• Documenting Switch and Patch Panel Setup

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    I do them with RackTables. With it, you can document your rack, servers, networks and other devices. You'll have to configure it manually though, but I know with your skills that you'll be able configure it better than mine.

    With one look, you'll get a view of what resides in your rack, a deeper inspection will reveal what is connected to what, it's up to you on how detailed you wanted to be. However, I have to be creative on the patchpanel side, I had to double the ports, one in front and one at the back.

    You can also configure what details to show to other users. I have my 2 colleagues have access but can not view some server details like usernames and passwords which I made (similar to normal fields). Going this route, you have to ensure that you have a good grip on your database as it stores them as regular text.

    Also check OpenDCIM and RackMonkey.

  • Call Traffic Mystery

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    EddieJenningsE

    I think I understand the basic process of the scammer.

    They call us toll-free. During that toll-free call, they use the compromised extension to make a long-distance call.

  • Word 2003 File corrotto

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    wirestyle22W

    @scottalanmiller said in Word 2003 File corrotto:

    @Francesco-Provino said in Word 2003 File corrotto:

    Another fake italian… 😒

    It's because it's an Italian domain and people think that they are supposed to post in Italian.

    Wouldn't two seconds of actually looking at the forums change that perspective though? Even the titles of everything are in English

  • ZeroTier Review

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    dafyreD

    Holy Necroposting Batman!

    I found this topic referenced in another forum, and alas, my server that held the old code for this has long since crashed for reasons we're all familiar with.

    In that same post, however, another coder has written a Python script to handle this...

    https://github.com/LFlare/zerotiernc

  • Is HyperConvergence Even a Thing

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    scottalanmillerS

    ComputerWeekly talks about how the mainframe (circa 1960) was the first hyperconverged design...

    http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Tips-for-buying-hyper-converged-systems

  • ExaGrid

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    StrongBadS

    Anyone seen ExaGrid pricing?

  • Calling any JumpCloud users or employees...

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    dbeatoD

    @bigbear That I don't know.

  • NodeBB upgrade issues

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    nadnerBN

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    Oh noes! They're gone again!
    ...
    Avast ye scurvy emoticon thief!
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  • NextCloud VM with NFS storage

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    @scottalanmiller said in NextCloud VM with NFS storage:

    @dafyre said in NextCloud VM with NFS storage:

    @scottalanmiller said in NextCloud VM with NFS storage:

    @gjacobse said in NextCloud VM with NFS storage:

    @scottalanmiller said in NextCloud VM with NFS storage:

    How can you ingest NFS storage into NextCloud?

    The Current is part of a VM, NextCloud would be a VM - Why could you not mount both?

    How woudl that work? What would NextCloud do with a bunch of random files that have no metadata? They don't exist in the database, what would happen to them?

    There's a command you can run that will take a list of files and make them available to a user, I think.

    So one user would just get "everything." Or else it's a huge manual process.

    Not exactly. Have you ever looked at the file structure of ownCloud/Nextcloud?

    Basically in the /data folder there are subfolders per user. You would populate those with the files from the old file server. Then you pop into the CLI and issue this command to rescan the folders and put the stuff in the database.

    sudo -u apache php occ files:scan --all -v

    You can also do it per user.

    I would not recommend ever doing this on an existing system that was not already hosed for some other reason.

  • SD cards and USB flash drives for hypervisors

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    RojoLocoR

    Dell servers do not like Hyper-V on any USB anything. Tried with 2012R2 and 2016, no love. Could have configured and deployed 10 hosts in the time I spent dicking around with it.

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    @scottalanmiller said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

    @Dashrender said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

    @scottalanmiller said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

    @Dashrender said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

    @scottalanmiller said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

    @Dashrender said in non VPN Cloud based storage:

    Cost is an issue? Assuming you got hosted SharePoint only I think it's $4/u/m...

    Tiny capacity, though.

    1 TB per user?

    That's ODfB. The Sharepoint storage proper is like 100MB.

    OMG, that's near useless!

    It's only for documents. Goes a long way when used as intended.

    Used as intended? That's a joke, right? Storing large PDFs should be a part of the intention. DWG files can be huge.

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    I totally understand workload being a legit reason. It intrigued me to, but to only have a week to complete some of those designs and work a normal job is rough.

  • List of Self Hosted Web Apps

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    EddieJenningsE

    A list of projects for me that would relate to my thread about embracing open-source stuff 😄

  • SQL drive assignations

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    GreyG

    Cool. Thanks for the input!

  • Does the LDAP role require RODC?

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    GreyG

    @momurda said in Does the LDAP role require RODC?:

    @Grey Also, your description sounds like youre doing some sort of SSO or interdomain trust.

    Sort of. The goal is to allow a cloud service to authenticate in our domain using ldaps, and I want to limit exposure.

  • Permissions between O365 systems

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    DashrenderD

    @JaredBusch said in Permissions between O365 systems:

    @Dashrender said in Permissions between O365 systems:

    I have a customer who has an O365 account. The owners of that company have created a new company, I believe it is completely separate.

    Is there a way to grant R/W access to accounts created in a new O365 instance with permissions granted to the other?

    If they do not want to buy a completely separate thing and manage multiple accounts, then you just add the domain to the current setup and the accounting department will have to split the billing appropriately when they do the books.

    You assigned users the email addresses and accesses they need. Done.

    Assuming they have two separate accounting departments, that's the challenge. They don't even know their current/future setup, at least not well enough to explain it to me.

  • FOG Server IP Keeps Changing in DNS!

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    S

    The IP is finally holding steady! Thanks for the feedback guys!

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    dafyreD

    This whole topic is now starting to sound like "A house is a house for me" lol.

  • Should I build it myself (iSCSI Storage) or use AS5008T ?

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    Have you considered a backup ready node like StarWind does for example https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-storage-appliance? They usually go preconfigured having all the required licenses including VEEAM. As far as I know, iSCSI/SMB/NFS are present and there is an option to seamlessly offload your backups to the cloud. Unfortunately, it is currently out of my budget so I am using their free product https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free which converts two of my older storage servers into a single mirrored backup pool. Works great so far.

  • Another JumpCloud thread to find the latest info

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    G

    Greetings folks!

    Nice to see a few of you contributing to various JumpClodu threads. Let me give you a bit of background on 'why Servers' with JumpCloud...

    Roll back time: It's where we began. The original instantiation of JumpCloud was to provide a central authentication and management console across Linux/Windows servers in any cloud service (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Rackspace, Softlayer and so on). The main thrust of what we were doing/offering (and still offer) fairly progressively, was to provide REST services to stimulate the efficiency of large-scale server infra - and mainly very ephemeral infra. The use cases varied but generally speaking, DevOps guys would bake our image into an AMI or similar image, and when they would light these up, they would perform initialization routines against the JC Directory....drop users accounts on, enable POSIX Groups, deploy sysadmins SSH keys, etc etc. It became a 'thing' and basically obviated the need for LDAP servers and wrangling with PAM. Yes, there are super elegant methods for this now....but mainly codified. e.g., Chef, Puppet, Salt, etc. These are actually used in concert with us but there is overlap.

    FWIW, feel free to geek on this KB and go play with our APIs and SDKs on Github:
    https://support.jumpcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/2429680

    This use case is still extremely important for our customer base. We see a typical pattern of companies evaluating us, driven by DevOps where they get to get 100's or in the case of quite a few customers of our larger customers, 1-2K virtual servers. They find success and this bleeds to general IT *(e.g. those servicing rank and file employees and their personal systems, networks and apps).

    So that's effectively the story, absolutely feel free to ping us to go deeper in the server management side of things!

    Greg