@hobbit666

Two switches but looks like there is space for everything in the top switch?

Anyway, it's tricky to make it nice when you have to use what you have.

But different length patch cables make a big difference. Same color unless it's color coded for some reason.

I suggest the thin patch cables that someone from here recommended to me. They are awesome and a lot thinner than what it looks like. You can fit about three times as many cables in the same space.

https://www.fs.com/c/28awg-slim-patch-cables-613

And yes, put 19" power strip on the bottom. Something like:
https://www.fs.com/products/29452.html

I'd probably forgo the horizontal cable management and go directly from patch panel to switch. Perhaps even move them together. If you have vlans, reconfigure the switch so you cable it neatly.
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@hobbit666 said in Another Cron issue - reboot:

@IRJ @DustinB3403 will give that a try tomorrow if I get a chance otherwise Sunday

Don't do it as a user, as IRJ says. This is because Cron does not use sudo. That would not make sense, if you dig into it.

Here is why....

The reason you put a cron job under a user is to act as that user. If cron tried to sudo, you'd lose the ability for users with sudo access to act as themselves, compromising security and limiting functionality.

Any user with sudo access to root can put the cron job that they want directly under root itself, so #1 doesn't limit their functionality in any way, it only gives them more functionality.

If it used sudo, tracking down where root level things were happening would become enormously difficult, instead of being centralized.

Looks like I needed to put

export DISPLAY=":0"

originally when I was trying it I didn't have the "

Now to test the whole script 😄

It really depends. If you don't do software transcoding even hundreds of call on quite low power hardware would be fine (say 2GB ram and 4 CPU cores).

We've found that using a Sangoma E1 card the same hardware would handle the double of the calls, only because Asterisk bases its timing source on the Sangoma hardware instead of using the dummy one.

One test that you can do is to run the command dahdi_test, the values should be not less than 99.996% for a good audio quality, specially for music on hold and conference rooms.

There are some hardware timers that do the same job for a very low price, ie

https://www.thedebugstore.com/asterisk-pbx-system-timer-cards/

@ElvinNelson said in Writing a good CV:

It is more than enough to simply do it according to the already existing available samples and bring it to the form necessary specifically for your specific specialty. The above are also fine.

Sure, IF the form is any good. 99% are not. People who do "CV help" are never people who know or are in the industry. The CV assistance career path is one for failed English students desperate for work that no one can evaluate, there's no money in it. So if you get resources from anywhere except peers you are almost guaranteed to have something that's not very good, from a context of someone whose never done it before.

@hobbit666 said in AMD Vs Intel:

Going to wait until we need some more desktops, then re-look at what Ryzens we can see and try

Seriously consider the normal AMDs, too. The A line. That's the line meant for business use. Ryzens are too expensive for normal office use, they are high performance CAD, power user, or gaming procs.

@Obsolesce said in How do you choose what Linux Distro to use for a project?:

@JaredBusch said in How do you choose what Linux Distro to use for a project?:

@Obsolesce said in How do you choose what Linux Distro to use for a project?:

@DustinB3403 said in How do you choose what Linux Distro to use for a project?:

@JaredBusch said in How do you choose what Linux Distro to use for a project?:

@DustinB3403 said in How do you choose what Linux Distro to use for a project?:

@JaredBusch said in How do you choose what Linux Distro to use for a project?:

No, that is not valid. WTF is even “mainstream”?

main·stream /ˈmānˌstrēm/ noun

I know how it is defined. But how are you claiming which ones are mainstream. Because there is only subjective evidence to support any of your wild ass bullshit claim.

Mint is Mainstream to many. It is old and nasty and not something I would ever use.

Ubuntu is a steaming pile of shit that only has popularity among "developers" because it was "popular" as a desktop OS.

Okay ass.

You know what my intention is and was when using the term Mainstream.

So get off your horse and onto the dildo, cause you need to sit and spin for a while.

Completely unwarranted reply from you, because the use and intention of "mainstream" is useless no matter how you try to swing it... HOWEVER, I LMAO so hard at this.

Maybe if it is studded? For that extra oomph?

Definitely studded. Only way to go.

Mangolassi.it - Always go for a flaming laugh!🙂

@DustinB3403 said in How to Install Desktop Environment to a Fedora Server:

@Pete-S I was the person to mention creating a desktop environment on the system to use as the management domain, and run virt-manager there. And I've repeated it numerous times, across several topics.

As for using virsh, that is an option too.

Sorry, I didn't follow the other previous thread(s).

So following on from the Other thread.

Looks like i'm heading to the Install KVM, setup a Linux VM and use that to manage the KVM server from that.

@hobbit666 said in Windows 10 Pro Volume License (KMS) to OEM/BIOS:

Yeah the upgrade keys were full upgrade not vl keys.

