January 25th, 2012 | by matt | sysadmin, tips & tricks
Jan
25
For those looking for the slides from the puppet presentation that I gave last week, here they are.
I’ll be working on getting a screen cast of the demo up in the next week or so. Too many other things distracting me at this moment.
January 17th, 2012 | by matt | sysadmin, tips & tricks
Jan
17
For those that haven’t seen my twitter feed…
I’m going to be doing a presentation in the coming days for the local linux user group (CIALUG) on Puppet from Puppet Labs.
Free pizza and some swag will be thrown around.
The event is 100% free and should hopefully get you acquainted with all the cool stuff you can automate. Signup for your free ticket!
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January 3rd, 2012 | by matt | in the news, tips & tricks
Jan
03
On the 1st of the year, I put our my usual public goals for 2012. I have some typical goals in there of some fitness goals, career type goals and general health goals. Some of these are pretty cut and dry to track progress. I want to run 5 5K races, pretty straight forward.
But how do you track something like getting more sleep?
Here is where Mercury App comes in. I’ve been using this product for over a year now and have mainly been tracking things like my weight and job satisfaction. Adding to it Sleep time, not only how I feel about the sleep I got but actually tracking the number of hours should give me a good overall graph at the end of the year of how well I did in getting that 7+ average that I’m looking for.
So if you have a goal that you are working on the for the new year, start tracking your progress. You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish when you put your mind to it. Because the only one stopping you is YOU!
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December 15th, 2011 | by matt | in the news, sysadmin, tips & tricks
Dec
15
For those looking to see my handsome mug in person and listen to my beautiful tenor voice, I will be giving a Puppet demonstration at the January 2012 CIALUG meeting. Details on the event can be found on the events page of the cialug.org site.
Puppetlabs has stepped up to offer sponsorship of the event so besides my insightful talk, there will be pizza and t-shirts that will be handed out while supplies last or whatever game we come up with to give them away. I have a whole box of them so hopefully many of you are sporting the latest in puppet wear before the night is through.
So put it in your calendar now to join me for Pizza and Puppet on January 18th at 7PM in the LightEdge corporate headquarters.
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September 22nd, 2011 | by matt | tips & tricks, vmware
Sep
22
We’ve recently been setting up vCloud 1.5 in the office and so far we like what we’ve been seeing. During the install, we did run into a bit of an issue when we set the API urls. On our first attempt we didn’t set them and had issues uploading media. You’d think that the two would be unrelated. You’d first think that you had a permissions issue on the file system somewhere right? Wrong-o-bucko! What you need to do is set the API url in Administration > Public Addresses. Uploading media apparently uses it.
Another issue that we ran into after we set the urls was that when we went to an org URL of say vcloud.us.com/org/orgVDC, we got a Org Not Found message. A huge thanks to Dave Hill for this FAQ that solved the issue for us. Here’s the part in particular that saved us some time.
vCloud Director: Org URL Not Found
Q. In vCD, I created an org and the org URL comes up as https://cloudURL/org/tenantOrg. However, attempting to access this Org URL results in an HTTP ERROR: 404 NOT_FOUND error. How do I resolve this problem?
A. Append “/cloud” to the vCD public URL in the VCD public URL setting under the System/Administration/System Settings/Public Addresses.
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