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  Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment
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  @Dashrender said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment: @IRJ said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment: @Dashrender said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment: How are you planning on handling the IP change - I'm assuming each building is in a different IP range, so routing will become an issue - just another piece of the puzzle. Stop building environments with static IPs period. That is an old way of thinking yeah, OK - with IPv6, that's not really a thing anyway, right? (not that IPv6 has anything to do with anything regarding this project - it's just the future way of IPing and brings along lack of static IPs) I'm not even thinking about IPv6 but yeah having a DNS service that can do health checks is ideal and route to another host when when you spin it up. This can all be automated using terraform in the cloud and even to alot of extent on prem. For example you could spin up hosts on prem and pull all the ip addresses from your terraform state file for easy import into your DNS server. On AWS, as soon as terraform creates the instance you build your DNS entry. The old one fails health check and it points to new server. Boom you are done
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  VMWare - VM Boot Problems
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  Can you get to the Windows OS volume and rename \Windows\WinSXS\Pending.xml? This will stop any updates during boot up.
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  Unifi Multi Site Updates
  unifi unifi controller ubiquity • • hobbit666  

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  @hobbit666 said in Unifi Multi Site Updates: So if @JaredBusch is saying that Unifi should be used for WISP environment. What products/companies would people recommend for SMB with multi site and single/central Controller/management setup? There is nothing we've found yet that matches this price range. Sure it takes a more manual step for the specifically requested thing, but really how often are you making new SSIDs, especially ones that need to be universal?
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  Looking for a high performance game server
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  See above - we are willing to pay more but I simply can't find something like this 6 Cores or more 4,0 GHz base freq or faster at least 32 GB RAM Flash storage can't be this hard. But I guess I will go another route: Two quad-core hosts with 16GB RAM each. QC CPUs tend to have faster clock rates.
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  Deploying NodeBB 1.13 on CentOS 8 with MongoDB 4.2
  linux centos nodebb mongodb howto centos 8 nodebb 1.13 mongodb 4.2 • • scottalanmiller  

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  @black3dynamite there you go
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  POE phones over CAT3 cable
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  @JaredBusch said in POE phones over CAT3 cable: @Dashrender said in POE phones over CAT3 cable: Has anyone got a Yealink phone to work with POE over CAT 3, 6 conductor cable? I have confirmed that 802.3af supports 2 pair POE/data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet (assuming wiki is correct) And the Yealink phones support 802.3af class 2 POE, so I should be go to go. The part I'm assuming at this this point is the use of 568B pinout in the jacks. (more specifically, using pins 1, 2, 3, 6) Thoughts? You are not technically using T568 at all. You are making use of the T568B standard for reference and using pins 1,2,3,6. 568 A or B does not matter. it simply has to be the same on both sides. I personally like B just because it is what I first used when I learned CAT5 wiring. Ditto
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  I like Edge chromium so far......
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  @JasGot said in I like Edge chromium so far......: I like the brightness level and contrast of colors. I can see the fine lines on web pages and skinny fonts so much better than in Chrome. seriously - that can be worth the price of admission right there!
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  Deploying NodeBB 1.11.1 on CentOS 7 with MongoDB 4
  linux centos centos 7 nodebb mongodb howto mongodb 4.0 nodebb 1.11 • • scottalanmiller  

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  @bnrstnr said in Deploying NodeBB 1.11.1 on CentOS 7 with MongoDB 4: What specific reasons for the CentOS recommendation here? Revisiting a little... Basically the three main Linux releases supported by MongoDB are CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian. CentOS and Ubuntu here are mostly six of one. But CentOS 8 Stream I like a little more than the Ubuntu LTS options. We use Ubuntu a little more often than CentOS today, but in this case I feel that CentOS is slightly better for us. But really, all three options are perfectly fine. We just have to pick one.
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  Finding Windows 10 Product Key
  microsoft windows10 microsoft product key • • WrCombs  

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  @Dashrender said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key: @JaredBusch said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key: @Dashrender said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key: @JaredBusch said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key: @Dashrender said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key: should prompt for this anyhow. should not fixed Makes a small difference in the meaning. You're absolutely right - I was just typing too fast... FTFY
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  ISP & VoIP woes
  voip isp • • fuznutz04  

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  @pirho99 said in ISP & VoIP woes: If someone in the neighborhood is using MoCA, you could put this adapter on the business' incoming cable line, before the first split or amplifier. It would block their interference. link This won't make any difference though - because the signal has to leave the building, i.e. go where the line noise is, to get out to the rest of the world... so the problem would still be there.
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  Non-IT Change Management and Project Management Platforms
  crm change management workflow • • DustinB3403  

