UPDATE: With Zabbix 5.0 LTS recently released I have updated from the Zabbix 5.0 LTS Released section on wards. Intro Zabbix, just Zabbix, is an industry standard enterprise-class network, infrastructure, server and environment monitoring, reporting and alerting software system. It…
Month: April 2020
Dell, Proxmox
Proxmox VE 802.3ad bonding issues on Dell PE Servers Connecting to Dell PC Switches
Scenario: We found an issue with bonding (trunking/bundling/teaming/channeling) copper ethernet links between Dell PowerEdge T420 Servers running Proxmox 6 and Dell PowerConnect 55xx series switches. ENV: Proxmox 6.1-7 on Dell PowerEdge T420 ServersBIOS v2.6, Xeon E5 2420 CPU, Integrated BCM5720…
Proxmox
Proxmox Virtual Environment 6 (PVE) for Home Use
Prelim: Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE; or PVE for Short) was original developed to add features such as backups and a web gui for OpenVZ and then KVM based virtual machines. It has now evolved into a commercial product for…
VPN, pfSense
IPSec / IKEv2 VPN for Mobile Clients on pfSense 2.4.x with Let’s Encrypt Public Certificate
Tested with: iOS and MacOS devices, Android 8+ devices, Windows 10 (Built in VPN Client)ENV: pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE (amd64) on FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE running on Proxmox VE 6.1-8 as a full VM. 0.5GB RAM, 2 core common kvm64 proc. AES-NI CPU Crypto:…
Windows
Windows 10/11 OS Repair
Edit 2026-01-09: Added Windows 11Window 10/11 Errors including weird boot error codes, start menu not appearing when clicked, crashes when opening windows settings or office / IE / Edge (All the programs that shared code with the OS but really…
CentOS, Plex, Squid
Force Plex Media Server (PMS) to use squid proxy
To be clear, not related to using plex behind a reverse proxy such as nginx. This is related to forcing plex to use a proxy server (such as squid) for its metadata, thumbnail, subtitles, other downloads and plex.tv communications. May…
Info
The Returning Rant
So, third time trying at this shit. Trying a different tach now after the first attempt went sideways and I lost interest in the second attempt after only two posts. Switching to more of a helpful tidbits / short guides…