Start smartOS VM from iso that is in /zones/UUID/root/ vmadm start UUID order=cdn,once=d cdrom=/FILE.iso,ide Set static vnc port Do vmadm list to get UUID vmadm update UUID_HERE vnc_port=PORT_#_HERE I love RealVNC. It works well and they have stand-alone executable here’s the LINK
Read MoreEmpora Total power usage email report
For this to work you will need to dump a CSV export at least twice a month and then upload the CSVs from the ZIP to nextcloud. This could honestly be from anywhere nextcloud is just easy for me. Here’s links to the files. I try my best to paste them in the blog, but […]
Read MoreCalculate Emporia Energy usage in Bash
How to calculate data use for specfici month using bash for Emporia Energy device cat FILE.csv | egrep “MonthInNumForm/?[0-9]?[0-9]/2019″ | awk -F”,” ‘{print;x+=$2}END{print “Total ” x}’
Read MoreWP Search-Replace
This is how to use wp-cli to change the domain If using CentOS sudo -u nginx wp search-replace ‘old.domain.com’ ‘newdomain.com’ If using Plesk sudo -u user /opt/plesk/php/7.1/bin/php /usr/local/bin/wp search-replace ‘old.domain.com’ ‘newdomain.com’
Read MoreSSH tunnel WSL1
How to use SSL tunneling on WSL and access on local machine. This is super useful when needing to VNC into a smartOS KVM VM. ssh -L 0.0.0.0:PORT:REMOTE_IP:PORT [email protected]
Read MoreWindows Service CMD control
These aren’t really tricks, but super useful if you want to change things without interrupting the end user. Find service name since the display name may be different sc query | find “DISPLAY_NAME” sc config “SERVICE_NAME” start=disabled sc stop “SERVICE_NAME”
Read MoreRemote Control Terminal Session Windows Server
I just learned that you can remote control terminal sessions. They call it shadowing. I’ve only done it on Windows Server 2012 r2, but was super easy. You just need to open server manager, go to remote desktop services, then collections, then QuickSessionsCollections. Then you’ll see the connections in the upper right hand corner. Once […]
Read MoreXCP-NG Quick Notes
I learned about XCP-NG not to log ago and love it. It’s great and easy to use. My only issue is I guess on newer versions of Windows 10/Server 2019 they were having freezing issues. I had the issue with Windows 10. I just went with Windows 7 VMs for what I needed until they […]
Read MoreSearch and replace WordPress Database
Below is the search and replace for WP which I find really helpful when changing to a new domain. I hate it when people make me provide email to download stuff so I have also included a direct download link HERE. I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR USING THIS. MAKE SURE TO BACK UP […]
Read MoreNextCloud with Apache behind NGINX reverse proxy on CentOS
This is probably useful to figure out how to reverse proxy Apache behind NGINX, but I was finally able to get NextCloud working on NGINX with no problem I like to use NGINX as my web server because that’s what I’ve always worked with. I’ve tried a couple times to get NGINX to work with […]
Read MoreFind average size of directories
This will report the average of all folders in the directory in megabytes du -sh –block-size=1M ./*/ | gawk ‘{sum += $1; n++;} END {print sum/n;}’
Read MoreSupermicro X9 Hangs on Windows 10 reboot
This data has been copied from HERE Please follow the steps below: 1) Turn off the system completely, and turn it back on, you should be able to get back into the OS. 2)Download the following driver and extract it: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22655/Intel-Chipset-Device-Software-for-HECI or my link here, this may not be the newest intel_chipset_SPS_MEI_NULL_v1.2.3.2003 3) Open up Device […]
Read MoreStatic IP KVM Guest
Copied from Here If you don’t want to do any configuration inside the guest, then the only option is a DHCP server that hands out static IP addresses. If you use bridge mode, that will probably be some external DHCP server. Consult its manual to find out how to serve static leases. But at least […]
Read MoreCert Roadmap
Not my file, but Comptia made a really nice roadmap layout. Thought it would be nice to post. Here’s the direct LINK
Read MoreAdd clonezilla to Fog Project
mkdir /var/www/html/fog/cz Download iSO and extract to /var/www/html/fog/cz Go to Fog Configuration > iPXE New Menu Entry Give it a menu item name Add the below to “Parameters” :Clonezilla echo Starting CloneZilla with default options kernel http://IP/fog/cz/live/vmlinuz initrd http://IP/fog/cz/live/initrd.img imgargs vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run=”ocs-live-general” […]
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