Went looking for a corner curio almost bought it ended up with a gaming chair, HP C7000 Blade Chassis a couple of C7000 VC 10 GB modules and oh yeah an irrigation granite rock imitation valve cover!
Had 4 people help put the C7000 Chassis on my truck but only myself to take off my truck into the house and up a flight of stairs.
That’s right hundreds of pounds up the stairs by myself in pieces! Still the two main pieces were no joke and I walked the main chassis up one stair at a time after muscling it inside to the stairwell.
Here are the pics and I will start testing and playing with it soon!
June 14, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on Apache not Reading php.ini Changes Configuring New Zoneminder Install
I
wanted to setup some quick testing of Zoneminder on different
platforms last night and started the basic configurations. Installed
Fedora 30 , installed RpmFusion repository, installed mysql community
database mariadb, Apache installed, install Zoneminder rpms using
“dnf” etc..
Went
through the initial steps with Zoneminder configurations opened up
firewall ports then navigated to the initial web page and got the
message:
“ZoneMinder
is not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid
timezone”
Should
be simple go into “/etc/php.ini” set date.timezone
restart Apache/HTTPD and get
past that message
then
get in and do the initial configurations within Zoneminder but
that’s not what happened.
In
“/etc/php.ini I
set date.timezone to America/Los_Angeles
restarted Apache with systemctl and no changes. Checked for typos and
invisible characters in
“/etc/php.ini” restarted
and nothing changed again. I started checking permissions on web
files, started looking through “/etc/http/conf.d/php.conf” check
Zonemindr config files everything looks solid but I still get the
“ZoneMinder
is not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid
timezone” message.
This
is a minimal install and I’m
very
sure I only have one version of php and Apache. To
confirm
I run:
This
shows I have set my timezone parameters properly yet I still get the
message
“ZoneMinder
is not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid
timezone”
Once
again looks good and proves I’m editing the only and correct
php.ini file but this isn’t translating to Zoneminder I looked for
overriding parameters not finding any.
I
found many workarounds in forums like providing the date.timezone
value in “/etc/http/conf.d/php.conf” or going into
“/usr/share/zoneminder/www/index.php”
and commenting out the code checking date.timezone for
the Zoneminder application.
I don’t want edits and hacks all over in non-default files because
when updating or changing things these things may cause
issues.
Finally
I created a phpinfo web page navigate to it and date.timezone
value is
blank!! Doing
“php -i” shows properly still!
Ok
so obviously php.ini isn’t passing the date.timezone parameter to
Apache for some reason even though the phpinfo web page shows it’s
using the “/etc/php.ini” configuration file for php!
I
checked the current Zoneminder system and they are
setup with Apache and PHP identically
except the OS versions
Fedora 28 versus Fedora 30 so I started searching for difference in
the versions and found what I needed in the Fedora forums. FastCGI is
now a required
dependency
for Apache/httpd via the “php-fpm” service.
#systemctl
status php-fpm
php-fpm.service
– The PHP FastCGI Process Manager
I noticedphp-fpm has not been restarted since I made my changes in “/etc/php.ini” so now I decide to restart “php-fpm” and the “ZoneMinder is not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid timezone” message is gone so now I can actually configure Zoneminder with my cameras!
Basically
this is what’s needed to
make sure your changes you make in /etc/php.ini are passed on to
Apache in Fedora 30 and possibly other versions starting at Fedora 27
though I didn’t have this issue with Fedora 28 or
I didn’t
notice it for some reason:
#vi
/etc/php-fpm.conf
Make
this change:
date.timezone
= America/Los_Angeles
#
systemctl restart httpd
#
systemctl restart php-fpm
Verify
by creating a pphpinfo file and navigating to it
Throwing a Hump Day vibe to energize to complete while doing evening chores then to chill while enjoying the California unusual cloudy weather.
Already threw out some Mistah F.A.B, Ja Rule I still have artists like Lakeside, Halestorm, City Girls, Rappin’ 4 Tay, Tim Bowman, Prince and that a Marley and that covers the genres and flow.
