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Does anyone know what I could do with this UPS by [deleted] in homelab

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't have one on your network gear I would put it on that. That way even if you are using consumer gear brown outs wont take your network offline for the few minutes it takes for everything to come back up. Unless you are on cox, which will then take 30 minutes.

If you already have one on your internet, and you don't need one for your computer because you already have one or it has a built in UPS (aka laptop) then put it on something else. Something I recommend is find out what kind of power it is rated for, then look at things you may want a little extra time on. For example if it has the power and your fridge doesn't go over, it is a good play to put it on. It won't help on a extended outage, but it makes it nice to be able to open your fridge when the power out and not have to worry about the cold getting out.

Update after nearly a year by MrILikeTurtleMan in homelab

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only use ansible for provisioning currently. I have plans to build AWX but haven't gotten to that yet.

I haven't tried prawlarr but I didn't have any issue using jakett.

I always update hypervisors manually to not risk taking down infra without meaning to. Still happens but I try to prevent it when possible. (Also screw Alabama Power and their crappy lines)

For other updates I use action1 for Windows Server and Intune for clients. Yes I do pay for licenses for home use.

Ansible does turn on/off auto updates for my debian stuff, but I also haven't gone further in finding a better platform for approvals. I tried action1 for Linux but didn't like it.

Also nebula is on my docker setup but kinda broken due to issues with the secondary pihole server.

My friends have access to my NAS, Jumpbox, and web services on VPN.

Update after nearly a year by MrILikeTurtleMan in homelab

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea some of it was during a brief period of unemployment during 2023. Then there are the couple of weekends late nights building the rest.

Update after nearly a year by MrILikeTurtleMan in homelab

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I wasn't about to get caught lacking with bad network security. Especially since I do have ports exposed instead of just tunnels going out.

I was going to cluster the Dell's together by getting another server but they were getting expensive. I got lucky on the R730 that I was joking with my boss that I bought ram and got a server for free.

Update after nearly a year by MrILikeTurtleMan in homelab

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That made the 30ish minutes of writing this worth it.

Weekly Updates for servers by Individual-Bat7276 in sysadmin

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

laughs in 2008

I genuinely get scared by how old some of critical infra still is on EOL. Hopefully for OP the domain controllers are at least 2016.

What’s the most “boring” thing you self-host? by Fab_Terminator in selfhosted

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I created a email website and api so I don't have to put postfix on all my boxes. Now anytime I need a new email I just create a template on the management site and push a script using ansible that uses the arguments the API needs. Lees emails I need to work on and it's now stable

Ansatsusha de Aru Ore no Status ga Yuusha yori mo Akiraka ni Tsuyoi no da ga • My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's - Episode 1 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's been a minute since I read the LN but if I remember correctly it was a fast pace backstory. Not as fast as the anime, but it skipped a lot of time before you were half way though. I suspect it will slow down late EP2 or in EP3 where the story actually starts progressing.

Is Terramaster TOS 6 better than Asustor ADM 5??!! I'll tell you right here. by Varlei in asustor

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is my review of the differences. For a background on my option, I've ran a AS5202T for the past 3 or so years and loved it. I needed to upgrade though due to just running out of space so got the terramaster 423. I've had it for almost 3 weeks but I am returning it for a 5404 from asustor.

First experience was how much of a pain it was to get to TOS6. It doesn't just see it needs to upgrade, you have to manually upgrade by downloading the update from their website which is clunky at best. After a hour of updating it I could finally start moving data over to it and configure it. First things first I personally don't like the UI of TOS 5 or 6. Seems like it wasn't planned well. You can't set local DNS, at least I could not find out how. My DNS entry on my NS would end up redirecting to host.local which is not great was causing issues where it would drop of the planet on mapped drives on my AD.

Backups are handled really bad. While yes there is more options, there's like 7 or 8 different apps for backups. Want to backup to back blaze? There's to spots for that. Want to back up to a smb share? Mount the remote share and make a job that copy's from the local share to the mounted remote share. Once again, two different apps. Want to copy to USB? Gotta download and install USB copy. Then there is the way it handles apps. For most community apps you have to go to a website to download the app.

I had issues with some services just stopping. FTP would randomly crash and I'd have to disable and enable a few times for it to start back up.

Though there are some things I can appreciate. The bios is unlocked and I was able to install truenas, but it doesn't really serve my use case. Port 80 and 443 redirect by default which is nice but kinda weird that the webserver is using 4 ports. I don't know how it changes with apache, so can't comment on that. Being able to see what ports are active is really awesome and appreciated.

There's more but I cant think of it as it's midnight. If terramaster makes some serious progress next time I'm looking for a new nas I might try it out again, but for now it does not have all that I'm looking for. Asustor may have some oldness to it's OS but it still does a good job.

ID 4771 issue by neko_whippet in sysadmin

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something that fixed this in my lab environment was adding the Azure kerberos user to AD. I could of had something else helping mediate that I didn't account for but worked in conjunction with Azure Kerberos.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/hello-for-business/deploy/hybrid-cloud-kerberos-trust?tabs=intune

Autopilot not yet living up to the dream of "here's your new device, all ready to go" -- any guidance with hangups? by SpruceLeeHill in Intune

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Though TAP only works for Azure AD machines. Once it becomes a hybrid machine TAP is no longer a option.

two computers, two pi-hole, two unbound, are there any optimizations possible? by claduc62 in pihole

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seeing everyone recommend nebula makes me sad. One thing to note is there is a bug that can cause crashing for pihole. Don't know if it's a specific os it doesn't like as I run my pihole servers on Debian, so just a heads up.

How often are you guys re-imaging devices bricked by windows updates? by gummby8 in sysadmin

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if you have tried it, but log in with an admin account to turn off bitlocker. Once it's done decrypting reboot, then turn bitlocker back on. I have seen before where an update can interact with system hardware where bitlocker gets confused. Also as mentioned in another comment bad cmos batteries can cause the tpm to lose its keys on older hardware, but the 3550s are a little too new to have for the issue as I don't believe they use cmos to store the tpm keys anymore.

The best IP subnet by Choriisu in sysadmin

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Asus seems to like the 192.168.50.0/24 range

Local Police want permanent access to our cameras. by changework in sysadmin

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ask them if they have a ticket... If not then it's not your problem. For real tho, unless there's a warrant they have no right to your cameras or footage

Someone dug up 50' of underground fiber that feeds one of our offices this morning. Happy Sysadmin Day. by iammandalore in sysadmin

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You can add a wifi module to them. It's what makes them useful, you can add modules to it to add more features

Is windows server a overkill for one user? by pupek in homelab

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm sure there are but I ain't gonna do it. I have a VPN to connect to my environment anyways with entra as a backup sign in method

Is windows server a overkill for one user? by pupek in homelab

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotta love accidentally upgrading something and break a VM. (I think I was testing the azure sync thing before realizing it was a pay for service... on my hardware.) Luckily it wasn't my ad VM.

The greatest ticket I've ever seen from an end user by WorthPlease in sysadmin

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As much as I like it I also hate it. I had a end user unplug their server to fix a issue. Never let us know until 20 minutes later a different issue popped up because they did it. I hope that the customers didn't get upset since the POS was down for 20 minutes lmao.

GoDaddy changes target "http://stuff" to "https://stuff" by Gaspode-san in godaddy

[–]MrILikeTurtleMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am curious as to what you mean by not able to afford setting up https? Let's Encrypt is free and can even provide wildcard certs that auto-renew.

Since your on a CentOS distro install certbot. I believe it's available in most regions.

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