@JaredBusch said in WordPress admin page redirecting to IP:

Is the site URL correct in the settings

Been there many times :angry_face:

@maximus said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@travisdh1 said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@maximus said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@WrCombs said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@maximus said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@WrCombs said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@maximus said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

Hi,

Anybody here using restaurant purchasing system? what purchasing system are you using?

What are you looking for exactly - Restaurant Purchasing Systems - What does that mean exactly?

the system will document the food items that will be bought. it will also keep track of history requisitions. some system are attached to the inventory system. but we are just looking for a purchasing system for now.

oh you're looking more to track inventory?

not yet inventory, just purchasing system. inventory systems are a nightmare.

FTFY

So the usual inventory is - you buy 100 pcs, the users will dedect 1 pc when they use it. Now on food, you buy 1 box of cooking oil, the box has 12 cans inside, the user will use 200 grams. So you need to swim on a freaking conversion table from box to grams. LOL.

That's how most businesses making an actual product operate. How you receive raw materials never matches the widgets leaving the door (or kitchen in your case.) Thus why I say all inventory systems are a nightmare.

@Jimmy9008 keep in mind that resulting availability and risk aren't the same thing. Any five nines system is expected to hit six nines nine out of ten years. It's the average over the operating lifespan, not over a set interval. Otherwise any normal interval that you select would have 100% uptime.

So there are two ways to look at it reasonably...

The first is what an individual system actually provides. The second is the average of all systems configured identically, over all of their operational lifetimes.

The first you measure. The second you project with simulations.

In extremely large systems, like BackBlaze, they get close approximations to the later through measurement because they look only at small components (like hard drives) of which they have substantiation numbers to create a reasonable approximation to a full number.

When I was on Wall St., we had 80,000 servers in our pool and so we had actual risk and availability numbers for the industry in datacenters like ours. But it still only told us about a handful of server models, and only under our exact conditions. And it still took a decade or more to produce meaningful numbers, and those numbers only applied to the servers of the past, not the ones being installed new.

I would recommend to use the UEFI PXE Boot and that any UEFI boot settings on the devices to be deployed have UEFI settings enabled, including the UEFI Network stack (At least on dell devices).

For testing I always run a VM to test my deployments before using on a Desktop and prepare it as much as I can and then deploy it to the devices. It helps to add all the drive packs from the Hardware Manufacturer (Say Dell, HP and so forth).
Dell
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln312414/dell-command-deploy-driver-packs-for-enterprise-client-os-deployment?lang=en
HP
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/caps-softpaq/cmit/HP_Driverpack_Matrix_x64.html
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/caps-softpaq/cmit/HP_Driverpack_Matrix_x86.html
Lenovo
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht074984
Acer
https://www.acer.com/sccm/
Microsoft
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/deploy-the-latest-firmware-and-drivers-for-surface-devices

With Pre-Staging machines you need to rely on adding the device mac addresses manually or use Microsoft AD to add them with a Script or Manually to be ready to WDS. This makes it that you can add the devices before hand and only those devices will get the deployment. However you can setup an specific network or VLAN to have the WDS

For Multicast, I like this article
https://specopssoft.com/blog/wds-multicast-configuration/
However I like the option to disconnect the clients when their speeds go way low and then go unicast instead of multicast. Multicast makes sense that way that way the slow clients do not slow the faster clients.

I am still not sure why MDT is not being implemented but that is for another post.

@fuznutz04 said in FreePBX and DNS settings:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX and DNS settings:

@fuznutz04 said in FreePBX and DNS settings:

@Scott says not to set it. You say to set it to 127.0.0.1 and the Vultr DNS.

No, Scott says he doesn't use it, not that you shouldn't. Not the same thing 😉

But doesn't this just write it to the /etc/resolve file anyway? I could set DNS statically via the file, but I'm still unclear what the best practice is for FreePBX in regards to DNS.

To not fuck with it unless you have a reason to.

FreePBX is an appliance. A software appliance, but an appliance. You don’t fuck with it under the hood unless you have a good reason to do so.

@dyasny said in Virt-Manager on multiple pc's:

if you have an ovirt-engine somewhere central, that can reach to all the other locations, you can create a datacentre per location and place standalone hosts in there, using local storage.

Never thought about that. That's a great idea.

@scotth said in CCTV Standalone NVR:

@justin867 said in CCTV Standalone NVR:

@scotth said in CCTV Standalone NVR:

@justin867 said in CCTV Standalone NVR:

Hikvision NVR has 16 ports at the back. does the camera need to be directly connected to the ports? we have CCTV vlan and some of camera is passing via fiber and multiple switch hops.

I'm not sure where you're confused. BNC (analog over coax) goes to BNC. IP goes over the wire (ethernet). The appliance has an interface to configure your connected devices.

Sorry for noob question. Just want to make sure that the NVR's 16 network ports works as normal switch ports.

I honestly couldn't tell you as I've never dealt with a device that matches what you're describing.

While technically non-Ethernet switches are physically possible, they really don't exist on the market. Only Ethernet switching has ever really been a thing. So you are safe in that all switching is interchangeable.

@RojoLoco said in OSX Mojave - System Storage - Time Machine Disabled:

@DustinB3403 said in OSX Mojave - System Storage - Time Machine Disabled:

That seems unnecessary as this shouldn't be so difficult, nor should it ever occur.