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  We use Asana.
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  Nginx setup
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  @smartkid808 said in Nginx setup: @thwr said in Nginx setup: I prefer nginx over everything else when it comes to reverse proxies. There are special purpose proxies like Traefik, but nginx is the ultimate general purpose swiss army knife. Nice. That's what I gathered from what I read. Now to work on getting it setup. Tried once a while ago and gave up. Now to try again ^_^ https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/16651/install-nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-on-fedora-27
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  MeshCentral 2 - unknown device michael-7-x64
  meshcentral 2 • • Mario Jakovina  

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  @manxam said in MeshCentral 2 - unknown device michael-7-x64: This is an AV sandbox performing a scan and run on this application. Happens regularly when deploying various remote management tools to devices with AV. You'll get some Microsoft VMs, Bitdefender automated machines, Kaspersky, etc... It looks as though this SPECIFIC device name is from Bitdefender's sandbox : https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/c8z1kl/bitdefenders_sandbox_just_ran_my_screenconnectcw/ Nice find!
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  Apparently the 2.0 line of EdgeOS now supports ZeroTier
  zerotier edgeos edgeos 2.0.0 • • JaredBusch  

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  @dinge I did that exactly. Can we compare configs? Here's mine: interfaces { ethernet eth0 { address 10.1.1.10/24 description "Local Upstream" duplex auto speed auto } ethernet eth1 { description Local duplex auto speed auto } ethernet eth2 { description Local duplex auto speed auto } ethernet eth3 { description Local duplex auto speed auto } ethernet eth4 { description Local duplex auto poe { output off } speed auto } loopback lo { } switch switch0 { address 192.168.50.1/24 description Local mtu 1500 switch-port { interface eth1 { } interface eth2 { } interface eth3 { } vlan-aware disable } } zerotier ztklh3kllj { description ZeroTier } } protocols { static { route 0.0.0.0/0 { next-hop 10.1.1.1 { description "Default Gateway" } } } } service { dhcp-server { disabled false hostfile-update disable shared-network-name LAN2 { authoritative enable subnet 192.168.50.0/24 { default-router 192.168.50.1 dns-server 192.168.50.1 lease 86400 start 192.168.50.38 { stop 192.168.50.243 } } } static-arp disable use-dnsmasq disable } dns { forwarding { cache-size 150 listen-on switch0 name-server 10.1.1.1 } } gui { http-port 80 https-port 443 older-ciphers enable } nat { rule 5000 { description ZT-NAT destination { group { address-group ADDRv4_eth0 } } log disable outbound-interface ztklh3kllj protocol all source { group { } } type masquerade } } ssh { port 22 protocol-version v2 } unms { disable } }
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  UNSOLVED Any good getting started with Hugo resources
  hugo • • JaredBusch  

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  @JaredBusch said in Any good getting started with Hugo resources: @scottalanmiller said in Any good getting started with Hugo resources: @JaredBusch said in Any good getting started with Hugo resources: But exactly WTF am I supposed to do next to get the various pages made? Right. 100% missing info. And mostly this is because Hugo isn't what does this, the themes are. Hugo is like a theme-automation toolkit and the real trick is learning the themes, not learning Hugo. Right, and maybe I just picked a crappy theme at random. That's definitely a risk. A good theme makes Hugo so easy, and a bad one makes it useless.
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  Catalogic vProtect for KVM
  backup kvm vprotect • • scottalanmiller  

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  It sounds a lot like Xen Orchestra
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  SOLVED Can bitwarden have multiple accounts
  password managers multiple users bitwarden • • JaredBusch  

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  @coliver said in Can bitwarden have multiple accounts: One of the other ways I resolved this in the past was have the browser plugin for the one I use the most and the desktop app logged into the one I use the least. You just miss out on autofill if you use the desktop app. I do this now. My work stuff is in KeePass on my office desktop, and my personal stuff / work web resources that don't tie back to the office network are in Bitwarden.
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  Critical Evaluation of End User Information
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  In a case like this, it can be hard if you are new to helpdesk or feel like you want to trust your coworkers to be professional and to feed you all relevant information that they could have. But they rarely do, even other IT people. The nature of end users (the coworker becomes an end user in this scenario) is to hold back the info, or to attempt to "interpret" it through their vision of what's happening. But here is the problem: the person stating the problem (that they cannot solve) is the one person we are sure can't tell us everything that we need to know because, if they could, they'd be able to solve the problem (in most cases.) So the person who most wants to "filter" what is said, is the person least likely to be able to determine what a good filter is. Even a well meaning person in that position isn't useful.
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  MeshCental 2 Config File Issues
  lets encrypt meshcentral meshcentral 2 dashrender • • Dashrender  

