Category: Server
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Setup Hashicorp Vault Quickly For Your Lab
I recently had the need to use Hashicorp Vault with Ansible to store passwords-n-such, and I thought “Oh I’m sure this is simple.” Several hours later I realized “It’s not so simple.” I’ve put this together to be used in a LAB environment. The install method is good for production, but my configuration certainly is…
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Delete MYSQL Entries Older Than Two Weeks
I have an old cacti install plugging away that chokes on the number of syslog entries if I let them stack up longer than two weeks, so here’s a simple cron job I scheduled that runs nightly deleting everything older than 2 weeks: mysql -e 'delete from syslog where date < current_date() – interval 14…
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Install CHR On Proxmox
The first time I went about installing a Mikrotik CHR on a Proxmox server I ran into a lot of problems. I’ve distilled the steps down to something as simple as possible, all based on this wiki post. 1. Go to the mikrotik download page and grab the raw image of whichever version of CHR…
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Bridging all VLANs Into/Through A VMware ESXi VM
Recently I was assisting with a Preseem server configuration. These boxes want to be bridged in the traffic path. If you want to do this in an ESXi VM, this can be a little obtuse. As per this VMware link, setting the VLAN to 4095 will instruct the vswitch to pass all VLANs through unmolested.…
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Silencing An HP DL380 G6
If you have any unknown hardware, you will need to rectify that first. After that make sure you set your power profile(in BIOS or ILO) to as low as you can(this will ramp things down when they aren’t needed). Next, update your ILO firmware to the newest version possible. I found this link at pingtool.org…
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TheBrothersWISP Unimus – Mikrotik Plus More Backup System
Greg, Mike, Tomas, and Tom talk about Unimus, Tomas’ new backup application for Network equipment. It’s dead simple, so you no longer have an excuse NOT to have proper backups for your infrastructure. It’s the “up and running in less than 10 minutes” system! To see the video please visit the link below!!!
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Update Root Hints Bind 9
The root hint file is used by your bind server to lookup domains it doesn’t have cached. Every so often the root server IPs change, so keeping this file updated is a good idea. Here’s a quick and dirty way you can update your bind 9 root hints via a cron job. You can schedule…