@quixoticjustin said in Sodium System Status:

Current status is: GUI online but we've identified a bug that was introduced during last night's testing just before we went offline for the night. This is keeping the backend from working so updates have stopped and new systems are not joining. We'll be working on this today, but it might be offline much of the day. So feel free to log in and poke around, but you won't be able to add machines nor to see current status in the system.

sorry but can you make screenshots of SODUIM GUI and attach it to this thread so I can understand more of what it does, and hte features in it.

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@networknerd

I like, especially if it was series that compares with XEN HA and KVM HA in high level overview ofcourse. I found all his vids very easy to watch and learn from, and that is something rare for me especially for I.T videos.

Hi,

This post is made to give props to this good project that I stumbled upon by while looking for deduplication tool, I know its always best to do stuff using OS build in tools, and I do this most of the time especially in Linux, but Windows is meant to be used with GUI and thus you need to resort to third party some times.

So this project is OSS and free, and it seems very close to everything search from VOID tools, but its just command line and
supports Win/Mac/Linux, while I dont think I will need it for other platforms besides Windows, it seems very powerful paired with SALT.

So check it out:

http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html
https://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfileknife/

For now I mostly use this functionality:
sfk dupfind with +del, but first I create report of the duplicates, and save it as text file.

• It actively developed since :
  2006-04-22

@scottalanmiller

I refuse to call EXCEL xlsx/xlsm/xlsm as database, not after I have to back it up 3 times a day (8AM/1.30AM/8PM) from NAS share to another, cause the supply team need to collaborative work on it, without cloud tools (also some users via VPN), and at the end of the day you get all the temp blank excel files filling the NAS from all the crashes.

I wish Macro Enabled EXCEL was never created, i tried to make solution using NextCloud + Collabora or OnlyOffice and I understood that nothing in the world can handle xlsm which most of our supply tool use.

@dashrender said in Greenfield (OK not really) setup questions:

Additional options: use something like Salt to create network mappings for the computers.

I am interested to hear about:

"Salt to create network mappings for the computers."

Since salt works only when minions connected, and for reason my NAS and windows clients loses the connections every 2-3 days and requires the user to re-input username/password (maybe related to Windows limtiation)

how will you effectively use salt for that purpose ? just put script to run at user login ? any other neat ways to do this ?

@ambarishrh said in Centralized Imaging- Clonezilla:

Clonezilla is my current choice to be used as a centralised image deployment tool. I hope FOG is not widely used by the community here. I would like to hear more about this, on what is being used by you all

Windows Deployment Services on 2008R2SP1 =VM.
It does decent job for Installing Win7 machines with via Ethernet boot, its the only use for that VM.

On separate note:

I once tried booting from Windows Repair ISO

then launching notepad.exe from command line then opening the setup.exe file hosted on Linux Samba share I had Windows installation extracted from ISO, and I launched it and it installed... so that might be a poor man OS install centralization

Wanted to use CloneZilla but it was difficult to me at that time, and I opted for WDS, plenty of options and you can add drivers easily, not sure if you can do this with CloneZilla. You just need to provide the .inf file to the boot image.

If they are windows client go for my salt stack on centos uvnc script

https://mangolassi.it/post/315151

@scottalanmiller

This part had me:

As IT we need to stand up and explain that unmaintained systems are already broken, disaster just hasn’t struck yet.

After the Ransomwave, I developed a great script/program that utilizes saltstack/winscp/7zip command line to backup all of the connected windows clients/minions, and pushed the plan to upper management, gave it 3 tests today, and everything works as planned.

The best part when I asked the 3 users if crisis occured and your laptop is unrecoverable this backup that I create can it be usefull, they all said yes that is everything we need.

So yeah, its all now to upper management to allow this or not, I create encrypted and compressed 7z archive on both the NAS and end user machine with all of his important files. With retention plan (WinSCP can do this and delete files based on age) and using HTTPS WebDaV for secure file transfer, to avoid Windows net use hell, you know the stupid limitation per windows user account that he can only connect to 1 mapped drive.

Sadly the plan might fail to be active and enabled, cause with each I.T move I make, upper management sometimes freaks out and thinks I have too much power and I reckon this all cause I am local employee and not international one.

Do you know that today I found out that 7zip+WinSCP have been actively developed for 17 years. my God they are so stable and amazing.

@fateknollogee

LXQT SPIN ROCKS

coming from LXDE Spin, this stuff is amazing:

Great new customization options, very easy to use, previous LXDE 25 I had to use bashrc and terminal for customization

Webkit QubZilla beats Midori

No screen tearing like in Old LXDE 25 spin due to no compositor.

Everything is smarter and better

Thanks to Fedora and LXQT team and also LXDE (I think they are the same).

@alyragab

I used CoreOS abit, but only for learning. And it is made specifically for containers. and nowadays containers are not just containers there are many other topics like fleet management (Kubernetes) and all the advanced stuff if you want this go with container specific OS like Core OS, however if you just want to run a couple of containers like mysql/php/nextcloud and play with things go for Centos (and check if Ubuntu server has an updated build of docker or not , and weight that as well).

