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Still up deploying stuff.

@black3dynamite there you go

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

is there a way you can use 'Add Roles & Features' etc before stupid Server Manager finishes collecting its darn inventory data?
So tired of waiting ..........

Yes... don't install with a GUI, then use PowerShell to automate Add Roles & Features.

but what do I do with my mice????

Donate them.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

is there a way you can use 'Add Roles & Features' etc before stupid Server Manager finishes collecting its darn inventory data?
So tired of waiting ..........

Yes... don't install with a GUI, then use PowerShell to automate Add Roles & Features.

NodeBB is a powerful, open source package for building online communities and forums. We usually recommend running it on CentOS 8, primarily because of the need for MongoDB deployment support. The current NodeBB release is 1.13.1. By default, NodeBB uses the REDIS NoSQL database, and this is fine for small and test deployments. For production, MongoDB is recommended. This setup script will install MongoDB 4.2, NodeJS 13, and NodeBB 1.13.x in a default, vanilla configuration. When you are done, NodeBB will be running on port 4567 and MongoDB will be connected without credentials (not recommended, but is easily changed after install.)

Typically you will run a reverse proxy in front of NodeBB to handle things like SSL / TLS. Generally this would be nGinx. In this setup, we do not cover this portion. You can install your reverse proxy on the same box, or on a separate box. In this guide, NodeBB is exposed from this host to the outside world. If you do not want to expose it and only want it to be visible locally, simply remove the first firewall-cmd line.

During the script, the NodeBB Setup process will run. You can simple "hit enter" through all options and accept the defaults until it asks for the admin username, email, and password. These you must provide so that you can log in after the script completes.

This setup assumes a plain CentOS 7 install. The EPEL and other extra packages not handled by the script are not needed.

#!/bin/bash
dnf -y update; dnf -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
dnf -y install git ImageMagick curl
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=4567/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_13.x | bash -
dnf install -y nodejs

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-4.2.repo <<EOF
[mongodb-org-4.2]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/7Server/mongodb-org/4.2/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.2.asc
EOF

dnf -y install mongodb-org
systemctl start mongod
systemctl enable mongod

cd /opt
git clone -b v1.13.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB nodebb
cd nodebb

./nodebb setup
./nodebb start

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

Could replicate virtual machines at the VMware level but we will need a new vSphere license, setup may be more complex (also fine)

Replication always has to be at this level. You can't safely replicate below it. Storage doesn't have the ability to replicate on its own. If your VMware licensing doesn't allow for replication, that answers all of the questions about the storage lower down the stack. Even if the SC has the ability to replicate, it depends on this feature of VMware to execute it correctly. If you do it without VMware doing the heavy lifting you get inconsistent data. Often looks good in tests, often corrupt in a real life failover.

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

I think the SCv2020 is EoL so I'm not sure if I would buy a new one or upgrade/buy double or if the SCv2020 can replicate to anything else

Typically replication requires same to same, but not absolutely always.

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@wrx7m said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

What type of Windows licensing do you have? Replication can be affected by that.

We have Microsoft Volume Licensing and I haven't looked into weather or not we'd have to purchase "double" or not.. I'm not sure but I thought a backup environment doesn't quite count as production.

You need the second site licensed if it is hot, meaning turned on. You do not need anything if it is cold, meaning powered off. Powered off, it's just a backup that's extremely "ready to go".

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@wrx7m said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@wrx7m said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

What type of Windows licensing do you have? Replication can be affected by that.

We have Microsoft Volume Licensing and I haven't looked into weather or not we'd have to purchase "double" or not.. I'm not sure but I thought a backup environment doesn't quite count as production.

I would say "Hot"=Active.

hot/warm/standby environment is more what I'm talking about. I do plan to look into the licensing requirements involved. We have Datacenter for the vmware environment.

Just an FYI / PSA... if you use Scale HC3, this kind of replication and failover is all included in the base purchase.

