Category: Linux

Annotating Grafana panels with data from Sonarr using Elasticsearch

Posted on 6 July 20166 July 2024 by jon

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, it had been a few years since doing so, so my mind was a little rusty. The way i learn something is to set a little project with that software or tool and see if i can get it working. Which is what i did. At the end, you will end up with Grafana graphs similar to follow.

Graphing the metrics from HP ilo2

Posted on 3 July 20166 July 2024 by jon

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, so they make pretty good homelab machines.

Resizing an AWS EBS volume

Posted on 2 July 20166 July 2024 by jon

I was working on the Chef AMI on AWS, there is a problem in that the version of OpenSSL that comes embedded is vulnerable to CVE-2016-2107.

Setting up FreeIPA Centos 7

Posted on 30 May 20166 July 2024 by jon

A quick rundown on installing FreeIPA om CentOS 7

Interface bonding Centos 7

Posted on 8 May 20166 July 2024 by jon

I run my media downloading stack on a Gen 8 HP Microserver. This comes with 2 builtin 1Gbps ports (as well as the dedicated ilo port). As this machine is used for downloading and streaming media, i’d like to utilise both ports for the maximum possible throughput.

AWS VPC VPN and a Centos EndPoint

Posted on 13 January 20166 July 2024 by jon

I didnt find much concrete information on terminating an AWS VPN on a Centos 6 box, so figured id write it up here, for my own reference as we as others.

Automated speedtests using speedtest-cli

Posted on 6 January 20166 July 2024 by jon

Due to issues with my ISP, i wrote a really quick automated speedtest using speedtest-cli which sends the output to graphite.

Encrypting a USB Flash drive with LUKS

Posted on 15 September 20156 July 2024 by jon

Here is a quick run through on how to encrypt a USB flash drive using Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS).

Allowing server-status on an apache proxy

Posted on 1 September 20156 July 2024 by jon

For my new graphing machine (graphite, grafana, collectd) i wanted to be able to view the Apache server-status of a couple of my reverse proxy’s. This is the directive i had to add.

Setup crashplan on a remote headless host

Posted on 31 August 20156 July 2024 by jon

I needed to setup Crashplan on my local linux server which is acting as an NFS and SMB server for all my media. As this is a headless server and the CrashPlan app doesnt have a cli, this is how to access it remotely.