Trying to do a remote reboot of a UniFi device is straightforward when UniFi controller is up, but what if UniFi cloudkey needs the reboot? Do the following, assuming the UCK is attached to port 23 of the USW. ssh user@usw telnet localhost en configure interface 0/23 poe…
I was made aware of trouble with a wordpress site – not that there's anything inherently wrong with wordpress, this one just happened to be. It was a non-profit site managed by a team of volunteers, and it was redirecting to a spam-ish canadian pharmacy domain. Investigation found the…
As we've been improving our systems automation with ansible, that has included bringing 'foreign' devices with unknown states into consistency and management by ansible. This will look at some tricks used to survey and update EdgeMAX routers. First things first is having some idea of what…
I used to have acme.sh handling much of the routine work of updating SSL certificates, but as I've moved automation into ansible/AWX, that has included let's encrypt certificates. This post provides an example of updating certificates using acme-dns with DNS hosted through google cloud…
The new microsoft is not new, and it poses a greater threat to the open source community than ever before. Microsoft, under Ballmer, had forgotten their golden rule: "embrace, extend, exterminate." Sataya Nadella has realized microsoft needs to take a couple steps back to recapture the modern computing…