Summary: The Synology DS 1515+ is a capable little NAS with a large feature set, but it has some software reliability issues and limited technical support. Hardware The DS1515+ is a compact unit that feels sturdy. It holds five 2.5″ or 3.5″ drives, and 3.5″ drives can be installed without any tools. You will need […]
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On RedHat and CentOS 6 and 7, anacron generates syslog messages that are mangled when they are forwarded by rsyslog. I found the cause and a solution in a comment by Tomas Heinrich on this old Fedora bug. Sadly, that bug was closed instead of getting fixed, probably because Fedora is oriented toward desktop users
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This post documents how to resolve the following error message, which may appear for no particular reason, and flood the Windows event log: Failed to schedule Software Protection service for re-start at 2116-09-14T16:54:27Z. Error Code: 0x80041316. The following steps will resolve the error on Windows Server 2012r2, but based on other links, similar steps should
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If you are a Linux or OS X power user, then you’re used to having all the necessary tools built into your OS. When you log into a Windows system (What! No command line?) you may feel lost. These tools and shortcuts will help you be productive on Windows systems. Windows Shortcuts Alt-x is a
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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) is a useful tool for auditing the configuration and update status of Windows computers. Most of the time, its reports are useful and easy to understand. However, some of its responses are baffling, and some of its suggested solutions haven’t been updated since Server 2003. Here is my collection of
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SSSD (System Security Services Daemon) allows Linux systems (specifically, Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora) to verify identity and authenticate against remote resources. If you have a CentOS or Red Hat enterprise system, and you need to authenticate against a domain controller such as FreeIPA or Active Directory, SSSD is the way to go. I use
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LVM2 (Logical Volume Management) is pretty amazing, but when something goes wrong, it’s not easy to troubleshoot. This is not the fault of the tools, but a reflection that LVM is relatively new in Linux, and not widely understood. What I Tried to Do I tried to increase the size of a logical volume with the lvextend
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Short answer: not really! A few years ago, I was fascinated with the idea of microformats. The concept is to add structural data to common HTML tags so that certain types of data on a web page can be clearly identified. Adding structural information makes it easier to automate the parsing and indexing of web content. The original microformats
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My last post showed how to monitor networked devices with SNMP. You could try to remember to manually check the status of things periodically, but that would be missing the point of computers. Instead, automate your monitoring with Nagios, a web-based monitoring tool for Linux that automates the process of actively querying devices and doing
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In Part 1, I summarized the basic concepts of SNMP and defined the terms and acronyms used in this post. Now, I will show how to use SNMP to monitor actual devices. As an example, I will monitor an enterprise-grade uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and power distribution unit (PDUs) from Tripp-Lite. These devices have an
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