Why not use something like UrBackup rather than recreating the wheel with custom scripts?

I'm thinking about making some infant toys out of wood. I've got a few tools, and it would be good use of time (and a money saver).

Better than purchasing all of this plastic crap.

We tend to mimic the convention that @JaredBusch uses.

Of course some people forget the convention and then get all pissy about it.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Catching up on work E-mail.

Ugh... Don't remind me. I was AFK for 3 weeks... Came back to 600 something emails. /cry

Ctrl+A, right click, mark as read.

@IRJ Compliant because everything is Linux

Once you setup XCP-ng on your host you'll need a way to administer it, you can use the fat client (for windows) or XOA - functionally limited or the completely free built it yourself approach (scripted here) as well as this to update it.

I just noticed that the UrBackup Server can now be installed via chocolatey!

Talk about making things simple!

First off this assumes you are using CentOS 7 (centos 8 may work, I just didn't have the time get that ISO downloaded and troubleshoot all of these steps.

To start, update the OS so we're current and install some dependencies.

yum update -y
yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless.x86_64
yum install epel-release
yum install pwgen

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-4.0.repo

When you are modifying this repo add the below

[mongodb-org-4.0]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/4.0/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.0.asc

:wq

yum install mongodb-org

Enter 'Y' to confirm installation

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable mongod.service
systemctl start mongod.service

ps aux | grep mongo

rpm --import https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo

Insert the below into this repo file so we can install Elasticsearch-OSS (because the licensing is better for us in this case).

[elasticsearch-6.x]
name=Elasticsearch repository for 6.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/oss-6.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch    
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md

Save and quit this file :wq

yum install elasticsearch-oss

vi /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml

Change: #cluster.name: my-application to
cluster.name: graylog

At the EoF add

action.auto_create_index: false

Save and quit this file :wq

chkconfig --add elasticsearch
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable elasticsearch.service
systemctl start elasticsearch.service

ps aux | grep elastic

rpm -Uvh https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/packages/graylog-3.0-repository_latest.rpm

yum install graylog-server

Now to setup the configuration file

vi /etc/graylog/server/server.conf    
>> :shell
>> pwgen -N 1 -s 96

Copy whatever is generated and insert it in "password_secret = "

>> exit

Need to enter the root_password_sha2 to login to graylog web console (make it user friendly)

>> :shell 

echo -n "Enter Password: " && head -1 </dev/stdin | tr -d '\n' | sha256sum | cut -d" " -f1

Copy the Hash

>> exit

Lastly edit the timezone

root_timezone = America/New_York

Save and quit this file :wq

Ensuring everything starts at boot

chkconfig --add graylog-server
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable graylog-server.service
systemctl start graylog-server.service

Configuring rsyslog

vi /etc/rsyslog.conf
>> EoF
Insert *.* @ip-addr-of-server:1514;RSYSLOG_SyslogProtocol23Format
systemctl restart rsyslog
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 514 -j REDIRECT --to 1514
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 514 -j REDIRECT --to 1514

Saving these rules so they load at next boot
iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Checking to make sure we're listening port on 9000

ss -nl | 9000
    tcp    LISTEN     0      128      [::ffff:127.0.0.1]:9000               [::]:*

vi /etc/graylog/server/server.conf

Edit the HTTP settings so you can actually access the web interface from anything on your LAN (or cloud)

http_bind_address = ip-addr-of-server:9000

Save and quit this file :wq

systemctl restart graylog-server

Wait a minute for everything to start up.

Then check the port for your public IP to make sure port 9000 is listening, it should be show like in the example below

ss -nl | grep 9000
tcp    LISTEN     0      128     [::ffff:ip-addr-of-server]:9000               [::]:*

Adding some Firewall exceptions

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=9000/tcp

At this point open a web browser and go to http://ip-addr-of-server:9000 and login with 'admin' and whatever pass you created in above

Time to update so we're current - I know @JaredBusch

sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.graylog2.org/repo/packages/graylog-3.1-repository_latest.rpm
yum clean all
yum install graylog-server
systemctl restart graylog-server

Re-login to your updated graylog server and you can clear the alarm about being out of date.

From here all you need to do is setup your inputs.

Yeah.

@Supreme_Overlord said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):

@scottalanmiller what about like a 1TB in the computer and then getting like an external to hold storage??

No. . .

Just get a bigger SSD rather than wasting money on external components that are going to be slower.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Pay for Trump’s border wall with $20 online porn fee, Ariz. lawmaker says

Arizona bill would make online porn viewers pay for border wall with Mexico.

An Arizona state lawmaker has proposed a $20 fee on people who want to view online pornography in order to raise money for building a border wall between Arizona and Mexico.

Arizona House Bill 2444, proposed last week by State Rep. Gail Griffin (R-Hereford), would require makers and distributors of Internet-connected devices to ship such devices with blocking software "that renders a website that displays obscene material inaccessible by default." Under the bill, any Internet user who wants to deactivate the blocking software would have to pay "a onetime deactivation fee of at least $20 to the Arizona Commerce Authority."

So the issue with this lies in the fact that something that is obscene to one person, may be how you "say hello" to another person.

Also how does this Republican Politician think this would work?

FFS, did you just use politician and think in the same sentence?

this is true. . . Politicians don't think. .

Just because you are capable of doing something doesn't mean you're allowed to.

Obviously ConnectWise is of the stance, that "If MS didn't want you to do this they would stop you".

To which any sane person would say "How would MS know what is going to be installed on any OS?"

I actually considered calling in today. I just don't want to be at work today. I am not in a mood to deal with it and yes I can't even.

Install hyper-v as the base, don't install Windows and enable the role.

Then you can add two windows vms using a standard license.

@WrCombs

FORK THIS THREAD!

@gjacobse Michael Jackson and a crotch grab would've been appropriate too.

@Dashrender said in Proxmox pricing:

Hyper-V host itself if your AD vm's are all down.

Don't join your Hyper-V hosts to the domain if you have only a single host and single DC.....

This is the most funny thing ever performed on any platform ever.