One of the things I like to have in my lab environment is the ability to monitoring all OSes and keep an eye on such things as temperatures, disk space, and other sensors. I was disheartened to find that UnRAID 6 did not have SNMP installed or configured. After some searching I was able to figure …
Monthly Archives: May 2017
No 10gbe NICs showing in VMware 6.X with X10SDV-7TP4F
When I started building my VMware ESXi server, I did not have a Switch that could handle 10Gbe SFP+. Now that I have a Dell X1052, I figured I would cable up a 10Gbe DAC and get moving. Much to my surprise, I received a link light on the switch, but not on the motherboard. …
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How To Setup a CentOS 7 Syslog Server
Today we learn how to build a syslog server. Having a couple SuperMicro Builds, Switches and Firewalls, I want to be able to know what is going on by looking at one central source. Easiest way to do this, and one that most Network Devices and SuperMicro Motherboards support is syslog. First step is …
PRTG Install Instructions
I am a bit of a Monitoring junky, and while I am mostly fluent Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager, Observium, and Nagios/Opennms I do have a passing interest in PRTG For myself, my current Observium Install does not have the MIBs installed to monitor my Dell x1052 Switch, and I liked to see a little …
Easy ESXi Patch Updates
If you are not familiar with v-front.de and you have a ESXi servers, you are really doing yourself a dis-service. v-front.de maintains a repository of all ESXi updates and makes it very easy for you to update your servers when the newest patches come out. Lately I have been having a series of interested GUI crashes …
VMWare ESXi Passthrough and Freenas
I recently had user colicstew comment that they could not get Freenas 9.10.2 U3 to see drives on his LSI2116. Luckily I have some unused 2TB Drives and LSI 2116 Controller as part of my Xeon D Lab. First step was to passthrough my LSI2116 Controller and Reboot the Server. You should see Enabled/Active for …
How to Enable SNMPD on ESXi 6.5
I had some difficulties enabling SNMPD from the GUI on ESXi 6.5 and kept recieving the following error Failed – An error occurred during host configuration Quick search let me here. Running the below steps listed at the above link allowed me to start SNMPD in the EXSi GUI without issue esxcli system snmp set …
Update to Observium Installation Document
Just a note to all readers, the Observium Installation Post on Centos 7 has been updated to point to the up to date epel RPM.
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