One of the Services running on my Server is the Subsonic streaming server. Subsonic is an open source project and has some very nice features like on the fly transcoding to match a certain bandwidth and web based playback of videos and music. I mostly use it for the video playback on my phone or Laptop, but my family has access to it as well. Continue reading Authenticating Subsonic Against an Active Directory
Setting up an Active Directory with Samba
Have you ever been annoyed by all the Account information you need to remember?
Well i have been, so it was time that i started doing something to ease the burden at least in my home network. Originally i wanted to build something with openldap, but if i was going to do something ldap based, i could build an Active directory just as well. Continue reading Setting up an Active Directory with Samba
Service Monitoring with Nagios
After setting up Nagios I had a network monitoring system, that could tell me when a host was down. While this is nice, it is not actually what I want to know. The goal of network monitoring is to determine, if all your services are running properly. Continue reading Service Monitoring with Nagios
Starting with Nagios
My Home IT has grown quite a bit over the last years. I am now at a point where a problem can have causes in a bunch of different machines.
This means, that i actually can spend quite some time to identify the service that has the problem. For example if my SQL Server goes down a lot of other services will not work anymore, but i might only see that my Mediacentre stopped working or that i can’t log into my E-Mail account anymore. Continue reading Starting with Nagios
Building a ZFS Fileserver
I decided to finally split my File-server from my Hypervisor. Mainly because there were some issues with my the System not liking one of my RAID Controllers resulting in all kinds of funky error Messages.
I found some nice used Hardware at a good enough price but i still had to decide on the Software. After asking around in the forums and reading up on it a little, it was clear that at this point the only real option was something with zfs. Continue reading Building a ZFS Fileserver