Storm Cleanup Season Is Here

Between hurricane season on the coast and monsoon flooding out toward the Big Bend, storm damage hits the whole Palacios–Austin–Terlingua corridor differently depending on where you are. If a recent storm has left your property with downed trees, washed-out roads, or debris, head over to iLandClearing — they run a Kubota track steer with the equipment for both coastal debris cleanup and desert erosion control, and they know the terrain across the whole service area.

Comprehensive Landscape Solutions with iLandClearing

We want to announce https://ilandclearing.com our latest addition to the Matavesi International holdings.

iLandClearing can help you with property landscape management tasks big or small. From demolition to pasture management. We can build and maintain trails across your property for fun and functional use. We are skilled in desert restoration and erosion control.

Our equipment is a Kubota 75 horsepower track steer machine and is capable of running in any climate.

We have attachments that include:

  • Rotary Disk Mulcher – can demolish trees up to 8 inches and mow heavy grass
  • Hydraulic Auger – we can dig a hole 8 inches in diameter up to 12 inches. and 8 feet deep
  • Tree Stump digger – this attachment can dig up stubborn roots and push trees over
  • Grapple Blade – for bundling vegetation or destruction of a building
  • 74″ Flat Blade – for general grading, moving of materials, or cutting a pathway
  • Trencher Blade – a 60 inch by 6 inch blade for digging trenches for waterlines, sewer, or electrical and data lines.
  • 74″ Box Blade – for ripping and also leveling land, very useful for pathways and food plots

Head on over to https://ilandclearing.com to schedule your consultation today!

You can also see our work on YouTube here :

https://youtube.com/@ilandclearing

Jenkins Nuget Package Build Script

Here is a powershell build script for creating NUGET packages on a Jenkins Server.

I recently had to rewrite these due to moving Jenkins from one server to the next and went all out using variables defined.



Write-Host "This Script is for Compiling Nuget Packages"

# Print environment details
Write-Host "VERSION                : $env:VERSION"
Write-Host "WORK SPACE PATH        : $ENV:WORKSPACE"
$version = "$env:VERSION"

# Define solutionName, solutionDir, projectDir, and projectName
$solutionName = $env:SLN_NAME
Write-Host "SOLUTION NAME          : $solutionName"
$solutionDir = $ENV:WORKSPACE
Write-Host "SOLUTION DIRECTORY     : $solutionDir"
$projectDir = "$ENV:WORKSPACE\$ENV:JOB_NAME"
Write-Host "PROJECT DIRECTORY      : $projectDir"
$projectName = $ENV:JOB_NAME
Write-Host "PROJECT NAME           : $ENV:JOB_NAME"

# Define flags for nuget operations (not currently utilized properly except for display)
$nugetPack = $true
Write-Host "NUGET PACK             : $nugetPack"
$nugetDeploy = $true
Write-Host "NUGET DEPLOY           : $nugetDeploy"

# Target framework (only utilized for display)
$framework = "net8.0"
Write-Host "TARGET FRAMEWORK       : $framework"

# Change to the $ENV:Workspace (ensure that we are in the workspace directory)
cd $ENV:Workspace
Write-Host "CURRENT DIRECTORY           : $ENV:Workspace"

# Define NUGET paths, csproject name and directory, and NUGET Server URL and API Key
$nugetEXE = D:\build_tools\"your nuget location"\nuget.exe
$csprojectPath = "$projectDir\$ENV:JOB_NAME.csproj"
Write-Host "PROJECT PATH           : $csprojectPath"
$nugetPackageDir = "$solutionDir\nupkgs"
Write-Host "NUGET PACKAGE DIRECTORY: $nugetPackageDir"
$nugetPublishDir = "$solutionDir\publish"
Write-Host "NUGET PUBLISH DIRECTORY: $nugetPublishDir"
$NugetServer = "https://"your nuget package server"/nuget"
Write-Host "NUGET SERVER URL       : $NugetServer"
$NugetServerKey = "your nuget server key"
Write-Host "NUGET SERVER KEY       : $NugetServerKey"

# Clean and Create necessary directories
if (Test-Path $nugetPackageDir) {
    Write-Host "DOTNET BUILD: Delete Directory $nugetPackageDir"
    Remove-Item -Path $nugetPackageDir -Recurse -Force
}

Write-Host "DOTNET BUILD: Create Directory $nugetPackageDir"
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $nugetPackageDir

if (Test-Path $nugetPublishDir) {
    Write-Host "DOTNET BUILD: Delete Directory $nugetPublishDir"
    Remove-Item -Path $nugetPublishDir -Recurse -Force
}

Write-Host "DOTNET BUILD: Create Directory $nugetPublishDir"
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $nugetPublishDir

