I went with the ER-4 and a Unifi AP-Lite. Works perfect, and I'll just have to maintain it.

However, did anyone see Ubiquiti's new release? https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/unifi-dream-machine

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

@fuznutz04 said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

But, for zero maintenance, would it be easier to use one of the Cloud controller keys to set this up?

Nothing is zero maintenance, and definitely avoid the Cloud Key, that's just extra hardware where none is needed.

Good to know. I've seen some providers use them, but I assumed it was to avoid the need of installing controller software. Why you'd want to avoid that, is unknown to me.

@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

@fuznutz04 said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

@dbeato said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

I would use the Unifi Controller on a server you host and not use the Cloud Key. Maybe you can charge monthly for the maintenance of the AP and firmware upgrades (All Automated if you want).

This.
This system needs to be maintained - that means installing updates monthly at least. I'm not sure if Unif APs have a way to autoupdate - and the same goes for the ER-L...

If he truly wants hands off - I'd look at another solution where at minimum the hardware self updates - many home routers will do that - I'm guess most business class do not.

He is a dental office - he has HIPAA to contend with...

Valid point. But he has 2 internet connections and 2 networks in this place. 1 is all of his dental practice stuff, which I assume is covered by HIPPA. This WIFI network is completely separate, and is only used for employees.

To what end? like a guest network? and He's sure there's no HIPAA stuff going on, on that network?

even so - why would you want to deploy a system that you know won't be maintained, if it's not maintained automatically, especially when you have the option to do just that - by installing a consumer router that auto updates.

So you hit the nail on the head. Any recommendations for a "good" consumer router w/ WIFI? I know a lot of friends who have the Netgear Nighthawks and they seem to like them.

@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

@fuznutz04 said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

@DustinB3403 The don't have anything actually, it's all cloud based there.

This is fully what I expected you to say - hell, if possible, the whole office could be on Chromebooks.. though sadly, they likely have some device requirement that doesn't work with Chromebooks, so they are forced to have Windows - like scanners and label printers, etc.

Yep, and some ancient dental software.

@dbeato said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

I would use the Unifi Controller on a server you host and not use the Cloud Key. Maybe you can charge monthly for the maintenance of the AP and firmware upgrades (All Automated if you want).

I could do this, but don't really want to for this one. I just want to help them out and upgrade their existing WIFI network, and then get out of dodge.

@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

@dbeato said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

I would use the Unifi Controller on a server you host and not use the Cloud Key. Maybe you can charge monthly for the maintenance of the AP and firmware upgrades (All Automated if you want).

This.
This system needs to be maintained - that means installing updates monthly at least. I'm not sure if Unif APs have a way to autoupdate - and the same goes for the ER-L...

If he truly wants hands off - I'd look at another solution where at minimum the hardware self updates - many home routers will do that - I'm guess most business class do not.

He is a dental office - he has HIPAA to contend with...

Valid point. But he has 2 internet connections and 2 networks in this place. 1 is all of his dental practice stuff, which I assume is covered by HIPPA. This WIFI network is completely separate, and is only used for employees.

@DustinB3403 The don't have anything actually, it's all cloud based there.

I have a friend who has a dental practice. They have no IT staff, and their environment is very basic. However, they DO want to upgrade their dying router. (which also is an access point) I was thinking an Edge Router Lite, and a Unifi AC-Lite. What is the best way to setup the AC-Lite? I usually setup the controller software somewhere locally and adopt the AP from it. Then shutdown and uninstall the controller software. But, for zero maintenance, would it be easier to use one of the Cloud controller keys to set this up? https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/unifi/UniFi_Cloud_Key_DS.pdf

I have not worked with the cloud controller keys before.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Getting ready to start up my home brewing hobby again. Time to make some delicious brews!

What's the first one going to be?

The last few I made (almost 5 years ago already) was a Honey cream ale, then a German style Alt beer, and a Sierra Nevada clone. They all turned out really well. Next up will be a straight German style pilsner, and because we are coming into apple harvest season, I might do a hard cider as well.

Getting ready to start up my home brewing hobby again. Time to make some delicious brews!

@stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

@fuznutz04 said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

@stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

Terraform will do this and I have an Ansible role to do it also.
As @IRJ mentioned Vagrant will work also. However I feel Terraform is a better fit as you have more control over the specific pieces of your infrastructure.

You would still prefer Terraform over Ansible for this as well?

Yeah. My role can create the VMs, but Terraform had more functionality for that. Ansible overlaps in the infrastructure provisioning space a lot, but it lacks keeping states like Terraform does.

I'd like to learn both. I just started with Ansible a day or two ago. I have been (and still am) using SaltStack.

@stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

Terraform will do this and I have an Ansible role to do it also.
As @IRJ mentioned Vagrant will work also. However I feel Terraform is a better fit as you have more control over the specific pieces of your infrastructure.

You would still prefer Terraform over Ansible for this as well?

@IRJ said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

You can do this with vagrant . You can attach login scripts into the Vagrant config file or you can actually build templates which they call boxes.

Is Vagrant meant for production environments as well? This project is a proof of concept, that I would later hope to take into a production environment.

This post will probably seem like I'm jumping around a bit, because I have so many questions about where to begin. So apologies in advance.

I'm starting another project in my home lab. I want to be able to spin up new servers from a clone or template, and then make changes to the new servers automatically. I'd like to accomplish the following:

1. On my KVM host (plain Fedora 30 host with KVM), spin up a server, and clone it.
2. With that clone, I want the ability to create new servers from that clone, and then tweak different things about the new server such as hostname, IP address, and some other items within the OS or application. (Perhaps with Ansible, Saltstack, other?)
3. The assigned IP address for each server can either come from a DHCP server, or from a list of hard coded IP addresses. (I do not currently have a DHCP server in this lab)

I do not currently have any solutions like Openstack, or any other web front ends to easily do this. I manage KVM VMs with both Virt-manager, and with libvirt. I am open to other solutions if they would be a better fit for this type of project.

What is a good solution for this project? Basically, an automation solution for new server setups. (I guess you would consider it private cloud automation.)

Checking out Ansible for an upcoming lab project.

@JaredBusch said in LVM Partition resize:

@fuznutz04 yes, I did exactly that.

Then whenever things got full again, I was able to simply drop/create the one table without stopping anything.

Well, looks like I know what i'll be doing tonight.

@JaredBusch said in LVM Partition resize:

@fuznutz04 said in LVM Partition resize:

@JaredBusch !?!?! Normal? oh boy.

Only for poorly written dashboards.... Just another little thing that annoys me with FreePBX and pushing me towards VitalPBX.
Not annoying enough to migrate (expensive) a workload though.

Once you redo the logging to create individual log files, it is easy enough to dump and recreate that specific table. Which dumps the log file for that table.

So you just did exactly what was in this post here, right? http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/fix-mysql-ibdata-file-size-ibdata1-file-growing-large-preventing-ibdata1-eating-disk-space/

And I agree. I am actually concerned with what is going to happen with FPBX now that the majority of the "main players" have left.

@JaredBusch !?!?! Normal? oh boy.

@JaredBusch Good grief! That log file is 20 GB!

@JaredBusch

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what is taking space now.