Any IT professional with even a little experience is familiar with DHCP. Dynamic host configuration protocol is responsible for handing out IP addresses on your network. there is generally one device or server responsible for handing out IP addresses on a given Network. Using DHCP, you can specify the IP address, subnet mask, DNS server, […]
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Sometimes virtual machines within your VMWare environment may show up as invalid. The machine is in-fact still running at this point; but you are unable to manage the invalid virtual machine(s). This can happen for a few reasons, but in my experience the most common cause is when the esx host is unable to access
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At first glance Network Attached storage, also called NAS is not much different from a Storage Area Network (SAN). They both attach to a network, they both provide storage to computers on their network. There are some major differences between the two storage roles. However, these two things are becoming more and more the same
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MacOS ships with Python 2.7 Pre-installed. This is helpful when you are just getting started with Python since you can just start using it with no setup. Unfortunately, Python 2.7 is going out of support in 2020, so we all need to get to upgrading to Python 3. When you start upgrading Python, there is
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When writing programs and scripts, it is important that you follow standards in the way you structure your data. These standards are what allows one program to generate some data, another program to consume that data. It is also used when one program needs to save some data for use later on. This structured data
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If you do any sort of automation, you have probably done a fair amount of work using the CLI on your computer. This is applicable regardless of the platform. If you use Python you might have asked yourself how you could start making your own command line utilities to help you in your daily
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The best practices for Hashicorp Vault are to destroy your default root token after you have finished the initial setup of Vault. However, you will still find times when you need a new root token for certain advanced functions. This article describes how to create a new root token using your vault unseal keys. Instructions
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The default authentication method in Vault is Tokens. Anytime you authenticate, regardless of the method, Vault is creating a token, storing it somewhere, then using it for future interactions. This article will discuss the process for managing your vault tokens using the vault CLI Authentication using a token When you first install Vault, you will
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Understanding the Python Math Operators is very important. You use these operators throughout the Python language whether it be concatenating strings, doing basic algebra, complex calculus, or delving into data science. In this article, we will cover the basics of doing math with python including how to do multiplication, division, addition subtraction, exponents, and orders
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As there are a variety of tasks you may need to achieve, there are many different ways to connect to your storage system. Each operating system has differing methods for utilizing these protocols, and different operating systems will perform differently with each protocol. For the purpose of this article we are going to focus on
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