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SyslogTally: Grabbing Summary Information from Common Syslog Applications

SyslogTally: Grabbing Summary Information from Common Syslog Applications

by Andrew S. Baker | Oct 5, 2020 | Compliance, IT Operations, Scripting and Automation, Security, Software, Technology

This past month, I put together a new utility, SyslogTally, because I needed to easily and quickly answer a question pertaining to how frequently various scripts were being used in my environment. Original Need This question about script usage frequency first arose...
FileHash: The Quick and Dirty File Integrity Checker

FileHash: The Quick and Dirty File Integrity Checker

by Andrew S. Baker | Jul 12, 2020 | Compliance, IT Operations, Scripting and Automation, Security, Software

Once upon a time, I needed to get a quick and dirty file integrity checking process in place for Windows systems so that we could meet a customer compliance requirement that was growing more and more popular. FIM – File Integrity Monitoring At the time, we were...
My Kingdom for a Date/Time Manipulator

My Kingdom for a Date/Time Manipulator

by Andrew S. Baker | Oct 13, 2019 | IT Operations, Scripting and Automation, Software

Of all the console utilities that I have written to support my systems automation endeavors, my first, favorite, and most extensively used utility is: DATEINFO.EXE. Over the years (decades), I have developed many Windows Shell scripts which needed to be able track...
The Dangers of Consolidation

The Dangers of Consolidation

by Andrew S. Baker | Dec 8, 2010 | Risk Management, Software, Technology

It has been said that technology in general, and automation in particular, simply make it easier for humans to propagate errors much faster than they could otherwise do so. This morning, I awoke to find that none of my scripts – on any of my machines – had...

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