Christos Polydorou

Azure REST APIs are a great way to manage your Azure resources. You can use them to create, update, delete, and list resources, as well as get information about them. In many cases, the tools provided by Microsoft - like Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, do not provide the functionality you need and thus you have to turn to the APIs. As an example, we're going to create a script that will get the size of the storage consumed by Recovery Services Vaults, that is available in Azure Portal but not in the command line tools. So If you have a lot of vaults and you need the size of the storage behind them, you need to automate the process using the Azure APIs. Below is the entire script, but don't dive right in, let's take it a step at a time! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 8...

Whenever I'm called to setup or troubleshoot Citrix NetScaler performance issues, I try to bring Citrix InSight Center into the game. InSight Center is a Linux based Virtual Machine which gathers AppFlow performance data from the NetScaler thus helping with performance troubleshooting. I am not a fan of local user accounts on any system for many reasons, so I'll show you how to delegate the user authentication of the InSight Center to Active Directory. Let's start with logging on to the InSight Center using the default administrator account "nsroot" and navigating to the "Authentication" node under "System". Here we see all the available authentication methods supported: RADIUS, LDAP and TACACS. Since we want to delegate the authentication to Active Directory, we're interested in LDAP. Select the "LDAP" methods, and then click "Add" to add a server. Fill in the IP address of a domain controller (or a Load Bal...