Category Archives: Technical

Hard Drive Checks

Posted on May 2, 2023 by larry

I have a monitor for all my physical Linux drives in nagios. Pretty happy with it, I lost trust in smartd. Looks like I need to figure out freenas and esxi next. Went to gym and PT today. I need … Continue reading →

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Tulip Festival 2023

Posted on April 30, 2023 by larry

Wow I did not know the last time we went to tulip festival was in 2019. Overcast but glorious Couple tips, Anyway on a serious note, I been playing with grafana and noticed a failing drive. I am worried that … Continue reading →

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Python, Grafana, JSON, Nagios, and SQL

Posted on April 29, 2023 by larry

Got it all today, I figured a lot and combined all of those in the past few days. I am finally able to use some python scripts, to process JSON files, to injest events data from nagios into a SQL … Continue reading →

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Just deferring till May 1st.

Posted on April 28, 2023 by larry

I don’t see myself having free time till next month, It is wat it is. Been a busy day, work and personal stuff. I myself been waffling on things. I did get some more python today, learning a lot. Weight: … Continue reading →

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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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