@Dashrender

The goal is to have two in VMs.

Actually, considering the size of our company, I am considering going with 1 on the recommendation of @scottalanmiller

Considering I could have it back up in a few minutes from backup, not sure I really need two.

@tiagom said in DC Demotion Question:

I like to have two in case a service goes down.

For example, i had our primary DNS server service stop responding. While i fixed that the company was still able to operate with the machines going to the secondary server. The end users were not even aware that something went down.

Same if AD ever went down. I guess its a personal preference, if i have the resources i elect to do it.

The argument that @scottalanmiller gave is that
a) you don't need AD to log in, per se
b) you can have the VM back up in a few minutes, if it's just doing AD/DNS/DHCP.

You could also replicate DNS/DHCP to other servers, and just leave the AD on one.

Ah, the ever present "no repos" in XS. Nice to see you again.

Boy does XS like being an appliance, or what?

@scottalanmiller said

@DustinB3403 how much memory does your Dom0 have?

Oh, what? You can't ask me?

Probably for the best since I don't know how to check.

See me in 2017.

@dafyre said in DC Demotion Question:

As far as I can tell, you can use the Windows RSAT stuff to manage the SAMBA4 domain controllers, GPOs should work... Dang.. I need to spin one up now, lol.

Let us know how that goes.

@DustinB3403 said in Xenserver 7 UPS monitoring:

Obviously HA functionality which would start the VM's has to be disabled as well.

Otherwise you'll end up in a loop with the system trying to power off the VM's until your UPS loses power.

That would be bad, mmmmm'k.

@JaredBusch said

It is your standard freemium model. Give a base service away for free and charge for add ons or enhancements .

Not a bad idea really.

When we were looking at RMM, we decided on N-Able, who works the same way.

Freemium, exactly the right word!

@scottalanmiller

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@wirestyle22 said

Interested in seeing this

@scottalanmiller said he is going to do a writeup someday (soon?) on this process. (Replacing AD with Samba.)

I'll probably give it a go. We're down to less than 20 employees, so if it burns, it burns.

My favorite was...

"Techosaurus asking if Xen Orchestra can run on a Cray Super Computer. True story"

Are they asking that, or if they can run them both simultaneously.

If that is the case, the answer is of course no, though many people would just cough and say "look a pigeon" and get it done.

@DustinB3403 said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

Isn't SysLog supposed to create a matching file path to what is getting pushed from my XS installation?

@scottalanmiller can you enlighten me with this? I've never worked with Syslog before.

I honestly had nothing but trouble in doing anything with their logs.

But I'll be following along.

@DustinB3403 said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

@travisdh1 said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

For my XenServer (still 6.5), I actually started up the XenCenter app. Right click on the server -> properties -> click log destination on left -> click remote on right and enter the rsyslog server ip.

Which I've done that, but where on the syslog VM would I actually see the logs being created? What should I modify in the /var/lib/syslog.conf file on XenServer?

When I did that, I forwarded them to a VM running Splunk, and it showed right up.

Let me know how it goes. I'd love to install another free server around here.

TAKE THAT MICROSOFT!

Well, I DCPROMOed the one physical DC last night. Nothing seems to have burned down.

I was having some DNS issues, but I think it was due to the fact that my machine was pointing to the demoted DC (which obviously had the DNS role installed) and it had been gutted by DCPROMO. I removed the role and everything seems OK thus far.

Though very few users are here. I'll feel better by like 10AM.

@fuznutz04 said in Microsoft Planner:

Right, we have business essentials which costs 5 bucks a month, and we have Planner. And email, and share point. All for 5 bucks.

It's a steal!

@wirestyle22 said in Creating an anonymous samba share in CentOS 7:

So I finished this guide but my CentOS 7 file server isn't discoverable. Ideas?

Are you a Windows shop? Did you add it to DNS?

@Minion-Queen said in Team Collaboration Tools:

How about using something like Asana?

I was just going to say ... too pricey. Until I saw it was free for teams of 15 and under.

Sweet. I will take a look at it!

Branching off from the ever popular "Field Report With Xenserver" thread, I figured I would start this one, as I always seem to run into a little snag here or there with my Linux systems.

Today's question:
I am running my XO install on Ubuntu 16.04.1.

I went to update it today, and am coming across the following error. What does this mean, exactly?

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-image-extra-4.4.0-34-generic : Depends: linux-image-4.4.0-34-generic but it is not installed
 linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-4.4.0-34-generic but it is not installed
                       Recommends: thermald but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

Note 'sudo apt-get -f install' returns this:

(Reading database ... 203315 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-4.4.0-34-generic_4.4.0-34.53_amd64.deb ...
Done.
Unpacking linux-image-4.4.0-34-generic (4.4.0-34.53) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.4.0-34-generic_4.4.0-34.53_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 cannot copy extracted data for './boot/abi-4.4.0-34-generic' to '/boot/abi-4.4.0-34-generic.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
                                                                              dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs-tools 4.4.0-34-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-34-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-grub 4.4.0-34-generic /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-34-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.4.0-34-generic_4.4.0-34.53_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

@tiagom said in BRRABill's Field Report With Linux:

failed to write (No space left on device)
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error

Yeah, you know I missed that until I posted it here and it got colored syntax.