...because everything apple does is perfect and never, ever malfunctions in any way, right?

Yeah. . . no I get the stance. What makes no sense is there is no way for me to find where this bulk is coming from.

@DustinB3403 said in Office 365 OWA blocks Microsofts own content:

Would you really want MS making exceptions on your behalf and without your knowledge?

I don't have a safe senders list. Yet I get attachments and links all the time.

More than likely, the DKIM/SPF checks failed to cause that.

@scottalanmiller RHV now, after a rebrand in 2016-ish

Upgraded from 18.04.2 LTS to current. Accepted default answers for individuals packages during upgrade.

Had issue with MC and the meshcentral-data/meshcentral.db getting set with root:root perms and this caused a few errors with starting MC from meshcentral.service

Changed perms to back to <user>:<user> and all is well. Don't know what would change those perms though? Either way, all is well now.

@JaredBusch said in Upgrading to osTicket 1.11.0:

So what is the point of using OSTicket? There are solutions for that.

Time tracking would be nice. But lots of shops don't use it. MSPs do, but internal IT often does not.

@Danp said in XCP-NG/XenServer tapdisk error:

It's a bug... see https://mailchi.mp/7ed52f9a2151/important-noticeopenvswitch-issue

Sure enough, that was it.

@anthonyh said in GPO Software Deployment Woes:

Just a side note: I can confirm that @Dashrender 's suggestion of creating a CNAME works like a charm. I created a new software deployment GPO and added the source via the CNAME record and deployment was successful.

Glad to see that I was mistaken 🙂

@DustinB3403 said in Nomad - Manage Mac OS in Windows/AD Environment - Anyone Used It?:

I've heard of it, and it's supposedly a really good product, the issue with it is the cost. At least at the time.

The product now is JAMF Connect. So it looks to be a dead product that was replaced.

Interesting. I'll look into that. I didn't see any mention of jamf.

@black3dynamite said in Setting Up a Standard MySQL or MariaDB Database for an Application:

@JaredBusch said in Setting Up a Standard MySQL or MariaDB Database for an Application:

I like my approach to setting this up.

Obviously, install MySQL/MariaDB first as noted above.

Then do the following. This all needs done in the same SSH session, but otherwise things are simple.

Choose once of these exports for your DB root password.

The first one is for you to specify, the second generates a random one and echo's it back to you.

# Specify your own password for MariaDB root user export DB_ROOT_PASS="somebigpasswordgoeshere" # Generate a random password for MariaDB root user export DB_ROOT_PASS="$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c 30)" echo "This is your MariaDB root password: $DB_ROOT_PASS" Specify the application database name and application user name # Database user to use for application export DB_USER='yourusername' # Database name to use for application export DB_NAME='yourdatabasename' Generate or specify a random password for the database user # Specify your own password for the application's database user export DB_PASS="somebigpasswordgoeshere" # Generate a random password for the application's database user export DB_PASS="$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c 30)" echo "This is your password for the application user: $DB_PASS" Then create the application database, use, and grant access. mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE $DB_NAME;" mysql -e "CREATE USER '$DB_USER'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$DB_PASS';" mysql -e "GRANT ALL ON $DB_NAME.* TO '$DB_USER'@'localhost';" mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" Finally, lock down the system without the interactive requirement of mysql_secure_installation # Secure MariaDB (this does what mysql_secure_installation performs without interaction) mysql -e "UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('$DB_ROOT_PASS') WHERE User='root';" mysql -e "DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User='root' AND Host NOT IN ('localhost', '127.0.0.1', '::1');" mysql -e "DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User='';" # Beginning on some version of MariaDB after Fedora 29 was released, the test DB is no longer there by defualt. mysql -e "DROP DATABASE test;" mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

Your approach makes it easier to use as part of a script.

It also generates random passwords, which I prefer.

@LilAng said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table:

In Excel, use File > Save as web page, then attach the web page to your email message?

Yeah, we found that process. That's a pretty huge "fail" process.

@gjacobse said in Wifi Card Not Being Seen:

have you tried using a Linux OS? This could be helpful in determination of the Hardware and OS

everything else works fine except the wifi for some reason just kicks off to the point the card itself is not recognized even with drivers re loaded , until you physically unplug and plug back in.

@Dashrender said in Make an osTicket Database Backup:

Total DB Admin noob here - so bare with me.

Does this include the username/password setup for this DB? or does that need to be maintained separately?

i.e. you have to rebuild from this backup - do you just create a brand new SQL user and grant them rights to this DB upon import, then use that new account to give access to the app?

In typing out my question I kinda assume the answer is the second bit - you just create a new user and assign them rights.

Correct. The user and the database are separate things.

@DustinB3403 said in Losing mouse via hyper v manager:

Anyone can login to the console, as the local admin, and have no additional logging (admin login to console from system-name. . .) for example.

So, there are compliance and logging reasons to not use the console that are general recommendations to "just do".

What? Who has the administrator account password? Hopefully only the most trusted of all people, a subset of the IT team. So that shouldn't be a real issue.

As for logging - I have no idea what logging in available in Hyper-V itself when the Hyper-V Manager is logged into and accesses a Hyper-V host - but I would assume that connection itself is logged based upon the username/password of that IT member - and if they have the Administrator name/password - well, there you go.

As for the actual console - well, there really isn't a way to access a VM from the physical console on the server, so that's a non issue.