Posts made by coliver

@scottalanmiller I should have said Proton-GE. Thomas Crider/GloriousEggroll is behind that fork and has done some good stuff.

@JaredBusch https://nobaraproject.org/. It's from the main developer behind Proton. I've been running it since it came out.

Damn autocorrect.

You can do Offline MDT deployments pretty easily. It can pull in the entire task sequence and dependencies.

@siringo said in windows based FREE imaging app:

@obsolesce said in windows based FREE imaging app:

@siringo said in windows based FREE imaging app:

hello.

i'm looking for a windows based (or anything that can be used easily by a non linuxite) FREE imaging app that can perform restores via a script / command line.

I have to reimage 50 new PCs.

in the past i've used free gui based apps, booted up, clicked here and there and the job was done. But i'm getting lazy and would just like to be able to boot up, click on script and walk away.

I could afford up to 10 bucks if the right thing can be found.

thanks everyone.

You try MDT?

No I haven't. I need something that doesn't need a network. Thanks for the help.

You can do network less MDT deployments.

@obsolesce said in NG AV / Endpoint Protection in 2021:

@notverypunny said in NG AV / Endpoint Protection in 2021:

Any vendors people want to recommend or warn off with regards to endpoint and server protection? We're shopping options to replace our current NG solution. Currently on a call and it's kinda meh.... I'm not a fan of sales in any context and this seems to be lots of sizzle and not a lot of steak (or bacon... substitute your delicious protein of choice)

Crowdstrike has worked well in a few large places I've seen. It's great cross platform.

That's what we just moved to.

@dashrender said in VMware Carbon Black:

@coliver said in VMware Carbon Black:

@gjacobse said in VMware Carbon Black:

While still in my first few days, it’s normal to encounter applications you haven’t worked with- yet.

VMware Carbon Black is such an application. Has anyone used this previously?

We're using the monitoring and discovery portion of it. Decent but would steer towards Defender for Endpoint or Crowdstrike.

I've only ever heard of Crowdstrike - as for Defender - do you mean the included bits with Windows 10? or the supp'ed up version MS sells?

Supp'ed up version.

@gjacobse said in VMware Carbon Black:

While still in my first few days, it’s normal to encounter applications you haven’t worked with- yet.

VMware Carbon Black is such an application. Has anyone used this previously?

We're using the monitoring and discovery portion of it. Decent but would steer towards Defender for Endpoint or Crowdstrike.

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

@coliver said in Discovery of the week:

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

If anyone else needs something for IPAM / network documentation I've just fallen in love with phpipam (https://phpipam.net/)

I'd tried netbox in the past but this just seems to work better for me. You can also set up polling / discovery of the configured ranges (on a per-range basis) either from the central server or from remote agents.

Anyways, it's rare that I'll advocate for something out of the blue, but I'm almost enjoying moving our horrible excel spreadsheet documentation over to this.

Happy Friday all

Yeah, we've been using it for a year or more. It has a nice API that @stacksofplates helped me dig into to automate DHCP reservations.

That sounds sexy.... windows server DHCP or something else?

dhcpd. The developers are working on built in Kea integration, although that's been on the table for a while.

@notverypunny said in Discovery of the week:

If anyone else needs something for IPAM / network documentation I've just fallen in love with phpipam (https://phpipam.net/)

I'd tried netbox in the past but this just seems to work better for me. You can also set up polling / discovery of the configured ranges (on a per-range basis) either from the central server or from remote agents.

Anyways, it's rare that I'll advocate for something out of the blue, but I'm almost enjoying moving our horrible excel spreadsheet documentation over to this.

Happy Friday all

Yeah, we've been using it for a year or more. It has a nice API that @stacksofplates helped me dig into to automate DHCP reservations.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-linked-hackers-used-pulse-secure-flaw-target-us-defense-industry-2021-04-20/

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just inherited a vSphere 5.5 system running Windows 2012 R2 on several systems! Damn, this was about to be deployed as a new production platform! Everything is 6+ years out of date!

Are you looking at our production system?

It also does a lot to improve airflow. You're no longer shoving all those components in a hot box. I've been looking at doing a custom setup but have heard no so great things about the riser cables for newer graphics cards.

Wall mount or under mount computers are becoming a big trend. Not surprised one of the manufacturers are getting into it.

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-new-installer-designs

Is it just me, or is it that no matter how hard all Linux desktops try, it's still like the 90s compared to Win10.

Just you. Windows 10 and most modern *nix distributions look very similar. They all share very similar UI elements that could easily move between operating systems.

Way too much Valheim...

@openit said in Suggest a simple free / open source Network Monitoring software.:

For switch, the following is the configuration, I mean it is on SNMP.

Following is info that I can see for it:

Is it possible to pull info every port of switch, just like Spiceworks Networ Monitor used to do? If yes, what template I would need to use or any config? Most switches we have are Cisco SG300.

Yes, Cisco and general SNMP templates can be applied to the host and it will start to pull in information if you configured SNMP correctly.

https://share.zabbix.com/network_devices/cisco

@scottalanmiller said in Suggest a simple free / open source Network Monitoring software.:

@coliver said in Suggest a simple free / open source Network Monitoring software.:

I agree with @notverypunny. Zabbix is very easy to setup and use. It has a very small learning curve and has templates for almost everything you listed.

We use Zabbix. But it's not all that easy.

For all the basic stuff, hardware and OS monitoring, it is really easy. For some advanced things (and software) you write a lot of your own scripts to accommodate those. I've written quite a few small scripts to monitor some of our software applications.

@AdamF said in Suggest a simple free / open source Network Monitoring software.:

I need a new solution as well and am going to go with Zabbix. What is the recommended OS these days for a Zabbix install? Are the guides on here still valid?

I run on CentOS but at this point I'd probably move it to Ubuntu.

I agree with @notverypunny. Zabbix is very easy to setup and use. It has a very small learning curve and has templates for almost everything you listed.

@Obsolesce said in Open Source versions of NodeBB compared to Discourse:

@larsen161 said in Open Source versions of NodeBB compared to Discourse:

I have a colleague that came to me and said so I know this company is using http://insided.com/ but that costs a forture. What do you suggest as an alternative for a community tool that can handle feature request voting and general product discussions. These two came to mind but I have never used them.

Thoughts on how they stack up to each other?

Discourse is far superior hands down, especially in a business setting.

Yeah, I'll agree here. NodeBB may be slightly faster but the functionality of Discource far outweighs that advantage.