Month: November 2017

PowerShell – Install Nagios client on a remote Windows Server

As Windows Administrators, we need to install many tools on the Windows Server as part of the onboarding process. One such critical tool is Nagios, used for monitoring servers.

The onboarding process takes a heavy toll on the on-boarding enginers when we are on-boarding new client. This is because we have to install tools on 50-100s of servers. Manual installation of each installation will take ~20 minutes depending on the configuration.

The best solution to remove manual effort, human error and to increase ROI is to automate the process.

I have written a PowerShell script that does just that. You can download the script from my Microsoft Script Center repository:

Install Nagios client on a remote windows server

 

The script will install Nagios client to a remote server. It copies the MSI and the INI file to the remote computer’s C drive and then executes it. Once the execution is completed, it will copy the “nsclient.ini” file to the installed folder.

Pre-Requisites:

– The servers are to be domain joined.

– Powershell remoting to be enabled on both servers.

Next Steps:

You can enhance the script, that accepts server list and executes against all the servers.

Tested on: Windows Server 2012 R2

Note: You may have to edit the script if you are changing the name of the MSI file. The script uses: NSCP-0.4.4.19-x64.msi

 

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PowerShell – List Azure Backup Items

Azure Backup is the Azure-based service you can use to back up (or protect) and restore your data in the Microsoft cloud. Azure Backup replaces your existing on-premises or off-site backup solution with a cloud-based solution that is reliable, secure, and cost-competitive.

Azure Backup offers multiple components that you download and deploy on the appropriate computer, server, or in the cloud. The component, or agent that you deploy depends on what you want to protect.

All Azure Backup components (no matter whether you’re protecting data on-premises or in the cloud) can be used to back up data to a Recovery Services vault in Azure.

You might come across a need to automate the process of generating a report every day and share it with stakeholders to keep track of your backup details.

The PowerShell script will list the “Backup Items” from your Azure subscription. And saves the data into an excel file under the folder  “C:\Backup_job_report.” The excel file will contain multiple worksheets for each “Vault” that exists. The script expects you to provide a text file containing the list of Azure Servers, for which you want to fetch the “Backup Items.”

The details include:

1. VM Resource Name

2. VM Name

3. Recovery Vault Name

4. Last Backup Status

5. Latest Recovery Point

The script is uploaded to Microsoft Technet Script Center’s repository:

List Azure Backup Items using Powershell

You can obtain this information from the Azure portal. Please traverse as shown below:

Sign in to Azure Portal >> Search and select “Recovery Services vaults” >> Select a vault >> Click on “Backup Items” under protected items >> Click on “Azure Virtual Machines”.

 

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IBM SoftLayer – List, Sync, and Download data from IBM COS S3 bucket

This blog can be treated as an extension to my blog on “Delete IBM COS S3 files older than X days”

Today I shall be sharing PowerShell scripts to List, Sync and Download data from IBM COS S3 bucket.

Pre-requisite is to have the AWS CLI modules installed on the machine.

