SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Creating a Password Policy with a GPO
Summary: How to set a password policy using a gpo.
Date: Around 2008
Refactor: 31 December 2024: Checked links and formatting.
Federated Login for AWS with Azure AD
Summary: How to log in to the AWS console using your Entra ID credentials.
Date: Around 2018
Refactor: 1 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
After Getting Started With AWS and Getting Started With Office 365 I now also want to login to the AWS console using Azure Active Directory. This article describes the steps to do so. Used technologies:
- AWS IAM
- Azure AD
- Azure AD Enterprise App
Note that the goal here is to keep user provisioning in Azure Active Directory, something that is already common for many organizations and that I don't want to create users in AWS IAM. I just want to login to AWS using the original account.
Fix: FCP Partner Path Misconfigured
Summary: The error 'FCP Partner Path Misconfigured' could show up in the autosupport report created on NetApp filers, and means a LUN is being accessed over the partner path through the interconnect link rather than through the preferred primary (optimized) path.
Date: Around 2019
Refactor: 9 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Finding and resolving the issue is a matter of a few steps:
- Identify the LUN which is being accessed over the partner path
- Identify the host initiator for the LUN
- Identify the correct target WWPN of the filer
- Solve the path selection error
Vmware ESXTOP
Summary: A short post about using esxtop on vmware esx hosts.
Date: Around 2016
Refactor: 4 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Esxtop allows monitoring and collection of data for all system resources: CPU, memory, disk and network. When used interactively, this data can be viewed on different types of screens; one each for CPU statistics, memory statistics, network statistics, disk adapter statistics, disk device statistics, disk VM statistics and interrupt statistics.