Topics: Houston

Scope/Description This article will walk through the process of joining an Active Directory in Houston UI. Prerequisites CentOS 7 Houston UI Windows Active Directory Credentials for Domain User with permission to authenticate Active Directory Join Steps Installing packages Install packages needed for domain join [root@centos7 ~]# yum install -y realmd oddjob-mkhomedir oddjob samba-winbind-clients samba-winbind samba-common-tools […]

Scope/Description The article details the process of moving your pre-existing samba shares in the ZFS tab to the File Sharing Tab. This occurs when a samba share is made before installing the 45Drives File Sharing Module. This new module splits the ZFS + File Sharing tab into separate entities “ZFS” and “File Sharing”. Prerequisites Existing […]

Scope/Description This article will walk through the process of installing and configuring automated zfs snapshots and replication. The following process works with Ubuntu20.04 and Rocky Linux 8. The tool used to achieve automated snapshots and replication is a open source project called znapzend. Prerequisites 45Drives repository enabled ZFS installed and configured mbuffer installed on all […]

Scope/Description This article will show how to install and configure a monitoring, alerting and metric stack  in Ubuntu 20.04 and Rocky Linux 8 using ansible. More information can be found here. Prerequisites Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or CentOS7.9 installed Ansible installed Steps Generate ssh key and copy it to yourself ssh-keygen <Press enter for each line> […]

Scope/Description This article will walkthrough the process of configuring a fresh install of Ubuntu20.04 LTS for Houston UI. Prerequisites Ubuntu 20.04 Server Internet access to server IPMI or KVM access to server Steps Getting the configuration script Use IPMI console or physical monitor and keyboard on server, doing this process via SSH will break the […]

Scope/Description This article covers adding Google Authenticator 2FA to your Houston UI login page on Ubuntu 20.04 Prerequisites A working Ubuntu 20.04 server with Houston UI Access to the servers terminal Steps Installing Google Authenticator PAM Package To begin we will need to install the Google Authenticator PAM package. This can be done with the […]