@coliver said in Recommended FreePBX Commercial Modules?:

Not necessarily an add-on from shmooze but FOP2 is phenomenal.

This is a great tool, really cheap and you can use it on Freeswitch as well. Also easy to change the GUI to a more modern interface.

@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@reid-cooper said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?

Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?

With Vultr, you can add block storage on a per GB bases as needed. So yes, you can do it with Vultr without expanding the VM itself.

Yeah I guess he is probably in NJ data center. I've only used block storage in winblows server. Not sure how you'd move that location in FreePBX.

LVM

Yep, I did this exact thing on a server with Vultr block storage. It is super easy. Purchase it, attach it to the server, create a mount point and mount the new storage device (shows up as another drive), then done.

In FreePBX Advanced settings, you can even specify an alternative destination for voicemails.

@marcinozga said in Network setup for production KVM:

Containers or VM guests makes no difference here.

Rarely does.

@jaredbusch said in Snipe-IT updating from 4.1.3 with new Laravel Requirement:

[root@assets ~]# cd /var/www/html/snipeit/ [root@assets snipeit]# git pull

Doh.. yeah my update script does this.

@popester said in SQL server SSH proxy:

@scottalanmiller I am hoping to apply what I have been learning about containers to solve requests like these so they can self serve, and I can be satisfied that it is done securely. In the training I was in yesterday about Ansible there was a lot of talk about what I think of as "traditional" IT department needing to be more agile lest the DEV part of DevOps start forming a shadow IT department. It's a long road and I am looking forward to it.

Thank you MangoLassi community.

Containers really don't add much to this. Traditional VMs do this perfectly well. Nothing wrong with containers, but they are far more limited overall since they need a matching OS underneath them. Find if you are 100% Linux, but the moment you need Windows, it doesn't do much good. Traditional virtualization is the better path in the SMB.

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX CDR and CEL Analysis:

@eddiejennings A unique ID is a call. How wold you think that it is not a valid representation of calls?

Yeah. . . I was having a dumb moment yesterday. I've actually taken a step back and asked the user to review with me what information they're actually wanting. I'm taking the angle of "now that we have FreePBX, let's see if [your information needs] can be better met."

I'm using a basic label printer and just printing off the asset tag. We also don't need anything special either. . . so.

It's moving at least. Is the array in heavy use while this is going on?

@beta said in Sanity check, which RAID level should I use for my Veeam repository?:

@dashrender said in Sanity check, which RAID level should I use for my Veeam repository?:

@beta said in Sanity check, which RAID level should I use for my Veeam repository?:

P.S. If I decided to keep RAID 10 and did need additional space in the future unexpectedly, I did think about a fall back plan of using Windows Deduplication (server will be running 2012 R2).

You're running Windows Server 2012 R2 on your repo? why waste a license?

I'm a Windows guy and I have the license to spare so seems logical to me.

If it isn't current, I'd call that an anti-reason. Spare licenses that depend on being free, but are not kept up to date means that what you are deploying you can't afford to deploy. It's out of date today and is already technical debt. It'll only get worse over time.

@Mike-Davis

Android tablets should be able to do this by default if they are relatively new.
https://www.howtogeek.com/170191/share-your-android-tablet-and-keep-your-privacy-with-a-guest-account/

Look at the section that says "Restricted Profiles".

I think for now I'm going to go with Crashplan business, mainly because it's 75% off. I'll push this off for a year and save a few bucks.

My user folder and my data drive are just over 500GB so not a huge backup, but still, CP is currently dead and waiting even a week to backup to BB hurts a little.

I do have O365 so I've got 1TB there. I actually store some Windows user folder (docs/music/images/videos) directly into OneDrive. I just don't want to use it as a "backup" in the fuller sense of the word. It's not exactly protected from crypto and would be a huge pain to recover from.

@dbeato Yes, 10 minutes actually, some time this morning.

@jaredbusch said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@dashrender said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

If for home, I assume that the goal is learning ESXi itself? Otherwise, just use a different hypervisor. KVM seems to be the hypervisor of prominence today.

Well, I use ESXi/vSphere at work. I wanted to try out the free version of ESXi at home for S&G, but I may also experiment with other Hypervisors, depending on what will work with my system. I would like to check out KVM.

I would skip ESXi Free, it has so little value even for education. If you use ESXi at work, you already have the exposure to the real thing. The crippled free version is worthless.

I'm not sure I agree with this. If he has Essentials at work, then doesn't the free version of ESXi do everything but have the backup APIs?

Well, what is the goal? If the goal is to learn, ESXi Free wouldn't make sense since he already knows ESXi and the free version lacks nearly all the features that you need to practice on like vMotion, HA, Backups, etc.

If if you want to learn something new, a different hypervisor is needed. If you want to learn advanced features, a different hypervisor is needed. If you want to use it for production at home and want the best options for that, a different hypervisor is needed.

Also if you want to learn ESXi, VMWare has a thing for that.
https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware/try-hands-on-labs.html

Even better.

Here is my ELR config at home.

jbusch@jared:~$ show configuration commands service | grep dhcp-server set service dhcp-server disabled false set service dhcp-server hostfile-update enable set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN authoritative disable set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN description 'LAN eth1' set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 bootfile-name settings/snom.htm set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 default-router 10.254.103.1 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 dns-server 10.254.103.1 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 lease 28800 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 ntp-server 10.254.103.1 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 start 10.254.103.31 stop 10.254.103.254 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 time-server 10.254.103.1 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 unifi-controller 207.244.223.13 set service dhcp-server use-dnsmasq disable

Get a different machine for the CAD user, he'll be taxing CPU and GPU heavily. Get him Xeon workstation if you can, ideally something that's certified by CAD vendor. You'd be surprised how quickly they are to blame non-certified hardware if there are any issues with their software.

@reid-cooper Yeah, there are couple of options 🙂

@black3dynamite said in NBA GO on Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.10:

@dustinb3403 said in NBA GO on Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.10:

So this only shows the stats of the players and games, right?

Is that really enjoyable? I'm not a big sports fan so meh 😛

Information like this is very popular for those into fantasy sports.

Fantasy sports... all the boring of real sports with the benefits of it being real.

@dashrender said in Quick access to a PC on a domain:

Nothing against you - I just like to have the answer right here in the post - just getting a link is pointless - links often die off and then the actual data for the post is lost.

No worries

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@dave247 said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

.... haven't had the chance to dig in as I am a freaking "IT generalist" where I work.

Youtube Video

I have a video for everything these days.

yep I just watched that one.. guess I can't call myself a Systems Administrator anymore 😢 (jk I totally am)