https://blog.mgauto.me/ Recent content on From: Past Self, To: Future Self Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 01 May 2017 10:04:06 -0400 https://blog.mgauto.me/post/installing-netdisco/ Mon, 01 May 2017 10:04:06 -0400 https://blog.mgauto.me/post/installing-netdisco/ Installing Netdisco What is Netdisco Netdisco is an application that is meant to manage the switches on larger networks. It crawls the network and maps associations using LLDP. This mapping allows administrators to see what ports connect the devices on the network together. Prerequisites We are going to be installing netdisco on Ubuntu 16.04. This guide assumes you have a machine that is running that OS. Installing Netdisco Ensure you machine is up to date: sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Install the dependencies: sudo apt-get install curl libdbd-pg-perl libsnmp-perl libssl-dev build-essential Create a user for netdisco: sudo useradd -m -p x -s /bin/bash netdisco Install postgres: sudo apt-get install postgresql Setup Postgres Switch to the postgres user: sudo su - postgres Create a user for netdisco: createuser -DRSP netdisco This will prompt you for a password. https://blog.mgauto.me/post/apt-mirror/ Thu, 06 Apr 2017 09:14:02 -0400 https://blog.mgauto.me/post/apt-mirror/ Introductory Paragraph Hello! Well, I have taken it upon myself to setup an APT mirror on site to speed up provisioning of machines here. I am working on setting up Foreman and decided that my iteration time was too slow. I’ll talk about the Foreman install in another post. Anyway! So you want to set up an APT mirror. When you looked around on Google you saw a bunch of posts from a long time ago that have failed to produce a working installation. https://blog.mgauto.me/post/hello-world/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 09:00:27 -0400 https://blog.mgauto.me/post/hello-world/ Hello to anyone out there! My name is Manuel Gauto, and as I imagine you saw on the last page, I am an IT Engineer. This blog exists to give me a place to write down some of my [mis]adventures in order to help future self remember how to solve old problems. I hope that some of the solutions that I post here will one day help someone else out there.