I believe it is going to be a couple of things... Brand Recognition... and Familiarity (or lack of it).

Pretty much everybody knows who VMware is and what they do (and how well they do it)... That same group is familiar with VMware because they probably have used the free version at some point in their career.

The folks that are familiar with Hyper-V from its early days will look away and run straight to VMware without even checking out what other players are in the game because of the Brand Recognition. They are concerned about the learning curve (lack of familiarity) that would come with having to learn another hypervisor that is not as widely known (among their circles).

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Got no "go" in me today.....this afternoon is going to drag along!

Same, I woke up and just thought "I can call in sick... I haven't been sick in a while...."

Calling in dead is also useful... once.

Also make sure the documentation you are looking at is for the same version of Apache! Between 2.2 and 2.4, there were a lot of changes under the hood with that.

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@coliver ~2 for me.

Same here. Campus has been dead quiet today.

Exams at our campus, students need to chill out. Bathrooms are full of puke.

I'm quite sure I don't want to use a translator for "puke"...

Of course you do! Nothing helps a Friday go by faster than learning yet another way to say fun things!

Because they got bought out by LMI(Log Me In), I think... and in some circles, LMI has a horrid reputation.

Here's one good for a laugh.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1652476-it-lmao-of-the-day

Hi All...
This update is a major rewrite of the original post... The individual files can be found at

https://gitlab.wellston.biz/dafyre/zabbix-utils

The script is still located https://gitlab.wellston.biz/dafyre/zabbix-utils/raw/master/zabbix-agent-installer

zabbix-agent-installer

This assumes that you have the basic development tools installed on your system, as we will be building the Zabbix agent from source.

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

RHEL / RPM based Distros:
sudo yum groupinstall Development

SuSE / openSuSE / Tumbleweed
sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_C_C++

Should dake care of the necessary dependencies.

There are several variables in this script that should be set for your environment.

Any of the HTTP based URLs can be left as is to pull the most recent versions, or they can be changed to be hosted on your own servers.

AGENT_URL is the URL of the Zabbix source code that is running the same version of Zabbix that is running on your server. This can be left as is to pull Zabbix 3.0.3 sources.

AGENT_CONFIG is the zabbix_agentd configuration template that will be used (the default pulls form the git repo).

AGENT_SERVICE is the web url to the systemd service file for the zabbix_agentd.

ZABBIX_SERVER is the IP address or hostname of your Zabbix server.

Windows Agents

The windows agents come pre-compiled, and I have included both 32 bit and 64 bit agents as .zip files.

32 Bit Agent: https://gitlab.wellston.biz/dafyre/zabbix-utils/raw/master/zabbix_win_agent32.zip
64 Bit Agent: https://gitlab.wellston.biz/dafyre/zabbix-utils/raw/master/zabbix_win_agent64.zip

1. Extract the files into C:\zabbix_agent

2. Edit the zabbix_agentd.conf file and make sure to set Server= and ServerActive= to be the IP address of your Zabbix server. (this file is best edited with Notepad++)

3. The win-service-setup.bat file needs to be run as administrator.

original post follows
Hi All...

NOTE This only installs the Zabbix AGENT. It does not install the Zabbix Server. A separate script for that will be coming soon.

I've got a Zabbix Agent install script that will install the agent from source (I tend to install the Zabbix server bits from source as well, to keep with the most recent versions).

It assumes that you have all of the necessary dependencies to build the Zabbix Agent on the target system.

https://gitlab.wellston.biz/dafyre/zabbix-utils/blob/master/zabbix-agent-installer

I have more comments in the code. If you have any questions or recommendations on it, please let me know!

I have tested this with Ubuntu 16.04. Plannting to test with others later.

Edit: The installer works on Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS assuming you have done apt-get install build-essential on Ubuntu or yum groupinstall Development on CentOS

Edit 2: Direct download is here: https://gitlab.wellston.biz/dafyre/zabbix-utils/raw/master/zabbix-agent-installer

Edit 3: This script is meant to be run as root or via sudo!

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre God's speed.

Thanks @wirestyle22 and @thwr ... They seem to have a handle on it now.

I hope they have good backups. That's really the key to mitigating it.

Yea, they do. Gotta get it stopped first.

Scale is actually partnering with a company for this now, called Workspot. They had a webinar yesterday. I got to sit in on it for a few minutes. I'll see if I can dig up some details.

@MattSpeller said in Weekend Plans:

Going to begin investigating real estate outside the city limits. An acre or two of forest and a double wide is growing more attractive the older I get. Other than that, probably fishing somewhere.

Better yet... An acre or two of forrest and a double wide near a fishing hole...

Hi All,

A brave soul known as @DustinB3403 around these parts started asking me some questions about setting up a Zabbix server.

I call him a brave soul because Scripting in LInux is not really one of my strong suits (sorry @DustinB3403 , I forgot to mention that when we started).

