Sometimes you work in environments where yum (or another package manager is not available), and you are expected to provide an offline installation of a product. In one case I had to provide a syslog-ng offline installation for CentOS
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How to set up Zoho Mail with your own domain
Recently Google has announced that Workspaces will be paid if you want to be able to use the email function of workspaces. So I was looking for some free alternatives and stumbled upon Zoho Mail. I will show you step-by-step how to set up Zoho Mail with your own domain.
Psst! Need a new domain? Try Namecheap
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How to Register to Splunk Partner Portal and transfer Certifications and Learning
Intro
This document will describe how to register to Splunk Partner Portal and transfer Certifications and Learning from your old email to a new one.
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Centos – repair corrupt boot drive
After unexpected shutdown of my Mac, UTM VMs (that were running at that time) failed to start with following message “Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue”,
After digging a little it turned out that the problem was a corrupt boot drive.
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UTM VM fails to start “qcow2: Image is corrupt; cannot be opened read/write”
Issue
After trying to repair a wrong drive, my VM on UTM crashed and failed to start with this message “qcow2: Image is corrupt; cannot be opened read/write”
By the way here is how to repair CentOS boot drive correctly
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Splunk Connect for Kafka
My journey with Splunk Connect for Kafka.
Splunk Connect for Kafka (aka SC4K) allows to collect events from Kafka platform and send them to Splunk. While the sending part (to Splunk) was pretty straight forward to me, the collection part (from Kafka) was very new, as I’ve had no experience with Kafka eco-system. So I guess will start with it.
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Get Score Breakdown for Pearson VUE Exam
When having an exam with Pearson VUE, you would only get pass/faill result, but what if you want to know which section of the exam you have scored low and you want to brush up on the relevant skills? Here is how to get score breakdown for Pearson VUE exam.
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cntlm – Proxy returning invalid challenge
After setting up Cntlm on my new MAC at work and trying it for the first time I’ve got a “Proxy returning invalid challenge” error.
Splunk Certification Tracks
So here is my understanding of the current Splunk Certification Tracks.
Of course you can go to the “source” https://www.splunk.com/en_us/training.html , but may be that visual representation will help someone
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Using goss and Ansible templates for System Testing
Here is how we have used goss and Ansible templates to run system tests after building syslog-ng servers
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