@JaredBusch said in Redirecting feedback from Linux command:

@Pete-S Pretty much what I do not want is the status bar from these two commands.

fwconsole ma upgradeall

fwconsole chown

Well, use grep to match for the progress bar then.

First output stderr to a file and look in the file.

I don't know how the progress bar looks when it's output as a stream of characters.
I'm guessing every update is something like

3076094/3076094 [===========>-------------] 60%<CR>

In that case grep for every line that doesn't contain a [ followed by a number of =, > or - and finally a ].

So something like:

grep -v  '\[[=->]+\\]'

Or maybe even better:

grep -v  '\[[=->]{28}\\]'

Above assuming there are always 28 characters inside the brackets in the progress bar.

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PS.
Funny thing but there seems to be a bug in the forum software.
I had to use an extra backslash to get the above regex look right \[[=->]+\\\] instead of \[[=->]+\\]
They look right in the preview though.

@Dragon3303 said in Switch to fiber or stay with coax?:

but I wanted to see if others were trading speed for reliability and if it was worth it for them.

I wouldn't want to pay anything for enterprise SLA but I'd pay for fiber. But I think 100/100 is the sweet spot and 30/30 is too low.

Problem with fiber is when they dig into it. Then enterprise SLA wont help a bit. Otherwise it's simple and reliable.

@Fredtx said in Help Understanding LAN test Speed Results:

@taurex said in Help Understanding LAN test Speed Results:

Try iPerf. It definitely puts storage out of the equation. Try using it with parallel threads to get more accurate results what the link can really handle. Also, it would only test TCP throughput by default but you can test UDP on a client side with -u switch. There are tons of guides on it online.

I did use iPerf and the results were within range of 900Gbit/s, which is what I wanted to know. Seems like the Lan Speed Test tool I used prior was slower due to the hard drive write times of the client, which makes sense, since I had to put a folder path to the server share.

Yes, use iPerf. It's the industry standard for this kind of stuff.

@Pete-S said in Vertically wall mounting Dell R640 Chassis:

@frodooftheshire said in Vertically wall mounting Dell R640 Chassis:

Hi Guys,

I have a client that's moving into a new building. The IT closet was supposed to be large enough to house a proper 4 post rack, but now it looks like things have been downsized considerably and I now have to look at wall mounting the R640. Historically I always use 4 post racks with Dell's rack rails so I'm a little out of my element and I'm not seeing a lot of people talking about vertically mounting these servers.

I've been looking at two different racks at racksolutions.com:

1. https://www.racksolutions.com/wallmount-rack.html

2. https://www.racksolutions.com/wall-racks.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAk53-BRD0ARIsAJuNhpvM0JnX3ZfdWs8ccBpNznxFSfk9mokI6HvUTDQCJiAJ9q3jPsrTo6AaAgJAEALw_wcB

The problem is...neither one of these solutions show up as compatible with Dell's servers. Has anyone wall mounted of these servers before? Can I just use some cage nuts/m16 screws the the generic bracket (option 2)? I just know that the front fascia is designed for Dell's rails - don't recall if there is space for screws on either side.

Sorry but I think you can dismiss the entire idea. Servers are made to be horizontal for proper cooling. The racks you're been looking at are switch racks. They can't handle the weight of a server.

Look for hosting the servers in a colo. Or move to other smaller servers, like Dell tower servers.

Also to add insult to injury, the wall also need to be able to handle the weight.

Is there a go to tool for making a portal for employees or teams?

Something where you can have links to the web apps and tools you use as well as present news.
Basically the start page on every employees browser.

When I'm writing "portal" it sound 90s-ish so maybe what I'm looking for is called something else.

I think MTU settings can mess with PXE/TFTP.

Anyway, nothing changes by itself and goes from working to non-working without reason. Just got to find what it is that has changed by logical troubleshooting and elimination.

I would start with wireshark on a port mirror to see the traffic the actual client is seeing. I don't know enough about PXE to be of any help however.

What's your thoughts on virtual appliances?

Do you prefer getting a custom iso / virtual image already set up, over installing an OS, packages and applications needed yourself?

@travisdh1 said in Virtual appliances?:

I prefer using an iso. Almost never is a virtual image easy to use with my preferred virtualization host platform (KVM or Xen), and if using an appliance I really don't want to d*** around with a base OS first.

I like iso myself too as I've had some bad luck with ready-to-run images in the past. There always seems to be some kind of issue with different network drivers or installed guest additions.

I don't know the current status of ova files though. Is that the current standard for distributing virtual appliances that are supposed to run on every common virtualization platform? Or what just in theory?

