remove/disable node from icinga2 - monitoring

I feel terrible about that I can't solved that alone.
I have an icinga 2.6 installed, 1 master, multiple "slave". One of our server is going to be offline for a longer time so I want to disable/remove the node.
I tried "icinga2 node remove", but I get "deprecated read changelog" error. I read the changelog, but I really can't understand why I need to reverse engineer such an easy functionality across the half internet and read already more ticket then I want...
Still no solution. I tried deleting files from the repository.d but 0 success.
Any help would be good, and some word in the official docs would be nice too :D

I'm not really sure if this is the answer you'll be looking for, but I'm giving it a shot anyways as I'm in the same boat as you are.
The only alternative I've found thus far is installing and setting up the module 'Director' on Icinga Web 2. The process is, as everything else with Icinga, poorly documented but it'll get you there. Please see here for instructions: https://www.icinga.com/docs/director/latest/doc/02-Installation/
Once installed, the module needs to be configured and old hosts may be imported. That's where it ended for me: what was documented didn't work and the error messages are probably only logical to the one that wrote them.
I've given up and am looking for a replacement to Icinga2 right now. While I liked it at the start, though it was complicated, they've now gone above and beyond creating a tool that is simply so difficult to work with that many won't.

I have 2.6 installed and needed to remove a node as well.
I know you tried to remove files and that didn't work for you - but it worked for me - so just documenting the process here in case it helps someone else.
I was able to remove the node manually by removing all files and directories related to the node in repository.d, specially in directories:
/etc/icinga2/repository.d/endpoints
/etc/icinga2/repository.d/hosts
/etc/icinga2/repository.d/zones
Note that in /etc/icinga2/repository.d/hosts there should be a subdirectory related to the node you are trying to remove - which also needs to be removed.
Once all are removed (recommend just moving to another location outside of /etc/icinga2 in case you need to revert), restart the icinga2 process.
At this point my icinga2 instance restarted successfully and the node was not showing up anymore.

Well the you need to do the next:
Execute: icinga2 node remove 'PC-name'
Will appear: deprecated read changelog
Then execute: icinga2 node update-config
And the last step: service icinga2 restart
Be happy, the node disappear

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Enable k8s experimental features in Docker Desktop

