Category Archives: Technical

Adding Another Day of Rest

Posted on April 27, 2023 by larry

Sad day today, my sister in law passed away. My wife stayed home so did I. I was packed and ready to go, but stayed home. I did make huge progress in grafana. Weight: 330.6

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SSL For Plex

Posted on April 25, 2023 by larry

Found out why my new install of plex was not using my pkcs12 file properly. I had to adjust the pkcs 12. Here is the command to create the pkcs12 plex compatible file. openssl pkcs12 -export -out your-cert.pfx-certpbe AES-256-CBC -keypbe … Continue reading →

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Getting More Into Python

Posted on April 23, 2023 by larry

I am moving on from BASH and to python with a lot of my scripts. There are a few cool things I want to do like communicate with different API’s out there. Got a way to record my weight into … Continue reading →

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Exhausted

Posted on April 20, 2023 by larry

Sleep finally caught up with me. Went in to office for work, hit the gym, then came home went to range. Got home and was super tired. Slept from 5 to 8. Anyway feel better not, but day feels shot, … Continue reading →

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Nagios, Grafana and Mysql

Posted on April 18, 2023 by larry

This morning I had an aha moment. I was trying to figure out how to get Grafana to display the nagios status. Then it dawned on me, I should just use an event handler and write things to a database … Continue reading →

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Taxes Filed

Posted on April 15, 2023 by larry

Easy peasy. Taxes are actually due on the 18th, but I got it done today. Son ran a 5k today, he said it didn’t feel like a 5k. But regardless he was the first one to complete it. He ran … Continue reading →

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Upgraded More Machines

Posted on April 12, 2023 by larry

I have a upgraded a bunch more machines. I have half C7 machines and half non C7. There are a lot of VMs, I really should reduce the count. Hitting more this week. Weight: 330.6

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Really Progressing But Will Slow Down

Posted on April 11, 2023 by larry

I got a lot of stuff done, got grafana going, got the prime server in the lab going, and room is clean. But tomorrow I am going to start walking again to get my workout groove back. I am feeling … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Demo Lab Too

Posted on April 10, 2023 by larry

Upgrading the demo lab to Rocky 9. Looks like I am hanging my hat on that distro for training. I need to get the lab up, then I can start documenting my presentations. I figured out most of the kickstart, … Continue reading →

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Easter 2023

Posted on April 9, 2023 by larry

A little excitement at the end of the day, power went out while I was out. Doing a quick post so I can get this done. But mail doesn’t seem to be right. It doesn’t seem to be routing properly. … Continue reading →

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