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Generic Outline for Writing a Policy or Procedure
Initial Thoughts Polices are global in nature. All company employee’s are expect to follow the guidelines. Examples of polices include: the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to work. These a often generic guidelines that all employees must adhere to. On the other hand, procedures are typically…
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Test your DNS Proxy using a PowerShell Script
Introduction Most company’s have a policy to block dangerous websites for employees. Pornography, hate, gambling, social media are all categories that should be blocked. Either, they are big time wasters, or may be required by law to be blocked. Although you may have your proxy turned on correctly, that does not mean the bill got…
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Ping Multiple Hosts using PowerShell
Are you are working in a windows environment and need to check if a large number of hosts are online? The below ps1 script may be what you are looking for. Place all hostnames to be checked in a text file called computer.txt and on one per line. Modify the script as necessary, then ‘run’…
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Backup Files to S3 using Bash
Description A bash script will be used to copy a file from a Linux server to an S3 bucket. Next, it will run a checksum on the results to verify the upload. Finally, it will output the local file size, the local etag , the aws file size, and the aws etag value for easy…
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Validate the Integrity of a File Backup using Ansible
Introduction Running nightly file backups is a common task for administrators. How do we know the file was copied successfully with no errors? In this post, we will set up an ansible script and it will run a file integrity check using MD5 on both the source and the destination files to verify it was…
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Update, Reboot, & Get the Health of Remote Servers
Introduction Ansible was designed to remotely manage multiple Linux servers simultaneously. Scripts can be used for many common tasks like updating, rebooting, or to the check health of your Linux servers . Ansible scripts are very format sensitive, so be sure that all columns match up, as below, or it will not run. Notice that…