@jnaugle also worth noting, no one actually delivers PRI today, that entire market is a scam. It's actually SIP and then they translate the SIP to PRI on your network edge to make it "sound cool" for people who are out of date and remember when PRI was both still available and actually practical (early 1990s and earlier.) PRI is not nearly as powerful as SIP, nor as cheap, so phone providers long ago "all" moved to providing SIP instead (PRI isn't possible without a physical T1) and "virtualizing" PRI on top of it. All the PRI does it increase cost and lower performance, flexibility and reliability.

So the best solution is to get the phone provider to stop pretending to do PRI and just give you the raw SIP. This improves your phone quality by removing unnecessary steps and limitations, removes the need for you to convert back to SIP (gateway, card, however you do it) and makes everything better for everyone. The PRI interface has no advantages, only disadvantages. It takes the better SIP, and cripples it.

For people running ancient phone systems from before VoIP, SIP isn't possible, so these terrible PRI interfaces are useful for them to continue to be able to hook up those ancient phone systems while still being able to connect to current phone companies. They aren't totally useless, but they are useful only for that one terrible niche case.

That didn't take long to find a buyer.

@scottalanmiller said in cordless VoIP:

@mike-davis said in cordless VoIP:

@jaredbusch said in cordless VoIP:

The W60P is $128 vs the W52P for $108.
What is it that makes you want to pay $20 more per phone?
edit: That is the cost of a single handset with a base station

Mostly I'd like to play with it. I'm willing to pay the extra $20 for that.

BTW, where are you getting those prices? Amazon prime is ~ $170 others are around $140 before shipping.

Probably Baltic

Bingo. They seem sto have the best "consistent" pricing. Sometimes Amazon is better, sometimes not, when shipping is added.

+1 on ScreenConnect being awesome. Here are my top five:

allows support to remote in to a client user's machine in under five seconds can configure users as support agents with limited rights such that they can only log in to their own computer. Handy for those who occasionally need to remote their computer, either from home or elsewhere. Android and iPhone/Pad apps. customizable to your company look/feel including colors & logos ad-hoc remote sessions with emailed invitations for systems that do not have a client installed

The version I use requires a small client (<2 MB) installed on the controlling machine, though all access is through a web browser.

Playing around with OBS Studio: DNF Auto Update

Youtube Video

@mike-davis said in spam filter ~ What do you use?:

@karlita said in spam filter ~ What do you use?:

I don´t even check them, just delete them.

I think people here are looking for domain wide solutions that protect end users from phishing attacks and the like. You may be able to spot a phishing email, but many end users fail....

Yep. Knowbe4 just helps us prove it.

So this has been changed in their newest release 2.0.0.25 (not sure if it's publically available), and while the credentials are no longer in plain-text there are a few things you lose the ability to do.

Namely to tell if any given used is logged into a device, and secondly to sign in/out as a user on any given device.

I've provided my feedback to Yealink and hope to hear back soon. Neither of the above 2 issues are deal breakers, as the bigger goal is to be able to set configuration options, screensavers, time servers etc and have the user deal with the login.

Especially since the "Web Sign in" functionality is so simple, there is little reason to need the ability to sign in for a user.

@taurex said in Cloudflare and Nginx reverse proxy background.:

@travisdh1 Are there any benefits of configuring your own reverse-proxy if it's running behind CloudFlare that is essentially the one already? I know they offer their own Origin CA certs that you can install on your web servers to encrypt the traffic between CF and your cloud. As long as you're happy to stick with CloudFlare, there will be no need to run cron jobs with certbot renewals every 3 months.

As @JaredBusch said, you can run self-signed certs with CloudFlare just fine. This was for my home lab, so I purposely do things the hard way sometimes, just to see what it's like. That's why I originally tackled this anyway. Running a reverse proxy mostly so I don't have to pay for nearly 30 IP addresses on the box I rent for it.

Thank you very much Sir.

Wow this must be an old server. pam_tally was replaced with faillock in RHEL 6.

