https://pi-hole.net/2020/01/19/announcing-a-beta-test-of-pi-hole-5-0/

@DustinB3403 said in Break-Glass Access Control For Business Owners:

@NashBrydges said in Break-Glass Access Control For Business Owners:

That would work but would not provide the "notification" that it was used. Ideally, I would setup some kind of process so that I can be notified when they actually "break the glass". I think that's an important piece of the puzzle I'm trying to solve is to be notified when they access the credentials storage/file.

Break-glass would in my mind, be used because you had an emergency (like firing your IT personal) a notification to that same person or group seems worthless in my opinion.

In my case, if my clients accessed this storage/file, it would be important to know. Not only would that mean they are potentially looking to terminate relationship (not too worrying since this is part of doing business...the majority of my clients are from other IT service providers who have screwed the pooch) or that there was some reason for someone to access the credentials and, provided I'm still the service provider of choice, would now need to closely evaluate what was done and what caused them to need to access those credentials.

*edited for spelling

@DustinB3403 said in Break-Glass Access Control For Business Owners:

@NashBrydges said in Break-Glass Access Control For Business Owners:

As stated here, wondering what process/tools people use for this process.

https://www.mangolassi.it/post/497853

A set of one time credentials setup and not managed by the leaving IT party/personnel that are put into a vault at the time of creation and only used for that case.

The creator of the credentials doesn't actually set the password(s).

That would work but would not provide the "notification" that it was used. Ideally, I would setup some kind of process so that I can be notified when they actually "break the glass". I think that's an important piece of the puzzle I'm trying to solve is to be notified when they access the credentials storage/file.

As stated here, wondering what process/tools people use for this process.

https://www.mangolassi.it/post/497853

In my inbox this morning...

@JasGot said in Best Plex player to use with a non smart tv or as a portable HDMI player?:

@NashBrydges I looked at these. The Rokus do not present themselves as a mobile device, so this means I cannot use the Plex SYNC feature. This wouldn't really be that bad if it had internal storage it can play from. Managing everything from Plex would be nice, but I wouldn't mind copying stuff to an SD card or USB stick if I needed to.

Do you know if any of the Rokus can play from local storage while offline?

No, you're correct. While I haven't tried, they are supposed to be able to play content from a USB connected drive. That being sai, if you're looking at Plex, I'm assuming you have a Plex server installed. I have my Plex server in the datacenter and I can play content from that server from anywhere in the world using my Roku device. No transcoding required from the Plex server since the Roku handles all of that heavy lifting. The only thing required is to make sure your outbound bandwidth would allow full feed of your video files via internet from your Plex server. If you want this to run like this, you'll need to expose port 32400 (or other custom port you designate) to the internet otherwise all playback is handled through the Plex.tv servers and your playback will be throttled to 2Mbps max. I've been able to play a 70Mbps 4k HDR10 video from a remote location at full bandwidth this way.

I've always loved Roku for this. In fact, I own 3 of them. They are powerful enough that my Plex server doesn't have to do any transcoding at all so the server doesn't need to choke on my 4k HDR10 movies.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Rickrolled! lol

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I've just setup a client's Hyper-V server at a local datacenter. I've also setup Veeam in a VM and pointed it to a local (in the DC) backup repository. All of that is working beautifully. Next step is that we need to setup an offsite backup. Client has asked that we use his Synology NAS that's located in his office as the remote backup repository. We were going to use Wasabi which would have made my life significantly easier however the $150/month price tag for 25TB is more than he's willing to spend.

Wondering is anyone here has setup a backup repository for Veeam on a remote server or NAS. I could connect the NAS to the DC Veeam server via VPN and use split DNS so that not all of the NAS traffic would go over the VPN but just not sure if that's the ideal solution.

Anyone have a better idea?