@jaredbusch said in FreePBX CDR and CEL Analysis:

@eddiejennings A unique ID is a call. How wold you think that it is not a valid representation of calls?

Yeah. . . I was having a dumb moment yesterday. I've actually taken a step back and asked the user to review with me what information they're actually wanting. I'm taking the angle of "now that we have FreePBX, let's see if [your information needs] can be better met."

I'm using a basic label printer and just printing off the asset tag. We also don't need anything special either. . . so.

It's moving at least. Is the array in heavy use while this is going on?

@beta said in Sanity check, which RAID level should I use for my Veeam repository?:

@dashrender said in Sanity check, which RAID level should I use for my Veeam repository?:

@beta said in Sanity check, which RAID level should I use for my Veeam repository?:

P.S. If I decided to keep RAID 10 and did need additional space in the future unexpectedly, I did think about a fall back plan of using Windows Deduplication (server will be running 2012 R2).

You're running Windows Server 2012 R2 on your repo? why waste a license?

I'm a Windows guy and I have the license to spare so seems logical to me.

If it isn't current, I'd call that an anti-reason. Spare licenses that depend on being free, but are not kept up to date means that what you are deploying you can't afford to deploy. It's out of date today and is already technical debt. It'll only get worse over time.

@Mike-Davis

Android tablets should be able to do this by default if they are relatively new.
https://www.howtogeek.com/170191/share-your-android-tablet-and-keep-your-privacy-with-a-guest-account/

Look at the section that says "Restricted Profiles".

I think for now I'm going to go with Crashplan business, mainly because it's 75% off. I'll push this off for a year and save a few bucks.

My user folder and my data drive are just over 500GB so not a huge backup, but still, CP is currently dead and waiting even a week to backup to BB hurts a little.

I do have O365 so I've got 1TB there. I actually store some Windows user folder (docs/music/images/videos) directly into OneDrive. I just don't want to use it as a "backup" in the fuller sense of the word. It's not exactly protected from crypto and would be a huge pain to recover from.

@dbeato Yes, 10 minutes actually, some time this morning.

@jaredbusch said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@dashrender said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

If for home, I assume that the goal is learning ESXi itself? Otherwise, just use a different hypervisor. KVM seems to be the hypervisor of prominence today.

Well, I use ESXi/vSphere at work. I wanted to try out the free version of ESXi at home for S&G, but I may also experiment with other Hypervisors, depending on what will work with my system. I would like to check out KVM.

I would skip ESXi Free, it has so little value even for education. If you use ESXi at work, you already have the exposure to the real thing. The crippled free version is worthless.

I'm not sure I agree with this. If he has Essentials at work, then doesn't the free version of ESXi do everything but have the backup APIs?

Well, what is the goal? If the goal is to learn, ESXi Free wouldn't make sense since he already knows ESXi and the free version lacks nearly all the features that you need to practice on like vMotion, HA, Backups, etc.

If if you want to learn something new, a different hypervisor is needed. If you want to learn advanced features, a different hypervisor is needed. If you want to use it for production at home and want the best options for that, a different hypervisor is needed.

Also if you want to learn ESXi, VMWare has a thing for that.
https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware/try-hands-on-labs.html

Even better.

Here is my ELR config at home.

jbusch@jared:~$ show configuration commands service | grep dhcp-server set service dhcp-server disabled false set service dhcp-server hostfile-update enable set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN authoritative disable set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN description 'LAN eth1' set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 bootfile-name settings/snom.htm set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 default-router 10.254.103.1 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 dns-server 10.254.103.1 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 lease 28800 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 ntp-server 10.254.103.1 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 start 10.254.103.31 stop 10.254.103.254 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 time-server 10.254.103.1 set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 10.254.103.0/24 unifi-controller 207.244.223.13 set service dhcp-server use-dnsmasq disable

Get a different machine for the CAD user, he'll be taxing CPU and GPU heavily. Get him Xeon workstation if you can, ideally something that's certified by CAD vendor. You'd be surprised how quickly they are to blame non-certified hardware if there are any issues with their software.

@reid-cooper Yeah, there are couple of options 🙂

@black3dynamite said in NBA GO on Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.10:

@dustinb3403 said in NBA GO on Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.10:

So this only shows the stats of the players and games, right?

Is that really enjoyable? I'm not a big sports fan so meh 😛

Information like this is very popular for those into fantasy sports.

Fantasy sports... all the boring of real sports with the benefits of it being real.

@dashrender said in Quick access to a PC on a domain:

Nothing against you - I just like to have the answer right here in the post - just getting a link is pointless - links often die off and then the actual data for the post is lost.

No worries

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@dave247 said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

.... haven't had the chance to dig in as I am a freaking "IT generalist" where I work.

Youtube Video

I have a video for everything these days.

yep I just watched that one.. guess I can't call myself a Systems Administrator anymore 😢 (jk I totally am)

@reid-cooper ActivTrak is another one that does this too.

@syko24 said in ANYONE USING VULTR FIREWALL WITH FREEPBX:

@scottalanmiller said in ANYONE USING VULTR FIREWALL WITH FREEPBX:

Example, you have ten servers including databases, application servers, proxies, etc. And you only want the proxies exposed to the Internet, not the other machines. But they need to be exposed to each other. So the firewall exists to ensure that traffic cannot get to them, even though their own firewalls cannot close all of those ports because they need to see traffic from your "Vultr LAN."

Makes sense, most setups I have done on Vultr have been single server setups - FreePBX or NextCloud. I haven't really built out a full network of systems on their platform.

Not many have as there weren't firewall options before 😉

This is all part of why I dislike unRAID. Not only do they offer literally nothing that I can tell of value, but they act like a bunch of normal features are special. They pretend that they are doing something special with KVM and Docker and RAID 4 - all things that you already have in equal or superior form, for free, with an enterprise Linux distro. Install Fedora for free, and you have a simpler, safer, more powerful alternative to unRAID that is only upsides, I think. More power, less effort, less cost, easier to support, easier to get support.

Guest additions are a big deal. It should have sped up considerably after you installed them.

Cockpit has come a long way in the last year or two. It's kind of leading the industry as far as nice interfaces. Still early without a ton of functionality, but it is getting better and better.

@scottalanmiller said in Bricked ERX:

@fuznutz04 said in Bricked ERX:

@jaredbusch said in Bricked ERX:

@fuznutz04 said in Bricked ERX:

@dbeato said in Bricked ERX:

@fuznutz04 Same method to fix bricked APs, that's how I have done it sometimes is not worth it if there is a part that needs to be soldered.

This experience solidified the fact that the Er-lite is just better. It has much more storage, so replacing firmware shouldn't be an issue. I think that was the whole problem. There was not enough memory to hold the new firmware file, and due to that, something borked itself.

It is supposed to delete the prior backup image before downloading the new one. So that should not be the issue.

Well then I'm not sure what the actual cause was. I performed the update as I normally do, but this time the upload failed. Oh well. I'm over it already. 🙂

Just happens sometimes. Used to happen all the freaking time in the 1990s.

Oh yeah, I've bricked a couple before.

Not really the same thing, but still counts as bricking: My first ever PC build...I was so excited, went to a computer show, got all the parts, built the thing, fired it up, and smoke poured out. I had a metal standoff in the wrong place, and it shorted the board.