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Sysadmin-Devops
Create the firmware image
October 5, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes
Prepare storage for Zabbix
October 5, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes
Configure Database Storage and Logging for Zabbix
October 5, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson4 minutes
Configure Apache and PHP for Zabbix on OpenWrt
October 6, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson17 minutes
Configure Zabbix Server
October 7, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson1 minute
Configure Zabbix Agent
October 7, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes
Bare metal cloud-init
A guide to using a Debian cloud image and cloud-init on a bare-metal host for fast deployment. The base configuration is very basic and aims to act like an OVH Debian 12 (Bookworm) dedicated server base configuration.
February 18, 2023 by Daniel F Dickinson12 minutes
Using XCA to create private SSL certificates
This article details using the XCA GUI for creating private SSL certificates for enabling end-to-end SSL on non-public servers.
May 12, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes
PowerShell: Adding Privileges to a User
August 9, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson5 minutes
Real life SystemD timers
Most blog entries on SystemD timers give trivial samples. This article takes a different approach and provides the full details of two examples of using SystemD timers that are in active use.
March 7, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson6 minutes