPLE AVRO FILES INTO SINGLE FILE USING PYTHON

Couldn’t find any good example from Web so made one by myself.

CATCHES NOVATED LEASE COMPANY NEVER TELL YOU

Some knowledges I have accuqired from using novated lease for last 2+ years.

CDH 5.2.0 SPARK HISTORY SERVER ISSUE

5.2.0-1.cdh5.2.0.p0.36 has been released couple of days ago.

It has a small bug with its spark bit, which make unable to start spark history server.

SIMPLE PULL TO REFRESH

1. Get stuffs from https://github.com/zippy1978/jquery.scrollz

2. Add below in head section.

FOREMAN + PUPPET AUTOSIGN.CONF DOESN'T WORK

Issue: 1. Foreman generates auto sign entry when /provision called first time. (boot loader hit) 2. Once OS is done and call puppet agent run, CSR doesn’t get auto-signed. - stays in ‘pending’ status forever

LOG COMPRESSION FOR CLOUDERA MANAGER HADOOP

Cloudera manager uses standard log4j which doesn’t support compression by itself.

PUPPET DELL IDRAC CONTROL

if $::manufacturer == 'Dell Inc.' {
    exec { 'Disable DRAC SNMP':
        command =>; 'racadm config -g cfgOobSnmp -o cfgOobSnmpAgentEnable 0',
        path =>; '/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin:/bin',
        onlyif =>; '/usr/bin/test `/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/racadm getconfig -g cfgOobSnmp -o cfgOobSnmpAgentEnable` -eq 1',
    }
}

Yea, I think onlyif bit is not nice.

GENERATE BACULA CLIENT CERT/KEY PAIR VIA PUPPET

exec {'generate client key file':
command => '/usr/bin/openssl genrsa -out /bacula/bacula-client.key 2048;chmod 600 /bacula/bacula-client.key',
creates => '/bacula/bacula-client.key',
require => Package['bacula-fd'],
}

exec {'generate client cert file':
command => '/usr/bin/openssl req -new -key /bacula/bacula-client.key -x509 -subj "/C=AU/ST=somewhere/L=somewhere/O=something/CN=something" -out /bacula/bacula-client.cert',
creates => '/bacula/bacula-client.cert',
require => [ Package['bacula-fd'], Exec['generate client key file'], ],
}

exec {'combine client key and cert files':
notify => Service["bacula-fd"],
command => '/bin/cat /bacula/bacula-client.key /bacula/bacula-client.cert > /bacula/bacula-client.pem;chmod 600 /bacula/bacula-client.pem',
creates => '/bacula/bacula-client.pem',
require => [ Package['bacula-fd'], Exec['generate client key file'], Exec['generate client cert file'], ],
}

Would be nicer if I can send them to backup location but doesn’t really matter as there’s master key.

CONVERT .XVA TO .QCOW2 (OR RAW)

Figured out while running below work.

Got the hint from: http://jolokianetworks.com/70Knowledge/Virtualization/Converting_from_Citrix_XenServer_to_Xen_open_source/Xenmigrate.py And got modded .py from: http://pastebin.com/MK5Da8CB