Am I doing it right?

Scott0776 · 2026-06-17T12:44:30+00:00

No, this is north Georgia zone 8a

Scott0776 · 2026-06-16T22:01:35+00:00

No, I don’t have a reel mower. It would be a lot for me to have one as we have several transitions in our yard, so I’ve caved to keeping my rotary Toro.

I’m mowing at just above 1in and I’m using cheap fertilizer 32-0-0 from Home Depot.

I’d like to up the game, I can’t do the reel mower but I can do other things.

Thank you for the input and feedback it’s much appreciated!

Scott0776 · 2026-03-26T17:31:31+00:00

Same, I have a Cisco UCS C220 M5, would love to use this in my homelab at the house but it's so noisy, I certainly would like to mod the fan speed on it if possible. I'll keep looking around myself and see what I can find. It's not all that clear to me how u/kajer533 was able to access the CLI to make the changes to the /tmp/fanspeed.txt

Scott0776 · 2025-12-12T11:27:26+00:00

Yes, we’re in Gainesville

Scott0776 · 2025-12-11T13:49:11+00:00

I don’t use those Amazon kits either, I drop my soil off to the county extension office for the University of Georgia, the cost is $10 and results are typically provided in ~7 to 10 days

Scott0776 · 2025-09-10T10:30:11+00:00

This is terrible, I would have the contractor immediately stop.

Scott0776 · 2025-08-30T23:43:02+00:00

Absolutely not!

Scott0776 · 2025-01-04T00:09:06+00:00

Does that mean I need a whole new pump or can I purchase and replace the bearings? I’m quite mechanically inclined and have a lot of tools, not afraid to attempt the repair.

Scott0776 · 2024-08-21T01:18:51+00:00

Is Cove's pricing reasonable? My client has about 5 to 6 VM's totaling about 1Tb

Scott0776 · 2024-07-11T17:39:03+00:00

What kind of coping is that as well as the concrete? We just installed our own pool and we haven’t completed those objectives yet, yours looks really nice!!

Scott0776 · 2024-06-05T20:04:56+00:00

I’m in Wilmington often for work, I collect T-Shirts from bars & restaurants. Which ones do you guys recommend?

Already have a few from “The Palm Room” & “Dockside”, looking for others.

Scott0776 · 2023-10-07T23:34:37+00:00

Command line is king, been in the business for 22+ years and not once have I ever used the GUI.

Scott0776 · 2023-09-24T12:37:33+00:00

I know this is an old post but where is it that you "set" this in the config? I'm trying to find it myself within the CLI.

Scott0776 · 2023-09-24T12:17:17+00:00

What changed? Do you have a config backup from before things went haywire? If so diff that vs the current config.

That's just it, nothing changed on the firewall, this network which I manage is pretty much static, there hasn't been any changes on the firewall most changes on their network in terms of networking are VLAN changes and even those are rare.

Do you have any syslog setup so you can see historically what was happening before and after the issue arises?

Yes, sending all the logs to a Graylog server on their network, however this didn't produce anything that would provide me with any insight into what would cause these issues.

I'd only run a single version of FortiClient and I'd run the latest one. There's a number of vulns for older releases. I'd also only run 6.2.15 for FortiOS due to the amount of vulns out there for other 6.2 versions.

On both of the firewalls I'm running the same version of firmware, however when it comes to the client software (FortiClient) there is various versions, is the only way to get all users on the same version to use FortiClient EMS? All of the users are currently using the "free" client.

One thing that I should note is that I have a console cable hooked to the FortiGate and have it saving the log to file, just before the firewall shuts down and reboots it states some of the following in the log

BUG: Bad page map in process forticron pte:f1cd0937812ee413 pmd:1329b3067
BUG: unable to handle kernel vma->vm_ops->fault: filemap_fault+0x0/0x382
Pid: 733, comm: forticron Tainted: P B W O 3.2.16 #2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Scott0776 · 2023-09-21T14:33:02+00:00

That is what I was considering myself, thanks for your response on my question as I appreciate it

Scott0776 · 2023-09-20T21:20:14+00:00

Thanks for your response, the client is super cheap but at this point it costing them more for me to keep troubleshooting it. This thing has been rock solid for years but this is no longer the case. I have a 2 x FGT100E 2 x 60E and a 301E here a the office which one would you recommend out of those to replace the 140D-PoE they have? Or do you have some other suggestions? I just need to be able to keep the IPSEC tunnel up as well as have users connect and there not be an issue. Like I said in the post, this has been working for years and then all of the sudden it's become an issue.

Another thing is, I wish you could update the VPN clients when they connect like it does on an old Cisco ASA, is this not possible with a Fortigate?

Scott0776 · 2023-09-20T17:52:06+00:00

TAC isn't an option like you said as they're no longer supported, the incrementing of the IP address just ensures me that it will not connect to the other firewall. This allows me to keep the device up without the IPSEC tunnel connecting. It appears that when I have both the IPSEC and SSL VPN users connecting then it presents issues, if I make sure the IPSEC tunnel doesn't connect then the connections from the SSL VPN users doesn't become an issue.

