Best posts made by DustinB3403

I think you need to be in Congress to get Mark Zuckerberg's attention to any sort of issue.

At the moment, I use a personal keyboard and mouse, with a company provided laptop. I'm thinking im going to purchase a monitor though as looking at the laptop screen has been causing some eye strain and me to lean forward to see the screen.

Plus I'd like to just have my monitor more eye level.

Just bought a 31.5" HP monitor for the home office, will be picking it up in a bit. With tax it was only $205.19!

With my new monitor.

@WrCombs said in Powershell to unhide all files and copy to nextcloud folder:

@Grey said in Powershell to unhide all files and copy to nextcloud folder:

@JaredBusch said in Powershell to unhide all files and copy to nextcloud folder:

@Grey said in Powershell to unhide all files and copy to nextcloud folder:

@JaredBusch But why robocopy?

Because it does at least skip the ones with no changes.

Why get convoluted with Powershell to do the same?

Not every system may have Robocopy.

it became part of theOS with Windows Vista. So anything running Windows Vista or Higher will have robocopy as a part of the Operating system (as everyone should be using higher than vista at this point.. I mean.. windows 7 is obsolete now.. sooo..)

Windows 10 1709 is obsolete too, so really anything not with a support mechanism shouldn't be used. But @JaredBusch might be getting paid stupid amounts of money to support Windows XP / Server 2000

@RojoLoco I think your monitor is vibrating a lot!

@hobbit666 Generally we monitor for alerts only, things that cause issues, no one is going through each log looking for specific issues. We generate alerts based on known issue events.

From those we then investigate further.

Logging everything would be very space consuming for us.

@hobbit666 said in Log & Alerts Management:

@DustinB3403 said in Log & Alerts Management:

@hobbit666 Generally we monitor for alerts only, things that cause issues, no one is going through each log looking for specific issues. We generate alerts based on known issue events.

From those we then investigate further.

Logging everything would be very space consuming for us.

Are you using any particular solution for this or is it all windows alerting?

With my newer job working for an MSP we have a toolset that does all of this for us. We just install the agent on the client systems and they send the logs to the portal.

@hobbit666 Zabbix is something of a go-to solution. Very simple to get started with and it does a ton right out of the box.

@JaredBusch https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux

@JaredBusch said in Fiber Optic patch panel:

@Pete-S said in Fiber Optic patch panel:

@JaredBusch said in Fiber Optic patch panel:

@FATeknollogee said in Fiber Optic patch panel:

Just in case anyone needs this info.
I buy all my fiber related stuff from fs.com

I buy from distribution channels.

It's nice of you to support the middle man. Good when you need support.

I like to buy from FS because they are the manufacturer.

When I need something, I send two emails. One to CCB and one to Insight.
I am not going to deal with making accounts at 500 vendors for random shit I need to buy for random client.

But it's more fun managing those relationships yourself!

........

@scottalanmiller said in Search from Start menu is blank/black:

I get this fairly often. No idea what causes it.

This is a rather known bug, it was previously correlated to cortana not being able to connect to the internet.

Using something like Salt or Ansible is another option

I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't be able too. But if the M.2 is completely dead it won't power up at all.

If a single section of the M.2 died anything it housed should've moved to a different section of the disk.

@JaredBusch said in UniFi Protect G3 Instant - Unboxing, review, and comparison:

@dbeato said in UniFi Protect G3 Instant - Unboxing, review, and comparison:

@DustinB3403 I gotta tell you, you read way too much into things to the point that is getting ridiculous.

No, he's just an all around dick.

At least I'm keenly aware of how I'm perceived.

@dafyre said in PCI bus error:

Servers off the floor?
Servers Not lying in liquid
Servers Have Power
Mounting apparatus made of
something other than cardboard

Server rack made of metal and capable of being grounded

@VoIP_n00b said in The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream:

Interesting Development:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/

See that should've been an initial statement from RHEL.

"We're ending the CentOS line, but are offering 16 production servers for free as a part of this change"

The way this was handled was still horribly performed and has likely killed the RHEL userbase off from trusting anything from RHEL/IBM.

I've never considered using a software to manage email signatures before. This certainly seems like something I'd have wanted to use in the past.

Even when providing a template to people to create their signature, reading is difficult.

Followed the directions, now my hands in the blender

Turns out that the embedded controller is defective. HPE has a tech arriving today to replace the defective part.

@Pete-S said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@travisdh1 said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@Pete-S said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@travisdh1 said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@Pete-S said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

I often see that the argument for using hardware raid is to be able to initiate an automatic rebuild by just swapping a faulty drive for a new one.
A lot of people assume that software raid can't do that. But that's incorrect.

Software raid on linux (as in md managed by mdadm) can do the exact the same thing.

It's under policy and partition policy in mdadm.conf. You'll find on the man mdadm.conf page.
The spare-same-slot option would be the one that works the same way as hardware controllers usually do.

I haven't used it myself since I prefer to initiate the rebuild myself. But I wonder if you guys have used it?

I don't think blind swap is about automatic rebuild, that's a given no matter what software/hardware RAID is running. It's more about seeing the light is red instead of green on drive 6, so you know that is the one to replace.

The only example of not having that available, that I can think of, is https://www.45drives.com/

I don't know man.
A typical SMB would have no monitoring and any server would be stuck in a closet somewhere. Nobody would notice any red lights until several months later or until something breaks and then they'd have no clue what to do about it, wouldn't know who to call and wouldn't have any idea if the server even has warranty (it never has). A spare drive wouldn't be available unless it was an old discarded drive left on the shelf from the last time something was replaced.

While probably true, that doesn't really have anything to do with blind swap.

I'm just saying those that have their server park under control doesn't really need any LEDs. And those that really needs it, doesn't look at it.

But it would actually be a small thing to make a script that would indicate faulty drives. You look at /proc/mdstat and any drive showing a _ instead of U is lit up on the drive bay. It's controlled by SGPIO or SES. That's how the raid controller does it.

I thought MD was already capable of performing this. . .