# Define the Solution location
$slnPath = "$solutionDir\$solutionName.sln"
Write-Host "Solution Path         : $slnPath"
# Run dotnet restore
Write-Host "DOTNET BUILD: dotnet restore $slnPath"
dotnet restore $slnPath -v q

# Run dotnet build
Write-Host "DOTNET BUILD: dotnet build $csprojectPath -c Release --version-suffix $version --verbosity quiet"
dotnet build $csprojectPath -c Release --version-suffix $version --verbosity quiet

# Change to the $projectDir (ensure that we are in the project directory)
cd $projectDir
Write-Host "CURRENT DIRECTORY           : $projectDir"

# Run nuget pack
Write-Host "DOTNET BUILD: dotnet pack -c Release --no-restore -o $nugetPackageDir --version-suffix $version --verbosity quiet"
dotnet pack -c Release --no-restore -o $nugetPackageDir --version-suffix $version --verbosity quiet

# Display completed tasks
Write-Host "DOTNET BUILD: Completed Tasks"

# Define the NuGet Package Name
$NugetPackageName = "$ENV:JOB_NAME.$version.nupkg"
Write-Host "NUGET: Nuget Package Name: $NugetPackageName"

#Change to the $nugetPackageDir (ensure that we are in the NUPKG directory)
cd $nugetPackageDir
Write-Host "CURRENT PATH           : $nugetPackageDir"
  
# Push the package to the NuGet server
Write-Host "NUGET: Push "$NugetPackageName" -k $NugetServerKey -s $NugetServer"
dotnet nuget push "$NugetPackageName" -k $NugetServerKey -s $NugetServer


# Display completed tasks
Write-Host "NUGET: Completed Tasks"

Visit our Air BnB in Terlingua!

We love to visit the West Texas Desert and stay with our friends in Terlingua, Texas at The Terlingua Ghostown Rentals. Right at the entrance to the Ghosttown, you’ll see https://terlinguaghosttownrentals.com/ — the staff is friendly and you’ll be close to everything the desert has to offer!

A Quick History of Terlingua

Terlingua’s name is thought to come from the Spanish phrase for “three tongues,” a nod to the mix of Native American, Spanish, and English speakers who once passed through the area. The settlement got its start as a small village along Terlingua Creek, but everything changed in the 1880s when prospectors discovered cinnabar, the mineral used to produce mercury (also known as quicksilver).

Chicago businessman Howard Perry recognized the value of the deposits and founded the Chisos Mining Company in 1903, turning Terlingua into the largest mercury-producing district in Texas. At its peak, the town supported a population in the thousands, complete with a company store, a school, and the Terlingua Cemetery that still draws visitors today. But mercury demand faded after World War II, the mine went bankrupt, and by the late 1940s most residents had moved on, leaving the town to earn its “ghost town” name.

Terlingua didn’t stay quiet forever. Starting in the 1960s and 70s, river guides, artists, and other desert-loving transplants began moving into the old ruins, restoring buildings and breathing new life into the community. Today it’s a small, tight-knit outpost known for its chili cook-offs, star parties, and a laid-back frontier spirit that still echoes its mining-camp roots.

Big Bend National Park, Just Down the Road

Terlingua sits right at the doorstep of Big Bend National Park, one of the most remote and least-visited parks in the country — and that’s part of the appeal. Established in 1944, Big Bend was the first national park in Texas and remains the only one in the country to contain an entire mountain range within its boundaries, the Chisos Mountains.

The park spans over 800,000 acres of Chihuahuan Desert along the Rio Grande, which forms the border with Mexico and has carved dramatic canyons like Santa Elena, Mariscal, and Boquillas over millions of years. Elevations swing from around 1,850 feet near the river up to over 7,800 feet at Emory Peak, which makes for wildly different landscapes and temperatures depending on where you’re standing. It’s also one of the best places in the country for stargazing, thanks to an International Dark Sky designation and some of the darkest night skies left in the lower 48.

Whether you’re here for the mining history, the hiking and canyons, or just the quiet of the desert at night, staying in Terlingua puts you close to all of it. Come visit us at Terlingua Ghostown Rentals!

Schannel Fatal Alert 40… 70

This has to do with FIPS Compliant Algorithms group policy, but the policy was disabled. Microsoft’s documentation states that the GPO controls the reg key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FipsAlgorithmPolicy]. This key was disabled (set to 1), I created a GPO at my workstation level and caused an update/replace entry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa] and set fipsalgorithmpolicy to 0. On the next reboot the machine should no longer cause the Schannel errors.

Default Passwords for San Gear and Others

Here is a collection of default passwords for EMC, HP, Cisco, Pure, VMware, TrendMicro and IBM hardware & software.

