• UptimeRobot.com

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    @jaredbusch said in UptimeRobot.com:

    @dbeato does.

    Yes, I use it a lot for my connection monitoring.

  • Xen Orchestra - Monorepo installation Changes

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    @danp his installation is pre-service creation.

    IMO time to rebuild and get current.

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    @mike-davis said in How MSPs provide their services:

    @scottalanmiller said in How MSPs provide their services:

    That's a lot of investment for a system like that. If you have hundreds of customers, it can make sense. But it takes a lot of customers to recoup the lost time into that system. It can work out well for a traditional MSP, but depends on large scale standardization to justify the investment.

    I don't know about hundreds of customers. The number of end points might be more relevant. For me at about 10 MSP customers I can justify the investment. When you look at the time it takes to set up something like a zabbix server and maintaining a WSUS server vs not having to that helps make it worth it. Missed revenue because you didn't have a system in place to capture every minute hurts.

    It would be a blend, I'm sure. A single customer with a million end points wouldn't make sense because you'd use more traditional tools in a single customer scenario. And a hundred with only one end point each wouldn't do it either. So some combination of enough end points for volume and enough customers for complexity put together.

  • Spam filtering software

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    @mike-davis said in Spam filtering software:

    @tech1 Sometimes it helps to take a step back and evaluate what you're really trying to do instead of look for a product for what is already in place. Liquid mail claims to filter, but clearly it's not working. o365 and gmail do a great job, so why not consider them? It would probably be better to filter it before it hits the client.

    And for a single user.... the cost of looking at another option is too much. Office 365 is $4/mo... that's $48/year. That's hosting, storage, support, everything. And that's a top end, luxury level service. It only gets cheaper from there.

  • Raspberry Pi (rPi) tips and Tricks

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    Prerequisites for client

    sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip sudo pip3 install paho-mqtt

    Python script:

    #!/usr/bin/python3 #Imports import time import os import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt import paho.mqtt.publish as publish #Variable setups broker = "IP Address MQTT Broker" state_topic = "pi/cputemp" #Topic to publish commands too delay = 1 #Time delay #Fuction to return temp def measure_temp(): temp = os.popen("vcgencmd measure_temp").readline() return (temp.replace("temp=","")) #MQTT connection setup client = mqtt.Client() client.username_pw_set("username", "password") #Login for broker client.connect(broker) client.loop_start() #While loop for posting to MQTT while True: print(measure_temp()) time.sleep(1) cpu_temp = measure_temp() client.publish("pi/cputemp", str(cpu_temp)) time.sleep(delay)
  • ERP for small manufacturer w/web integration

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    @matteo-nunziati said in ERP for small manufacturer w/web integration:

    While I cant say about the mrp module quality odoo can be an option as well as openbravo.

    But who will support them?

    That can't be a challenge. Those are well known, especially odoo, get anyone you want to support them.

  • SIP ALG on TP-Link

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    For another site I manage, I don't use stun and I also have ALG/SIP disabled on SonicWall but it is vlaned.

  • wireless screen mirror

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    @mike-davis

    What device did you end up using?

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    @ambarishrh said in screenconnect migrating from Windows to CentOS7:

    Should i reconsider moving to Linux server, when the product owner recommends to stay with Windows?

    Should also note, the vendor chose to use .NET for their server and much of their software is utter garbage; their reliability in decision making around these things is already highly suspect.

  • O365/Gmail migration issues

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    @jaredbusch said in O365/Gmail migration issues:

    did you create the O365 account first and give them email?

    Yes, including a subscription from Ingram Micro, licensing was applied, and also logged into email for first time. Tested mail flow with each user first. Migration was done very last after services were all verified.

  • LINux: Comm port address changes

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    @gjacobse said in LINux: Comm port address changes:

    As part of my use of *nix, I use it to access / control / program a few different radios. They use the FTDI chipset for serial communications. Generally I have no trouble, but every once in a while it seriously gripes my mood.

    dmesg | grep tty

    This will tell you the devices and the port to use. It's in my list of useful commands as I don't always need it, and I just haven't committed it to memory yet. But I have it -

    So this week I have two devices connected, and I went in and found the one I needed to use with the radio I wanted to program.

    TTY0 was connected to a radio that was off
    TTY1 was connected to the radio I was working with.

