Autobooting my pfSense Router on Mains Power Restoration
2020-03-22
Infrastructure AutomationThe power management situation in my home lab is in pretty good shape now with solid monitoring as well as the auto-shutdown mechanism I implemented yesterday.
Automated Remote Host Shutdown with apcupsd
2020-03-21
Infrastructure AutomationMy control node which was already running apcupsd for monitoring purposes is now configured to automatically power off my NAS, backup server and KVM compute node when the remaining charge...
Moving UniFi Controller Data to a New Install
2020-03-19
Infrastructure
I was finding my control node project to be a bit sluggish on the Raspberry Pi 3B+ so I decided to rebuild it on a Raspberry Pi 4B+ but I...
UniFi AP Side-Table Mount
2020-03-15
Infrastructure
I recently replaced a small mess of WiFi AP devices and config based on my pfSense router with a UniFi Nano HD AP.
UniFi AP with pfSense VLAN's
2020-03-14
Infrastructure
pfSense and the UniFi suite both support VLAN’s. It turns out to be very easy to configure them to work together with pfSense owning the VLAN definitions and addressing, and...
UniFi Controller on a Raspberry Pi
2020-03-13
Infrastructure
I’ve added some UniFi devices to my network and need the UniFi Controller software to configure and manage them. The logical place to deploy the Controller is on my control...
SSH on Synology with Key Pairs
2020-02-23
Infrastructure
I picked up a Synology NAS a couple of days ago and one of the first things I wanted to do was enable SSH access in order to be able...
Monitoring APC UPS Units with Prometheus on Raspberry Pi
2020-02-20
Infrastructure
Observability
I’ve recently implemented Prometheus so I can monitor my new KVM host which replaced my old VMWare ESXi hosts. It occurred to me that maybe I could monitor my APC...
Running KVM on Debian Buster
2020-02-08
Infrastructure
I’ve been wanting to move from ESXi to KVM for a while for a few reasons and finally this weekend I’ve started trialing the migration process.
Travel Log 2019
2019-12-31
Travel
Summary: Countries Visited: 9 - Austria, Thailand, The Maldives, Switzerland, Singapore (seven times), Macau, Croatia, USA (twice), Australia Countries Transited: 5 - Austria, Singapore, Bosnia Herzegovnia, Germany, Taiwan (four times)...