For AWS and Azure you can Import your VMs too (Can be tedious at times, specially Azure)
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ie/migrate-vmware-to-azure.aspx

The batch file I have for one client is this:

powershell Rename-Computer -NewName "COMPUTER_NAME" -DomainCredential DOMAIN\ADMINUser -Restart

Where COMPUTER_NAME to not exceed the 15 character limit

ETA:
I should add that this batch script start with installing Chocolatey package management tools, then the default applications,

@romo said in Remote Connect/Support Tools for Fedora, Windows, OS X:

Seems really interesting with the monitoring and the ability to have custom alerts.

@FATeknollogee How has the testing been going?

Haven't done much more than my OP.
I plan to do some more testing over the weekend.
My main goal is to find a ScreenConnect replacement.

@pete-s said in Nvidia Tesla K40 for lab?:

I know nothing of machine learning or GPU processing in general. But I'd like to learn.

To get started I assume you need a GPU card of some kind and GPUs like Nvidia Tesla K40 are showing up refurbished for reasonable prices. Would that card be sufficient to get started or is it too old?

Also when looking at desktop virtualization would the Tesla K40 also be something you could use for this? Or does that require something else? I've seen Grid K1 & K2 in some applications but I don't know the difference between those cards and something like the K40.

Those special purpose cards are really only for after you have a very specific need. Machine learning and GPU compute can be done on just about any graphics card of reasonable age. The add in cards make more sense for servers where the standard GPU is just enough to run a display, and nothing more.

@dafyre said in Ethernet link going down and then up after 3 seconds.:

log in to the switch.... and then

sho log -r

That will show you the most recent entries in the log. Look for anything related to STP.

I think it is:

log -r -w

Without the 'show'. The -w switch helps filtering out less relevant stuff.

@momurda said in Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access Group:

@dbeato Who is a member of this group at your org, just Authenticated USers?

Yes and Exchange Domain Servers
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Here's a list you can format and add/subtract to/from:

QUESTIONS FOR FORMER IT PROVIDER
Domain admin username and password:
Domain registration details and logins:
Domain DNS hosting details:
Domain Web hosting details:
SSL Certificate provider login details:
Local PC usernames & passwords:
(If applicable)
List of Microsoft Servers and roles:
Switch details and logins:
Router details and logins:
NAS details and logins:
Access Point details and logins:
Printer/MFP details and logins:
Web filter proxy (If applicable):
Key IP addresses & usernames / passwords of anything else relevant i.e Office 365, Cloud Services:
Server details (brand, model, serial, warranty):
Virtual Environment details:
UPS details (Logins / warranty):
Antivirus uninstall passwords (all products):
Cable or Fibre details (provider plus account details – login):
Secondary Internet Connection (If applicable):
Offsite backup details eg. Storage, S-Protect licences, cloud services:
Wireless Network SSID / Password:
Service Account Usernames and Passwords eg. Backup printers:
iLO / iDRAC login / password:
Remote access methods:
Phone System:

Licensing
MS Licence Agreements / Login:
Antivirus / malware / Spam – product, login and expiry:
Firewall – Model / Serial / Licence expiry and supplier:
Virtualisation agreements (VMWare / Hyper-V):

Software Management
Provide details on all business applications:
SharePoint (If applicable):

Documents to be provided
Router / firewall details:
Switch / Router Configuration Files:
Any VPN Config – pre shared secrets / config:
System Documentation including diagrams:

Outstanding Problems or Project work to discuss
Current issues, tips on support / maintenance, etc:
Active / unfinished projects:
Support contract expiry date:
Pre-paid support hours in credit:

@jaredbusch The model config file also has this option.

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So I "should" be able to use the "all" setting and have this work there as well, yet it doesn't seem to.

@pete-s said in What % is normal availability?:

@scottalanmiller said in What % is normal availability?:

When in my massive environment (80K+ servers)

80k+ servers? That has to be something in size like Paypal or LinkedIn.

Way bigger than those. Those would not come close.

This client uses the commercial EPM to manage the phones and this is what it created.
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