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Setup a Debian Saltstack minion with a single command

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If you have a handful of servers you need to add to Saltstack for management purposes, and don’t want to spend 10 minutes per node setting it up the Saltstack minion, you normally do one of two things. One, create a script to automate the process for you or Two, streamline the process to a single command. Well I did the latter, and felt like sharing it so you don’t have to spend 5 minutes dealing with regular expressions and sed.

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Observium, the Do-it-All Monitoring Application

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After searching the internet for a monitoring solution for my network, I can finally say I have found the best contender, and its worth sharing. Consider this a update/solution to my previous rant about monitoring software.

How does a painless, easy install sound? How about cross platform support? Would you like Graphing/Logging of network traffic and system resources? What if I said it was based on PHP/SNMP, and it is 100% free and open-source? Ladies and gents, let me introduce you to Observium!

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Check Samba Mount at Boot in Linux

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This is technically a continuation of my post Here, but I felt this deserved its own post. If you are like me, and have Samba mounts that HAVE to be in place and ready right after boot, you want a way to make sure the drive is mounted before the system fully starts up. Well, I made a nice little script that will check a samba mount at boot time.

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Proxmox and using Samba for shared storage

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    So I recently invested in a new storage server and set it up as a NFS server so I could set up HA to prevent downtime with my VM’s when I had maintenance to do on my Proxmox Hosts. The problem is that if I use iSCSI it sends the drive as a block device that a single VM can use and the problem with NFS for me is that it was extremely slow (need to do more research on this) but when the server was setup with samba, I was able to get 113MB/s both ways to the box from my desktop (8x 300GB SATA drives in raid 10). So why not just use samba with proxmox?

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Rant: There is NO good Server Monitoring program

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— Start Rant —

I am tired of looking for a simple, functional server monitoring program. I have spent the last week or so trying to get a fully functional setup of Nagios, Cacti, Zabbix, or Icinga and almost all to no prevail. Why is there no EASY and SIMPLE monitoring program out there that is Open Source, customizable, AND functional?

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Charter IPv6 6rd and Debian Linux

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    If you are like me, you always want the latest technology. IPv6 is the next BIG step up for the internet. It is a replacement protocol for the current IPv4 addressing system that is currently close to depletion.

    What does this mean? Well with IPv4 the max amount of addresses possible is 4,294,967,296. Problem is they have all been handed out to ISP’s and companies. This is where IPv6 comes in. the IPv4 format is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx = 0,9.

    Well, with IPv6 the address format is xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx where xxxx= 0-9 and a-f. This means there are 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,770,000,000 possible IPv6 addresses! With ipv6, address depletion will be a thing of the past.

    So to stay with the game, I decided to deploy IPv6 on my servers. The only issue with it though is that my ISP seems to only offer it through a tunnel, or a IPv6 6rd tunnel to be exact. So after spending awhile with trial and error, here is how I access charters IPv6 network.

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