EMC Secure Remote Support (ESRS) Axeda Policy Manager Server:

Username: admin
Password: EMCPMAdm7n
EMC VNXe Unisphere (EMC VNXe Series Quick Start Guide, step 4):

Username: admin
Password: Password123#
EMC vVNX Unisphere:

Username: admin
Password: Password123#
NB You must change the administrator password during this first login.
EMC CloudArray Appliance:

Username: admin
Password: password
NB Upon first login you are prompted to change the password.
EMC CloudBoost Virtual Appliance:
https://:4444

Username: local\admin
Password: password
NB You must immediately change the admin password.
$ password
EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning (UIM/P):

Username: sysadmin
Password: sysadmin
EMC VNX Monitoring and Reporting:

Username: admin
Password: changeme
EMC RecoverPoint:

Username: admin
Password: admin
Username: boxmgmt
Password: boxmgmt
Username: security-admin
Password: security-admin
EMC XtremIO:

XtremIO Management Server (XMS)

Username: xmsadmin
password: 123456 (prior to v2.4)
password: Xtrem10 (v2.4+)
XtremIO Management Secure Upload

Username: xmsupload
Password: xmsupload
XtremIO Management Command Line Interface (XMCLI)

Username: tech
password: 123456 (prior to v2.4)
password: X10Tech! (v2.4+)
XtremIO Management Command Line Interface (XMCLI)

Username: admin
password: 123456 (prior to v2.4)
password: Xtrem10 (v2.4+)
XtremIO Graphical User Interface (XtremIO GUI)

Username: tech
password: 123456 (prior to v2.4)
password: X10Tech! (v2.4+)
XtremIO Graphical User Interface (XtremIO GUI)

Username: admin
password: 123456 (prior to v2.4)
password: Xtrem10 (v2.4+)
XtremIO Easy Installation Wizard (on storage controllers / nodes)

Username: xinstall
Password: xiofast1
XtremIO Easy Installation Wizard (on XMS)

Username: xinstall
Password: xiofast1
Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) for storage controllers / nodes

Password: emcbios
Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) for XMS

Password: emcbios
EMC ViPR Controller :
http://ViPR_virtual_ip (the ViPR public virtual IP address, also known as the network.vip)

Username: root
Password: ChangeMe
EMC ViPR Controller Reporting vApp:
http://:58080/APG/

Username: admin
Password: changeme
EMC Solutions Integration Service:
https://:5480

Username: root
Password: emc
EMC VSI for VMware vSphere Web Client:
https://:8443/vsi_usm/

Username: admin
Password: ChangeMe

Note:
After the Solutions Integration Service password is changed, it cannot be modified.
If the password is lost, you must redeploy the Solutions Integration Service and use the default login ID and password to log in.

EMC Avamar Backup Service

username: admin
password: changeme
openSSH key
ssh-agent bash
ssh-add ~admin/.ssh/admin_key
Password: P3t3rPan

Pure Storage Arrays

Username: pureuser
Password: pureuser
Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) / CIMC / BMC:

Username: admin
Password: password
Cisco UCS Director:

Username: admin
Password: admin
Username: shelladmin
Username: changeme
Hewlett Packard P2000 StorageWorks MSA Array Systems:

Username: admin
Password: !admin (exclamation mark ! before admin)
Username: manage
Password: !manage (exclamation mark ! before manage)
IBM Security Access Manager Virtual Appliance:
Username: admin
Password: admin
VCE Vision:

Username: admin
Password: 7j@m4Qd+1L
Username: root
Password: V1rtu@1c3!
VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA):

Username: vi-admin
Password: vmware
VMware Data Recovery (VDR):

Username: root
Password: vmw@re (make sure you enter @ as Shift-2 as in US keyboard layout)
VMware vCenter Hyperic Server:
https://Server_Name_or_IP:5480/

Username: root
Password: hqadmin
https://Server_Name_or_IP:7080/

Username: hqadmin
Password: hqadmin
VMware vCenter Chargeback:
https://Server_Name_or_IP:8080/cbmui

Username: root
Password: vmware
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5:
https://Server_Name_or_IP:5480

Username: root
Password: vmware
VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS):

Console access:

Username: root
Password: vmware
Manager:
https://Server_Name_or_IP

Username: admin
Password: admin
Administrator Panel:
https://Server_Name_or_IP/admin

Username: admin
Password: admin
Custom UI User Interface:
https://Server_Name_or_IP/vcops-custom

Username: admin
Password: admin
VMware vCenter Support Assistant:
http://Server_Name_or_IP

Username: root
Password: vmware
VMware vCenter / vRealize Infrastructure Navigator:
https://Server_Name_or_IP:5480

Username: root
Password: specified during OVA deployment
VMware ThinApp Factory:

Username: admin
Password: blank (no password)
VMware vSphere vCloud Director Appliance:

Username: root
Password: vmware
VMware vCenter Orchestrator :
https://Server_Name_or_IP:8281/vco – VMware vCenter Orchestrator
https://Server_Name_or_IP:8283 – VMware vCenter Orchestrator Configuration

