Articles & Engineering Notes
Technical documentation, architecture deep dives, and production troubleshooting from the lab.
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Taming Alert Storms: How I Implemented Zabbix 7 to Monitor My Entire Lab
There is nothing worse than getting 40 alerts on your phone at 3:00 AM because a single network switch blinked for three seconds. When you monitor a complex…
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Why My AI Assistant Cannot Touch My Servers Without Permission
People always ask me: “If you have local AI models with access to your network, why don’t you just let them fix things automatically?” The short answer: because…
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Throw Away Your Thumb Drives: How I Set Up Multi-VLAN PXE Booting with iVentoy
I got completely sick of hunting down USB flash drives every time I needed to test an operating system, run MemTest, or image a workstation on my bench.…
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How I Migrated 10 Production Docker Stacks with Basically Zero Downtime
Moving live production containers between hosts sounds simple on paper until you actually have to do it. You have databases that can corrupt if you copy them hot,…
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Setting Up Multi-Path iSCSI with My EqualLogic SAN and XCP-ng
Running single-link iSCSI in a virtualization lab is asking for trouble. Pull the wrong patch cable, reboot a switch, or have a NIC glitch out, and your hypervisor…
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Initial Configuration and Automation Setup
Completed the following actions today: – Fixed Google Speakers Wi-Fi VLAN assignment. – Created a daily speaker volume schedule. – Enhanced iPhone charging reminders with Wi-Fi tracking. –…
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Operations Log: DNS, Softphones, and Wi-Fi Diagnostics
Lab Operations & Troubleshooting Log Here is a summary of the most recent configurations and diagnostics performed in the environment: 1. Active Directory DNS Injection Internal routing has…
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Infrastructure Updates: TrueNAS, Signal Bot, and VoIP
Recent Infrastructure Deployments Here is a summary of the latest services and improvements added to the lab environment: 1. TrueNAS Storage Pool A new TrueNAS SCALE virtual machine…