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  @Ylian Any thoughts on why my system is demanding having the "cert": line added? I did do a startup based on the install instructions node ./node_modules/meshcentral --cert example.servername.com Does that put the hostname somewhere other than the config.json?
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  How does name resolution work in AD?
  windows dns ad • • Pete.S  

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  @Pete-S said in How does name resolution work in AD?: @Dashrender said in How does name resolution work in AD?: @scottalanmiller said in How does name resolution work in AD?: @Pete-S said in How does name resolution work in AD?: I was wondering how it works because we see a problem where a couple of Win 10 clients can resolve all the internal Windows servers names, but not the statically assigned names of linux servers. I thought if the name resolution works over different mechanisms and uses different ports it could be an firewall or L3 switch somewhere that has been misconfigured. This is common in situations where Linux is not given an opportunity to auto-update the DNS entries, no one makes them manually, and they are not joined to AD. Exactly - have you or anyone else added these servers to AD's DNS? They have been added manually. The name of the service is also not the name as the server. So if a webserver is abc001.company.com the name in the DNS that will send you to that server might be logistics.company.com. if you're being sent to logistics, that's the entry that must be in DNS.. you can have as many entries as are needed for a single server. each name is it's own entry.
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  Office 365 permissions for a document center
  office 365 sharepoint o365 • • WLS-ITGuy  

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  MeshCentral 0.4.7-z Tag List Expansion Bug
  meshcentral meshcentral 2 • • scottalanmiller  

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  Password check services.
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  For example, https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords? This one is legit. But if they did keep a list of passwords entered, it's not the end of the world, especially with 2FA/MFA, and the fact it would have to align on the correct website with the correct username/email.
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  DVX 8000 IP PBX CONFIGURATION
  voip pbx telephony dlink dlink dvx dlink dvx 8000 • • Cosmas  

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  @Dashrender said in DVX 8000 IP PBX CONFIGURATION: Awesome to see more telephoney stuff show up. Bad telephony, but meh. all good.
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  UPS keeps dying
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  Fedora 31 Server Edition filesystem permissions changed to 777
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  I got them yesterday. Community Documents v0.1.3 and OnlyOffice v4.1.2
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  How to mount remote filesystem over ssh (both Windows & Linux)
  linux windows ssh sshfs • • Pete.S  

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  @dafyre said in How to mount remote filesystem over ssh (both Windows & Linux): @black3dynamite said in How to mount remote filesystem over ssh (both Windows & Linux): @dafyre Installing sshfs and winfsp via choco is older than the ones from GitHub. If you installed them via choco do this to mount at the host root directory or other directories. https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win/issues/102 Host root directory \\sshfs\[email protected]\..\.. Specific directory like /var/www \\sshfs\[email protected]\..\..\var\www Thanks for the pointer. I did install using choco. I'm able to make it work now. Edit: Just to see if I can, I may go back and do straight installs. As I said above with the latest version I mount the root directory with \\sshfs.r\[email protected] However, if you want to mount another directory like /var/www you have to do: \\sshfs.r\[email protected]\var\www\ The trailing \ is very important! It just doesn't work without it if your path is more than one directory deep. You also need to use backslash and not the forward slash.
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  Apache installation - file owner & permissions?
  apache php permissions • • Pete.S  

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  @Pete-S said in Apache installation - file owner & permissions?: I was wondering what permission and owner should files like html, php etc have? Normally you just do... chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html
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  WP-CLI and database users
  security wordpress wp-cli wp • • JaredBusch  

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  @JaredBusch check out WordOps https://wordops.net/
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  Setting up FreePBX to send a X-Tenant SIP header for Skyetel Tenant tracking
  freepbx skyetel billing tenant • • JaredBusch  

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  @cdbrush said in Setting up FreePBX to send a X-Tenant SIP header for Skyetel Tenant tracking: This is great. Thanks. What is this significance to the numbers within the "{OUTBOUND_ROUTE_NAME:0:4}" preceding the route name? That’s a substring. Look at the route name, starting at character zero and going for 4 characters.