November 4, 2025Automating a Kiosk-Style Deployment of Ubuntu + VMware Workstation ProbusinessbusinessAlan Baugher·November 4, 2025·5 min readDeploy an automated kiosk ubuntu os with virtual vm win10 broadcomvmwaremicrosoftworkstationwindows4gb+15
November 19, 2024Measuring What Matters: Metrics for Thriving BusinessesbusinessbusinessprocessAlan Baugher·November 19, 2024·9 min readMetrics are essential for monitoring and optimizing the health of your solutions. The simplicity of using SaaS-based Application Performance Monitoring (APM)/Operational Intelligence/Analytics tools...identitymanagerapmbroadcomsuiteiga+8
November 16, 2024Did I Run That? A Bash History AdventureprivacyprivacyprocessAlan Baugher·November 16, 2024·7 min readOn large project teams, multiple members may often use the same hosts simultaneously. Alternatively, you might prefer to maintain multiple SSH sessions open on the same host—one for monitoring logs...identitybashcamanagerbroadcomdsa+9
November 15, 2024Unleashing Snapshot Reload Magic in WildFly on a Secured Virtual ApplianceprocessprocesstechnicalAlan Baugher·November 15, 2024·4 min readOn a typical Linux host, rolling back a configuration in WildFly can be as simple as copying a backup of the configuration XML file back into place. However, working within the constraints of a...identitymanagerwildflybroadcomsymantecappliance+11
January 24, 2024Embracing Containers: For Work and PlaytechnicaltechnicalAlan Baugher·January 24, 2024·2 min readIn the 1950's an innovation revolutionized the transport industry by dramatically reducing the cost of shipping and making global trade more efficient with a large standardized shipping box that...broadcomvmwarekubernetesopenshiftpodmanaks+9
November 26, 2023Streamlining with LetsEncrypt Wildcard Certificates and Automated ValidationnetworknetworksecuritytechnicalAlan Baugher·November 26, 2023·11 min readOur goal is to move away from using self-signed certificates, often supplied by various software vendors and Kubernetes deployments, in favor of a unified approach with a single wildcard certificate...identitycamanagerbroadcomsuitesymantec+28
October 31, 2023Elevating Application Performance and Security on Software Appliances with APM Host Monitoring, APM Java, and APM JBoss(Wildfly)UncategorizedUncategorizedAlan Baugher·October 31, 2023·18 min readOrganizations may rely on software appliances to meet the demands of secure, mission-critical applications. To ensure the optimal operation of these appliances, Application Performance...identitywildflyapmbroadcomsuitesymantec+8
October 5, 2023The Business Value of Kubernetes: Auto-scaling and Self-healing demo with VIP AuthHubUncategorizedUncategorizedAmit Sinha·October 5, 2023·2 min readBusinesses have always sought ways to improve efficiency, scalability, and resilience. Cloud architecture and Kubernetes have revolutionized how organizations build, deploy, and manage applications....identitybroadcomkubernetesauthhubhorizontalhpa+3
March 14, 2022Kubernetes and Vmware WorkstationnetworknetworkprocesstestingUncategorizedAlan Baugher·March 14, 2022·27 min readKubernetes was designed for the deployment of applications to cloud architecture with containers. Another way of thinking about Kubernetes; it gets us "out-of-the-install-binaries" business and...anabroadcomdockervmwarehubauth+16
October 8, 2021Global Password ResetnetworknetworktechnicalAlan Baugher·October 8, 2021·11 min readThe recent DNS challenges for a large organization that impacted their worldwide customers bring to mind a project we completed this year, a global password reset redundancy solution. We worked with...identitycabroadcomdsaprovisioningsuite+11
April 22, 2021LDAP MITM Methodology to isolate data challengenetworknetworkprocesstechnicalAlan Baugher·April 22, 2021·10 min readThe Symantec (CA/Broadcom) Directory solution provides a mechanism for routing LDAPv3 traffic to other solutions. This routing mechanism allows Symantec Directory to act as a virtual directory...identitymanagerbroadcomsuitedirectorysymantec+11
May 1, 2020Avoid locking a userID in a Virtual AppliancenetworknetworktechnicalAlan Baugher·May 1, 2020·8 min readThe below post describes enabling the .ssh private key/public key process for the provided service IDs to avoid dependency on a password that may be forgotten, and also how to leverage the service...identitymanagerbroadcomsuitesymantecappliance+2