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Monitoring the sky - dump1090 to InfluxDB

You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...

Nested netgroups for fun and profit

Imagine you have several hundred systems to manage. The systems are for separate projects and each project has different teams of admins and only assigned...

Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11

Some time ago I was asked to provide a walkthrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It's a walkthrough on how to set up LDAP name services for...

Telegrafing data to MQTT

On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...

Out of ID

Recently a customer observed on one of their systems that the first n databases started quite nicely on a system. However when they tried to start database n+1...

Virtualbox via IPS .p5p

Darren Moffat just pointed to this in his Twitter feed about a package for Solaris that would make installation of this great tool really comfortable....

Using the Technische Alternative CMI with Telegraf

My heating system is controlled by a UVR1611 from Technische Alternative as I have to control a wood pellets heater and solar thermal collectors on the roof in...