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Thanks all for your suggestions and recommendations..
I ended up buying the Synology Diskstation DS2015 with 8 x 8TB hard drives.
Now waiting for the shipment..:)

I have been using Backupify for more than 6 years to backup and archive my Google Apps domain but the guys still do not have any plan to implement 2 step verification! Absolutely unbelievable!!

I am looking for someone (preferably based in Australia) to redesign our corporate website, could I have some reference please?

We have been using http://www.trackvia.com/ for more than 5 years and now they are pushing their customers to their newer platform with a starting price of US$ 1,000 per month (this is huge when compared to their original platform which was starting at as little as $100 per month and we are paying only ~ $400 per month at the moment).

Are there anyone using similar services to give me some recommendations?

@StrongBad Thank you!, I fixed the quote and my alias is now working!!

Now let me explain.

As you suggested, it was absolutely related to the messy quotes I was using. I changed the outer one to double quotes as below and the alias worked immediately.

alias openvpn-disconnect="kill -9 $( ps -e | grep openvpn | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }' )"

When I said it was working in a normal command line, I was just entering the command without the outer quotes which means there was only one set of quote ( around { print $1} ) and hence it worked without any issues.

@thwr Thank you again for "killer" command!

I have around 38 TB, less frequently used (say, once in a week) data, spread across a few machines.
Now I got the green signal to buy a NAS box to consolidate this data and would like to know what do you think of getting a QNAP or Synology or any other better box.

In terms of access requirement, i should be happy if it comes with

1-1Gbps LAN
2-Windows/Linux/OS X client support
3-RAID5/10 (please let us not discuss this further in this thread)
4-Rack (or tower)
5-Redundant power supply

This will be a standalone NAS, no plans for iSCSI.

I am using Citrix ShareFile service at the moment and I would like to know what others are using out there.
(I have been using ShareFile for 4-5 years but thinking of switching to something better due to its limitations when it comes to auditing and reporting)

Last year at this time we were tossing up a few IP phone options for our Oz office. Then we chose LG IPEC system over Mitel system, latter being an expensive solution for our small office with only 15-20 people. Throughout the sales talks, LG IPEC sales person continuously talked about the many “features” of the system.

However, 1 year after the implementation, I feel very sad every time I look at my desk phone! It is nothing better than my old, digital PBX system!!

There is no real control from their web console as most the “programming” are done directly from the phone by their technicians by pressing a bunch of codes. Even selecting a name from the address book is unusually difficult - I do not want to go into the details.

Now the guys have sent me a quote for renewing the maintenance contract with them for next year which I know I have to sign up if I want to keep this system with me in a responsive state.

I have heard a lot about virtual PBX, but;

1. would it work with physical ISDN/analog phone lines?
2. Could we install and manage those by ourselves?
3. Would it be possible for us to use our existing IP based desk phones with these systems?
4. Are there anyone else out there who has gone through similar situation?

https://mangolassi.it/topic/11807/things-to-know-before-you-start-installing-freepbx
Thanks JB! I think that is what I should begin with!!

I was just reading the https://mangolassi.it/topic/7891/alternative-to-azure-ad-jumpcloud thread and just wondering if anyone here using JumpCloud in a production environment. If yes, can you please share your experience?

I am in the process of bringing all of our Linux/Mac boxes under the LDAP to tighten the security but JumpCloud looks more appropriate to manage a heterogeneous network spread across all over the places.

I have a requirement for syncing (say every 10 minutes) a Maria DB database with MS SQL 2012 server over a VPN connection.

My LAMP server and VPN are up but I have no idea how to talk to the MS SQL server from the Linux box.

Can someone give me some guidance please?

@scottalanmiller said in How to sync MSSQL with Maria DB:

Did any of these resources end up getting you to where you needed to be? Or are you still looking for more guidance?

We wrote a PHP script and at the moment it is working the way we wanted. Script basically polls the MS SQL database every 10mins and looks for new records and copies to our local MariaDB. It was a great learning curve though

Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions!

I am trying to set this up at the moment but I couldn't find any documentation other than a link posted on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Skkooey4fmnshld0 , which is also of not great help - I followed it but couldn't get the Parsoid working.

@scottalanmiller I agree with you 100%!
From my experience, management want someone to look after the IT but at the same time they wanted to micromanage the IT department unless you have a C level staff within your IT department.

I am running KVM on Ubuntu 16.04 with no GUI, can someone suggest me a method to remotely (preferably, browser based) create and manage virtual machines on KVM please?

I am planning to host only 2-4 VMs and do not want to spend money on any commercial solution. Since I am new to KVM, I couldn't identify a product from http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools which meets my requirement best.

I established a tunnel using the command "openvpn --config xyz.ovpn" but I couldn't figure out a way to disconnect the tunnel without rebooting the server. What command would you use to disconnect it on CentOS 7?

@thwr That was the perfect answer I was looking for! Thank you.

One more question,
I tried to create an alias for that command but it gave me a "-bash: alias: print: not found" error.
I tried to replace awk '{ print $1 }' with cut -d' ' -f1 but still got similar error.
Adding the command to a bash script also did not work.

Am I doing anything wrong here or is there a better way to shorten the command?

I bought this last year for A$ 3,000 and now I am just thinking if I should really spend A$1000 to renew their subscription (basic stuff including VPN) or are there any recommendations from your end within the same price range?

Ideally, I am looking for a UTM firewall without paying for the yearly subscription fees.

[Not sure if I really need a UTM as at the moment, I am using only the Network Protection service of Sophos]

Could someone suggest some resources for learning Microsoft Azure?

I have a plan for setting up a Windows 2016 Domain controller in Azure and sync it with my regional offices. I already signed up for the free trial to test this but just wanted to know the best practices to avoid a messy start.

I have been tasked with finding a project management solution and would like to know your recommendations.

We already have a cloud based file server, virtual data rooms to share data with 3rd parties and 3rd parties share similar services with our employees, sending out emails with documents back and forth, making phone calls etc. However, end of the day information will be spread across on various platform and making it hard to track changes, and hence the entire approval process.

Based on the initial discussions with relevant managers, we found the following solutions worth checking.

https://basecamp.com
http://vivoweb.org/
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

What are the solutions you would recommend in similar situation?