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IT Project Management: Or how to properly plan a project rather then fight fires.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/on-linuxs-25th-anniversary-development-has-gone-corporate/

You're now old enough to rent a car without the penalty!

@AmanBhogal said:

Hey Everybody!

Aman here from Cloudatcost.

As many of you already know, we are currently having an issue with an upstream provider at our data center. Our technicians are working on this.

I will keep you all updated with any information I receive.

Thanks for letting us know Aman, in the intro video you posted a bit ago it mentioned you had redundant upsteam providers. Did something not flip over correctly?

We did this yesterday.

Linux for Systems Admins, Linux 102 a bit more then the basics. Something that goes over many of the useful tools, bash, maybe some security best practices?

I wonder which source that could possibly be...

So... are you looking for a firewall or a UTM? If you're looking for a firewall take a look at the ER-Pro line from Ubiquiti. There are a lot of people that use them around here that love them.

SAM is not just one person. He is a collective of people all posting on the same account. :P

The SAM Bot collective is taking over ML now.

Sounds legit.

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

@coliver said in Discovery of the week:

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

If anyone else needs something for IPAM / network documentation I've just fallen in love with phpipam (https://phpipam.net/)

I'd tried netbox in the past but this just seems to work better for me. You can also set up polling / discovery of the configured ranges (on a per-range basis) either from the central server or from remote agents.

Anyways, it's rare that I'll advocate for something out of the blue, but I'm almost enjoying moving our horrible excel spreadsheet documentation over to this.

Happy Friday all :)

Yeah, we've been using it for a year or more. It has a nice API that @stacksofplates helped me dig into to automate DHCP reservations.

That sounds sexy.... windows server DHCP or something else?

dhcpd. The developers are working on built in Kea integration, although that's been on the table for a while.

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

If anyone else needs something for IPAM / network documentation I've just fallen in love with phpipam (https://phpipam.net/)

I'd tried netbox in the past but this just seems to work better for me. You can also set up polling / discovery of the configured ranges (on a per-range basis) either from the central server or from remote agents.

Anyways, it's rare that I'll advocate for something out of the blue, but I'm almost enjoying moving our horrible excel spreadsheet documentation over to this.

Happy Friday all :)

Yeah, we've been using it for a year or more. It has a nice API that @stacksofplates helped me dig into to automate DHCP reservations.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-linked-hackers-used-pulse-secure-flaw-target-us-defense-industry-2021-04-20/

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just inherited a vSphere 5.5 system running Windows 2012 R2 on several systems! Damn, this was about to be deployed as a new production platform! Everything is 6+ years out of date!

Are you looking at our production system?

It also does a lot to improve airflow. You're no longer shoving all those components in a hot box. I've been looking at doing a custom setup but have heard no so great things about the riser cables for newer graphics cards.

Wall mount or under mount computers are becoming a big trend. Not surprised one of the manufacturers are getting into it.

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs

Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.

Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.

Way too much Valheim...

@openit said in Suggest a simple free / open source Network Monitoring software.:

For switch, the following is the configuration, I mean it is on SNMP.

Following is info that I can see for it:

Is it possible to pull info every port of switch, just like Spiceworks Networ Monitor used to do? If yes, what template I would need to use or any config? Most switches we have are Cisco SG300.

Yes, Cisco and general SNMP templates can be applied to the host and it will start to pull in information if you configured SNMP correctly.

https://share.zabbix.com/network_devices/cisco

@scottalanmiller said in Suggest a simple free / open source Network Monitoring software.:

@coliver said in Suggest a simple free / open source Network Monitoring software.:

I agree with @notverypunny. Zabbix is very easy to setup and use. It has a very small learning curve and has templates for almost everything you listed.

We use Zabbix. But it's not all that easy.

For all the basic stuff, hardware and OS monitoring, it is really easy. For some advanced things (and software) you write a lot of your own scripts to accommodate those. I've written quite a few small scripts to monitor some of our software applications.