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Since ESXi does not come with bash, I am sourcing an .sh file to set up some custom aliases for common commands while connected via ssh.

On other distros like RHEL, I can type part of an alias and hit tab to autocomplete. This does not seem to work under ESXi 7.x.

Is there a switch or something that I can turn on to make autocomplete work for custom aliases, or is this just a limitation of the shell that ESX offers? NOTE: If type l then I DO get the built in commands that start with L.

Also while I'm on the topic of the ESXi shell… On RHEL I have this line in my .bashrc file

I'm trying to create a regex that always captures myValue (this name is figurative, it can change, it's just to know the position of the value), but in some cases where unexpected characters enter like -, my regex fails, any suggestions?

regex:

at the bottom is the full code.

Basically, I'm trying to make a function where the css selector is defined in the function paramater. (This is //Defining Scrape Candidate Function). When using the code at the bottom, i get

"UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Evaluation failed: ReferenceError: css is not defined"

Everything else works fine.

It also works if i regularly insert the css selector, so if i use the below code it works.

I want to make sure players can't put letters or symbols in the value, how do I check if it is a number only?

With the code I can search for data without problem. But let´s say I know the "name" of a Virtual Machine, but don´t want to search for it manually, but don´t know it´s "uuid".. would it be possible that the code goes (loops?) through the whole json file (it´s deeply nested), finds that "name" and returns the "uuid"? Somewhat like this if "name" == "DEV Ubuntu 18": print("uuid") I know it´s not that simple, like above, but it serves only as explanation what I want to achieve.

I have a column, with each row containing a python dictionary with multiple keys and values. Each value is a list. Index[0] looks like:

I have a program that takes sheets of mixed data from an Excel file and places it into a SQL Server Database. It already runs relatively fast, but I wish to make it more dynamic. Currently, I use OleDb to select data from an Excel file and Entity Framework Core to add the data to a SQL Server Database.

I have a class for each sheet in the Excel file. The class I'm going to use as an example here is my vHost class. After I use OleDb to select all the data from the vHost Excel sheet (using SELECT *) I place the data into a Data Table object. I then go through each column in the Data Table to create a List object of the column names in the Excel sheet. These are crucial for the program to understand where to insert data into the SQL Server Database. Once the list of column names is created, the program then indexes through all the data in the Data Table and creates a vHost object to place in the SQL Server Database. This is the portion that I wish to make more dynamic.

In order for the program to decide what object in the vHost class to set some data equal to, it compares an index in the Column List to a static string. If the column index we are on is equal or contains the same string for the column name, the object correlating to that in the vHost class is set equal to some data. This portion is long and grueling to type, but it allows me to create a program that will run with minimal errors.

Here is the code I have for the vHost section:

Using the below code its possible to update the start up policy of ntpd service in an ESXi server,

I apologize for the cross posting, as this also exists over at Unix & Linux Stack Exchange. I need to find an answer for this.

Our VMs run on VMWare. I am not certain the version, but I want to say it is ESX 6 (or vSphere 6). The guests I support and administer are all CentOS 7

Today, I wen through and extended both a physical and logical volume to use recently added disk space. The physical partition had previously been extended using fdisk, I just didn't complete my steps to resize the LVM. The allocation and resizing went fine with no issues. I then restarted the VM to ensure the changes took and no errors occurred.

This is where I have my issue. After the reboot I can no longer ssh into the VM. I have access to the VMs through the vSphere client. The status of the VM looked good. It was in a running state, I could see all IP addresses being used (we run several docker containers so a number of IP addresses display), there was CPU and memory usage. However, it seems as though none of the services started up, such as ssh, docker (as we have several web apps deployed in containers and I cannot access the web apps.

After reboot, I tried to ssh into the VM and the connection timed out. So I opened a remote console from the vSphere client and tried logging in with two different admin users. Neither would work, I was return to the login prompt after what seemed like 30 seconds. I've restarted the VM trying different options, such as using the rescue kernel, going into grub and trying various settings such as root, linux kernel, etc. Each time the VM starts and loads to the login prompt and that's it.

I would assume, if there was an error I would see that and be taken to an emergency/crash shell, but no such thing. From all appearances, the VM seems to have started correctly.

On our vCenter, I only have minimal rights. So my questions are:

1. Is there any way to bypass the login, from the console only, to be able to review the boot records? I assume no as that would be a huge security risk.
2. Is there anyway to see if anything has been reported from the guest to the host? Again, I assume there is, and I do not have the access to view the output.
3. Is there any way to get the boot records from the guest as there is no way to log into it? I assume there is not
4. I have an ISO I have mounted, but I cannot change the setting to force a BIOS Setup, so Is there a way, using the grub command line, to fake the VM into not having an installed OS? I want to do this in an attempt to repair the install, boot record, etc.