Hello js-zimbra, Goodbye Zimbra!
As I’m currently rewriting most of my scripts here from Python to JavaScript (see this blog post), I also needed a JavaScript-version of the Python zimbra library. So I wrote one. This one is available through npm and, again, simplifies the workflow authenticating and communicating with the Zimbra SOAP Api. The library, however, is no
Rebuilding lbows in python with twisted
21. November 2012
You remember //lbows//, right? Err… that PHP-based integration framework, that was– oh, forget it. Anyways, I got tired of it. I’m currently moving towards Python as I like the leanness and clear structure of it, although I have to say, that PHP’s currently got a far better SOAP server support (in the Zend framework). Nonetheless,
Data quality scanning for RackTables
5. September 2012
[[http://racktables.org/|RackTables]] is a wonderful, free tool for documenting datacenters. It’s very flexible and robust and versatile. However, it’s a manual documenting tool. So there has to be a person responsible for documentation that needs to actually **do** something. In our hectic IT world and especially with the ever-changing cloud infrastructures, documentation can quickly be out
Easy SSH public key distribution
3. August 2012
Being in touch with unixoid servers I quite know my way around SSH. It’s as important as your daily dose of water to be able to authenticate to servers via the SSH protocol. However, a SSH-environment isn’t known to be easy when it comes to maintenance. And being a security protocol, that’s quite a pity.
DHCP Commit Reporting
25. Mai 2012
We have a rather large DHCP-Setup here consisting of several subnets, ranges, groups and such. Additionally we’re using static assignments here with hosts not within any configured range. Yeah, I know, that’s not DHCP in its pure form, get over it. However, as we redesigned the complete setup with a fresh new and optimized configuration
Creating a SSL HTTP server in Python
4. Mai 2012
I’m currently investigating the use of the HTTP-Server capabilities of Python. While simple HTTP works like a charm, I was wondering on how to embed SSL into that. I came across an ActiveState recipe by Sebastien Martini located here: [[http://code.activestate.com/recipes/442473-simple-http-server-supporting-ssl-secure-communica/]] However, that thing didn’t work. At least not on my mac. What did work was
ZmPublish is reborn
8. März 2012
Perhaps you have heard of a little script of mine called „ZmPublish“, that publishes [[http://www.zimbra.com|Zimbra]] addressbooks to a LDAP server. If you do or if you’re interested now I’d like to tell you, that the old ZmPublish doesn’t exist anymore and it is **REBORN**. The old version used Zimbra’s REST interface to fetch VCards for