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Monitoring by Zabbix: a working document
Intro I panned Zabbix in this post: DIY monitoring. But I have compelling reasons to revisit it. I have to say it has matured, but there remain some very frustrating things about it, especially when compared with SiteScope (now owned … Continue reading
Getting GNU screen to work on Windows 10 for a productive terminal multiplex environment
Intro My jump server is getting old and they’re threatening to cut it off. A jump server is a server from which you launch CLI terminal sessions into your linux servers. Since my laptop has firewall access to all the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cygwin, GNU Screen, PING, snmpwalk, teraterm, WSL windows subsystem for Linux
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Azure Cloud: can you swap public IP addresses on two VMs?
Intro I am just beginning to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud environment. Although I am inclined to be a fan of AWS, I haven’t looked at AWS networking for awhile, and the last time I did something I felt totally lost … Continue reading
The IT Detective Agency: the case of the Is it the firewall? or routing? or switch? or layer 2?
Intro This is yet another tale of things in the IT world often do not turn out the way it seems at first blush. Or possibly a tale of just when you think you’ve seen it all after decades in … Continue reading
The IT Detective Agency: WebEx and the case of the mysterious reset
Intro A company known to me was a contented user of WebEx until they noticed a strange behaviour: their calls were losing quality or even dropped exactly after one hour. No one, most especially the vendor of WebEx, had the … Continue reading
What I’m Working on Now: building my own 3D printer
Intro Because someone else on the team had a good experience with it, and so i can exchange notes and get some tips form them, I went ahead and ordered the Anet A8 3D printer + an extra roll of … Continue reading
No Internet, secure WiFi status message in Windows 10
Intro Finding out how Windows decides if there is an Internet connection or not can be a challenge often posed by trying to do an Internet search comprised or words that are common and therefore used in many other contexts. … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi Recovery Mode or interrupting the boot process
Intro If you installed Raspbian from the NOOBS distribution as I do, then you may occasionally “blow up” your installation as I just have! You have an out, sort of, short of re-imaging the disk, though about with the same … Continue reading
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How to test if a web site requires a client certificate
Intro I can not find a link on the Internet for this, yet I think some admins would appreciate a relatively simple test to know is this a web site which requires a client certificate to work? The errors generated … Continue reading
Posted in Admin, Linux, Network Technologies, Raspberry Pi, Security, Web Site Technologies
Tagged client certificate
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F5 clustering tips
Intro I was having trouble with one of my new F5 clusters. I thought I’d be clever and add two new F5’s to the existing cluster, and then remove the old members when everything looked good. But the device groups … Continue reading