So you’ve had to replace a main board in your IBM blade, we’ve all been there. Generally, should you have asked for your friendly neighborhood tech to come out, he will kindly update your fresh motherboard with the original machines serial number and machine type/model number. If you’ve ever watched him do his work, you know on earlier blades he used the BIOs update utility from IBMs website to update that information. Well times have changed, this is no longer an option on UEFI and IMM based blades. Before you go and call IBM, you can use IBM’s ASU utility to update them. When I called they actually sent me an in house bootable ISO, which ended up just booting Linux and running a shell script that ran the following two commands:
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Since I failed to find a good description of how to do this on the web, I thought I’d share my recipe for using puppet to manage tripwire. This method will take care of running the initialization on the first puppetd run on a new machine, and update the policy file if its changed. It also has puppet managing your site.key, twcfg.txt, twpol.txt, and the daily cron to run the checks. Its an extremely simple setup, but gets the job done.
I’ll start with the tripwire.pp file for puppet, in this file you’ll define your tripwire class and associated files and packages:
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I’ve released Glovebox Version 0.2.1 on Sourceforge. It has a few bug fixes as well as the correct database schema included. Other changes include:
- Modified JavaScript so it would load & function in IE
- Changed “class” to “clas” within JS, Perl, and the database. IE didn’t like using the word “class” as a variable name, changed else where for consistency.
- Stopped opening of “right-click” menu when pressed on an interface folder
- Fixed DB Schema to include basic information for default OIDs and Interfaces.
- Modified Apache configuration so SSIs would work correctly in Apache 2, changed the SSIs to only execute on .shtml files
- Renamed index.html to index.shtml
There is a database change, so you must run the sql file located in the upgrade folder!
You can download it here.
On the request of my Manager, I have released Glovebox under a GPL license on Sourceforge. I have yet to update the site with instructions but hope to soon. I’ve included a tar ball of the current version as well as imported the full source code in Sourceforge’s SVN repo.
The SourceForge project page is located here.
The project home page is located here.
