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@scotth said in Outage - Armstrong in N-Western PA:

Could easily be.
I'm not sure (maybe Windstream -- ugh) is the next hop up from one of our sites in NE Ohio and they were down all day Monday.
Some odd behavior with our cell service lately too. We have dead spots where we have never had issues before. Verizon, in this case.

The storms that came through earlier this week wrecked havock on infrastructure in NE Ohio. We still have roads closed and people we know are not due to get power restored till this weekend.

At work I've cleared a record number of tickets this week because we had so many outages.

@scotth yeah, in the past (maybe the long past?) the iLO was a self contained board with its own CPU and RAM!

Saw that, so sad. He wasn't all that old. But definitely not in great physical condition.

@scotth said in O365 down for us:

Our O365 is down. I'm getting text blasted. AAaaaAahhHHhhh

Simple Fix: Zoho

😉

@Dashrender
Shinobi CE is free to use for any purpose. It has to be by license.
Shinobi Pro is not.

@jmoore said in Spare box is sitting idle. I7 32GB RAM. Which flavor should I run:

@scotth My workstation at work is kvm with fedora under it. I use windows 10 and opensuse vm's under it through virtual machine manager. It works very smooth and never had a bit of trouble.

I never tried OpenSuse. After I get this going, I'm going to setup Hyper-V on my brother's server. I may give it a go. He's running Kodi on Windows which works fine. I want to setup a Kodi only box and feed it out. I'm doing this at home on XCP-ng and it works great. I use the Emby addon and it streams beautiful to anything in the house no matter the original resolution.

LazyLibrarian will search and initiate downloads of books, and once download completes it will add it to Calibre library. It's not a software to manage you collection of purchased books, its purpose is to find books on usenet and torrent sites and send these to download clients. It's like Sonarr or Radarr, but for ebooks.

FFS, so much stupid going all left, right, and center..

What are the WAN speeds involved. Ubiquiti sells nice gear, but there are potential speed limits depending on router configuration. UTM at home? WTF is the point of such a complicated setup. There is no good free UTM anyway. WTF are you doing for backups that is not already encrypted before going over the wire? You don't need a VPN for back ups. You have an old Ubiquiti router but didn't say shit about the model. As mentioned it is a ROUTER, if you hated it because it didn't massage your dick, then that is your fault for not knowing WTF you bought. There is not a single model of Ubiquiti router that cannot be upgraded to the current firmware. Software routers are silly things that burn power and time.

So what should you do?

Depending on your WAN speed needs, buy a Ubiquiti or Mikrotik router that will handle the needed speeds. I personally recommend the Ubiquiti ER-X for "technical" home use first, then the Ubiquiti ER-4 if you need more speed with the QoS enabled.

For normal home use, I recommend the Ubiquiti Amplifi Instant Mesh System for $179.

Buy a RaspberryPi 3 kit with case and card for $50 someplace and install Pi-Hole. Setup your Router to send all DNS to the Pi-Hole.

Setup MeshCentral for remote support

Setup ZeroTier for any point to point "vpn style" needs you may have.

Atlanta had a few outages the last several days, too. Nothing big.

Had another issue today at a different client. POTS handoff of Spectrum phones had one way audio.

I also could not get to the spectrumbusiness.net website to log in and forward the phones.

I had to send a tech on site with an analog phone to manually *72 forward the lines.

Thankfully the port is already scheduled for this client and happens on the 5th.

@jaredbusch said in Point to Point radios - Payment card processing:

@coliver said in Point to Point radios - Payment card processing:

@scotth said in Point to Point radios - Payment card processing:

Access points will work fine. I'm doing discovery. Is there an application that requires that I use point to point vs APs that I lock down? Reminder: I may end up confronted with PCI issues down the road. For now, we'll be processing privately issued cards. If we move to fleet cards issued nationally, then I want to be thorough before we settle on a solution. I will never get a second chance correct without a lot of grief.
BTW, this is for a convenience store that has a 'captive' island for diesel sales to privately issued card holders.

Providing the channel is encrypted with a reasonably strong cipher you should be good with PCI.

WUT?

Your AP channel has nothing to do with the data processing encryption.

You software should be all self encrypting before shit ever hits the transmission.

You can send CC over whatever you want as long as you prove the encryption happened somewhere. Granted most PCI talk about using TLS because they are just using standards. But again, that has nothing to do with the AP.

Right - sad thing is so many places make these ridiculous claims that the machines and network need to be completely separate from anything else on the world to be sure they are secure.

@scotth said in Granite Communications -- not feeling the warm & fuzzies:

[I found this BBB listing today(https://www.bbb.org/boston/business-reviews/telecommunication-equipment-repair/granite-telecommunications-inc-in-quincy-ma-81783/reviews-and-complaints)

Doesn't appear to be too good

Kinda fishy, yeah.

Can confirm G6 will not work with HyperV from experience; due to exactly what @black3dynamite posted

I started this thread because I was interested in going. I was going to combine it with visiting my brother and sister-in-law. Aaaannnddd, I can't go.
Enjoy. I hear MIller Park is quite nice.

https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/zabbix-formula

@scottalanmiller I knew it had to be fluffyctulhudeepstorage!

Oh and I rarely if ever had to do anything with SpendMap. Their support was absolutely fantastic! We had it for a few years and I think I only touched the servers to update them here or there. The support did all app updates themselves and I just had to be available for support if something went awry.