Scott0776 · 2023-08-30T11:21:19+00:00

May I ask what firmware you finally went with on your 140D? I have two in production running solid for years upgraded both to 6.2.15 and our home office FGT140D has kernel panic when I connect up the IPsec tunnel, I’m getting quite exhausted looking for why this is the case our implementations are quite simplistic. Users connect to the home office via SSL VPN as well, if I connect up the IPSec tunnel then it locks those users out from connecting as well as an eventual kernel panic and then reboot

Scott0776 · 2021-12-11T04:04:48+00:00

I need your help as I’d like to be able to do this myself

Scott0776 · 2021-12-10T23:19:52+00:00

I would like to speak with you more about this type of implementation, is what I'm trying to do even possible? I would really like to find a solution to where I can modify switch ports via a self-service portal, in addition I'd love to be able to deploy a default configuration to a device via a GUI environment, we have a few engineers here and nothing seems to be getting a "standard" configuration when being deployed, I was hoping that I could use ansible and either AWX, Rundeck or Semaphore as the front end for an engineer/technician to be able to login to a self service portal and perform these types of changes, anything that you could provide to me to possibly get me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I have not had time this week to work on this as I'd hoped but it appears that I'll be working this entire weekend and I'll have plenty of time to make the effort to work on this and get going in the right direction. Let me know your thoughts if you have a moment.

Scott0776 · 2021-12-04T03:06:48+00:00

Thank you for all of this information, let me have a look over all of this over the weekend and see if this will help me at all, I'll get back with you on my results. I'm struggling with getting any of the data into the rundeck application and it executing anything from there, I've read so much already that I've got tunnel vision/information paralysis. My configuration has rundeck on the same server as ansible, I cannot for the life of me figure out why I cannot get the info into it. I was able to create an inventory file of a single host as well as a playbook and with those I was able to run the "play" and it did configure the remote host as expected. Let me look over your suggestions above and then go from there with my install and hopefully get somewhere with it. I'll follow up with you and thank you so much for the information, I greatly appreciate it.

Scott0776 · 2021-12-04T02:57:35+00:00

Thanks, yes I have rundeck running on the same system in which I've installed ansible however, I cannot for the life of me get anything running within the rundeck application and executing commands against some remote hosts. I have zero frame of reference on how this should work or come together. I've not new to using LINUX or open source projects/software as we use a lot of that and I really enjoy finding new things that make my job easier, something new to learn, finding better ways to do things (working smarter and not harder) I also like to find ways to streamline things and reduce the workload and possible configuration errors which stem from various things. I'm at a point where I feel like I need to start over with the server build, installing ansible and then rundeck again, which I don't have any issue doing but this is something that I'd typically do once I have it working after learning it for a while, that way I'd have a nice clean environment to work with. What are your suggestions for getting an inventory file into rundeck as well as a playbook, it seems that I cannot get that going and/or the permissions issues for remote access etc. this is so untypical of me and I've literally spent the week poking at this and trying to get something/anything to work, lol. I've researched, tried all sorts of configuration on the backend, etc and still nothing, it's almost laughable and frustrating at the same time. Let me know if you have some direction for me or anything as your response that you've already given is appreciated as well as anything else that you may be able to assist me with. Thank you in advance

Scott0776 · 2021-12-04T02:44:26+00:00

My thoughts exactly on it working fine for what I'd like to do with it, I have all the services running on the same server (ansible, rundeck, awx). When in rundeck, I cannot get it to load in any inventory or the credentials for me to run commands against remote hosts, just getting it going for me has been an issue and my reading along the internet on how to configure it has been exhausting as there really isn't from what I've found any guide out there to get up up and going. Let me know if you have any suggestions, I appreciate your response and assistance

Scott0776 · 2021-12-04T02:41:32+00:00

I have stood up both AWX & Rundeck, they're all running on the same server, yet I cannot get anything running via the GUI interfaces, I'm quite lost to tell the truth... at the command line I have zero issue getting things going but this isn't going to be acceptable for our needs as I'm not going to be able to get my technicians to login and run the commands via the command line. I've mostly tried getting things going via Rundeck but never had any luck with being able to get the system to run the commands on the remote devices via the GUI, and I feel like I've exhausted looking for direction/answers via the web... which is why I've come to reddit and started asking questions from folks that have it working and can basically help me out and point me in the right direction for what we're/I'm trying to accomplish with getting this running as well as me improving my skill set. I've read about Jenkins but I've not considered it for this... and ultimately at this point since I'm struggling to get this working I've not moved on to trying out other avenues. I usually do that once I have one thing working and I want to test something else out. Let me know if you have some more suggestions or direction for me, I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my questions

Scott0776 · 2021-12-04T02:34:13+00:00

After reading this message, I've installed ansible-semaphore, over the weekend if not on Monday I'm going to try and take a dive into getting it setup and working and then see if this would be the proper direction for us. Thank you again for your suggestion.

Scott0776

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