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I spent some time at the tail end of 2021 doing a major overhaul of my home lab. On the LAN-side and pretty central to everything, is a Dell server running KVM for virtualisation. The […]
Update and reboot if this is a new setup. Here I download the ISO I’ll create a test VM with. Create bridge interface. Backup the current interface configuration and create a new one called br0. […]
All the passwords for the various modules are listed in the below file: /opt/opsview/deploy/etc/user_secrets.yml To get the root MySQL password: You should now be able to login to MySQL as follows: To avoid having to […]
Rclone is a command line tool used to mount and synchronise files and directories between a Linux workstation and various cloud-based storage provides like Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud storage, and many more. In this […]
Arch Linux Installing terraform on Arch Linux variants is pretty straightforward. Its available here and supported in their standard repository. You can test that worked with: CentOS 7 Unfortunately the situation is not quite as […]
There are a number of tools that will allow you to generate secure passwords including urandom, OpenSSL, GPG and pwgen. I will briefly demo these below. OpenSSL The below generates a random string of 14 […]
We’re all used to using online broadband speed tests from our desktops to test our internet speeds – but what about from a Linux server without a GUI browser? My favourite tool for this purpose […]
Upgrading from 6.0.x to 6.1.x should be a straightforward process. Version 6.1.x includes many web UI and theme improvement as well as a massive reduction of reload times – especially if you have a large […]
Today I started noticing the below errors which were appearing when logged in at the terminal. This can happen when an import get interrupted by a reboot or something. Check an import is not currently […]
There are a number of ways to install the AWS command line tools. Below is the method I favour on CentOS: Check that was successful with: You can now remove the files extracted: Configure aws-cli […]
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