Username: vmware
Password: vmware
VMware vCloud Connector Server (VCC) / Node (VCN):
https://Server_Name_or_IP:5480

Username: admin
Password: vmware
Username: root
Password: vmware
VMware vSphere Data Protection Appliance:

Username: root
Password: changeme
VMware HealthAnalyzer:

Username: root
Password: vmware
VMware vShield Manager:
https://Server_Name_or_IP

Username: admin
Password: default
type enable to enter Privileged Mode, password is ‘default’ as well
Teradici PCoIP Management Console:

The default password is blank
Trend Micro Deep Security Virtual Appliance (DS VA):

Login: dsva
password: dsva
Citrix Merchandising Server Administrator Console:

User name: root
password: C1trix321
VMTurbo Operations Manager:

User name: administrator
password: administrator
If DHCP is not enabled, configure a static address by logging in with these credentials:
User name: ipsetup
password: ipsetup
Console access:
User name: root
password: vmturbo

Check-MK Redhat Linux Agent Install

Following is the simple steps to install the CheckMK agent onto a Linux 6x OS.

yum -y install xinetd
cd /tmp
cp xinetd.conf /etc/xinetd.d/check_mk

(Above file is at this link.)
wget http://%checkmkurl%/check_mk/agents/check_mk_agent.linux
cp check_mk_agent.linux check_mk_agent
chmod 776 check_mk_agent
cp /tmp/check_mk_agent /usr/bin/check_mk_agent
mkdir /usr/lib/check_mk_agent
mkdir /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins
cd /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins
wget http://
%checkmkurl%/check_mk/agents/plugins/mk_inventory.linux
cp mk_inventory.linux mk_inventory.sh
chmod 776 mk_inventory.sh
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

.

CheckMK Agent xinetd.d Config

# +——————————————————————+
# | ____ _ _ __ __ _ __ |
# | / ___| |__ ___ ___| | __ | \/ | |/ / |
# | | | | ‘_ \ / _ \/ __| |/ / | |\/| | ‘ / |
# | | |___| | | | __/ (__| < | | | | . \ |
# | \____|_| |_|\___|\___|_|\_\___|_| |_|_|\_\ |
# | |
# | Copyright Mathias Kettner 2014 mk@mathias-kettner.de |
# +——————————————————————+
#
# This file is part of Check_MK.
# The official homepage is at http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk.
#
# check_mk is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation in version 2. check_mk is distributed
# in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; with-
# out even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
# PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more de-
# ails. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
# License along with GNU Make; see the file COPYING. If not, write
# to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
# Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

service check_mk
{
type = UNLISTED
port = 6556
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/bin/check_mk_agent

# If you use fully redundant monitoring and poll the client
# from more then one monitoring servers in parallel you might
# want to use the agent cache wrapper:
#server = /usr/bin/check_mk_caching_agent

# configure the IP address(es) of your Nagios server here:
only_from = 127.0.0.1 %YOUR IP ADDRESSES HERE!!!%

# Don’t be too verbose. Don’t log every check. This might be
# commented out for debugging. If this option is commented out
# the default options will be used for this service.
log_on_success =

disable = no
}

MICROSOFT IIS: HOW TO DISABLE THE SSL V3 PROTOCOL

  1. Open the Registry Editor and run it as administrator.For example, in Windows 2012 or 2008r2:
    1. On the Start screen type regedit.exe.
    2. Right-click on regedit.exe and click Run as administrator.
  2. In the Registry Editor window, go to:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSecurityProvidersSchannelProtocols
  3. In the navigation tree, right-click on Protocols, and in the pop-up menu, click New > Key.
  4. Name the key, SSL 3.0.
  5. In the navigation tree, right-click on the new SSL 3.0 key that you just created, and in the pop-up menu, click New > Key.
  6. Name the key, Client.
  7. In the navigation tree, right-click on the new SSL 3.0 key again, and in the pop-up menu, click New > Key.
  8. Name the key, Server.
  9. In the navigation tree, under SSL 3.0, right-click on Client, and in the pop-up menu, click New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.
  10. Name the value DisabledByDefault.
  11. In the navigation tree, under SSL 3.0, select Client and then, in the right pane, double-click the DisabledByDefault DWORD value.
  12. In the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value window, in the Value Data box change the value to 1 and then, click OK.
  13. In the navigation tree, under SSL 3.0, right-click on Server, and in the pop-up menu, click New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.
  14. Name the value Enabled.
  15. In the navigation tree, under SSL 3.0, select Server and then, in the right pane, double-click the Enabled DWORD value.
  16. In the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value window, in the Value Data box leave the value at 0 and then, click OK.
  17. Restart the server.
  18. You have successfully disabled the SSL v3 protocol.