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I like Tailscale because it solves a messy problem in a very clean way. You install the client, sign in, and suddenly remote access, private DNS, and cross-network connectivity feel much easier than they should. What pushed me toward Headscale was wanting more control over the coordination layer. If the rest of the stack is already self-hosted, it makes sense… Continue reading Headscale + Tailscale: Building a Self‑Hosted Tailnet and Exit Node

I have been wanting to get some sort of network monitor running at home for quite some time. I had tried NAGIOS and it was just too much of a pain to get running. I found Observium (http://www.observium.org/) and decided to give it a try. So far I like it. It monitors SNMP devices and I have quite a few… Continue reading Observium – SNMP Monitoring

I have decided to start using Gentoo again. I built a Gentoo 64-bit virtual machine and after two nights of working on it, I have a bootable base system. I cloned the system and am now working on getting KDE compiled on the clone. I have to say, compiling in a virtual infrastructure with plenty of horsepower is so much… Continue reading Gentoo!

I attended the Microsoft IT Camp yesterday and I must say, I am really impressed with a lot of the capability of Hyper-V. Here are some of my notes from class: First Speaker Tommy Patterson www.virtuallycloud9.com Recommended Microsoft Virtual Academy for free training Second Speaker Blain Barton blainbar@microsoft.com http://blogs.technet.com/b/blainbar/ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx Links disk to vhd http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx vmware to vhd http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=247805 Ubuntu… Continue reading Microsoft IT Camp

If you want to enable SNMP on ESXi 5 or ESXi 4, follow these steps: Connect to your vMA instance through Putty, SecureCRT or whatever app you use. Add the server:  vifp addserver vs-esxi.yourdomain.com (This is only needed if you haven’t already added the target!) Set your target:  vifptarget -s vs-esxi.yourdomain.com Configure SNMP Community:  vicfg-snmp –communities vscomname Configure SNMP Trap… Continue reading Enabling SNMP on ESXi 5

I was working on a Server 2008 box the other day and saw that the hard drive was getting low on space. I knew that the WinSXS folder was consuming a lot of space, so I did some digging and found a way to clean up some space. You can remove the backups from installing Windows Service Pack 1 using… Continue reading Cleanup WinSXS Windows 2008 R2 SP1