I think they"expired" because we removed our Kms server a while ago.

Any way it all works now 😁

Well - the expire notice is, as you said, because the VLMK ISO that was used to install these machines making them KMS/MAK dependant, can't contact a KMS server. You can fix this by replacing the KMS key with a MAK key. Then the machine will activate directly against MS and you'll be golden.

I had to do this for a Win7 machine I moved off my main network and onto a private network that only had direct internet access - i.e. it could no longer reach my KMS server.

Dec 2019 I'm going to have to move another Win7 machine to a totally isolated network. I'm guessing I'm going to need to get it to an OEM Key, activate against MS, then it should be fine forever being offline.

Think i've got this down to 3 possible switch that meet the requirments:-
(rough pricing 🙂 )

2x Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 48 Port - £920ea
1 pack of 10G Transceivers - £35
2x RJ45 10G Transceivers - £62ea
Total - £2000

2x HP 1950-48G - £1230ea
2x 10G-SR Transceivers - £600ea
*Don't need any Transceivers for the one in same building as it as 10G copper already
Total - £3660

2x Netgear S3300 - £1020ea
2x 10G-SR Transceivers - £238ea
Again already has 10G Copper.
Total - £2516

I see we can get "compatible" Transceivers to reduce costs to:-
HP £16ea - £2492
Netgear £13ea - £2066

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@hobbit666 said in Poor VPN performance:

@scotth said in [Poor VPN performance]

I picked up a refurbished HP Elite 8300 SFF for $300 about 4 years ago. I loaded the free offering from Sophos and have been running it without issue. It uses OpenVPN for remote access. I also have an IPSEC tunnel setup for work.
I did have to buy two NICs. Since it is SFF, I had to make sure that low profile brackets were included.

Was thinking this but could I add a WiFi card and make it into a Access Point as well. Since it for home the less kit taking power the better

I don't think it will let you create an AP. I grabbed a bottom of the line AP from Ubiquity. Works fine

https://www.ubnt.com/accessories/nanoswitch/

@carnival-boy said in MSP or VAR or just avoid:

For an MSP to be truly agnostic it would either have to massive (to be able to employ both Oracle and SQL Server experts), or it is full of generalists who can support both but lack expertise in either.

That's part of the goal, or typical goals, of moving to the MSP model. They bring more scale and with scale comes agnosticism (the move towards it, but obtaining it as you pointed out.) You might not have expertise or experience with every OS out there, but even a moderately small MSP like NTG regularly supports and works with many databases. Not Oracle, which isn't a big deal as it has essentially no place in any intentional deployment, but MS SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, REDIS, MongoDB, SQLite, etc. all regularly supported.

MSPs are way more likely to have the desire and ability to grow support skill sets, although this can happen internally as well. But internal skill growth is costly and risky to maintain. For an MSP, skill growth increases potential customer support options. So MSPs have more incentive to consider things they've not done specifically before than internal IT departments do.

Nothing is perfect, but MSPs make agnosticism easier and more likely.

@dbeato said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@scottalanmiller said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@dbeato said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@bbigford said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@scottalanmiller said in Goto Linux Server OS:

@bbigford said in Goto Linux Server OS:

RHEL if support is required, CentOS if I'm being lazy on updates (joke); beginning to just use Fedora Server for everything not requiring support. I will probably start phasing out CentOS.

That's what we are doing. CentOS is nearly gone now. Only required for Zimbra.

Zimbra actually requires CentOS? Can't use FS? 😐

Zimbra does not require CentOS, you can also use Ubuntu which others might not like.

We mean in the context of the RPM distos. It only supports Ubuntu LTS and not current which is arguably not even a form of support since Ubuntu’s own support path can be to force you to current meaning Zimbra isn’t actually supported in that ecosystem.

Yeah, Zimbra supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS but yeah we are almost on 18.04

Yeah. So far worse than only supporting CentOS 7 in the RPM world. At least RHEL 7 offers full support from the vendor, not partial.

@dbeato @JaredBusch thanks for the info. If I get time might give it a go over the weekend. Otherwise job for Monday morning

General Info

ESXi1 – Dell R710 – VMWare ESXi5.0.0
2x Intel Xeon E5607 (4 core, no Hyperthreading)
64GB RAM
1TB Local

ESXi2 – R610 - VMWare ESXi5.0.0
2x Intel Xeon E5645 (6 core, 24 Threads)
64GB RAM
NO Local

ESXi4 – R620 - VMWare ESXi5.0.0
2x Intel Xeon E5-2640 (6 core, 24 Threads)
64GB RAM
NO Local

They fired the folks involved in the coverups, right?