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This guide assumes you already have a running Ubuntu 15.10 system on which you want to configure Xen Orchestra, everything else is documented below.

TL;DR: Run this command as root on Ubuntu 15.10...

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scottalanmiller/xenorchestra_installer/master/xo_install.sh | bash

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During the installation of your OS, you'll want to create a user outside of root, I made my user account xoadmin

How to Install Xen Orchestra Source on Ubuntu 15.10 (self compiled) AKA MANUAL installation

sudo apt-get install --yes nfs-common
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install --yes nodejs
curl -o /usr/local/bin/n https://raw.githubusercontent.com/visionmedia/n/master/bin/n
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/n
n stable
node -v
npm -v
sudo apt-get install --yes build-essential redis-server libpng-dev git python-minimal
git clone -b stable https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-server
git clone -b stable https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web
cd xo-server
sudo npm install && npm run build
cp sample.config.yaml .xo-server.yaml
nano .xo-server.yaml

#Edit and uncomment it to have the right path to XO-Web, because XO-Server embeds an HTTP server (we assume that XO-Server and XO-Web are on the same directory). It's near the end of the file:
#  mounts: '/': '../home/xoadmin/xo-web/dist/
#  save and exit

cd ~
cd ../xo-web
sudo npm i [email protected]
sudo npm install
sudo npm run build
cd ../xo-server
sudo npm start

The scripted installation thanks to @scottalanmiller

Github Repo

Below is the preferred Installation method. It includes the systemctl xo-server.service written by @Danp

sudo bash
<password>
sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scottalanmiller/xenorchestra_installer/master/xo_install.sh | bash
<password>

In your favorite web-browser go to this VM's IP Address, login with the default user: [email protected] and "admin" for the password. Update your Login Details!!

Add your Xen Server(s) and go to town.

Automatically Start XO at Boot - See this Post by @Danp Also copied below.

Create a file in /etc/systemd/system/xo-server.service and enter the below into it.

# systemd service for XO-Server.

 [Unit]
 Description= XO Server
 After=network-online.target

 [Service]
 WorkingDirectory=/opt/xo-server/
 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node ./bin/xo-server
 Restart=always
 SyslogIdentifier=xo-server

 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save the file, and then run to enable the service at start up.

sudo systemctl enable xo-server.service

To monitor the service you can then run

journalctl -u xo-server -f -n 50

For everyone on the newer releases of the "stable build" at least as of April-8-2016 there appears to be a bug when attempting to mount an NFS share; to resolve this follow the short process below

• Login to your XO web console
• Go to Backup
• Select Remote Stores
• Add your NFS Share, it'll likely fail out(unless it's been fixed since this posting)
• Back on your XO console go to /tmp/xo-server/mounts
• Run "ls" to see what mount is listed on your server
• Next run "mount -t nfs nfs-server-ip-address:/path/to-share remote-#"

Replacing nfs-server-ip-address with the actual IP of the remote server and the remote-# with whatever is listed on your console.

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@nerdydad said in Fake Wall or Wall Closet?:

Any suggestions?

Tell your CFO to stop giving tours of your server room and focus on saving money for more important things.

Messing with @Minion-Queen

I'm wondering why I don't have a tank!

Since Scott is our resident expert on said topic, I figure here would be as good a place as any to post SW articles regarding IT people who are in a position where they are unknowingly building an IPOD.

@BradfromxByte thank you for dealing with all of the back and forth and kick ass servers.

Taking from a previous post I made about a certain piece of equipment, I've just learned that the equipment must run Windows 7... because of course it does for legacy hardware.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@iroal said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Recovering a file from a Backup of 2014, the backup are in 6 Lto-3 tapes.

Recovering a file from seven years ago? Wow -

This seems completely normal to me, maybe the laws of retainment are more strict in NY, but I want to say that 7 years is the minimum that records need to be kept.

@gjacobse said in I can't even:

Oh for FFS -

An alert has been fired on local host DOMAIN\COMPUTER regarding user myuser. A suspicious powershell script has been found in C:\Users\myuser\Desktop\Teams_ODfB.ps1.
Please let us know if this is legitimate.

This is the script

 Start-Process -File "$($env:USERProfile)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe" -ArgumentList '--processStart "Teams.exe"'
 Start-Process -FilePath "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe" -ArgumentList "/background"

Which only starts Teams and ODfB.... Like.. JFC -

Hey we don't know what it does we're just script kiddies out here, tell us if this is kosher, thanks!

@dashrender said in Apple Update and Citrix - issue?:

yep... here it is

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX329443?fr=operanews

Seems like an issue caused by BigSur.

@dashrender said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@jaredbusch said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@syko24 said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@jaredbusch said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@dashrender said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

I found them on Twitter their service provider is being attacked right now. It appears that they only have one DNS host. Sigh

They posted the IP of the servers for you to change things.
https://twitter.com/voipms/status/1438543881491132424

Some clients the direct IP is working sporadically and others it's a no go.

Zero issues once switched.

We’ll my out calls seem to work but I’m do not

What? "but I’m do not"

Really....

@dbeato yeah which I had none of that information nor do I know if email delivery was setup.

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

@voip_n00b said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 I blocked port 80. Give me 443 or nothing.

And how are you blocking that while you're mobile? I can understand from a location you have control over, but roaming seems to be a challenge and doesn't fix the issue.

Assuming there's a firewall available for your mobile device, you could conceivably do it.

Conceivability verse practicality is what I'm wondering about, could someone setup a firewall to use for their cellphone etc, sure but would you really want to?

Of course not - who wants to manage that?

but the same can be said for boycotting those that don't use HTTPS - if you care enough, you're potentially already doing it - if you don't, well you never will.

I will not be purchasing smithfield products if they can't provide the lowest level of security across their sites, that is a go forward rule for me.

Do you know all of the products/vendors you use and can confirm that their sites are secured and would you do such a thing?

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

@voip_n00b said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 I blocked port 80. Give me 443 or nothing.

And how are you blocking that while you're mobile? I can understand from a location you have control over, but roaming seems to be a challenge and doesn't fix the issue.

Assuming there's a firewall available for your mobile device, you could conceivably do it.

Conceivability verse practicality is what I'm wondering about, could someone setup a firewall to use for their cellphone etc, sure but would you really want to?

@voip_n00b said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 I blocked port 80. Give me 443 or nothing.

And how are you blocking that while you're mobile? I can understand from a location you have control over, but roaming seems to be a challenge and doesn't fix the issue.