ControlByWeb SNMP Monitoring and Zabbix MIB Import/Configuration

I set this up a while back and had to come back to it recently and realized I’d completely forgotten how I did it initially, so I thought I’d write a post. The use case is that I’m using a ControlByWeb PLC…well ok, back up. For those not in the know …

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Removing Old Kernels In Ubuntu

I inevitably run into this and always forget how to do it. Dropping it out here so I can always find it. First of all, I’ve always referred back to a few spots to get me started, but they don’t quite get me all the way there. Here’s two spots that alwa …

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Toolset New Post Type Mysterious 301 Redirect

I just spent entirely too much time looking for this redirect so I’m writing a post on this so that hopefully save someone else hours of time. Little background, the website that I’m working on is running Wordpress and the Toolset plugins (Toolset Form …

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Create Zabbix Host Items from MIB

Writing this post because I didn’t really find a lot of great full walk-throughs for doing this when I had to today. Basically what I’m doing here is I’ve got a relatively uncommon device (ControlByWeb PLC) that I’m looking to monitor via SNMP with Zab …

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WP_Query Limited To 100 Results

This is going to be an obvious post for the web developers out there, but I just spent entirely too much time figuring out the wall that I was running into here. Little context: One of the sites that I run is Lukky Us Games, which focuses (right now at …

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No VASA Provider for schema namespace (VSAN) found.

This one is a quick one, mostly because I feel like maybe I’ve just realized something that’s been obvious to the rest of the world. I used to have vSAN set up in my lab environment and just found that it was a lot of hassle to run on (somewhat) outdat …

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Ubuntu Partition/MBR Repair

A couple of weeks ago I had a power failure in my place and unfortunately my vSphere cluster is not on UPS power (got it hooked up to 220v and haven’t had a chance to purchase a 220v UPS yet). Most of my machines came back fine but one of my machines w …

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OWA Works But Outlook Won’t Connect

Relatively quick post here, just wanted to share this because I’ve wasted a lot of time on this in the last two weeks. I’ve been working to build up a malware testing environment and am adding an email component to it (including Outlook & Exchange) …

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Setting Up PlexRequests Using Meteor Up

Phew! Alrighty, I (finally) just got Plex Requests deployed and working and I have to say that I really enjoy it, but building the deployment server to deploy the app to my prod server took longer than actually manually deploying it would (I feel). Ok, …

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Error Upgrading Splunk 6.1 to 6.3.1

Just ran into a problem tonight while upgrading my Splunk instance from 6.1 to 6.3.1. It had been offline for quite a while (it died and it’s just a demo system of mine) so it hadn’t been upgraded in a while. While following the phenomenal upgrade proc …

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Editing Calendar Permissions in Office 365 via PowerShell

The company policy where I work is that everyone has Reviewer permissions for everyone else’s calendar. This is for scheduling purposes as well as for pulling the right people in to meetings as they’re getting set up.  The problem is that (as far as I …

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Authenticate Aruba Airwave with Aruba Clearpass

This is just a quick little post about how to utilize Clearpass Policy Manager to authenticate RADIUS requests from Airwave.  This is a quick and dirty configuration document to assign Domain Admin users administrator rights on Airwave. In Airwave 1. N …

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