WorkJeff

Location: Indiana, USA

I just joined the board of a local Neighborhood Association (NOT an HOA). We're a very small 501c3, and I'm trying to understand what is considered political campaigning for our purposes. If a local political candidate asks us, if they can have a few minutes during the meeting to introduce themselves and answer questions from attendees, is that permissible so long as we are consistent and do not endorse either the candidate or the party?

I'm testing out using Ansible for the first time to control RHEL9 VMs. I've got a few playbooks with like 72 tasks that all work which is great, but...

When I install ansible-core on my controller it's 2.15.13, and it says that's the most up to date. I get warnings that the community.general collection does not support Ansible version 2.15.13, and I saw that I've tried installing it both with dnf and with python pip.

I've read about issues supporting RHEL8, but is ansible already tossing RHEL9 aside? Do I need to switch to a RHEL10 controller to get the latest Ansible?

I'm mostly Windows admin here, and we're now adding enough Linux servers to where I'm trying to get my manual setup document and accompanying scripts into Ansible because it takes too long, and I make mistakes.

Where I'm insecure today is whether it's better to delete any competing config files or just set mine to a higher precedence like name them zz-filename.conf?

I've got this Catalyst 9300 on my desk. I think someone tried to update it, and it's in a boot loop, but it also might be dead. It finishes the loop before any status LEDs come on and doesn't enter rommon when I try. Any other recovery tricks I can try on it before calling it dead? Below is the loop.

Initializing Hardware...

Initializing Hardware......


      Insyde H2OFFT (Flash Firmware Tool) Version (SEG) 200.00.00.02-Beta
     Copyright (C) 2018 Insyde Software Corp. All Rights Reserved.


        Platform    Name: Grangeville
        Current  Version: GRNV.05.05.15.0026
        Update   Version: GRNV.05.05.15.0026


Initia

My ssh banner text is mandated by legal, and it includes line breaks. Is there a way to account for that in the Audit Files' Compliance Checks BANNER TEXT field? The required text is like:

ATTENTION USERS

THIS SYSTEM IS MONITORED...

My first VASA certs are about to expire, I'm down to my last 2 weeks, and I'm terrified. The "Refresh Certificate" button in vSphere just says, "The refresh of the provider certificate was not completed successfully." Pure support said use the purecert CLI method instead.

Does Pure/vSphere grind to a halt when these certs expire? If I use "purecert" will my VMs be disconnected from their LUNs?

The Pure tech's email wasn't very reassuring.

Not a trick question. Some logs are harder to find or read than others, but there are those among us who will never open a Windows Event Viewer.

What makes you different? Why did you start? Can it be taught, or is it an internal drive to know things?

Long story short, I'm working on testing for our Windows 11 workstation and VDI migration and noticed that I'm not seeing the option for "Log in as Current User" anymore in the clients. I don't use that feature, so I have no idea when it quit. Also, older workstations seem to be fine. I've tested multiple versions between 8.4 - 8.12 on multiple new clients and none of them are showing the option. I checked an older client (Win 10 22h2 running Horizon 8.7) and it shows the option both before and after I add the View server, and it logs in as current user. I did notice in the %LocalAppData%\VMware\VDM\logs\vmware-horizon-client-...txt logfile that there's a difference between a new client and

I'm a Systems Administrator, but I verify all the deliveries to all teams under our Director, including the AV team. Our AV guys didn't know/care what it meant, so I thought I'd ask reddit.

The cables felt dry, but my first guess was maybe it's a wax or lubricant to help pull the cables during install?

Below is a typical event that might have a long string in a field like the "Message" field that I want to pop in a table in my alert. I know a little regex, so in regex, I can do a look behind to match on "contoso\billy," but I really don't know how to grab that for my table. I'm not sure what to search for.

(?<=Member:$\s\sSecurity ID:\s\s).*$


LogName=Security
EventCode=4732
EventType=0
ComputerName=billy-pc.contoso.local
SourceName=Microsoft Windows security auditing.
Type=Information
RecordNumber=592917
Keywords=Audit Success
TaskCategory=Security Group Management
OpCode=Info
Message=A member was added to a security-enabled local group.

Are there any \*user based\* options to trigger screen locks on inactivity? I'm being **told** to bend over backward and do flips for some very special people who want to use unmanaged BYOD. I would love to make *their* VDIs' screens to lock on idle without having to manage extra Pools and OUs.