IT Homelab

[Fishy]

Ok my two new Esxi hosts now up to latest patch release as is my vcenter.. moved disks around thanks to my failed disk so everything now running on ssd and shared storage on ssd and carved up into a couple of luns..... even created a nested Esxi host so as to check out future Esxi patches on that first.... Lovely ...job done at last.. it's only taken since March..

Next up try and find more Aruba IAP325s...

[Fishy]

Grabbed another Aruba IAP325 from eBay..grabbed some newer firmware from the Aruba portal.. this wifi cluster seems to work rather well with impressive speeds..

[Fishy]

Now up to three arubas with another on the way..  there's a guy on eBay selling them for £30.. absolute bargain... he's holding another for me which I'll grab after pay day next week...

[Fishy]

Now up to 5 arubas and another on the way... one more should do it then it'll be bye bye to the virtual wlan controller and access points..

[Thenop]

Absolutely clueless what you are talking about, but a fascinating read The only aruba I know is in the Caribbean.

[Fishy]

Deployed the new arubas.. working great..... think that's me pretty much done now with the  hardware upgrades for this year.. this little setup should be good for quite a while...

[Fishy]

Powered down the Cisco wireless controller VM. will hang onto it just in case but the  Aruba IAPs are great.. also found a nice little hack from GitHub to increase the camera licences on synology (xpenology) surveillance station from the default 2 cameras..  now got all my cameras running off one device so another VMware powered down....

[Fishy]

Installed Uptime Kuma onto a spare raspberry pi... an open source network monitoring tool..... just what I need.. a nice lightweight software that gives nice easy to read stats without the bloat... so I can get rid of a Windows VM that had been running Opmanager
Also did an upgrade on my pfsense VM which wiped out my radius server for some reason.. bit annoying but easy to fix...

[Fishy]

Slack notification now setup from uptime kuma to phone...

[Fishy]

An update to my Veeam backup platform to the latest release 12.1... all went smoothly with a couple of test backups which rattled along nicely.. my little windows 11 torrent box.. 40 gb backed up in 6 mins... that'll do...

[Fishy]

Been looking for a little project to do with my spare raspberry pi and came across an internet speed monitor that used ookla Speedtest ,influxdb and grafana.. now I'm no Linux expert and the step by step that I found on the piupmylife website looked pretty straight forward but being the Linux thicko that I am it's taken me about a week to get it up n running properly but I have to say it's pretty good.. will need to look at grafana a bit more to make the ping/download/jitter/upload graph a bit more pleasing to the eye... but for starters it's not bad

[Fishy]

Also an update to my vcsa which got it up to latest version.. nice n easy

[Fishy]

Been looking for a little project to do with my spare raspberry pi and came across an internet speed monitor that used ookla Speedtest ,influxdb and grafana.. now I'm no Linux expert and the step by step that I found on the piupmylife website looked pretty straight forward but being the Linux thicko that I am it's taken me about a week to get it up n running properly but I have to say it's pretty good.. will need to look at grafana a bit more to make the ping/download/jitter/upload graph a bit more pleasing to the eye... but for starters it's not bad

Noticed the stats coming back weren't accurate as the Pi 3 only has a 100M Ethernet connection on it.. so built an Ubuntu  vm with Speedtest .. influxdb and grafana..  much better

[Fishy]

Been looking for a little project to do with my spare raspberry pi and came across an internet speed monitor that used ookla Speedtest ,influxdb and grafana.. now I'm no Linux expert and the step by step that I found on the piupmylife website looked pretty straight forward but being the Linux thicko that I am it's taken me about a week to get it up n running properly but I have to say it's pretty good.. will need to look at grafana a bit more to make the ping/download/jitter/upload graph a bit more pleasing to the eye... but for starters it's not bad

Noticed the stats coming back weren't accurate as the Pi 3 only has a 100M Ethernet connection on it.. so built an Ubuntu  vm with Speedtest .. influxdb and grafana..  much better

Moved it to a Debian vm.. once I got sudo installed..... was getting an annoying repository error on Ubuntu...

[pxr5]

Been looking for a little project to do with my spare raspberry pi and came across an internet speed monitor that used ookla Speedtest ,influxdb and grafana.. now I'm no Linux expert and the step by step that I found on the piupmylife website looked pretty straight forward but being the Linux thicko that I am it's taken me about a week to get it up n running properly but I have to say it's pretty good.. will need to look at grafana a bit more to make the ping/download/jitter/upload graph a bit more pleasing to the eye... but for starters it's not bad

A neat little app called DSLStats runs sweetly on a Raspberry pi3. It's to monitor a DSL connection - if you have one of course. I have that and my reverse proxy, Caddy v2 server, running on a pi3. That leaves my other pi, a 4b, to run my Airsonic music server.

https://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,21323.0.html


https://caddyserver.com/docs/

I've been meaning to run pihole too, just not got round to it yet. I love these little cheap Raspberry Pis  - great for learning on too.