Damage Control

FortiNet

Configuring Azure SSO on a FortiNet FortiGate

This is definitely a bit of a tricky one and I think different environments are going to have different configurations, but I can explain what got it working right in my environment. Use Case: I wanted to have employees accessing the company VPN with 2 factor authentication. Since we are

Self-Hosted

Dashy and Grafana

I have been using a dashboard service called Dashy for the past several months and I like it quite a bit. It's the landing page when I open a new browser window or tab and it displays all the different links and places I would like to go right off

Docker

Setting up Gitea

What is Gitea? Well this is a very stripped won version of Github that I can run with minimal resources on my VM machine. Specifically inside of a docker container on a Linux VM. The limited functionality (via GUI) of Gitea is limited to setting up repositories, managing pull requests,

Version Control is Your Friend

Version control is very helpful for a variety of reasons. Git is the obvious choice right now for my needs. Works everywhere, and has all the features for someone that makes short scripts could need. For myself, version control is beneficial for two reasons; 1) referencing older versions of some

Aggregating Data From InfluxDB

This became a need of mine after I implemented new metric gathering from TrueNAS which I detailed here. But this is also applicable to anyone that collects a lot of data, wants to keep it long term, but wants to keep data usage to a minimum. The overall process involves

Using Telegraf to report metrics from TrueNAS Scale

After TrueNAS Core because TrueNAS Scale, many things changed. The base operating system is now Linux instead of FreeBSD and this has meant that many scripts or applications I have made no longer work on the system. These things happen and overall I like Scale a lot. But I was

Setting Fan speed Thresholds via IPMI

I use an old SuperMicro X9 series motherboard, and I put nice fancy Noctua fans inside of them. However, because the fans can spin at such a low speed, the SuperMicro board things that this means the fan is going into a critical state and ramps them up to full

Proxmox

Migrating Proxmox Hosts

Recently it became apparent that I should migrate my Proxmox setup to a different host. I was running everything on a Dell PowerEdge 710r which, while a great piece of hardware, I was not using to it's fullest extent, and it was more noise and energy than it was worth.

Backing Up on Ubuntu Server

I have several VM's that are managed through Proxmox and therefore can be backed up pretty easily. The whole VM is backed up to a separate disk which has saved me several times already. However, I have another machine that is stand alone and runs Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as

Documentation is Important

That's basically the whole reason that I started this blog. However, since doing so I've also been using other tools to help me document the changes to my network, servers, and services. While I explored a few options like DokuWiki, which seems like a great option for larger teams, it

Partitioning your Network

Or rather: creating VLANS so that the traffic between various devices does not conflict or interfere with one another. In my case I wanted to separate several groups of devices into their own LANs for security and peace of mind. The various smart devices around the house need to go.

Docker

Saving Disk space on VM's with NFS

In a previous post [https://blog.mcmillinlabs.xyz/adventures-in-disk-resizing/] I talked about how one of my Ubuntu 18.04 VM's was running out of space so I explained my steps to expand the space allocated to it. However, I've been monitoring the disk usage with my Grafana-Telegraf-InfluxDB setup and came

Proxmox

Adventures in Disk Resizing

I just finished installing a fancy new SSD for my VM's to use in my r710. After getting that detected and used by Proxmox I migrated my high i/o VM's there and admired a job well done. However, One of my VM's the one I use for all my

Docker

Migrating Services to Docker

I held off for awhile on the Docker train, but I decided to set up a test VM running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and just put Docker on it to mess around as seen in this post [https://blog.mcmillinlabs.xyz/install-docker-ce-on-ubuntu-18-04-2-lts]. At first I was just using the run

Migrating Blog to Ghost

Well, it happened as I said it would in post number 1 [installing-and-setting-up-chyrp-lite]. I messed up again. Although not that bad as it turns out. But it is the reason that I decided to switch blogging platforms. I was in the process of migrating all of my services to Docker

Automatic Fan Control for PowerEdge R710

There are various guides online for controlling the fan speed of you R710 through IPMI. And I used them and others to make my own script. For me, I was not able to get IPMI working through an Ubuntu VM so I made a CentOS 7 container the sole purpose

Proxmox

Transferring VM's from one server to another in Proxmox

Introduction I recently got a new server (PowerEdge R710) and so I need to transfer the VM's that I have on my existing server over to the new one. There are a couple ways to do this but I chose to go with the backup to an external hard drive

Docker

Install Docker CE on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

Introduction I've decided to spin up a new VM to see what all the fuss abut Docker is about. I'll be following the guide on the official docker docs website which I will link to at the bottom of the post. I'm going to set it up using repositories so

Plex Update on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

Introduction So recently I've been having an issue with my Plex Media Server (PMS) where the Hama scanner plugin gets stuck in a constant loop maxing out one core of my cpu to endlessly scan my files. Not sure why this is, most likely cause is a corrupt media file

Creating a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu 18.04

Introduction I decided to try and get a small minecraft server running on a Linux server because, why not? So I spun up a new VM of Ubuntu 18.04 and went to work. Installation First update everything apt update && apt install git build-essential Then get Java installed, but the

Proxmox

Proxmox Error When Updating

Introduction On my Proxmox box there is a daily apt-get update task run. However it has been erring out every time it has run since I installed Proxmox. So hopefully this will fix it. Work Part There are various package repositories for Proxmox and those are listed in File /etc/

Installing and Setting up Chyrp Lite

Introduction Since I needed a way to document my installations and such on my personal server and websites because I'll eventually mess up and have to rebuild the whole thing (already happened once) I started looking for a blogging platform. I decided to go with Chyrp Lite [https://chyrplite.net/