The result of working with him are a set of scripts to manage installing a Zabbix Server on Ubuntu 16.04, and a separate script to manage installing the Zabbix Agent on various Linux distros...

You can find a little more details and documentation for the zabbix-server-install and zabbix-agent-installer scripts at

https://gitlab.wellston.biz/dafyre/zabbix-utils/tree/master

zabbix-server-install

For this script to work, it is recommended to be used on Ubuntu 16.04, the sytem needs to have a working LAMP setup installed already. If you are running a fresh install, it is recommended to select LAMP and openSSH Server during the installatoin process. If you are doing this post-installation, then you may be able to install Apache, MySQL (MariaDB) and PHP using the tasksel command line.

This script should be run as root, or with sudo.

It will prompt you for your root password for the MySQL server and will configure the Zabbix database according to the username specified in the script.

The Zabbix source files will be downloaded (Zabbix 3.0.3 at the time of writing) from the URL given in the script. (This can be self-hosted on your own web servers as well)

please be sure to edit this script and set a strong password for the zabbix databsae

sudo su
bash ./zabbix-server-install
will begin the process

After the process has completed, you should be able to access the Zabbix web pages at http://ip.add.ress/zabbix

The default username is Admin (with a capital A), and the default password is zabbix

If anyone has any problems with the script, let me know.

I'm getting ready to go on my first real vacation in what feels like eons... (It's really been only a year or three). Going to go hang out with the wife's family for two weeks!

So... I'll likely be mostly not on here while I'm gone, but you know how that goes. Heading from Georgia to Iowa by car... ~18hrs on a good run.

@wirestyle22 said in Zabbix - Useful Items and Graphs:

So you can install Zabbix on a linux server and then install a windows agent on the workstation to track the data? That's fun.

Yepp. I've come up with some usefull tools that will help you to deploy the Zabbix agents on Windows and Linux too.

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@travisdh1 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Is anyone holding their breath for the Final Fanatasy 7 remake?

From everything I've been able to find, it's supposedly coming out in December of this year.

I'll probably pick it up soon after it comes out. I've got an original copy (not the gold edition). It's worth some money to collectors now, but I'm still not tempted to sell it.

I have every megaman for the NES mint in box. I'm not a collector I just found them at a garage sale. It was crazy.

I have a FF1 with the instruction manual and NES sleeve... I also have Dragon Warrior 1, and one of my Buddy's Megaman games... (we know because it has his name on it, lol)

@BBigford said in WDS/MDT very slow:

@dafyre said in WDS/MDT very slow:

@BBigford said in WDS/MDT very slow:

@dafyre said in WDS/MDT very slow:

What Hypervisor?

Hyper-V, server is 2012.

VMQ is often the culprit for slow network stuff... Especially if you have Intel or Broadcom NICs in the server...

on the Hyper-V server... from the powershell command prompt, try:

get-netadaptervmq|disable-netadaptervmq

That will disable VMQ on all of the network adapters in the server. It generally doesn't cause a noticeable disconnection on the servers, but you know how that goes... be careful, lol.

I disabled that on the VM itself.. I can't do that on the host if there is going to possibly cause a disconnect on the VMs. There's like 25 production VMs that are up.

But disabling that on the VM itself did nothing if that's where I was supposed to run it.

No, this has to be run from the host... It usually doesn't cause a disconnect that users will notice. But you raise another point though... The server was fast before adding MDT.

Hi all! I am still aroud... just enjoying time with family and a real vacation where I am not on call!

Doing a little bit of catching up today.

@coliver said in UAE Roads & Transport Authority becoming smarter!:

@Dashrender said in UAE Roads & Transport Authority becoming smarter!:

LOL at some point in the future our cars will auto assess points against our license - thinking like Corbin Dallas in 5th Element.

At some point in the future we won't be the ones driving.

And I envision AI fighting back against us. "You are having an accident."

out if I, Robot, lol.

If anybody cares, Ubisoft is having a 30 year celebration... 1 game a month will be free for the next 7 months, according to their site...

https://30years.ubi.com

I think I saw this on here somewhere... if so, credits to original poster.

@hobbit666 said in VM Disk IOPS running on XenServer:

i'll be looking forward to it I really need to get our Zabbix Server doing more "powerful" stuff instead of just ping to see if some thing is alive lol

It does that so well, though!

You can have it email or text you when something major breaks.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thinking about my career prospects today

I'm exceptionally good at solving problems and I enjoy it quite a bit.

Where should I focus my efforts? What sorts of jobs are available to fit my "IT Problem Solver" skills?

Fix stupid, and I'll give you as much money as you want.

No way. Users just can't understand what we need to do. Must be something genetic.

Genetics can be bred out.

Instructions unclear, bread race of super morons with a penchant for twiddling nobs and pressing buttons

Said super morons would twiddle buttons and eat knobs... and still find a way to screw up their computer....

Perhaps something like this: