RPM Packaging Informix IDS 11.70 for CentOS 7
This is a rough version of my documentation for installing informix inside a container and then package it as RPM, I put it here in case it benefits anything else. Stand Alone Install Make...
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Hot To Generate a Custom Color Palette For Cacti Aggregated Graphs
I had a use case where I wanted to colorizes an aggregated graph with a nice gradient color, so I looked to see how to add a new color template to Cacti, but the...
Using Ansible To Manage Trust-Point Certificates In Cisco ASA
For some time now, I was looking for a way to Integrate Let’s Encrypt (LE) with My Cisco ASA, and use LE to issue the certificates for the VPN. And now Ansible is in...
Ansible: Split A String By Length
This is something I needed to allow me to push a base64 encoded certificate into A Cisco ASA, but there was buffer limit on the input ERROR: Input line size exceeded available buffer (510...
Manually run dkms to build kernel modules
Some time dkms will fail to build a new version of a module after package upgrade or kernel upgrade, so this is my quick notes about this *note: you don’t need to add the...
How to delete a pipeline in Gitlab
As of this writing (v12.1), GitLab still don’t have way to delete pipelines in its web UI, and you can’t control how many pipelines to keep, so yo may end up with a bunch...
Ansible and Cisco ios module “Incompatible version (2.99 instead of 2.0)”
I came around this bug with a Cisco switch when I was trying to run a Ansible playbook, and got the above error message, the tl;dr is that I was able to overcome this...
Using gpg (1.x) with gpg-agent (v2.x)
If one needs to sign/encrypt multiplies files and the PGP key is encrypted, they can use the gpg-agent to keep the key accessible for some period of time and enter the password once. For...
Backup (pull) running-config from CISCO ASA using SCP
Note to my self, mostly, took some time to find this, I was able to scp to copy file from/to the flash disk (disk0) on the device, but was not able to pull the...
Laravel & Lumen with Informix DB
I was looking to try and work with Lumen to create a API frontend for few services we have, and the problem I had was to make Laravel/Lumen to work with Informix DB. I...
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