Grafana has become a very popular tool for monitoring systems and applications partly due to the amount of features and integrations it provides. The graphs it produces are beautiful. However sometimes you need to show a string or a value instead of a full graph. For that purpose […]
While most of the vendors and their platforms (including DellEMC) are having Ansible modules published, but there are instances where functionality you’re trying to use isn’t covered in the available module or simply modules aren’t available at all. In such situations you’ve no choice than using Ansible URI […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (6th Part) of this blog series, we discussed how to prepare Ansible Tower/AWX with Dell EMC storage credentials. In this blog post, we will install Dell EMC PowerStore collection on Ansible AWX and go […]
There are many use cases where VxRAIL manager, VMware vCenter Console, or vSuite will not be enough for your goals in mind. So, for monitoring and management of your VxRAIL cluster, you can utilize the VxRAIL REST API for achieving your end goal in mind. There are multiple […]
In this article we will explore how to create incidents in ServiceNow using the REST API. This article was a stepping stone for this video that shows how to integrate ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams and alerts from infrastructure. You might also be interested in the second post in this […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (5th part) of this blog series, we discussed how to install Ansible AWX / Tower in a docker container and Dell EMC Ansible modules inside the Ansible AWX / Tower container. In this […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In this 5th part, we will discuss about Ansible Tower (using AWX) and how to install and configure the same. Overview In my posts till now you might noticed that I have only used command line option to […]
I recently came across a strange issue while installing Docker on CentOS (version 8) machine. Issue – When I tried below options to install docker on my machine I got the same error every time. Installation Commands Used Error message received Resolution – To resolve this issue, first […]
I have seen this error multiple times during my Ansible playbooks execution but always ignored it because I always got the expected result. Eventually, I wanted to get rid of any errors/warnings from my final version of the playbook and wanted to take care of this error as […]
I have been working with Ansible for automating Kubernetes deployment using CentOS VM templates. As a pre-requisite we need to ensure net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables and net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables is set to 1. I created below tasks in my Ansible role playbook. But when I executed this playbook I got below error After […]