May 4, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on Site Network Rework
Moving site back to ASUS RT-N66U old router after going to the
Linksys 3200ACM that failed on me each time I went out of town
leaving my sites, smart devices, cameras and other items unreachable
through that route. I worked with Linksys support up to 3rd
level and the only solutions they had for any issues was to delete my
config and start over which I couldn’t do remotely and of course is
not a long term solution and they hadn’t updated or implemented
fixes since January 2018 and yes I could go Ddwrt which was a plan
but I decided not on this Belkin product which bought out the Linksys
name in 2013 I found out. This was the second time the Linksys
router failed on me as this current router is and RMA brand new
product for the prior router with same model that failed totally
losing it’s configuration before!
Luckily I did have
some remote capabilities through other routers and I was able to hop
on to my servers via that route and switched over my dhoytt.com site
and music server and point my DNS to another static IP about a month
ago.
I then to alter
routes on my W2012 media streaming server, my Linux Centos 7 music
IceCast music relay server that also monitors many of my systems to
properly get my music streams out. I had to open up ports through
another router via my LAN once in to the static ip address I pointed
my music streams and websites to. I then added a static route on the
Linksys that had stopped communicating over the WAN but still had LAN
connectivity to go through my camera server as it was straddling all
my networks and was able to communicate to most of my smart devices.
I did have to take
down temporarily my hoytt.biz site. I walked a friend of mind through
connecting a network cable to a third NIC I had on my Zoneminder
physical server I had setup to my camera network.
Now I came back
home due to a family issue and during this time I’m also correcting
my router remote access issues. First I of course removed the Linksys
3200ACM and purchased a new ASUS AC86U which pretty much worked well
except had interference issues with my other routers and routes in
the ares over wireless so after almost a week I took it back and I’m
back on my old but reliable ASUS RT-N66U.
I moved all my
routing on my servers back to the original networks and pointed my
DNS for dhoytt.com to my prior static ip.address and brought back up
hoytt.biz. All of my music server streams are as they originally were
and connecting my smart devices back where they belong. This is why I
go for dependability and not flash look at all this work I had to do,
and I truly understated the amount of effort it took to do this
remotely from a slow internet connection I had that would stall where
I was half a world away.
So if you noticed
any minor glitches this morning that was me switching things over to
the way its been for the most part for many years concept wise save
my constant upgrading and changing the underlying technologies. I
also updated several of my servers OS. As DNS propagates there may be
some minor connectivity but if you use FQDN instead of actual hard
coded ip.addesses you should reach my sites just fine. There may be a
few things I have missed but not bad for an hour or so of actual
work. I may also still get a new router so still holding out for that
but I want the best ROI.
March 10, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on Sunday Monotony Killer Music Mix
Doing
some very monotonous tasks that need to be done but mind numbing
and
boring. This
is all music from my den “Snakeice’s House of Beats”. That
means all the infrastructure producing the musical stream and
websites are on systems right in my personal computers on a on
premises type cloud in my home that I have created from scratch on my
personal property and I alone administer and support and customize
the systems to my specifications network, hardware, software
applications and storage is all my design and build specifications.
I
do this for the experience of interacting with the various open
source technologies that most people pay fees to have someone
provide. Many people repackage and present this which is fine but I
like providing the whole package otherwise its of no interest to me
to have someone else host and do the work what am I learning and its
not fun.
I
like to reiterate this periodically as people ask questions. A select
few understand (technology and why I do it) most don’t.
Anyhow
this mix as most here even when I’m just relying on the scripts
will be a special mix of various hand picked genres with a set of
songs that at this point and time I want to hear and flow together. I
can’t do just one genre I like several for my musical palate. They
can be complex or simple but music I enjoy and hopefully you will as
well.
I
still have yet to incorporate some more Indies artists music that
people have sent me lately and I will get you in the mix soon! Until
then enjoy.
