Category Archives: Weigh In

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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Such and unproductive day

Posted on May 6, 2023 by larry

Didn’t do much today, I had an opportunity to, but too lazy. I could at least clean my office, but decided to hang out with my wife. So it was a good day. Weight: 337.4

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Awesome Track Meet

Posted on May 5, 2023 by larry

Sone ran what I thought would be his last race for the season. But he PR’d his mile and 2 mile and to top it off, I think he made it to League. He did crack 12 minute 2 mile … Continue reading →

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Still Hurting Back and Tired

Posted on May 4, 2023 by larry

I think I need another day of rest. Not only is my hips and back sore, but I am tired. Need some sleep. I did get grafana charts for my ESXi hosts. Data is going in to a prometheus database. … Continue reading →

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Back Sore

Posted on May 3, 2023 by larry

I was supposed to do a gym workout today, but I am hurting, my back really hurts. I will do some pushups and situps. But I think I overdid it yesterday. Weight: 333.8

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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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Out of Shape

Posted on May 1, 2023 by larry

Did nearly 12k steps in one shot, I must be out of shape. Anyway I need some sort of preliminary workout schedule. I think I can do it. Weight: 336.6

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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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