@dashrender

Come to our side... less annoyances... Windows 7 Nostalgia

@aaronstuder

OpenSSH installation is the one thing I always have to do when installation finishes with Ubuntu Servers, so it is always an extra step for me. And I dont like how they are messing with openssh config frequently lately.

@dashrender said in Anybody noticed Win10 explorer file status delay:

LTSB somehow doesn't have tablet options? This seems VERY unlikely.

Windows 10 LTSB omits a lot of the new stuff in Windows 10. It doesn’t come with the Windows Store, Cortana, or Microsoft Edge browser. It also omits other Microsoft apps like Calendar, Camera, Clock, Mail, Money, Music, News, OneNote, Sports, and Weather.

In fact, the default Start menu on Windows 10 LTSB doesn’t even include a single tile. You won’t find any of those new Windows 10 apps installed, aside from the Settings app

@coliver @JaredBusch @scottalanmiller @Dashrender

I like how security updates , and actually all updates handled in Win 10, you can just search MS update catalog for "1607 Windows 10 security x64"
And download the latest security updates till this month, either as delta or full package, it was never this neat in previous OSes, it was more difficult. Even logging to that side was more difficult (required IE)

I am using LTSB, cause I want good secure desktop OS, and Windows 10 normal mode felt alot like tablet or mobile os, for my desktop I dont need voice assistance or much focus on touch stuff. I just need the OS, so going with this combo Win 10 LTSB + Security Updates, relatively the same combo you go with server.

I dont need new features, and If i needed them I rarely rely on MS for that, I rely on new features and updates from third party software.

@Francesco-Provino

Sorry to crash in, but If i am backing up raw file and folders data, using rsycn or robocopy and mysql database, from inside the VM and throwing it to NAS each day, what is this considered Agent or agentless ?

I dont care much about the VM itself, however I do sometimes backup it (monthly encase of big update, but uts getting harder each time it is growing)using Vmware export function, or backing up the qcow2 file encase it is KVM. again what is this called Manual Backups ? I automate much of them via scripts ...

Hello,

Coming from Win7 to Win10 LSTB

Umm, the explorer is tad slow, I mean for example reporting file that gets bigger, like converting videos, i used to press F5 in Win7 and I would be seeing the file size increase with Win10 not the same case there is delay like 10-20 seconds. Also some folders would take time for creation... anybody else noticed this ?

This whole copying windows 10 update method is getting ridiculous...

So my power got down while gaming on PC and the UPS kicked in so I closed everything and shutdown and guess what Panda AV hijacked windows 10 shutdown screen and displayed screen stating updating your software please don't shutdown your machine. And guess what the UPS didn't hold as much and machine shutdown was not graceful

Why do we purchase UPS in the first place

Panda AV didn't provide me with no option to escape or delay or skip the update and Ctrl alt del or anything else does not work while your on the shutdown screen.

@bigbear

GO FOR IT.

The longer you wait for your dreams the harder it gets attainable, just dont put all your money it, just your savings. and hope for the best.

Man i Have ton of ideas, actually 2-3 goods ones but cause I live in shit Middle east I cant do anything about it, cause the Gov only wants to squeeze as much money from you. So if you have the chance GO FOR IT.

And if you failed, its not big deal if you live in good country, you can save money again. And it will be much better than thinking all of your life WHAT IF

@gjacobse
Take it from me managing AMD temp is pain in the ass I have a88x-g43 with an Athlon x4 750K and I am very disappointed with the hardware reporting.

First of all what is the real temp TMPIN0/1/2 or the Package cause the BIOS and MSI tool points to my TMPIN0 as my CPU but I dont believe this. every other tool uses the package as the temp (SPeccy/Real Temp).

Also I noticed from Win 7 to Win 10 I gained extra 5C on both, no shit. I once saw the package reach 70C, my max temp for your CPU and mine are 71C. Just keep the fans high, and disable the Turbo Boost feature, and instead dont make the cpu get to low in its P states I understand this for mobile factors only but not desktops:

My Favorite Ultra-VNC setup:

Not all issues can fixed from command line alas, thus this recipe:

uvnc:
  file.recurse:
    - source: salt://uvnc
    - name: 'c:\salt\uvnc'
    - makedirs: True
  cmd.run:
    - name: 'c:\salt\uvnc\state.cmd'
  module.run:
    - name: firewall.disable

remeber to re-enable the firewall of the client when finished. (salt "client" firewall.enable)
you will need to create uvnc folder (get it from UltraVNC portable builds) folder in your Salt master, in /srv/salt

in it :

• winvnc.exe

• UltraVNC.ini

• state.cmd

• SecureVNCPlugin32.dsm (Optional Encryption plugin)

• Server_ClientAuth.pubkey (Optional Encryption server SSL handshake check)

And in the state.cmd put the following:

taskkill /f /im winvnc.exe
sc stop uvnc_service
sc delete uvnc_service
"c:\salt\uvnc\winvnc.exe" -install
"c:\salt\uvnc\winvnc.exe" -startservice
sc config uvnc_service start= demand
ipconfig | findstr /i "ipv4"

And whenever you want to connect to client, run this in salt master:
salt '172' state.apply uvnc

And you will see the IP of the client, you will need to match the IP and if you made any custom setting like port number/encryption plugin with vnc viewer and connect to client.