List all the objects in a bucket

  1. The script will expect AccessKey, SecretKey, and BucketName.
  2. It creates a log file to log the flow of the script.
  3. Make sure you set the endpoint to $endpoint variable. [This can also be made as a parameter to make the script more dynamic]
  4. The script then dynamically sets the “AWS CLI profile” with profile name “test.”
  5. Execute the AWS CLI command, and un-set the profile.
<#
This script will list all the objects in a bucket.
EXAMPLE:
.\list_backup_files.ps1 -AccessKey ‘ZVS9wEvUUYSG8f’ -SecretKey ‘ENOpkewRzAoHGWnvulL1KbNOIRp7rpWidkV’ -BucketName ‘abc-abc-abc’
#>
param(
[String]$AccessKey,
[String]$SecretKey,
[String]$BucketName
)
# Setting up the log file
$Loc = Get-Location
$Date = Get-Date -format yyyyMMdd_hhmmsstt
$logfile = $Loc.path + “\log_list_backup_files_” + $Date + “.txt”
Write-Host ‘The log file path: ‘ $logfile -ForegroundColor Green
####### Function to write informationn to log file #######
function log($string, $color){
if ($Color -eq $null) {$color = “white”}
write-host $string -foregroundcolor $color
$temp = “: ” + $string
$string = Get-Date -format “yyyy.MM.dd hh:mm:ss tt”
$string += $temp
$string | out-file -Filepath $logfile -append
}
# Flag to track if command failed
$cmdError = $false
try {
# IBM COS S3 Endpoint
$cmdError = $false
$cmd = “”
$endpoint = “https://abc.abc.objstor.com&#8221;
$cmdError = $?
# Bucket Name
$cmd = “”
$bucket_name = “s3://” + $BucketName
$cmdError = $?
# Setting AWS Configure
log “Setting AWS Configure”
aws configure set default.region ap-southeast-2 –profile test
aws configure set aws_access_key_id $AccessKey –profile test
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key $SecretKey –profile test
# AWS CLI command to list the files under bucket
$cmdError = $false
log “Listing files from IBM COS S3 bucket: ”
log “=====================================================================================”
$cmd = “”
aws –endpoint-url $endpoint s3 ls $bucket_name –recursive –human-readable –summarize –output json –profile test
$cmdError = $?
# Un-Setting AWS Configure
log “Un-Setting AWS Configure”
aws configure set default.region ap-southeast-2 –profile test
aws configure set aws_access_key_id ‘ ‘ –profile test
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key ‘ ‘ –profile test
}catch{
if($cmdError -eq $false){
Write-Host “Command that failed was: ” $cmd
}
}

 

Sync files between local location and IBM COS S3 bucket

The script expects a local directory path which has to be synced with the IBM COS S3 bucket.

<#
This script will list all the objects in a bucket.
EXAMPLE:
.\sync_from_local_to_s3.ps1 -AccessKey ZVS9wEvUUYSG8f -SecretKey ENOpkewRzAoHGWnrpWidkV -BucketName abc-abc-abcc -InputPath “C:\manju”
#>
param(
[String]$AccessKey = ”,
[String]$SecretKey = ”,
[String]$BucketName = ”,
[String]$InputPath = “”
)
# Setting up the log file
$Loc = Get-Location
$Date = Get-Date -format yyyyMMdd_hhmmsstt
$logfile = $Loc.path + “\sync_from_local_to_s3_” + $Date + “.txt”
Write-Host ‘The log file path: ‘ $logfile -ForegroundColor Green
####### Function to write informationn to log file #######
function log($string, $color){
if ($Color -eq $null) {$color = “white”}
write-host $string -foregroundcolor $color
$temp = “: ” + $string
$string = Get-Date -format “yyyy.MM.dd hh:mm:ss tt”
$string += $temp
$string | out-file -Filepath $logfile -append
}
# Flag to track if command failed
$cmdError = $false
try {
log “Verifying the ServerListFilePath”
if(!(Test-Path $InputPath)){
Write-Host “Please specify a text file containing list of files to download.”
}
# IBM COS S3 Endpoint
$cmdError = $false
$cmd = “”
$endpoint = “https://abc.abcc.abccc.com&#8221;
$cmdError = $?
# Bucket Name
$cmd = “”
$bucket_name = “s3://” + $BucketName
$cmdError = $?
# Setting AWS Configure
log “Setting AWS Configure”
aws configure set default.region ap-southeast-2 –profile test
aws configure set aws_access_key_id $AccessKey –profile test
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key $SecretKey –profile test
# AWS CLI command to list the files under bucket
$cmdError = $false
log “Sync files between local path and IBM COS S3 bucket: ”
log “=====================================================================================”
$cmd = “aws –endpoint-url $endpoint s3 sync $InputPath $BucketName –profile test”
aws –endpoint-url $endpoint s3 sync $InputPath s3://abc11-abc-abc –profile test ## Hardcoding the bucket name. Expects <S3Uri>. Throws errror if BucketName is passed as string.
$cmdError = $?
# Un-Setting AWS Configure
log “Un-Setting AWS Configure”
aws configure set default.region ap-southeast-2 –profile test
aws configure set aws_access_key_id ‘ ‘ –profile test
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key ‘ ‘ –profile test
}catch{
if($cmdError -eq $false){
log “Command that failed was: ”
$cmd | out-file $logfile -Append
}
}

 

