@bigbear said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@jaredbusch said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@bigbear said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@jaredbusch said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@scottalanmiller said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@bigbear said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@scottalanmiller said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@bigbear said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

So at this point I would assume a clean install of FreePBX 14 with Asterisk 14 is recommended?

I've had better luck with Asterisk 15.

So FreePBX14 with Asterisk 15?

That's what we are using.

Yes, FreePBX 14 with Asterisk 14 is what I have everywhere.

I was thinking this. 14 and 14. Have you used FreePBX14 with asterisk15 in production?

All of my production FreePBX 14 are Asterisk 15.

So now that everything is fixed and the update is complete I see the update software section of System Admin is gone. I had read that they can automatically manage security and updates now. Is that what you are doing, or did you disable it?

I prefer to do it myself because I don't want to deal with a down PBX. Granted that has never happened from a normal update, at least to me.

It is now under Admin -> Updates
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It has this scheduler, but it does not seem to actually do anything except check.
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@dustinb3403 said in CentOS 7.5 not listing ports when added to firewall-cmd:

@jaredbusch Look at the OP, i have telnet listening to those ports.

Ahh, didn't scroll enough.

@bigbear said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:

So I made a full USB installer for Suse Tumbleweed this morning and loaded it up, I am afraid to reboot.

I am hoping its something Fedora is missing the Suse got right...

/me hands you a dang helmet.

Good luck!

@jaredbusch said in Saving space by leaving NTFS hard links with tree size pro:

@dustinb3403 said in Saving space by leaving NTFS hard links with tree size pro:

Rather than trying to remove hard links I would look at applying some kind of deduplication to your file server.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/understand

You (and @travisdh1 for upvoting) need to read more.. Server 2008 was clearly stated. There is nothing for Server 2008. Even your link states that Server 2008 R2 was the first to have the old infrastructure called "Single Instance Store"

And your assumption that @shutdown_engineer isn't running R2 is somehow more accurate? And not for nothing, but there are deduplication tools, that can be run on Server 2008 outside of what's provided by microsoft. This was a simple reference to the functionality.

@emad-r said in Nested hypervisors?:

also as vendor they dont want the complexity advantages of Virtualization

ftfy

@travisdh1 said in Why is the Third World Running Windows?:

ame now. Thanks for making me waste the rest of the eveni

Best news ever

@wirestyle22 said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

@scottalanmiller said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

@irj said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

@scottalanmiller said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

@wirestyle22 said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

The knowledge is beneficial but the piece of paper is irrelevant. I use certification books as education paths and then have @scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch yell at me until i understand. It's worked well for me. As a side note, Cisco can over-complicate a lot of simple concepts so watch out for that.

I think Cisco is a bad path for general education. Their material is super Cisco specific and engineered way more to promote the use of their products than they should be. You could say something similar about Windows certs, but operating systems have to be like that in a way that networking does not and Microsoft is certainly better about keeping knowledge and concepts more general. Cisco certs are for Cisco jobs.

Great business model for Cisco, though. Without CCNA, Cisco would lose a huge market share IMO.

Yes, they all learned that model from Novell. If only Novell had learned it.

It amazes me how much I hear Novell referenced. People are still upset it failed.

Not many, it was pretty crappy. Stable, but archaic, even at its peak. But they did a lot to give us much of Suse, so that's good.

@krisleslie said in Purchase options for a small non profit 25 staff:

Everything got installed successfully 🙂

Awesome

@krisleslie said in Configuring QoS on a Edge Switch 48 Lite:

See for me I don't understand when and where to apply QoS. As one minute your told it's useless the other it's useful. Like what's missing is the context behind the usage. I agree with Jared in that if your enabling it, by that alone it doesn't mean something magical is happening, something specific is.

It's EXTREMELY USEFUL in VERY LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

It's like a shotgun isn't useful at the grocery store, but in the limited case of hunting, it's useful.

Couple corrections to the solution posted above after more testing this evening.

@emad-r yes, yes we can complain.

It's why NN is so damn important! (even though it's dead now. . .)

@g-i-jones That's interesting that we don't have the same issue then. Glad you got it resolved.

Yup, basically just automating Postfix configs.

@obsolesce said in Risks to Geo Blocking:

@scottalanmiller said in Risks to Geo Blocking:

So for the first time in YEARS, we just did some geo blocking today. How is this timing possible?

Oh yeah? Which? Why?

Only access for one tech, so trying to limit as much as possible. But it didn't work, (probably nothing to do with the geo blocking) so I don't know if they ended up keeping it or not.

@fateknollogee said in SaltStack setup for /etc/hosts:

I remember this has been discussed on the forums sometime back when...

I'd like to have a master host file & push this out to Linux & Windows servers & desktops.

Anyone have a good how to guide?

One more thing, you'll want to use file.managed in a State file.

That way, you keep a master copy on Git and only need to edit that. Saltstack will take care of the rest and make sure all minions have that updated file.

Otherwise, with salt-cp, you have to manually SSH to the salt-master server and run the command. I'd rather just update the file in VSCode, then be done with it...

In your State file, you can do Linux and Windows using an If statement, having it do it one way for each OS.

I use grains, os_family, etc.

We set up our Intel RMM and Dell iDRAC Enterprise KVM/IP setups on the internal LAN with a static IP address. Self-issued SSL is fine for this.

Older RMM/iDRAC units may need a legacy Win7 VM with IE9 around for those moments when they need to be managed (we keep one turned off but around for this exact reason). This is especially true with the certificate structure changes that have come through recently. Modern browsers refuse to connect to legacy web management consoles.

Rules are set up on the edge to allow both inbound and outbound packets for their services to our office IP address. VPN is another method to gain access if the edge supports it.

Username and password are set up with both settings being custom with info kept in KeePass here. Make sure to change the Dell default setting! Intel gets set up in the BIOS before it allows site authentication and access.

Cost wise Dell is $300 to $450 here in Canada to license while the Intel RMM module is sub $150.

A blog post on what we do: http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2017/06/disaster-preparedness-kvmip-usb-flash.html

We don't do SuperMicro.

@bnrstnr said in Router / AP / Switch for business:

ES-24-LITE

That's right...