    Had some programming issues, and updated the software to the latest release using a different REPO, when I went back to program the radio - fails - repeatedly.

    Reboots, updates, upgrades, re-installs later, I run dmesg | grep tty again and find that the port assignment has changed.

    This is one of the frustrating things about *nix I seem to have, in that things don't stay where they where and where I expect them to be the next time I go to use them.

    Is this normal for it to change, even though neither of the USB devices were not removed?

    @scottalanmiller

    Especially plugable devices (e.g. USB) tend to change names - if you plug them into other ports for example. But your example doesn't look like a USB serial adapter, they would most probably have a name like ttyusbN.

    But like SAM said above, this is not only happening with plugable devices. Most modern distros will create udev rules whenever they detect new hardware (except for a few cases like USB devices). That's why you will (should) see a reproducable mapping every time the system starts.

    Anyway. You could get more stable results using a udev custom rule for your tty problem.

    First hit on Google: https://www.silabs.com/community/interface/knowledge-base.entry.html/2016/06/06/fixed_tty_deviceass-XzTf

  • Way to create pst on Exchange 2013

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    @wirestyle22 said in Way to create pst on Exchange 2013:

    @brrabill said in Way to create pst on Exchange 2013:

    @jaredbusch said

    I also tell them if they want the email to continue to come in after that date, it can be set as an alias to another user.

    This creates the same sort of issue where new new sales guy is getting e-mails from the old sales person's ex-boyfriend.

    I think the easy answer is just delete the account, but it seems like a lot of places don't do it that way.

    Your age is showing Bill. I wasn't alive for a time where anyone was e-mailing their significant other lol

    You are just too young to work in the enterprise. In a lot of environments, this is the only way to talk to people at home still, if you are in the office.

  • VPN with no static public IP

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    @dafyre it's a good one.

  • Robocopy source folder and all subfolders

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    One more question. I'm going to add multi-threading to make it run fast (/MT) and the machine I'm running this command on (which is the destination machine) is a virtual machine. Is there a correlation with number of threads to CPU core count or RAM?

  • Looking for vacation calendar options

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    @crustachio said in Looking for vacation calendar options:

    Zoho Calendar is free and quite robust. Maybe overkill though.

    Only really "overkill" if it isn't free.

  • What are “WannaMine” attacks, and how do I avoid them?

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  • A little information doesn't go a long way

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    @rojoloco said in A little information doesn't go a long way:

    This pic helps sum it up... Just substitute forum names for the years.

    0_1517504307969_27336286_10160659911655377_7330831516502802224_n.jpg

    Thickness of skin can be measured in thickness of hair, according to the pic. Those hair follicles run deep in 97!

  • Alternatives to MS SQL Server

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    @emad-r said in Alternatives to MS SQL Server:

    So till now I admire how easy it was and how InnoDB was the right choice that you need to select, I did that back 5 years ago.

    It depends on what you are doing. Lots of things that are done on MariaDB, like many PHP web apps, actually should be MyISAM rather than InnoDB. It was the default for a long time for a reason, it's screaming fast and if you are just doing simple reads most of the time, it's really good.

  • Outlook / Exchange Online launch issue

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    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover]
    "OURDOMAIN.com"="C:\autodiscover\autodiscover.xml"
    "ExcludeScpLookup"=dword:00000001
    "ExcludeHttpsRootDomain"=dword:00000001
    "ExcludeHttpsAutodiscoverDomain"=dword:00000001
    "ExcludeHttpRedirect"=dword:00000001
    "ExcludeSrvLookup"=dword:00000001
    "ExcludeSrvRecord"=dword:00000001
    "PreferLocalXML"=dword:00000001

  • ESXi single host rebuild / VM restore

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    @bbigford said in ESXi single host rebuild / VM restore:

    @scottalanmiller said in ESXi single host rebuild / VM restore:

    Well the one VM for Veeam could be a manual copy and restore. Then the rest through that method.

    I've found that to be about as hands on for the most part, since templates are pretty easy to create. Has that been your preferred method for any similar situations in the past?

    I've actually never needed to do this. Not that it is a bad situation, it's just that RAID expansion is not something we normally face. We've been lucky, I guess, only needing that either in situations where it doesn't matter (clusters) or not outgrowing the local RAID until it was time to swing to a new server.