Download files from IBM COS S3 bucket to local system

This script expects

  1. InputPath. This is a text file, that contains list of file names to be downloaded.
  2. OutputPath. This is an absolute file path where files will be downloaded
  3. FileNameToDownload. You can alternatively specify file name (comma seperated) to be downloaded. This is useful when you have 3-4 files to be downloaded. Providing file names is easier than creating a text file for a small number of files.
# This script will download backup files form IBM COS S3 bucket.
param(
[String]$AccessKey,
[String]$SecretKey,
[String]$BucketName,
[String]$InputPath, # Contains list of file names to download
[String]$OutputPath, # Files will be downloaded to this folder
[String]$FileNameToDownload
)
<#
EXAMPLE:
param(
[String]$AccessKey = “xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”,
[String]$SecretKey = “xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”,
[String]$BucketName = “abc11-abc-abcc”,
[String]$InputPath = “C:\Users\manjunath\Desktop\SQL Backup scripts\file_list_2_download.txt”,
[String]$OutputPath = “C:\Users\manjunath\Desktop\SQL Backup scripts\Output_Path”
)
.\download_backup_file.ps1 -AccessKey ZVS9wSG8f -SecretKey ENOpkewOIRp7rpWidkV -BucketName abc11-abc-abc -InputPath “C:\Users\manjunath\Desktop\SQL Backup scripts\file_list_2_download.txt” -OutputPath “C:\Users\manjunath\Desktop\SQL Backup scripts\Output_Path”
#>
# Setting up the log file
$Loc = Get-Location
$Date = Get-Date -format yyyyMMdd_hhmmsstt
$logfile = $Loc.path + “\log_list_backup_files_” + $Date + “.txt”
Write-Host ‘The log file path: ‘ $logfile -ForegroundColor Green
####### Function to write informationn to log file #######
function log($string, $color){
if ($Color -eq $null) {$color = “white”}
write-host $string -foregroundcolor $color
$temp = “: ” + $string
$string = Get-Date -format “yyyy.MM.dd hh:mm:ss tt”
$string += $temp
$string | out-file -Filepath $logfile -append
}
# Flag to track if command failed
try {
# IBM COS S3 Endpoint
$endpoint = “https://abc.abc.abc.com&#8221;
# Bucket Name
$bucket_name = “s3://” + $BucketName
# Setting AWS Configure
log “Setting AWS Configure”
aws configure set default.region ap-southeast-2 –profile test
aws configure set aws_access_key_id $AccessKey –profile test
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key $SecretKey –profile test
### Use the below logic to download files if a text file is provided ###
if($InputPath -ne $null){
# Verifying the input path
log “Verifying the ServerListFilePath”
if(!(Test-Path $InputPath)){
Write-Host “Please specify a text file containing list of files to download.”
}
$files_to_download = Get-Content $InputPath
$cmdError = $false
log “Downloading files from S3 to specified output directory: ”
log “=====================================================================================”
cd $OutputPath
foreach($files_to_download_iterator in $files_to_download){
$source_file = $files_to_download_iterator.ToString()
$destination_file = $files_to_download_iterator.ToString()
$cmd = “aws –endpoint-url $endpoint s3 cp $source_file $destination_file”
aws –endpoint-url $endpoint s3api get-object –bucket $BucketName –key $source_file $destination_file
$cmdError = $?
}
}
### Use the below login to download if the file names are provided individually via “$FileNameToDownload” argument ###
if($FileNameToDownload -ne $null){
$files_to_download = $FileNameToDownload.split(“,”)
$cmdError = $false
log “Downloading files from S3 to specified output directory: ”
log “=====================================================================================”
cd $OutputPath
foreach($files_to_download_iterator in $files_to_download){
$source_file = $files_to_download_iterator.ToString()
$destination_file = $files_to_download_iterator.ToString()
$cmd = “aws –endpoint-url $endpoint s3 cp $source_file $destination_file”
aws –endpoint-url $endpoint s3api get-object –bucket $BucketName –key $source_file $destination_file
$cmdError = $?
}
}
# Un-Setting AWS Configure
log “Un-Setting AWS Configure”
aws configure set default.region ap-southeast-2 –profile test
aws configure set aws_access_key_id ‘ ‘ –profile test
aws configure set aws_secret_access_key ‘ ‘ –profile test
}catch{
if($cmdError -eq $false){
log “Command that failed was: ”
log $cmd
}
}

 

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