Category Archives: New Toys

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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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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