Category: Servers
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Automating Monitoring at Scale: How I Configured All Five Action Engines in Zabbix 7.0
A monitoring dashboard that merely turns red when something breaks is only half a solution. Here is how I architected, automated, and hardened all five action engines in…
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Controlling My Homelab over Signal: Building an Encrypted AI Bot Daemon
How I built a zero-cloud, end-to-end encrypted management daemon using Signal-CLI REST API and Python to monitor, query, and command my homelab infrastructure securely from my phone without…
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Enterprise SIEM in the Lab: Deploying Wazuh 4.14 Across Active Directory, Linux, and Hypervisors
Firewalls and VLANs protect your perimeter, but they tell you almost nothing about what happens inside an operating system once a machine is on your network. If an…
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Building \ Lab OS\: How I Created a Real-Time Interactive Network Topology Map with D3.js
Static network diagrams are obsolete the minute you finish drawing them. You spend hours in Visio or draw.io making clean boxes and lines, and a week later you…
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Zero Plaintext Secrets: How I Use an Internal Vaultwarden as a Central Network Keystore
If you look through the repositories, scripts, and Docker Compose files of most IT environments, you will find a horror show: plain text passwords in .env files, hardcoded…
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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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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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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…