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The following Python script will help to list all the AWS IAM roles with the last used date. If the role is not been used, it will show 'Never used" instead of date. You will require Python3.8 or above to run the script. I prefer to use Tabulate to format the output in to table format. You can format the output in to HTML or even convert in to CSV file too. Let's start the script to list all IAM role and its last used date. import boto3 import time from tabulate import tabulate Once you've imported the boto3, time and tabulate module, let's setup the AWS session using the AWS config profile and region name. session = boto3 . Session ( profile_name = profile , region_name = region ) iam_client = session . client ( 'iam' ) # use paginator if you have long list of IAM roles paginator = iam_client .get_paginator( 'list_roles' ) iterator = paginator .paginate() The following lines will help to setup the header row of the table in the output. In ...

In this blog, I will share the Python script that will help you to list the AWS Lambda function details such as Function name, Function ARN, Run time, Description and Version etc... I will be using Tabulate module to format my output in to table format. If you are new to Tabulate, please visit my previous blog where I have provided details of Tabulate module. The following Python code is written in to Python 3.8 version.  import boto3 from tabulate import tabulate   After importing the Boto3 and Tabulate module, let's setup our AWS session details by providing region and profile name.  profile = "default" region = "us-east-1" session = boto3 . Session ( profile_name = profile , region_name = region ) lambda_client = session . client ( 'lambda' ) response = lambda_client .list_functions() # Get the list of functions lambda_list = response [ 'Functions' ] The following code will help you to setup a Header row in the table  # Setup heade...

 In this blog, I will show you how to write a Python script that will list all the support cases raised from your AWS account. This script can be very useful when you want a report showing the information about AWS support cases are either open or in resolved state. Let's begin with importing Boto3 and Tabulate module. Tabulate module will help us to present the output in table format. You can install Tabulate module by running  pip install tabulate  command. import boto3 from tabulate import tabulate Once you've imported the require modules, we can set up the connection to AWS by giving the default profile and region name. At this stage, we can only use " us-east-1 " region to run any commands to fetch support case details. So, we will be using the same region in our code too. # setup profile and region profile = "default" region = "us-east-1 " Now, here is the actual code where we will gather the information about all the cases, covert in t...

In this blog, we will look at how to execute Python script to get the AWS EC2 details like Name tag valie of the instance, Instance ID, Platform, Instance Type, State and its private IPv4 address. You will require Python 3.8 or above to run the the script successfully. Setting up Boto3 Session and client import boto3 # setup profile and region profile = "default" region = "us-east-1" session = boto3 . Session ( profile_name = profile , region_name = region ) ec2_client = session . client ( 'ec2' ) response = ec2_client .describe_instances() ec2_list = response [ 'Reservations' ] # Gather information about EC2 ec2_name = session . resource ( 'ec2' ) instances = ec2_name .instances.all() # This will help to retrieve Tags information Now, let's print the header row. # print header print ( 'Name, Instance ID, Platform, Instance Type, State, Private IPv4' ) Following code will run and collect the information about EC2.   for ...

It is easy to create your own speedtest utility in Python. You will require Speedtest-CLI module to build your utility. To install Speedtest-cli, run “ pip install speedtest-cli ” command Once speedtest-cli is installed, import it into your Python file. import speedtest result = speedtest . Speedtest ()   Following code will help you to find the best Speedtest server depending on your location best_server = result . get_best_server () print ( f "Checking speedtest using server located in { best_server [ 'country' ] } " )   Now, run the speed test for Download, Upload and ping result. # Running the download speed print ( "Running download speedtest..." ) dw_result = result . download () # Running the upload spped print ( "Running upload speedtest..." ) up_result = result . upload () # Running a ping test ping_result = result . results . ping   Using below code, you can covert the result in to Mbps and truncate the value to 2 decima...

Here is the Python script that helps to find out the AWS account id. # The script helps you to find out AWS account number import boto3 # Configure AWS access key and secret access key to access AWS resources access_key_id = "test-key" secret_access_key_id = "secret-key" sts = boto3 . client (     "sts" , aws_access_key_id = access_key_id , aws_secret_access_key = secret_access_key_id , ) account_id = sts .get_caller_identity()[ "Account" ] # Print account number print ( account_id ) # The following code helps you to return AWS account number when IAM role based permissions are used account_id = boto3 . client ( "sts" ).get_caller_identity()[ "Account" ] # Print account number print ( account_id ) Hope you find it useful. Disclaimer: www.TechieTalks.co.uk does not conceal the possibility of error and shortcomings due to human or technical factors. www.TechieTalks.co.uk does not bear responsibility upon any loss or da...