This is basically what I've done before:

Get-AppxPackage *bing* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *Zune* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *xbox* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *windowsmaps* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *feedbackhub* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *yourphone* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *skype* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *one* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *mixedreality* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *windowscamera* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *3D* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *officehub* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *solitaire* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *wallet* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *549981C3F5F10* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *office* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *gethelp* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *getstarted* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *WindowsSoundRecorder* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage *windowscommunicationsapps* | Remove-AppxPackage

And then install chocolatey and the basic programs we want like firefox, libreoffice, acrobat etc.

@JaredBusch said in PCI bus error:

@Pete-S said in PCI bus error:

Yeah, I assume this is a low budget spec.
Pick the cheapest epyc rome unless you expect the server to handle lots more in the future. 7232P is the cheapest.

Budget is not an issue. But it does not need anything bigger.
The two specified, were the smallest two on Dell's website.

Then you have another dell.com than I have.

Not a big difference however.

This script worked great!

I just tried it on a new laptop and it removed lots of stuff nobody needs.

@travisdh1 said in Experience with HPs small laptops/chromebooks?:

I just got an ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 two weeks ago for my parents. The Celeron N4020 in it is not very fast, but it is light years ahead of the things @Dashrender is talking about. Thankfully those terri-bad CPUs are a thing of the past now. Performance isn't great, but it's not bad, and the touchscreen is nice.

I got the HP Probook 11 G5 now and I can verify that the performance is OK (on Windows 10 Pro). While it's not very fast, it's very usable. Compared to something like a Raspberry Pi 4 it's much faster.

To put it through it's paces I connected it to a large 4K monitor, keyboard and mouse.

It would work as a daily office computer for someone that isn't a superuser and doesn't run any demanding applications - if you remove the windows 10 bloat first. Firefox is too slow for it but Chrome does a good job.

The model I have has the N5030 CPU which has 4 cores compared to the N4020 which has two cores so it's probably 50-75% faster. The N5030 has a 6W TDP so I expect battery life to be good.

My model only has 4GB RAM and 128GB NVMe SSDs but after I removed all crap in Windows 10 it's hovering at 2,4GB with a couple of webapps open and a couple of windows. Right now there is roughly 80 GB of free space as well.

All in all it looks like these latest generation low power Intel CPUs are perfectly usable for what they are. I'm pleasantly surprised.

While performance was better than I expected and build quality was good I was a little disappointed at the viewing angles and brightness of the display. While it says IPS panel in the specs, it doesn't look like one. Touchscreen itself works great though.

@DustinB3403 said in Work from Home - Computer setups:

At the moment, I use a personal keyboard and mouse, with a company provided laptop. I'm thinking im going to purchase a monitor though as looking at the laptop screen has been causing some eye strain and me to lean forward to see the screen.

Plus I'd like to just have my monitor more eye level.

Good for you! Working on a laptop is an ergonomic disaster.

Hooking it up to an external monitor, external keyboard and mouse is the way to go.

You could potentially try to install centos4, or rhel4 is even better, so you get to a bootable system.
Then just copy the files from the backup over your installation.

Define lightweight.

What's the hardware specs?

How much resources does the VMs need?

@travisdh1 said in Light weight Distro for VMs:

@Obsolesce said in Light weight Distro for VMs:

@travisdh1 said in Light weight Distro for VMs:

Ubuntu server minimal might work as well, but not as easy to use imo.

What do you find difficult about a minimal Ubuntu install versus Fedora minimal?

Nothing in the installer. It's managing things after install. Having the enabled-sites and available-sites for Apache configs is one example.

I'm not sure I understand what you are thinking about with that one. Debian/ubuntu have tools to enable and disable sites and modules and have had for many years. Do you mean it's harder to use commands than editing configuration files manually?

Also it's actually not obvious at all but the different directories for the apache config files are just include files to make it easier to manage. If you don't like it you can just use one httpd.conf for everything.

We've recently started using Zoho Workdrive and I think it works about the same as every other cloud storage that can sync folders and files.

I'm wondering what happens if a client for any reason doesn't sync the data to the cloud anymore. Is there a way for admins to detect that, for instance in OneDrive?

Yes, you absolutely must replace the drive(s) that has read errors.
S.M.A.R.T doesn't do a full test unless you initiate the extended test. Which may takes hours when you have the drive offline and much longer than that if it's in the array.

@JaredBusch said in Hosted VoIP???:

The real problem with this is the term you used, hosted voip. It does not mean shit technically. So we need to know what you actually have.

It is a marketing term.

Hosted PBX?

Also the entire internet is a mesh of sorts.
There are multiple ways to go from point A to point B if you are connected the right way.