Category Archives: New Toys

Caught Between Generations

Posted on May 19, 2023 by larry

It was an extremely tough week, but it ended with this exchange which made me smile. So my mom calls me said she wants a radio for her birthday. I said “ok”, then she said, “the one I can put … Continue reading →

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New ESXi Host Coming Online

Posted on May 9, 2023 by larry

Took a huge step today and renamed my old ESXi 6.7 host to something else and brought online the new ESXi host in its name (I liked the name). Slowly setting things up, at least it is online and the … Continue reading →

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DIY JBOD

Posted on May 8, 2023 by larry

Finally starting to put together my DIY JBOD container. I am still testing, but hoping in a week or so this will be live. I am still working on the ESXi host as well. Getting stronger each day. Weight: 335.6

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Cleaned up Office a bit

Posted on May 7, 2023 by larry

Tried to catch up on a bunch of little things, cleaned the office, installed wifi card into my infrastructure server, also found my new ESXi host did the minimum 3 pass for the memory check. Looks like it will come … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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