The following Python script will help you to export list of any all the CloudWatch logs with their retention time and size of the log group an AWS account. The script also helps you to save the output within CSV file. #!/usr/bin/env python3.8 #This script will save the list of CloudWatch log group names, their retention time and # size (in MBs) in to CSV file import boto3 import time import csv # Setting up AWS profile and region profile = "default" region = "us-east-1" session = boto3 . Session ( profile_name = profile , region_name = region ) #getting current date and time date_time = time . strftime ( " %d %m%Y_%H%M" ) # setting up file name fname = "CloudWatch-Logs_" ftime = date_time fext = ".csv" filename = fname + ftime + fext # open file to write output with open ( filename , 'w' ) as f :     print ( 'Profile, Region,Log Group Name, Retention Time (in days), Size (in MB)' , file = f )   cw_logs =...

The following Python script will help to export list of any open pull requests from CodeCommit repositories from an AWS account. The output will be saved within CSV file. #!/usr/bin/env python3.8 # This script is used to find out any open pull requests from all the repositories # from an account and write output to the csv file # Importing boto3, csv and time module import boto3 import csv import time # Setting up AWS profile and region profile = "default" region = "us-east-1" session = boto3 . Session ( profile_name = profile , region_name = region ) repo_client = session . client ( 'codecommit' ) repos = repo_client .list_repositories(     sortBy = 'repositoryName' ) repo_list = repos repo_name = repo_list [ 'repositories' ] # Getting current date and time date_time = time . strftime ( " %d %m%Y_%H%M%S" ) # Setting up file name fname = "Open_PullReqsIDs_" ftime = date_time fext = ".csv" filename ...

While trying to run a CURL command in the Windows command prompt following error message occurs: Error: curl: (1) Protocol"https" not supported or disabled in libcurl For some reason, Windows doesn't like single quotes with the URL. To resolve this, please use the double quotes with the URL. For e.g. curl -J "http://localhost:8080"   Hope you find it useful.   Disclaimer: www.TechieTalks.co.uk does not conceal the possibility of error and shortcomings due to human or technical factors. www.TechieTalks.co.uk does not bear responsibility upon any loss or damage arising from conduct or activities related to the use of data and information contained in this blog.

Recently, I had come across following error message when one of the users was trying to copy files to Network folder. His folder was setup with offline files option so that files are available to user when network connection to server is either poor or not available. Error 0x80070718: Not enough quota is available to process this command After doing it bit of a search, I found a following solution to above error message. This is caused by Offline files. I have followed these steps on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit PC.           Open Control Panel           Go to Sync centre           Select Manage offline Files from left side column           An Offline files box will appear, click on Disk Usage tab           Click on Change limits button, change limit to required space.           Click on OK button twice. Hope you find it ...

I have Nagios Xi 4.3.2 installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (Mapio) . Recently, I had an issue with my Nagios monitoring tool. It stopped monitoring my devices. When I checked further, I found out that NDO2DB service stopped working. Because of that, I could not see most recent status of any of the devices monitored by Nagios. I logged on to Read hat box and tried below command to check the status of the service: #systemctl status ndo2db You can also use following command to check any service status #Service ndo2db status I tried following commands to start/restart ndo2db service. #systemctl start ndo2db OR #systemctl restart ndo2db After applying above commands, I ran following command again to check status but it failed to start #systemctl status ndo2db After doing bit of searching on this issue, I found the solution. I entered following commands to start NDO2DB service. #service nagios stop #service ndo2db stop #rm -f /usr/...

Recently, I had to move Pagefile.sys from C: drive to another drive on a server to free up some space. Page file is used as a virtual memory in Windows. Generally, you can find on C:\Pagefile.sys . It is a hidden file and you won’t be able to see it until you changes settings in Windows Explorer not to hide protected operating system files. To move the Pagefile to a new drive, follow these steps. You can perform these steps on any Windows Vista, or Windows 7 on wards or Windows server 2003 on wards.   Go to Control Panel and then System and Security . Now, click on Advanced system settings on the left side column. System properties box will appear, click on Advanced tab. Under Performance , click on Settings … button Performance Options box will appear, click on Advance tab. In Virtual Memory section, click on Change… button Virtual Memory box will appear. In this box, untick Automatically manage paging file size for all drives Select the drive lette...

Hi All, you may have already noticed that when you right click on any application on Windows 10 PC, you can see “Run as Administrator” option. But “Run as different user” option is missing. To get this option, you’ll make a make a change in registry.   Note :  Please backup registry and make a system restore point before making changes to Registry. Click on  Start . Type  Regedit  and press  Enter  key. In Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer        If you do not find this key, right click on Windows key and select new key. Rename it to Explorer . Now, in the right side pane, right click and add DWORD value ShowRunasDifferentuserinStart Right click on ShowRunasDifferentuserinStart and click on Modify… Change its value to 1 and click on OK . Close Registry Editor and reboot PC. Once you restart your PC, you can find Run as different user option is available w...