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Synology include the vTiger CRM suite as a plugin/add-on. They didn’t include a backup solution though. This how-to described how to backup the vTiger CRM database. The idea is to dump the database regularly, into a place that some other backup process includes. For example, if you have a “Shared
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This article shows how to create an ec2 in a VPC with an Internet Gateway, Subnet, Route Table and Security Gateway, in AWS. See our “Getting started with Terraform” article for basic information about getting started with Terraform and voiding issues. The Terraform manifest “main.tf” file looks like the following.
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This article guides you through the process of installing Terraform, and running Terraform on your AWS environment for the first time. There’s plenty you need to know to prevent destroying your (or someone else’s) network and resources. I’ve added those issues and solutions to the bottom of this article. Install
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This article walks you through the process of installing PostgreSQL, creating a user, backing up a database and restoring a database. In this tutorial, we’re using Ubuntu, but the commands are the same for everything except the installation. Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu: apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib systemctl start postgresql ufw
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While building an Ansible playbook to install Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, I stumbled across an interesting issue. I was executing Ansible from the target system (this is not the norm). I am not 100% sure on the cause of the issue but believe it’s something to do with the
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This article holds my notes from when I recently tested the Redhat Ansible Automation Platform. I’ve included answers to the questions I had at the start and during my effort to install the system. You need to install this on a Redhat Enterprise Linux v8.4 server, or newer. You don’t
Read moreToday I encountered a Netgate pfSense firewall that had firewall rules set, but the rules were not actually applying to passing traffic. The device was a Netgate 6100 running pfSense 22.01. The situation occurred after an unexpected reboot (the UPS ran out of power during a larger power outage). The
Read moreLong-time Linux system administrators typically use the “ifconfig” command. Perhaps out of habbit, or because it works on other OS’s (similar to ipconfig on Windows). But we should be using the “ip” command in-place of “ifconfig”. The “net-tools” package needs to be installed if you want the “ifconfig” command, and
Read moreI’ve resized plenty of EC2 disks in my time, but the most recent one was a little different. Most of the disks I resize are on Ubuntu or CentOS, but the most recent one was a Redhat disk. Call me crazy but it’s strangely different. The disks layout looks like
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This article discussed the Netgate 2100 VLAN capabilities. We’re not trunking in this article, we’re simply spinning of a single switch-port as a discrete port. Ie, we’ll have one of the 4 switch-ports on a different VLAN. This article “https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-2100/switch-overview.html” from Netgate is correct, but: VLAN 1 (the default) seems
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