New Commands are:

The salt-key command is used to manage all of the keys on the master. To list the keys that are on the master:

salt-key -L

The keys that have been rejected, accepted, and pending acceptance are listed. The easiest way to accept the minion key is to accept all pending keys:

salt-key -A

I usually use smartctl
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools

I've only ever used Redgate, but have heard good things about ApexSQL.

@black3dynamite said in Task Scheduler not running when system is locked:

NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

NT AUTHORITY \SYSTEM is not working and Trigger is set for Daily at 05:50 PM
When clicking on Run with highest privieges i am getting the same error which was mentioned already

@quixoticjustin said in Managing Windows Server Updates - Alternative to WSUS?:

Sodium has some really basic pieces of that already built in using Salt. It's very early and definitely not where it should be, but it's Salt with a GUI that is specifically tackling this problem.

That's nice to hear, when I took a peak at Sodium it looked like it was still pretty far behind at using a lot of Salt's capability.

We don't really care about a GUI in this situation, and we're already going to be requiring the power of Salt.

I am curious about how it is implemented in Sodium though, and how the user is expected to interact with it.

There are multiple guides here to do this. And again jumping more than a single version is not the proper way to handle it. Even if it works.

@black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

@scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD:

Dragonfly is tough by default because unless you use something like Salt, you can't connect to it to get keys to it in the first place. You can curl keys to it, of course. But you need totally different processes than you would typically use with any other OS to get it set up.

That means it's not even Ansible friendly. Pretty much agent-based tools like Puppet, Salt, etc... is the way to go.

Yup, unless you have some way to push the Ansible key ahead of time, like in a curl. So back to the beginning there 🙂

Sorry I missed this earlier, but how are they duplicates if they don't have the same members? Same positions for different locations?

@scottalanmiller said in Errors Installing SaltStack on NetBSD 7.1.1:

Got it, it was a packaging versioning issue. I had accidentally set the verison to 8.0 when it was 7.1.1. I got a clean install and set the package version correctly and now it works fine.

If you want to know how to set the version accurately automatically, try this that I just made...

export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/`uname -m`/`uname -r`/All/"

That's exactly what I was thinking but didn't say anything. I wanted to see what you'd do.

@scottalanmiller said in AntiVirus on Servers?:

@nerdydad said in AntiVirus on Servers?:

@scottalanmiller said in AntiVirus on Servers?:

@bbigford said in AntiVirus on Servers?:

It comes down to security vs. convenience. Performance is something completely different and can be tuned/scheduled.

Do you leave your keys in your vehicles ignition? Do you leave your front door wide open? Do you write your personal identity numbers on your arm?

No? Use anti-virus.

Do you still use it if you have servers that are not accessed directly or accessing anything? What will the AV be scanning?

If the servers aren't "serving" anything out, then what would be the purpose of the servers?

AV only is for files, not other traffic. Which is nearly everything outside of the SMB. FIle sharing is a minor task percentage wise. Think about a database server, for example. Or a proxy, or a load balancer, or an XMPP server, or a PBX....

I was also thinking of any possibility that a malicious program made its way onto a server intended for something other than file services. I should clarify that I'm only talking about a Windows Server. Load balancers running FreeBSD, DB on bare metal, etc I wouldn't think about putting it on those. Haha honestly, my post was more in the facetious now that I've re-read it.

I lacked more specific information in my post though about server OS or deliverable. That's my bad.

@tim_g said in Software used for documentation recommendations?:

If I did it for 4 employees, chances are they'd all be using Linux and other Free and open source software... there wouldn't be anything to put in SnipeIT.

Exactly, I'm dealing with several companies like this. Some are 100% open source and have nothing to track. Others have huge numbers of users/employees but so little to track that there is still no point. Like maybe five licenses total.

The real question is... what do you want the Chromebook to do by putting it on Pertino? What is the end goal?

@scottalanmiller LOL, SAM.

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64GB RAM
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2x Intel Xeon E5645 (6 core, 24 Threads)
64GB RAM
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2x Intel Xeon E5-2640 (6 core, 24 Threads)
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@dbeato said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@scottalanmiller said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@dbeato said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@bbigford said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@scottalanmiller said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@bbigford said in Goto Linux Server OS:

RHEL if support is required, CentOS if I'm being lazy on updates (joke); beginning to just use Fedora Server for everything not requiring support. I will probably start phasing out CentOS.

That's what we are doing. CentOS is nearly gone now. Only required for Zimbra.

Zimbra actually requires CentOS? Can't use FS? 😐

Zimbra does not require CentOS, you can also use Ubuntu which others might not like.

We mean in the context of the RPM distos. It only supports Ubuntu LTS and not current which is arguably not even a form of support since Ubuntu’s own support path can be to force you to current meaning Zimbra isn’t actually supported in that ecosystem.

Yeah, Zimbra supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS but yeah we are almost on 18.04

Yeah. So far worse than only supporting CentOS 7 in the RPM world. At least RHEL 7 offers full support from the vendor, not partial.

@joel said in Excel OLE Error + VPN:

I have enabled the option to ignore applications using DDE and have checked no addins causing a problem to no prevail.
Is it worth me installing a 64bit Excel? We're using 32bit 2016 at present.

64 bits will not make a difference here, it is most likely some network congestion that you area encountering.

I would check if there are any DNS errors trying to get the Repos or sites then look at this:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/issues/996

More recently on this:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225104

@dave247 said in Constant WSUS issues (Connection Errors):

ver was in an OU which had that GPO applied, thus I assume it was unable to reach windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Seems obvious to me now after such an unacceptably long time. Good lord I shoul

Man, that is a lot of problems 🙂

All of our current desktop applications are VB.Net, but as we begin to update, all future code will be C#.

Granted, we have a lot of legacy code and simple updates will not always rate a rewrite to C# due to labor costs.