Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-03-22 07:56 +0700

The 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.

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Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-03-21 18:02 +0700

My 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 in the UPS drops to 10 minutes or less. Here’s how I did it.

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Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-03-19 20:38 +0700

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 wanted to retain all the configuration in the UniFi Controller software.

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Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-03-15 10:41 +0700

I recently replaced a small mess of WiFi AP devices and config based on my pfSense router with a UniFi Nano HD AP.

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Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-03-14 13:26 +0700

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 mapping those VLAN’s through to a WiFi AP. Here’s how:

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Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-03-13 19:12 +0700

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 node which is a Raspberry Pi. It turns out to be easy to do this - here’s now:

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Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-02-23 09:17 +0700

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 to give my agentless backup system Replikant the ability to back from the NAS.

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Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-02-20 22:14 +0700

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 UPS units (one on my workstation and one on my server stack) also using Prometheus.

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Home, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020-02-08 11:13 +0700

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.

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Home, Toolamba, Australia, 2019-12-31 09:18 +1000

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)
• International flight sectors: 36
• Domestic flight sectors: 3
• International train sectors: 0
• Domestic train sectors: 0

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