Dell Vostro 270 Inspiron 660 pinout

This is the pinout for Dell motherboards found on Vostro 270 / Inspiron 660 motherboards (on possibly others). I found the pins for : power switch, hdd LED, power LED that need to be connected to the case.

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Grafana not showing mount points containing dot in name in Disk Space plugin

I use Grafana and Prometheus to monitor my home server running on Ubuntu 16.04 x32 (Atom N270 CPU). I noticed that my external USB HDD is shown in Disk Space dashboard, but only in Mountpoint Usage graph. I only see the graph with the percentage.

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Exclude from Grafana ISPConfig mounted logs in Disk Space dashboard

I use Grafana to monitor a few servers. Because ISPConfig mounts the logs folders to other locations, the disk stats provided by the Prometheus Node Exporter include info that is not useful (at least for me). This is how the Disk Space Graph is shown :

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TP Link HS110 smartplug linux monitoring with Grafana

The TP-Link HS110 smartplug has a mobile app that is not very useful. Digging through the internet i found a few scripts that can read data from it. I used a script with Grafana and Prometheus and made a nice dashboard with the collected data.

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Solve nagios plugin check_iftraffic64.pl not reporting data

I’ve decided to use this plugin, check_iftraffic64.pl for network card monitoring (for Linux) Details :

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Feb 01 2016

Sender verify failed cPANEL

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If you have problems with your cPanel server not receiving mail from certain email addresses here is why :
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Jan 12 2016

Vmware Converter – unable to obtain hardware for the selected machine

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When trying to convert a physical machine to a virtual one, you may receive the following error after authentication : unable to obtain hardware for the selected machine. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dec 02 2015

WordPress plugin UpdraftPlus not working with XCache

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I’ve upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 and from ISPConfig 3.0.5.4p5 to 3.0.5.4p8 and moved my websites. When using UpdraftPlus plugin for FTP backup I’ve noticed that the backup is stuck at 0%.
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Oct 05 2015

Dell 1720DN printer info

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Description : Dell monochrome laser printer (EPSON parts inside) with duplex, LAN port, paralel port. Speed is up to 28 pages per minute. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sep 11 2015

ESXi info ERROR: wrong DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT thin when using ghettoVCB

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Story : My main server had to be moved to a different datacenter.
I’ve backed up my virtual machines using ghettoVCB to a NFS datastore.
I’ve copied them to another server’s internal hard-drives from the NFS datastore.
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Jul 23 2015

HP Smart Array B320i on DL360e Gen8 and Ubuntu 14

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In order to use the HP Smart Array B320i raid controller on Ubuntu 14, instead of the onboard SATA controller, you need to do the following steps. It worked for me.
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Jul 16 2015

Enable SSL for Owncloud 8 on Ubuntu

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This was tested on Ubuntu Server Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS x64 running Owncloud 8.0.4
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