For a few reasons, sometimes a Proxmox VM will not stop. In order of “safety”, try these options: In the GUI, select the VM and in the upper right corner, select “Shutdown” In the GUI, select ...
Installing Alpine Linux
Set-by-step guide to installing Alpine. Boot from the Alpine ISO When you are prompted in login, use “root” and a blank password. Right now you are running from memory. At the “#” prompt, r...
Restoring A Proxmox Backup
Restoring a full backup in Proxmox is quite easy. You can even do file-level restores! The VM or CT has to be stopped to restore it. Select the VM or CT and select “Backup”. In the upper ri...
Configuring Proxmox Backup Server
Proxmox VE itself has backup capabilities to any Storage (Datacenter -> Storage). This includes all local and network storage including NFS. So what does the Proxmox Backup Server do? It provid...
Securing MySQL v8
MySQL version 8.x changes a few things in the name of security. The program “mysql_secure_installation” is a good start, however with a stock out of the box installation of MySQL v8.x will cause th...
Installing Grafana
This script will install Grafana on a Linux system. # source: https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-grafana-on-ubuntu-linux-2/ sudo apt install -y gnupg2 curl software-properties-common cu...
Installing Prometheus
This script will install Prometheus on a Linux system. # source: https://computingforgeeks.com/install-prometheus-server-on-debian-ubuntu-linux/ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y sud...
Installing the Node Exporter for Prometheus
This script will install the Prometheus Node Exporter program on a Linux system. # source: https://computingforgeeks.com/install-prometheus-server-on-debian-ubuntu-linux/ sudo apt update &&am...
Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Monitoring Windows, Linux and Networking systems is very important. Most major failures start with small indicators which is monitored can prevent major failures. Monitoring can also track trends l...
Creating a new user in MySQL v8
The caching_sha2_password and sha256_password authentication plugins provide more secure password encryption than the mysql_native_password plugin, and caching_sha2_password provides better perf...