Author: Aaron Rombaut
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Changing the Primary Network Identifier (PNID) on vCenter
Preface This has been occurring to me a lot lately. vCenter gets deployed and configured with a hostname. You are likely not giving it much thought until later when a particular situation arises. When it’s time to upload Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and you receive the following warning, “Error occurred while fetching tls: Invalid…
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How to Get Values from a Nested Ansible Dictionary
The following block of code is used to get a list of files from a directory. It then registers a variable with the contents of any files that were found. This next block is used to display the contents of the registered variable. The result of the debug command is below. Notice that the “files”…
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Prepare vRealize Operations for Ansible
Adding an Ansible Service Account User to vRealize Operations Connect to the vRealize Operations appliance via the console. Out of the box on an 8.6.3 appliance, the /etc/ssh/sshd_conf file is set to PermitRootLogin yes (line 32, not commented out) and PermitRootLogin no (line 128, not commented out). Since the line disabling root login occurs further…