A few artist coming up are some you have heard of and maybe some you haven’t are Icey Jaye, Popcaan, C-Bo, Will Smith, Doug E. Fresh, Meyer Rossabi, Leon Bridges, Ellie Goulding and so many more from all eras and many genres.
February 27, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on Midweek Blowing Out the Cobwebs Music
Sometimes you just need to let it go and let it out just for the heck of it, don’t be ashamed its is what its is and that’s what this set of music represents for the next several hours.
The music as always with Snakeice’s House of Beats will sample from all eras and Genres thus the name “Snakeice’s House of Beats Gumbo mix of Music”
Sounds from people like the Eagles, George Clinton, Too Short, Sia, Egyptian Lover, Red Cafe and much more.
Let’s get wild!!
February 21, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on Newly Built Systems Come Back Quickly After Power Outage
After a power outage just a few moments ago I think this is the fastest one of my virtual and NAS environments has ever recovered after booting up! No curruption to speak of and XCP-ng and FreeNAS recovered effortlessly!
Hopefully in the future my UPS can carry me a few moments more after I spread the loads out and continue to get get more efficient systems plus tune some systems for low power usage if possible. My Linux work station survives every power shutdown under 2 hours without powering off.
February 21, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on Back Up After Regional Power Outage
I upped the RAM on my system that streams out the music as it had been topping out with my updated virus scanning software at 98%. I basically tripled the memory from 8gb RAM to 24gb RAM which also should do better handling more streams as well. I may increase more but we shall see. That was the only resource being consumed totally and not its at 11% usage where it was 89% and above before. CPU usage amd network resources are still strong it was only memory that was the issue.
The memory would have been very quick normally but my existing rails don’t quite fit my new servers I have gotten recently and I haven’t had time to do any custom adaptations and the systems were stacked on each other. My music streaming software that needed the memory was of course at the bottom of the stack so I ended up taking down my entire site so I wouldn’t cause data corruption or a huge outage I wouldn’t be able to take care of right easily.
Now memory update is done and more to come as I get mys environment updated some more!
February 16, 2019
by dhoytt Comments Off on New Virtual Environment Almost Set
My new XCP-ng environment is just about completely set I just need one more 8tb SAS drive with the same geometry to put into one of the pools on my FreeNAS server. One of the prior 8tb drives was a Sun\Oracle branded and its LFF geometry was slightly off of the other 8tb same model Hitachi drives so I will move that 8tb SAS to a workstation and new one into the pool for VM’s.
I needed to make sure my new XCP-ng Hypervisors hardware was updated to the newest firmware levels after testing initial functionality with XCP-ng with the Dell r710’s I picked up for the Hypervisors. Initially trying to update the r710’s vie iDrac produced all types of failures even uploading the packages into iDrac. Then trying to update the r710’s via the cli of XCP-ng didn’t have all the libraries needed for the firmware scripts from Dell to work. I tried Openmanage as well.
Here’s a list of errors I received:
“The firmware image file is not valid for iDRAC firmware update”,
the file copied to the partition did not match the original file
Trying to update through iDrac after extracting the iDrac firmware file.
Well you get the picture so what I ultimately decided to do was take one of my spare hard drives I have put it inf a hot swap tray for the r710 migrate all of the VM’s to the other XCP-ng server,take out the boot drive and other drives in the r710 and install Centos 7 to the drive and then run the firmware update scripts from Dell from Centos 7. This worked very well without the errors except to install the needed libraries via yum.
I then just moved all of the VM’s to the other XCP-ng hypervisor and then updated the other r710 from a minimal Centos7 OS install as well.
The big deal about updating my firmware was to make sure that whatever IPMI platform (iDrac from DEll, ILO from HP or IPMI Supermicro) I used was fully updated and useful for when I’m out of town. I chose Dell servers with iDrac because that’s what has the best price point at this time in the surplus market. For some reason there are very little HP servers though I prefer their ILO over Dell’s iDrac.
Now that firmware and bios updates of the hardware are handled onward to make further improvements and other projects!
