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Get your logs or errors sent to a central location.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Hello, You might have also had this problem. I've written scripts in various languages as small as unlocking an active directory account to a full student onboarding system that processes tens of thousands of students every year. But the problem is, when an exception is thrown, I may not ever hear about it because unless I'm actively looking at application logs three years after the application has been deployed, I'm probably going to miss it. So I wrote something. This is kind of reinventing the wheel I'm sure. But my solution is different because it's stupidly simple. You throw your log message, exception, innerException, StackTrace and even custom note at an API point. Give it some information as well such as application name, running environment, AKA dev, staging, dev, UAT or production, Say if the message has been generated by an operating system, application, end user, appliance, network etc then just go about your business. Every so often, log in to the UI and go through your messages. There will also shortly be a graphical dashboard but that stuff will come in a week or two when I get time. Coming soon, I will create a way of taking action on messages based on rules that are user definable. For example, when the message is an error, from the production environment and priority is critical, send an Email, or even trigger a call to another end point. For example IFTTT. Here's what I'm aiming for. CPU usage goes up on a server and I get a message on my Amazon Echo with Alexa telling me what's happened. Or let's say I'm integrating two systems and synchronizing data across. Everything is working perfectly but someone adds a new code to the data and the synchronization breaks. The system that runs this is hosted off site so I don't regularly have access to the logs. That's no problem. The message is Emailed to me so I have a full record of what happened. I can even do my investigation remotely through the exception,stack trace and inner exception. The API is asynchronous and has been tested on just one server with over 10,000 calls in one minute. So it will handle lode. If you want to try it, your welcome. https://logs.itmanagement.systems Let me know off list and I'll set you up with an account. This is not an advertisement by the way. I'm offering it to people on this list for free. I will want to try to make some money on it at some point but I have no idea how to do that yet. Here's an example of some Powershell that sends a message to the endpoint. $ClientSecret = 'RemovedForObviousReasons' $body = @{ LogMessage = "This is a log message saved by Darragh on Monday"; Exception = "This is an exception. Usually full of really long and hard to read chunks of text. " StackTrace = "You thought the exception had a lot of text. Well, wait until you see the stuff flung out by the stack trace!" InnerException = "More information that should help with debugging the problem even before you get to the application. " CustomData = "Some notes that you might want to write when you are sending the error to be stored." ClientSecret = $ClientSecret Priority = 1 # 1=High, 2=Medium,3=Low LogType = 1 # 1=Error, 2=Warning, 3=Information LogSource = 2 # 1=OS, 2=Application, 3=Network, 4=Appliance, 5=User, 6=Server ApplicationName = "DCUDashboard" EnvironmentName = "Staging" } | ConvertTo-Json Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://logapi.itmanagement.systems/api/client/v1/log/add" -Method 'Post' -Body $body -ContentType 'application/json' Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Performing, Promoting and Sharing traditional Irish music Performance: www.darraghpipes.ie<http://www.darraghpipes.ie> Music at the Gate: www.musicatthegate.ie<http://www.musicatthegate.ie> Ceol FM: www.ceol.fm<http://www.ceol.fm> Tel: 00353(0)877670464 Email: darragh(a)ceol.fm

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Log and monitoring help please?
by Zee 11 Oct '20

11 Oct '20

Hi all, Not so sure my first message made it to the list, I apologize for a second message. I hopefully might find myself doing more sys administration tasks, one of which is to ensure that servers are performing optimally, as well as looking at system/application logs when it comes to troubleshooting. I'd like to know how have you gone about this in an accessible way please? I remember trying to look at event viewer logs with JFW and that the MMC console kept crashing or that jaws was really sluggish in the console? Are their alternative apps when it comes to log analysis from an accessibility standpoint? How about graphs regarding CPU/Memory/Disk performance? I apologize for the many questions, Your help would really be appreciated. Kind Regards

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vmware workstation for linux
by mattias jonsson 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

are it not designed to work without graphical environments? i search for a virtual machine environment

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Proxmox (was RE: Re: vmware workstation for linux)
by Andrew Hodgson 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

Hi, Has anyone tried Proxmox on a dedicated server? Right now I use my Synology NAS for running a Linux and a Windows VM, using the OCR function if I need to get a screen capture. Audio redirection won't run like it does on VmWare workstation of course but just putting it out there. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: mattias jonsson <mj(a)mjw.se> Sent: 10 October 2020 16:31 To: jheim(a)math.wisc.edu; Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: vmware workstation for linux John Lets say you use virtualbox on a server e.g a dedicated server how do you install the guest? Skickades från E-post<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> för Windows 10 Från: John G Heim<mailto:jheim@math.wisc.edu> Skickat: den 10 oktober 2020 17:04 Till: Mailing list for blind system administrators<mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>; mattias jonsson<mailto:mj@mjw.se> Ämne: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] vmware workstation for linux I use VirtualBox for linux. As far as I know, everything you can do in the graphical interface can also be done at the command line. So it is very accessible. Here's a tip about running a virtual machine in Linux: You can take a screen capture and then run an OCR program on it to read the screen even if sound isn't working. I think almost all virtual environments have screen cap functions. In VirtualBox you get a png image of the screen. I have found that gocr works much better than tesseract for recognizing the text in those screen caps. On 10/10/20 6:01 AM, mattias jonsson wrote: > are it not designed to work without graphical environments? i search for a virtual machine environment > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org

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windows server 2019
by mattias jonsson 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

are this iso not for install: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2019?fil… you can boot it in vmware and select version but the install will not continue

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remote system admin job with speech
by Isaac 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Hi, is there a way to access a remote way to access another machine with out speech playing on the end users machine?

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Log and Performance monitoring help please?
by Zee 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Hi all, I hopefully might find myself doing more sys administration tasks, one of which is to ensure that servers are performing optimally, as well as looking at system/application logs when it comes to troubleshooting. I'd like to know how have you gone about this in an accessible way please? I remember trying to look at event viewer logs with JFW and that the MMC console kept crashing or that jaws was really sluggish in the console? Are their alternative apps when it comes to log analysis from an accessibility standpoint? How about graphs regarding CPU/Memory/Disk performance? I apologize for the many questions, Your help would really be appreciated. Kind Regards

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new job with remote workload
by Isaac 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Hi, had a question, is there a way to perform a remote session on a computer using the screen reader on my computer so that the remote computer doesn't hear the chatter of my screen reader. I have used team viewer in the past but unless I crank up a screen reader on the other computer it doesn't work. Thanks

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sql
by Isaac 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Hi, how decent is sql studio for the blind

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Terminal copy/paste functions in Windows Subsystem for Linux
by Jason White 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

I am running WSL version 2 under Windows 10 version 2004, with all Windows updates applied. Is there a keyboard-based approach to copying/pasting text from/to the terminal, either using the default Windows console, or Windows Terminal? Windows Terminal appears to be accessible via NVDA at the moment, but not yet with JAWS, based on my testing with both screen readers.

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