Windows

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Qlik Sense

Automate Qlik Sense logins from PowerShell

Tech deep-dive where we look at how users can be automatically logged into Qlik Sense to generate realistic, artificial load on the system. PowerShell and Selenium is used to automate Chrome.

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Windows

Black box monitoring of Windows servers

This is part 2 in a series about how healthchecks.io can be used together with Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows (QSEoW). Previous articles: Oh data where art thou? Windows Server just works… right? Usually, yes. Still, things do happen and it certainly would be nice to get an push

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Qlik Sense

How to set up free SSL certificates for Qlik Sense

I recently had a need for an isolated Qlik Sense environment, in order to test some of the new features of Qlik Sense September 2017. While it works perfectly fine to run Sense with self-signed certificates, you then get browser warnings that the certificates are not valid etc. That

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Butler

Monitoring and auto-starting Node.js services on Windows Server

When relying on various Node.js services (e.g. Butler SOS, Butler, App Duplicator etc), you quickly run into the challenge to ensure all services are always up and running. A failing service might be fine, as long as it is quickly restarted in a predictable way. A concrete example

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macOS

Upgrade to Windows 10 on VirtualBox with OSX host

Lots of OS upgrades lately, Windows went to Windows 10 and Apple to El Capitan. I am usually pretty ok upgrading to Apple’s latest OSs a week or two after their release – they are usually of good quality. As VirtualBox (“VBox”) also came out with their version 5 release,

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Windows

Windows 8 and Debian Wheezy dual boot

An old Dell XPS M1330 laptop has been collecting dust around here for ages. It’s one of those “yes… I am sure that laptop will come in handy some day…” machines, and I finally took the time to set it up as test machine for Windows 8 and Linux.

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