Interacting with the Unifi API using Mattermost slash commands
Or, how to annoy the kids by making it easy for their mum to ban them from the Wifi.
Category: Linux
Setting up Bind views
This is first post of hopefully many about my “kidnet”. The idea is to limit the kids exposure to the more “adult” side of the internet using BIND.
New year, New Homelab
There has been a lot of changes in my life including a new awesome job aswell as some family stuff, hence so few updates. But now as i have a few minutes i figured...
Building a basic jekyll git and jenkins build pipeline
This website used to use Jekyll as its static site generator. I prefer working with static site generators as it means the website needs very little resources and isnt prone to as many vulnerabilities...
Using FreeIPA to authenticate OpenVPN Users on PfSense
I have been fiddling with multiple different authentication methods to centralise the authentication across all my devices and services. Im trying to push myself to use FreeIPA more as it seems to be becoming...
Basic Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana setup
Telegraf and influxdb seem to be the new craze in the time-series database world, add in Grafana and you have the basis for a very powerful graphing solution. I personally have moved all my...
Graphing Pi-Hole stats with Graphite and Grafana
Everyone loves the Pi-Hole. It does a great job blockig ad’s across your entire network. The admin page is also really useful to see whats been going on. Unfortunately the admin interface only gives...
Configuring 389 Directory service with Active directory bi-directional synchronisation
The reason for this build was because i wanted to use my office Active Directory users within AWS but without giving each instance direct access to the domain controller. I also wanted some kind...
Annotating Grafana panels with data from Sonarr using Elasticsearch
I have been meaning to learn how to use Elasticsearch for quite some time. I had used it in the past in an ELK stack, but never really understood it all too well. Also,...
Graphing the metrics from HP ilo2
I have recently acquired several Gen6 HP machines (2 x DL160’s & 1 x DL180). These are pretty old pieces of kit, but are reasonably priced. Not too loud and not too power hungry,...
