Grafana, Telegraf, Smokeping, oh my...

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…

Cobra action camera mount

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…

Aerohive issues

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&…

Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LR in the house!

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…

Nutanix CE is operational

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…

Nutanix CE challenges

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…

Nutanix in the house

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,…