Category Archives: New Toys

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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Right Knee A Problem

Posted on April 8, 2023 by larry

It was my left knee, now it is my right knee. I am getting a feel of life with good knees. I can do stuff which is great. On the tech side, I am starting to upgrade my machines to … Continue reading →

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Pulled The Trigger on Rocky 9

Posted on April 6, 2023 by larry

I finally put my core monitoring server on Rocky 9. Going to proceed with more in the near future. But this was a big one. Really important server. Another thing I figured out was how to import and upgrade the … Continue reading →

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Cortisone Shot

Posted on April 5, 2023 by larry

Got my first cortisone shot today, was thinking today was the last day of rest, but the shot will not take effect till this weekend. So another day or two of rest. Found out why I have not been sleeping … Continue reading →

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Perfection is the Enemy of Progress

Posted on April 4, 2023 by larry

I need to move on my upgrades. I pulled out the new replacement for my core home server and started planning the build process. Waiting on the new hard drive, when it comes in I am going to upgrade the … Continue reading →

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Inadvertent Upgrade

Posted on April 3, 2023 by larry

I was messing around with installing pihole today on Rocky 9. I figured it out with my prior notes. At the same time I decided to upgrade my pihole on CentOS 7. It failed miserably. It wanted some glibc that … Continue reading →

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