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Michael Sage

IT, Digital & Culture

Go Bag…

Recently we were staying in a hotel for a couple of nights away, the weather turned rubbish so we went to bed early and read

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Anisble

I have setup an ansible run book to update all my linux boxes, this post is mostly just my notes! Add User to host to

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It’s a lab in a box

Something I’ve wanted for a while is a mobile lab. Something in a flight case. Mainly because it would be cool, but also it would

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Postfix From Rewrite

Quick article about re-writing the from address from postfix Add the following to main.cf   sender_canonical_classes = envelope_sender, header_sender sender_canonical_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/sender_canonical_maps smtp_header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_check

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Check_RSS

An old plugin back to life! Below is the check_rss.py script for pulling RSS feeds into your monitoring platform. I’m currently using ITOpenCOCKPIT, although I

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Proxmox Nagios Monitoring

Using the excellent check_pve.rb script I have setup comprehensive monitoring for proxmox servers, both locally and remotely. In case the script disappears, here are some

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Proxmox P2V Migration

Windows Physical Server to Proxmox I am fortunate enough that even with my main job, I am allowed to take side hustles. These are normally

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Backing up a Pi (with USB HDD)

Pi Backup Time for another text based pi article.. sorry! Attach the USB disk to the pi. Next download pi shrink wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Drewsif/PiShrink/master/pishrink.sh sudo chmod

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Hyper-v to Proxmox

This one is going to be word and code heavy. Firstly shutdown the hyper-v gen2 VM. Copy the VHDX to the proxmox server, remember you

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A Couple of PDFs…

Over the last couple of months I have relied on a couple of web articles to get me through particularly specific issues. I hope these

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Emergency Pi Zero

I have had a couple of requirements recently where I have needed to leave a device onsite for remote access. I initially thought that the

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Migrations & Pi KVM

Over the last month I have migrated my home server from a Gen 8 HP Microserver to a Lenovo P500 workstation. There are many reasons

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Cloudkey 2+ Let’s Encrypt & Backups

Let’s Encrypt using DNS on Cloudkey 2+ & Backups Update: 16/02/2021 – For CK2+ off controller backups see this great how-to: https://lazyadmin.nl/home-network/backup-unifi-controller-to-cloud/ Update: 22/12/2020 – Use this

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Lego Rack Server

Rack Mount Lego Server Stolen from a LinkedIn post. Parts List: Element ID (BrickLink) Description Quantity 11211 Brick – Modified 1×2 with Studs on 1

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Shelly HTTP Commands

Some standard HTTP commands for the Shelly I have found In case of password protected you will need to put http://user:password@shellyIP first Shelly 1: Turn

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Proxmox Community Updates

First remove the enterprise enterprise.proxmox repository # rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve.enterprise #apt update && apt -y full-upgrade Add the no-subscription or pve-test repositori : #nano /etc/apt/sources.listdeb http://download.proxmox.com/debian buster pve-no-subscription

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