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

I think I might go ahead and use Veeam's VM replication for a warm site setup.

Way safer, and probably cheaper.

@IRJ said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

We have a few locations that are all relatively close by

That is probably the craziest thing about going through all this hassle and being in the same geographic region. I would seriously consider a colo outside of the area. I mean you do all that work and put in all these expenses and you have an area wide disaster and its potentially gone.
Colocation costs are not much more than hosting at your own facility.

Sometimes, it's even less! Not often, but it can happen.

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

Could replicate data at the storage controller level:The SCv2020 does have embedded REPL ports specifically for replicating to another SCv2020 via iSCSI - this requires more additional licensing which is fine

Does this maintain anything other than crash consistency? Unless the SCv2020 is just automating VMware to do the work, this isn't a failover.

@dafyre did you just install using Steam? DId you do anything manually?

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@LilAng said in What Are You Drinking:

water. but i put Mio in grape flavor. LIFE CHANGING

I have a half gallon of Wyler's Lite Grape here!

@bnrstnr said in Deploying NodeBB 1.11.1 on CentOS 7 with MongoDB 4:

What specific reasons for the CentOS recommendation here?

Revisiting a little...

Basically the three main Linux releases supported by MongoDB are CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian. CentOS and Ubuntu here are mostly six of one. But CentOS 8 Stream I like a little more than the Ubuntu LTS options. We use Ubuntu a little more often than CentOS today, but in this case I feel that CentOS is slightly better for us. But really, all three options are perfectly fine. We just have to pick one.

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

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

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

@scottalanmiller It's on Steam.
I was of the opinion that you could run Windows steam games using WINE.
Is that not the case?

WINE is WINE, that it comes from Steam doesn't change it. If Steam has gotten an individual game to work on Linux using some sort of toolset, they announce that on the game page. They have some big ones working, but I've not seen any done using WINE, it's all using Steam's own platform, which does in turn use WINE, but it's not WINE doing the heavy lifting.

But have you tried Steam's Platform on Linux to make it work yet?

Steam doesn't list it as working. So their platform isn't integrated with it.

@VoIP_n00b said in Avast... free Antivirus?? (sells your info for millions):

https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-defender-great-so-why-even-gamble-third-party-antivirus

I say this to clients EVERY DAY.

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

@scottalanmiller It's on Steam.
I was of the opinion that you could run Windows steam games using WINE.
Is that not the case?

WINE is WINE, that it comes from Steam doesn't change it. If Steam has gotten an individual game to work on Linux using some sort of toolset, they announce that on the game page. They have some big ones working, but I've not seen any done using WINE, it's all using Steam's own platform, which does in turn use WINE, but it's not WINE doing the heavy lifting.

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

BBC News - Belgium's ex-King Albert II admits fathering child after DNA test
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51275007

Look at his fine compared to his allowance.

Wow, nearly double...

Yeah, and how far does that go back? Ten years?

No - only for the order of giving a blood sample, which I thought they said was one year ago.

Ah, too bad. But still a lot of money.

@JasGot said in Real Time Coronavirus Website:

Let's hope it doesn't become another Spanish Flu.

Unlikely, the name Spanish flu refers to a global attempt to use influenza as biological warfare and were intentionally infecting each other and only Spain was willing to break the silence and tell the world that there was a global influenza outbreak. In this case, all the countries are talking already, so the biological warfare aspect of it doesn't exist.

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

I've actually gone back and started working on Witcher 1.

If it ran on Linux, I'd do that because I could play from my work desktop when the kids are using other systems. But alas, it does not.

@popester said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to reach BackBlaze but none of their phones get picked up.

Are they all out back getting blazed?

Maybe! I've got someone on support trying to hung someone down for me.

Trying to reach BackBlaze but none of their phones get picked up.

We use Asana.

@Dashrender said in Non-IT Change Management and Project Management Platforms:

I assume that MS Project isn't IT based.

It is not. Ancient and silly, but not IT.