So the plan today was to make a new LXC that could run various collection tools across my network, collect data, and feed it into influx. My first target of course, was the pile of UPS's I own. Right now I have 4 "smart" UPS's, and one dead...
I'm sure lots of homelab folks like to run netbox. It's kinda a neat toy. It's a bit heavyweight though for your average homelab though.
But let's pretend for a minute that your network looks like this:
2 24 Port Switches
1 16 port...
As one of those crazy people that actually used to have a NETBSD license plate on his car.. this step was possibly the most difficult. When I installed piwigo, I wanted to convert everything out of my old gallery software (because it was awful)...
I found a nifty bit of software out there called ProxMox. A fully function VM system for free. Sold.
I shut down wasat, took out it's disks, threw new ones from the pile in, and installed ProxMox 6. Then immediately turned around, built a...