NTP can take a considerable amount of time (hours) to whip the system clock into submission if it had drifted far off UTC.

You can start the ntpd with an option to force it to change time directly. It used to be that you'd run ntpdate first and then start ntpd but ntpdate has been depreciated.

ntpq -p will show a little more details about the status of ntp sync. First thing to run when troubleshooting ntp.

@scottalanmiller just upvote and quote me. 🙂

Slowpoke.

@RojoLoco said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

I signed up for an account and got a sales call before I had even gotten my "confirm account" email. Not a great start.

That's what it was like for us the first time around. They just kept calling, too.

But this time, so far so good.

@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:

@scottalanmiller said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:

@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:

@JaredBusch said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:

It isn’t worth it compared to something like ZeroTier IMO.

Last I checked the ZT connection would be 'always on' unless you manually login to the website and disable and enable it. One vector for issues. Yes SC is permanent on but its like RDP.

You can limit it to the RDP port, though.

True but SC is much less work! RDP does have the full screen experience advantage.

So does ScreenConnect

@JaredBusch said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

The XCP-NG team is a team that had a horrible business model that they were trying to implement around XenServer (XOA). Great concept, poor business model.

I wish them well but they are fighting a few things...

Citrix couldn't make any real money even when they charged more and people were taking the product seriously.

Last time I checked they were just replacing some management components and packaging some storage stuff. They are not investing in upstream and there's a lot of... changes coming in hardware that are going to require non-trivial investments for hypervisors to remain relevant.

The real problem with Xen is upstream investment is drying up. Citrix has pulled back, Amazon and other cloud providers have moved on to KVM, SuSE doesn't even market virtualization (SAP HANA support, containers, OS is as close to bare metal as they get). Outside of some people in ARM/automotive virtualization I haven't seen anyone picking it up for net new projects. In the enterprise Oracle is the only champion of it these days. KVM won the open source hypervisor war (although at this point does anyone really care?)

Yeah, sorry misread you where looking for how to do it from windows that why I added the exe 😃

@JaredBusch said in dbeato why are you migrating from Hyper-V to XCP-ng:

@DustinB3403 said in dbeato why are you migrating from Hyper-V to XCP-ng:

@JaredBusch I agree, Olivier's business model is the difficult part to look past.

XOA was a great tool from what I could tell with all the conversations here. But the price structure was something discussed quite a bit.

Which is why I exclusively use XOCE. $6000 a year isn't cheap for the highest teir of support and functionality.

@dbeato said in Windows 10 IOT Enterprise:

@dafyre said in Windows 10 IOT Enterprise:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 IOT Enterprise:

Though - now that I think about it - does IOT require activation? I thought it was free?

If there is an enterprise version of IOT - I have no clue

In my reading, Windows 10 IOT will attempt to activate (nor will it complain) if you never connect the device to the internet. Of course, once you connect it, it will try to activate.

Interesting, I didn't understand this part

By default, KMS clients on your Windows IoT Enterprise with no additional configuration needed.

It will act like a regular desktop and activate against your KMS server if you hook it up to the network.

@dyasny said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

@scottalanmiller said in Virt-manager: IDE disks:

They need to just get off of my lawn.

LOL, funny how I'd never have understood the joke before moving to NA and buying a house 🙂

HAHAHA

@scottalanmiller said in New Infrastructure to Replace Scale Cluster:

So if a VM dies, oVirt will provide non-FT failover, yes. And by having failover you might achieve HA. And oVirt is a critical part of making that possible. But it itself isn't HA, nor does it guarantee HA. It's just a failover component that you can use to "do" HA.

It's a component you buy (well, this one is opensource, but still), part of a solution that would cover other potential failure points. The solution in general is also something you can buy, in order to achieve a certain level of HA for those VMs

Worth the try checking it @dbeato thanks, will try it once I can remote back into the machine today

@DustinB3403 said in Sound Eklin TruDR eSeries - Error Opening Receptor 106:

@scottalanmiller said in Sound Eklin TruDR eSeries - Error Opening Receptor 106:

@DustinB3403 We did 😉

Gotta check every now and then. 😄

Someone has to ask the stupid questions. It was me the other day.

@scottalanmiller said in Replication Options for KVM to DR Site:

But that was my point, what's considered a reasonable, rational risk scenario to an invest bank sounds to normal people to be similar to meteor level extinction events. Hence why the "backups have to cover everything possible" rule can't work, even if you add the caveat of "within rational scope", it is clear that Fortune 100 rational is SMB crazy. And what is F100 crazy, is still Wall St. rational. And what is Wall St crazy, is big government rational.

Backups shouldn't stop being backups based on the impression of rational scope. A backup is a backup, the scope that it covers is its coverage scope. Otherwise no SMB's backups would be a backup to the enterprise, for example. But the viewpoint of the observer should not be the determination of what is or isn't a backup, but rather an intrinsic property of the backup itself. Otherwise, you force a crazy scope to happen and someone mentions meteors - which was my point.

Lets agree on DR solutions being able (or striving to at least) cover disasters of whatever the scoped level is for a given business. With this in mind, avoidance techniques still have to target specific errors, while recovery solutions cover data loss from all of those, plus any other failure (within the scope, yes. Nothing will cover the failure of Earth remaining a livable planet).

@IRJ said in Splunk vs iptables:

iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp --sport 9997 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

Looks like the solution was
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT

Or at least that got it working. 🙂

Great question actually. I don't use hyper-v much.

I am using version 2.4.0 and have an issue too, see below
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and this
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@FATeknollogee the install itself has been covered too many times to mention 🙂 Maybe if he runs into a specific issue and solves it, that would be a good thing to share

@gjacobse said in Add a User to Remote Desktop Users in Windows Remotely:

I seem to remember doing this via ScreenConnect CMD

Only works if SC is installed, which if it was, we'd not need to do it 🙂

Well I tried maintenance mode - out of service for 10 mins, then back on - no go.

I put the password back into the system - bam.. damn thing is registering again. 😞

If you want to play around with different OSs you should try for example:

Qubes OS (safety OS where everything is run in VMs) TinyCoreLinux (extremely small, low resource desktop OS, ~11 MB) Lubuntu (light weight desktop OS based on LXDE, suitable for older hardware) LinuxFromScratch (if you want to roll your own linux) FreeBSD or OpenBSD (if you want to try some BSD)