Following my previous post about Grafana, once everything is installed you’ll want to capture some data. Otherwise, what’s the point. Telegraf is a data gathering tool made by Influxdata. It’s stupid simple to get working with InfluxDB. After following the previous script, go to /etc/telegraf/ and edit telegraf.conf. Near the top is the Output Plugins […]
Just went through setting up Grafana on Ubuntu 16.04 and thought I would grab the steps I went through. I’m using a combination of Telegraf and some custom remote scripts to get data into InfluxDB. curl -sL https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add – source /etc/lsb-release echo “deb https://repos.influxdata.com/${DISTRIB_ID,,} ${DISTRIB_CODENAME} stable” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list sudo […]
This is going to be more of a stream of thought than a specific guide. There are a lot of moving parts in this and no one seems to have the whole answer. So, here’s what I’ve been working around so far. Of course, you must have a tenant set up in Office365. It must […]
So, I’ve been working on something. I keep seeing all of these very nice home lab dashboards on /r/homelab and I thought it would be useful to create one for myself. I present to you, my home dashboard, which is hanging in the kitchen on an old iPad we weren’t using: Getting to this point […]
Unfortunately, I haven’t posted about how my Cobra is legal now. In the meantime, how about this. I recently got a cheap action camera off of Amazon. Works pretty well, and the video quality is decent. However, I needed a way to mount it to the Cobra. I stumbled across the bracket you see below […]
Just a quick reminder note about something I’ve run into with Aerohive a couple of times. If you get too anxious and start changing the config and rebooting quickly, the APs will get confused and seem to go into a waiting period. Things will behave oddly, and you’ll get error messages like “There’s an admin […]
I’ve been having some trouble with my two Apple Airport Extreme’s in the house. They are both a couple of generations old and I got them both used off of Ebay some years ago. They’ve served me well and provided good throughput and signal coverage. For some reason I can’t explain, in the last month […]
I’ve been running on a Nutanix CE install for about a month now. With the November release they added some much needed GUI controls for the image service. You can now import ISOs for install images, without having to fiddle with CLI stuff. I’ve had virtually no problems, and the VMs are performing well. If […]
The Nutanix install has been moving along. I would not say it’s ready for more than lab use, but it’s getting there. I’m setting up a 3 node cluster, and one of the nodes, which has an Intel motherboard, kept throwing a generic error about not being able to find the sysinfo. Thanks to the […]
About 2 months ago Nutanix.com released a free software only version of their magic, called Community Edition. I got on the list for this as quickly as I could, but I haven’t been able to install it until now. See, I wanted to have an actually cluster, what the call RF2 (Redundancy Factor), which would […]