Who makes the SIP termination device? And what does it turn the SIP into?

@Dashrender said:

Are you the reviewer of this data like NTG can be, instead of Dell direct?

If that's really the case and it removes Dell's sales people from the equation, hot damn that's awesome!

In theory. Yes

In practice? We'll see if Dell maintains that.

Oh this is hilarious.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/store.hp.com/ukstore?correlationId=c1b17728-019d-44b0-9de3-60ee347f3b6f

Seems I have the only review of HP online store on trust pilot.

@AlyRagab said:

i am using Windows as OS then use VMware Workstation.

Unlikely that is going to work. VMware Workstation does not expose the parts of the CPU needed by KVM. So when you install KVM on top of it, it cannot run.

@wrx7m said:

I use PRTG for all network monitoring/logging and they have tons of customization options for dashboard views.

I like PRTG also, it offers 100 sensors for free.

Easy to setup and with a very good mobile app.

@StrongBad said:

What was the issue?

Cloudatcost was hosting it. Just kidding. They are too easy to make the butt of any joke

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Ha!

True.

@scottalanmiller said:

I definitely recommend certs, just getting them strategically and making sure to get lots of value out of them as an educational process and not relying on them purely as a career growth item.

Agreed, the problem I think comes from a lot of people think the absolute inverse of that and see more value in college or certs than experience.

If I may butt in here and show off I've talked about the text editor war on my blog (and here) before:

http://tonyshowoff.com/articles/vi-vs-emacs-nope-theyre-both-terrible-and-obsolete/ (link to MangoLassi conversation in post)

In all seriousness, because the post is a little over the top, if you want to be a sysadmin with Linux, Unix, BSD, old SunOS machines from the stone ages, etc you really need to know how to use vi. I know how to use vi, I despise it, but it's necessary from time to time. Often there are easier, less terrible editors available, but not always, and sometimes other editors aren't capable of completing the task for whatever reason (vipw for example).

My personal recommendations are nano or pico or FreeBSD's formerly popular "ee", I use these pretty much all the time, except, again, vi does come up.

@NetworkNerd said:

The DR topic is not one that comes up often. I think execs really don't think about it or whether the corporate growth plan has an infrastructure support plan to go with it.

Mention to them that ANY planning without IT involved means IT cannot be responsible in any way. How do they expect the company to have a plan if they ignore the planning process?

@MattSpeller said:

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@FATeknollogee said:

@scottalanmiller said:

The NTG Lab is prepping this week to a new colo, in fact!

In the Canada or NY area?

upstate NY, spitting distance to toronto

No, the nearest discussed location is near NYC. There are no datacenter colo facilities worth discussing in upstate NY.

whoops, figured it'd be at your hq

That's where it is now. Moving to colo soon.

Installed nvm as root and when i try to run anything related to that as a regular user;

Eg: nvm ls-remote
bash: nvm: command not found

To enable all yum operations to use a proxy server, specify the proxy server details in /etc/yum.conf. The proxy setting must specify the proxy server as a complete URL, including the TCP port number. If your proxy server requires a username and password, specify these by adding proxy_username and proxy_password settings.

The settings below enable yum to use the proxy server mycache.mydomain.com, connecting to port 3128, with the username yum-user and the password qwerty.

# The proxy server - proxy server:port number proxy=http://mycache.mydomain.com:3128 # The account details for yum connections proxy_username=yum-user proxy_password=qwerty

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

I think the Ubuntu store ruined it for me. It used to take forever to load so I always just did cli, maybe I need to try the Fedora store and see how it works.

On Mint you just click on the DEB, there is no store involved.

Ah ok. Ya Ubuntu used to load the full store (not sure if it still does) to install something. So I just started doing gdebi or dpkg -i or dnf install ./package for everything I downloaded.

I have my menu key on my keyboard mapped to the drop down terminal Gnome 3 extension because I don't use that key anyway. So opening the terminal and running it is pretty quick.

I'll have to see how Fedora handles that.

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller What separates the two? er... What makes Webmin not enterprise friendly vs Cockpit? (it has been a LONG time since I've used webmin and I haven't used Cockpit yet).

Webmin is a "third party unsupported add on crutch." It's whole purpose is to make UNIX graphical without using the officially supported toolsets. While that in and off itself isn't "bad", it's bad conceptually. It's purpose is to be a crutch for people who won't learn how to run the system and ends up being just like FreeNAS or whatever - just limitations and risk layered on top of the OS.

Cockpit is different. It is part of the OS itself, not an add on. It's fully managed and supported by the team that makes the OS (Red Hat, in this case.) In this way it is like the Microsoft GUI interface - still not ideal as a management tool, but stable and supported.

That Webmin is a huge, dangerous catch all for management and Cockpit is a limited graphical view of capacity planning with a few very simplistic management tools also makes them very different. Cockpit is not meant to replace being a good admin, it's meant to give some graphical views where they make sense. Webmin is meant to let people run an OS that they don't understand.

@AlyRagab said:

@johnhooks i really appreciate your help, i solved the issue by the mod_proxy module
thanks so much
this is the best IT Forum i have ever seen 🙂

No problem!

We used to do tons of hosting including VMs, email, instant messaging, storage and more - all if it gone now. It was a decade ago.

@christophergault said:

@scottalanmiller Im also trying to get gitlab to work and its on port 81... I just want to type it gitlab.gaultnetwork.com and get to the server...

Then you need it to be on port 80. Non-standard ports cannot be specified without putting them into the browser. it would be like sending someone to an apartment complex but not telling them the apartment number.