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I've never used Branch Office Direct Printing, frankly I'm not sure what the gain is over what I'm doing today?

Awesome thanks guys, I'll wait for the next computer to go down then I'll report back with results!

@Sparkum said in Any Jet Reports guru's here?:

@FiyaFly
Hey

Ya one of the largest points of re-doing everything is to get it to a point where we can schedule it (we currently run it 2 times a week and then enter some information)

So we are also trying to get all the cells that we would manually add information to populate.

There are alot of one off reports (using this report) that people want, for example we currently run it on Monday and Thursday, but people also want then different time frames etc so while scheduling it eliminates the time problem it only really half eliminates it.

I was actually able to make a few changes and got the report down to 27 minutes, so I'm back on track for optimizing the report!

Thanks

Sweet! What changes did you make?

One thing to add, I'm not sure with docker but with LXC you can set resource limitations with cgroups.

@Sparkum said in Crontab troubleshooting:

@scottalanmiller
Using Ubuntu 14.04

Oh okay, probably on the legacy system still then. In that case, what you are looking to do is better done with...

/etc/init.d/servicename status

@Sparkum said in Download and Delete from Source every 5 minutes (Ubuntu):

Hey look at that Rsync is working!

Thanks guys,

I'll let this sync the files then I'll will start looking into Cron jobs in the meantime

Thanks all!

Rsync is pretty awesome. Handles its own connections, its own security, does its own delta compresion.

Central logging offers a lot of potential. Lots of reasons for it but just some...

Really easy to produce central reports to look for issues across the entire estate, not just server by server. Easy to give log access to people who are not system admins. Much more secure, you can look at logs without access to the systems themselves. Works on systems that don't even have the ability to log into (like Windows Nano and DevOps systems.) Encourages good tooling, like nice graphical interfaces, reports, etc. Allows for correlation between systems, apps, etc. Compare a single app on many servers at once, etc. Protects logs in case of system failure Stores logs in a permanent way for ephemeral devices. Increases the reliability of alerting. Increases options for alerting. Allows files to be backed up under a central policy.

@Technomancer

Hey!

So I'm currently trying to set up Worldping but I'm having troubles setting up the API key.

Was wondering if you could lend a hand.

I continuously see

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer
api key" http://worldping-api.raintank.io/api/dashboards/db/mydash

like this and similar.

I'm also reading that I can just authenticate by username

None of this is working, could you point me in the right direction.

Thanks

@r0dISK said in I did a thing, have a quick Linux question:

22TB ? mdadm + RAID6...

That's a lot to have under RAID 6, but for a home lab is fine.

@Sparkum said

Not gonna lie...understood like 3% of what you just wrote.

But hey, I guess thats kinda why I'm doing this stuff in the first place.

Welcome to my club!

@Sparkum I've done similar with AutoIT.

You could have who ever is responsible for the shared calendar publish it, assuming the information can be open to the public.
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@JaredBusch said:

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@Dashrender said:

You create a local backup with Veeam - which of course creates a snap.... and then you do a replication with Veeam from one hypervisor to another? why are you using Veeam to do that instead of the built in hypervisor tools? But that's really beside the point.

Because VMWare.

Doing that clearly makes the server run a snap twice (unless it can be run in a single job). and put strain on the VM host while replicating to the remote site.

Backups run nightly. Not all servers are replicated Replication gives you more restore points throughout the day in addition to the failover capability

How do you get number 3?

It creates replication points? That's not how I've ever understood how replication works.

Veeam 9 offers multiple restore points on replicas -
https://www.veeam.com/vm-advanced-replication.html
under failover and failback section.

Even Hyper-V has this built into replication. You can choose to keep XX number of replication points. Honestly this is not much different than people keeping XX snapshots on the local host for immediate rollback needs.

you can't pick and choose roll backs, if you pick two snaps ago, you loose the one from one snap ago.

See above about replication I just posted. I'm using replication like JB in that I'm just using it for convenient backup not true replication for DR failover. JB may be doing it similarly.

Does that use 12x time disk space of the VM?

Not at all. It similar to Forward incremental. One big file with delta snaps.

Cool feature in Veeam.

Built into every replication system I am aware of.

Pretty much. It's very standard.

If you're just messing around in a lab, why not download 2016 so you can familiarize yourself with the backend?

Whitelisting would definitely do it.

From memory,
Install the printer on a server, install all driver versions needed for that printer.

Even if you are setting up an IP direct printer, you can have GPOs tell the systems to pull the drivers from a server. There are 3-5 other GPO keys that you need to set to allow users to install printers as non admin.

@Dashrender said:

Isn't Wordpress also one of the most hacked webpage type?

As someone that has been using WordPress for years, and managing more and more sites everyday, I can promise you WordPress is very secure.

The Problem is plugins. People don't take care when installing them and don't keep them up to date.

Or, they set there username and password to admin. 😠

@Sparkum said:

Isnt there just a vendor on Mangolassi that wants to give me a free 3D printer? hmmm?

Give you one? Nooooooo. No. No no.

They want to give ME one 😄

@Sparkum said:

Hmm so finally got infront of a computer, started from the bottom and worked my way up through the solutions and the most annoying thing is the problem more so appears to be my "content content content..." eh? Copied 5 paragraphs for Lerem Ipsum; turned height to auto and bam everything was perfect.
It didnt even attempt to format to the right when I copied the paragraphs in....
So thats really strange and annoying cause I was already adjusting height: auto; before making the post =/

Thanks for all your help guys! And hey, if you've got any suggestions for the website I'd love to hear them.

P.S. what are these developer tools you all speak of? The only website tool I've used is Firebug so I'd love to know of something else.

Thanks

EDIT: Literally didnt even need to height: auto; just added the paragraphs and bam, worked how I wanted it. I literally didnt even have a problem! Just the content I added somehow screwed it all up???

That's great!

Developer tools is like firebug but its on chrome, but its built in. Just hit F12. Firefox has tools built in also.

Sometimes the sites get funky from the nbsp;'s.