As most of my European readers are keenly aware, the current energy situation in Europe is rather precarious. Rolling blackouts are something that might need to be implemented to keep the grid operational during the coming winter months. While this… Read More ›
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Getting started with Let’s Encrypt & Certbot – LE Series Part 1
I’ve been enjoying myself immensely playing around with Let’s Encrypt these last few days, and discovered a couple solution to common problems and issues, so I thought I’d make a small guide mostly for my own reference on how to… Read More ›
How to Really Set Up NTP on HP ProCurve / Aruba Switches – HP Networking Series Part 7
This is a short guide on how to set up NTP time synchronisation properly on HP ProCurve / Aruba network devices. Astute readers of this blog might remember that I covered this topic back in 2015, and you’d be right,… Read More ›
How to Configure CAA Records for Your Domain
In a quite recent event, the CA/Browser Forum decided that there’s a need for a way for CAs (Certificate Authorities) to check if they are allowed to issue certificates for a certain domain. And in a even more recent move,… Read More ›
Teaser: NTP Wall Clock Project
View this post on Instagram #Code completed (at least somewhat), now for the power supply and enclosure. #ntpclock #hugeclock #raspberrypi #sparkfun #funtimes A post shared by Sebastian Storholm (@sstorholm) on Nov 8, 2017 at 1:11pm PST If you’ve followed my… Read More ›
How to Factory Reset a HP Procurve / Aruba Switch – HP Networking Series Part 5
Sometimes it might be helpful to reset an HP Procurve / Aruba switch to it’s default factory config, and weirdly it took me until my 153rd installed switch (yes, I actually looked up how many I’ve installed over the years… Read More ›
Upgarding vRealize Operations Manager to 6.6
Updating appliance VMs can be a bit of daunting process since they are all usually different. vROPS (VMware vRealize Operations) is no different in that regard, but it’s a quite straightforward operation when you get understand the process.
Updating VMware vRealize Operations Manager Appliance
Updating appliance VMs can be a bit of daunting process since they are all usually different. vROPS (VMware vRealize Operations) is no different in that regard, but it’s a quite straightforward operation when you get understand the process.
The World’s Longest Console Cable – Smartflex Router Series
As everybody knows, console cables and their corresponding interfaces are a scourge on a network administrators existence. They are always too short, COM-ports get renumbered, Baud-rates are unknown, etc. By their very nature, you also have to be physically present… Read More ›