I have been tasked with finding a project management solution and would like to know your recommendations.

We already have a cloud based file server, virtual data rooms to share data with 3rd parties and 3rd parties share similar services with our employees, sending out emails with documents back and forth, making phone calls etc. However, end of the day information will be spread across on various platform and making it hard to track changes, and hence the entire approval process.

Based on the initial discussions with relevant managers, we found the following solutions worth checking.

https://basecamp.com
http://vivoweb.org/
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

What are the solutions you would recommend in similar situation?

@Ambarishrh thanks!

Are there any yearly subscription charges involved with Edge Routers to maintain the firewall features working or is it going to be a one time purchase?

@scottalanmiller said in Learning Azure:

@sn said in Learning Azure:

I have a plan for setting up a Windows 2016 Domain controller in Azure and sync it with my regional offices. I already signed up for the free trial to test this but just wanted to know the best practices to avoid a messy start.

Are you look in "Learn Azure" in order to be an Azure expert? Or are you looking to "learn Azure" for this task? Because 99% of what you learn about Azure in general won't help for this task.

I am looking to "learn Azure" for this task. I did notice that Azure is getting expensive once I start adding resources to fulfil this task. However, I couldn't find any case study similar to my requirement when I searched for Vultr based domain controller deployment. That is why I was looking for Azure in the first place.

@Dashrender said in Learning Azure:

@sn said in Learning Azure:

Could someone suggest some resources for learning Microsoft Azure?

I have a plan for setting up a Windows 2016 Domain controller in Azure and sync it with my regional offices. I already signed up for the free trial to test this but just wanted to know the best practices to avoid a messy start.

Just curious, why Azure? That will be very expensive compared to other places that sell Windows VMs. How will you connect the VM back to your home office for syncing?

You could setup site-to-site or site-to-point VPN to connect the VM back office for syncing.

Could someone suggest some resources for learning Microsoft Azure?

I have a plan for setting up a Windows 2016 Domain controller in Azure and sync it with my regional offices. I already signed up for the free trial to test this but just wanted to know the best practices to avoid a messy start.

@scottalanmiller said in Alternative option for Sophos XG 230 Security Appliance:

brethren

I don't think so (not sure about the pricing), UBNT website has listed them under the Enterprise category. They are not tiny either, see one here.

@scottalanmiller said in Alternative option for Sophos XG 230 Security Appliance:

If only looking for a firewall, consider just buying a Ubiquiti.

You mean USG?

I bought this last year for A$ 3,000 and now I am just thinking if I should really spend A$1000 to renew their subscription (basic stuff including VPN) or are there any recommendations from your end within the same price range?

Ideally, I am looking for a UTM firewall without paying for the yearly subscription fees.

[Not sure if I really need a UTM as at the moment, I am using only the Network Protection service of Sophos]

IBM are getting grilled in the parliament this week and based on what I heard, they were actually blaming the subcontractors for the failure, especially the ISP who failed to provide geo IP blocking

@StrongBad Thank you!, I fixed the quote and my alias is now working!!

Now let me explain.

As you suggested, it was absolutely related to the messy quotes I was using. I changed the outer one to double quotes as below and the alias worked immediately.

alias openvpn-disconnect="kill -9 $( ps -e | grep openvpn | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }' )"

When I said it was working in a normal command line, I was just entering the command without the outer quotes which means there was only one set of quote ( around { print $1} ) and hence it worked without any issues.

@thwr Thank you again for "killer" command!

@StrongBad said in How do you disconnect an OpenVPN tunnel on CentOS 7?:

@sn said in How do you disconnect an OpenVPN tunnel on CentOS 7?:

@StrongBad I attempted to add the following line to the .bashrc

alias openvpn-disconnect='kill -9 $( ps -e | grep openvpn | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }' )'

When sourced the .bashrc file, I received the following errors.

-bash: alias: print: not found
-bash: alias: } not found

That's because you messed up your quotes. Look at them, you have this:

kill -9 $( ps -e | grep openvpn | grep -v grep | awk

Then you have this:

{ print $1 }

Fix your quotes and it will likely work fine. If it doesn't run in a normal command line, it won't work in an alias command.

It does run in a normal command line without changing the quotes!

@StrongBad I attempted to add the following line to the .bashrc

alias openvpn-disconnect='kill -9 $( ps -e | grep openvpn | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }' )'

When sourced the .bashrc file, I received the following errors.

-bash: alias: print: not found
-bash: alias: } not found

@thwr That was the perfect answer I was looking for! Thank you.

One more question,
I tried to create an alias for that command but it gave me a "-bash: alias: print: not found" error.
I tried to replace awk '{ print $1 }' with cut -d' ' -f1 but still got similar error.
Adding the command to a bash script also did not work.

Am I doing anything wrong here or is there a better way to shorten the command?

I established a tunnel using the command "openvpn --config xyz.ovpn" but I couldn't figure out a way to disconnect the tunnel without rebooting the server. What command would you use to disconnect it on CentOS 7?

@sn said in Remote management client for KVM/QEMU:

Thanks mates!
I am going to try Webvirtmgr!

I have managed to setup Webvirtmgr but I should say it was a hard one compared to installing ESXi and connecting it using vSphere client. Is this the way KVM works?

I thought it should be something similar to VMWare in terms of "ease of use"!

Thanks mates!
I am going to try Webvirtmgr!

I am running KVM on Ubuntu 16.04 with no GUI, can someone suggest me a method to remotely (preferably, browser based) create and manage virtual machines on KVM please?

I am planning to host only 2-4 VMs and do not want to spend money on any commercial solution. Since I am new to KVM, I couldn't identify a product from http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools which meets my requirement best.

@scottalanmiller I agree with you 100%!
From my experience, management want someone to look after the IT but at the same time they wanted to micromanage the IT department unless you have a C level staff within your IT department.