random notes, guides, and thoughts…
February 9, 2017
As part of my home DR strategy, I’ve started pushing images of all my virtual machines (as well as my other data) across to Backblaze using Duplicity. If you want to do the same, here’s how you can do it.
January 1, 2017
Had my alerting system yell at me about high CPU load on my Splunk Free VM;
December 31, 2016
I had a problem where I couldn’t find LAN games automatically on my local network in Minecraft. Turns out that the problem was due to the interface priority on my network interfaces, and Minecraft was binding to the wrong interface!
December 7, 2016
NOTE - This isn’t particularly secure, but it works. It’s a bit better than configuring WinRM in unencrypted mode though.
December 6, 2016
The Splunk Add-on for Netflow appears to have a bug. If you run through the configure.sh script accept all the defaults, it refuses to ingest any Netflow data.
November 16, 2016
I’ve changed over my log aggregation system from ElasticStack to Splunk Free over the past few days. The primary driver for this is that I use Splunk at work, and since Splunk Free allows 500Mb/day of ingestion, that’s plenty for all my home stuff. So, using Splunk at home means I gain valuable experience at using Splunk professionally.