does anyone know if this is possible?
All I can find in docs is reference to enabling docker experimental features, but not the kubernetes experimental features.
I tried this, but still get error.
k alpha debug -it exchange-pricing-865d579659-s8x6d --image=busybox --target=exchange-pricing-865d579659-s8x6d
error: ephemeral containers are disabled for this cluster (error from server: "the server could not find the requested resource").
Thanks
I had the same intent (as have others in this feature request). After several hours of trial and error, I finally found out a way to do so.
Steps:
Depending on which file you're trying to edit, you may need to fully shut down Docker Desktop, and restart WSL. (right-click tray-icon and press "Quit Docker Desktop", then run wsl --shutdown, then run wsl)
Open the [...]/kubeadm/manifests folder, in the Docker filesystem.
On Windows, navigate Windows Explorer to:
For Docker Desktop 4.2.0: \\wsl$\docker-desktop-data\version-pack-data\community\kubeadm\manifests
For Docker Desktop 4.11.0: \\wsl$\docker-desktop-data\data\kubeadm\manifests
Open the kube-controller-manager.yaml, kube-apiserver.yaml, and kube-scheduler.yaml files, adding the line below:
spec:
containers:
- command:
[...]
- --feature-gates=EphemeralContainers=true <-- add this line
Start Docker Desktop again.
It looks so easy when its already figured out, huh? Well trust me, it was a pain to find out.
Some of the slowdowns I hit:
It took me quite a while to even find those manifest files. (eventually found it using grepWin, searching through the whole \\wsl$\docker-desktop-data folder for any matches of a line I grabbed from the kube-apiserver-docker-desktop pod's config, which I viewed using Lens)
Once I found it, I got confused by this documentation. When I read FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.22 [alpha], I thought that meant you needed version 1.22 or higher of Kubernetes for the feature to be available. This caused a huge wild goose chase where I tried to change the version of Kubernetes that was being launched in Docker Desktop, which Docker Desktop didn't seem to like. (in retrospect, the issue may have just been the minor one in point 3 below...)
When I first made changes to the manifest files, I was using Notepad++. And despite my liking Notepad++, it's apparently not quite as smart as vscode in the following regard: it does not automatically detect the indentation type for yaml files. Thus, when I pressed tab to create an indent, so I could add the new flag to the argument list, it added it as a tab character rather than spaces. This caused Kubernetes to fail reading of the file. That might not be so bad if Kubernetes gave a sane error message for that, but instead it merely gave the message unexpected EOF. And I didn't even see that error message at first because it was not being propagated to the kube-controller-manager-docker-desktop pod (which was the only relevant one that wasn't immediately erroring/closing). Anyway, I didn't realize this was the problem at the time, so...
I decided to try bypassing the manifest-files and applying my modification to the etcd data-store directly. In retrospect, this was not a good idea, because the etcd data-store is pretty complex, the tooling is substandard, and the documentation is substandard. I spent a ton of time just trying to figure out how to send commands to read and write data to it (eventually managed to do so by calling etcdctl within the etcd-docker-desktop pod). I spent further time still writing up a NodeJS script capable of reading all the data as JSON, storing it in a dump file, and being able to write changes to entries back despite there being 3+ levels of quoting involved (I eventually was able to use stdin to pass the value rather than as part of the command string, to avoid quotation-mark-inception). After all the work on etcd reading/writing above, I found it didn't work anyway because Kubernetes invariably "breaks" if anyone else writes to its etcd data-store. (even if you write the exact same value that had been there before -- as verified by comparing the dumps before and after)
After all of the above, I decided to have one last go with just adding the flags to mentioned manifest files. Was still getting the startup failure/error, but at the very end, I decided I wanted to see exactly what about my changes was causing Kubernetes to reject them. So I tried commenting out my added line; the error remained. I thought maybe it was a checksum-based rejection then. But then I thought, maybe the YAML parser that Kubernetes is using is just outdated and is finicky about what comments it is able to recognize. So I tried moving the comment around to different places, and was puzzled when the manifest was being accepted just by moving the comment to the root level. I moved it back to various locations, with it working and not working, until I thought to try making the line "half-indented" since it's "in-between" the working and non-working versions. That's when I noticed the line had a tab as its indent. And then it hit me; are the other lines also using tabs? I checked, and nope, they were using spaces. And that's when I realized I had wasted the last few hours on something I coulda just fixed with a simple indent change.
The moral of the story for some is that YAML is a bad configuration format, because it makes it easy to make trivial errors like this. But I actually place the blame more on whatever parser Kubernetes is using for the YAML files; it is unacceptable that a YAML parser would encounter an indentation mismatch and give a message so generic as unexpected EOF. I don't know what the identity of that YAML parser is, but I'm tired enough of the subject that I'm not even going to look into it right now. If one of you finds it, please make an issue report for it -- perhaps including this story as a real-world example of the pain that ambiguous error messages can cause.
Since Ephemeral Containers is still an alpha feature, it is disabled by default.
As you can read here, for this to work, it requires the EphemeralContainers feature gate to be enabled, and Kubernetes client and server version v1.16 or later.
As to the 2nd requirement I assume both your Kuberntes server and client versions are v1.16 or later but it looks like, for the time being, the 1st requirement cannot be met on Docker Desktop. According to this issue, it currently doesn't support enabling Feature Gates.
However you may still try to ssh to your master node and edit the following files:
/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-scheduler.yaml
by adding inside the command section:
--feature-gates=EphemeralContainers=true
Then you need to delete those pods so they are recreated with new settings applied. You'll find them by running:
kubectl get pods -n kube-system

How do I make a simple public read-only WebDAV server with SabreDAV?

I recently began looking into WebDAV, as I found it to be an option for letting me play a Blu-ray folder remotely - i.e. without requiring the viewer to download the whole 24gb ISO first.
Add a WebDAV source in Kodi v18 to a Blu-ray folder - and it actually plays! Very awesome.
The server can also be mounted on Windows with
net use m: http://example.com/webdavfolder/
or in Linux with
sudo mount -t davfs http://example.com/webdavfolder/ /mnt/mywebdav
-and should then (in theory) play with any software media players that supports Blu-ray Disc Java (BD-J), such as PowerDVD and VLC.
vlc bluray:///mnt/mywebdav --bluray-menu
PowerDVD.exe AUTOPLAY BD m:
(Unless of course time-out values has been set too low, which seems to be the case for VLC at the moment).
Anyway, all this is great, except I can't figure out how to make my WebDAV server read-only. Currently anyone can delete files as they wish, and that's of course not optimal.
So far I've only experimented with SabreDAV, because afaik that's the only option I have if I want to keep using my existing webhost. Trying with very minimal setups, because I've read that minimal setups should default to a read-only solution. It just doesn't seem to happen.
I initially used the setup from http://sabre.io/dav/gettingstarted/ and tried removing some lines. Also tried calling chmod 0444 MainFolder -R on the webserver. And I can see that everything does get a read-only attribute. But it changes nothing. It's still possible to delete whatever I want. :-(
What am I missing?
Maybe I'm using the wrong technology for what I want to do? Is there some other/better way of offering a Blu-ray folder for remote viewing? (One that includes the whole experience - i.e. full Java menus etc).
I should probably mention that all of this is of course perfectly legal. It is my own Blu-ray project - not copyright material.
Also: Difficult to decide if this belongs on StackOverflow or SuperUser. I ended up posting it on StackOverflow because SabreDAV is about coding, and because there's no sabredav tag on SuperUser.
You have two options:
Create your own file/directory classes for sabre/dav that simply throw an error when trying to delete. You can basically start with a copy of Sabre\DAV\FS\Directory and Sabre\DAV\FS\File and change the methods that do writing.
Since you're considering just using linux file permissions, really the key thing you are missing is that that 'deleting' is not controlled on the file or directory you're trying to delete. To delete a file or directory in unix, all you need is write permissions on the parent directory. However, I wouldn't recommend going this route as doing this will just cause a weird error in sabre/dav, which might leave clients in a confused state. It would result in a 500 error, not the expected 403 error.

