by Dean | Jul 16, 2016 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, monitoring, Tutorial
It has been a while since I have posted anything. So I thought I would go through the setup of my Solar monitoring. When I got my solar system I noticed that the Inverter had a RS232 connector on it. While it was being installed I was talking with the installers about...
by Dean | Nov 9, 2015 | Common Sense, General IT, IT, Linux, Microsoft, Tutorial, Virtualisation, VMWare
My home lab is a single workstation that runs the free version of ESXi. I don’t really have much of a need for more then that so I don’t want to go spending large amounts of money on licences etc that I really am not going to make good use of. So today...
by Dean | Mar 8, 2015 | Common Sense, DNS, General IT, IT, Linux, NTP, Tutorial
Time is super important within a network, it is super difficult to try and line up errors when you have to take into account the differences in time between servers etc. This all came to a point the other day when I was trying to work out why my Guest Wifi Network...
by Dean | Nov 15, 2014 | General IT, IT, SharePoint, Tutorial
Every time I go to update a SharePoint server I always have to look it up. So I figured that it would be a better use of my time to document the procedure next time ran through the process. So this is how to update a SharePoint 2013 site. Step 1 – Get the update...
by Dean | Sep 15, 2014 | Crazy Idea, DNS, General IT, IT, Linux, Misc, monitoring, MySQL, PHP, Tutorial
I have started to use Observium for monitoring. It is really good. To get better insight into my machines I have started to use the Unix Agent to view info about BIND, Apache, VMTools etc. I had a bit of trouble finding some clear steps about how to install onto...
by Dean | Jun 26, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Linux, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation
In the final part to this series of posts, I would like to outline a few of the issues that I encountered when setting up DRBD. Split Brain With a two node cluster, this is probably the biggest issue that arises. Split brain is when the communication between the hosts...
