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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you monitor your servers?
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    3 days ago

    SNMP.

    The old engine was nagios. The new engine will be telegraf -> mqtt -> brokerfest -> timescale -> Prometheus.

    I guess. Not sure yet. The brokerfest is a series of broker pubsub between sites to both split out data from the stream for off-site CC, or pull its own subscriptions in. Data could go host <- telegraf -> broker -> remote broker -> remote timescale -> remote Prometheus







  • ZFS promises dedupe and super-simple snap synch to another host.

    What I liked it for over e4 is the far greater inode count per file, as my backup setup was doing hardlink(1) and running into the boundary a lot.

    Now I like its trivial snapshotting as a periodic rollback target on my file server to recover from occasional oopses; hook the .snaps up to a smbd and people can grab their own files back from the brink.

    I still use like 90% e4 though. More stable and reliable than xfs, it’s good for everything you value.






  • Dude, I wanna tell you that success is possible.

    On this one daily driver of a 6-year-old machine. I installed proxmox. Then a desktop on top of that. Then I made the USB keyboard, mouse, and sound, go into that internal machine with the video card. Then I plugged all that shit into a USB KVM, then a 20ft set of USB and video cables to my desk, where the USB is hubbed to the ends of sanity itself before it comes out to a USB mouse, keyboard, and sound dongle. Video goes to the panels clamped onto this desk.

    Works. It defies logic, threatens one spec and probably breaks a low of nature and more than one of decency, but it works.

    Your way-better gear should really work like gangbusters. Please keep at it in case the solution is right there.