Jenkins: File Operations Plugin

I just started with using jenkins, and learning a lot.
Installed on windows 7.
One thing i can figure out is about File operations plugin.
I don't know how to set up just simple "copy, paste" from one location to another.
Yea maybe is dumb, but i just cant figure out, try a lot of and always got build break.
What i need to set up for simple test ? like i liked to say, show me a door, i'll figure out rest :)
The include file pattern wants an ANT style filter (relative to your workspace as the root).
Include File Pattern: myWorkspaceSubFolder\*.txt
Target location also assumes the root workspace though I guess you can redirect it to another drive.

Virtualized Puppet master showing alphanumeric error when trying to load the dashboard

When I try to go to the puppet dashboard it loads up a white page saying
The environment must be purely alphanumeric, not ''
I googled this error a bit but there does not seem to be a finite solution yet. As fast as what I've done I've looked into the conf.d files, but I'm afraid to make the wrong edit. I'm still new to this and was wondering if anyone has ever ran into a similar situation?
This happens if one tries to access puppet console in wrong port (8140) instead of 443, assuming default ports are being used.
This also happens when you install puppet-passenger The opensource.
In this case - everything is OK!
Install Open Source agent and be a Puppet Master :)

Xcode won't let me create a snapshot, because I don't exist

just tried to create a snapshot of one of my projects. It didn't work, and Xcode did throw the following error at me: "Unable to create a snapshot. fatal: You don't exist. Go away!"
Source control commit doesn't work either. Ok, obviously there's something wrong with my local repository. I don't have the slightest idea, what that could possibly be, though. I have not committed in quite a while, but except some updates to Xcode itself, nothing major happened to the project folder, as far as I can remember.
So, what can I do about it? Is it possible to deactivate source control for that project and then start over again with source control with the projects current status? I don't need the previous versions anymore, so that doesn't need to be taken care of.
Thank you!
Looking into the git source code, this error message is generated only if
pw = getpwuid(getuid());
fails.
It indicates that the system wasn't able to find an entry for your user account in /etc/passwd or equivalent.
This can happen if your account is removed (via deluser, userdel, or something else) while you're logged in, or if you don't have read permissions on /etc/passwd (the latter should never happen).
Try the following commands at a terminal prompt:
whoami
id
ls -l /etc/passwd
grep "^${USER}:" /etc/passwd
According to the git documentation, this is the meaning of your particular error:
You don't exist. Go away!
The passwd(5) gecos field couldn't be read
This typically means the system doesn't know who you are (you'll see this sort of error on a Linux system if you delete someone's user account while they're still logged in). Is everything else working? That is, can you log out and log back in without a problem? Do other terminal commands operate correctly? What about the id command?
Can you interact with your repository on the command line? What happens if you cd into the directory and try something like git status?
WendiKidd's solution of just starting from scratch is probably the simplest thing to do, assuming it works, but you'll lose any change history already associated with your project.
I had this issue with git and running
dscacheutil -flushcache
in the terminal fixed it.
I would suggest creating a new project entirely, copying your code etc. files out of the old project, and simply migrating over into a new one (which you could then recommit to another source control directory). That seems like the easiest solution; this is a very odd error, and I've come across things in the past that are either unfixable or would take more effort to fix than taking 10-15 minutes to just set up a new project.
So that's what I'd recommend--hopefully that will fix your problem, and whatever xcode is mad at is in some hidden file or the .xcodeproj itself, and not in the files you'd need to migrate over.

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