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Concept Managing server fan speed is crucial for maintaining an optimal balance between cooling efficiency and noise levels, especially in environments where temperature control and acoustics are important. Dell servers, like many other enterprise-grade hardware, come equipped with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) capabilities. With the help of ipmi-tools, we can access and control various hardware components of the server, including fan speed, remotely or locally, without needing direct access to the operating system. ...

Context DDNS allows for the dynamic update of DNS entries and attributes - what a fitting name. This can be an extremely valuable resource for professionals and homelabbers who need to deal with dynamically assigned IP addresses in keeping things connected. I personally use Cloudflare as a DNS proxy for my various domains, which used to be managed by Google Domains until they sold that business to Squarespace; I’ve since been moving everything to Porkbun. ...

I have been trying to gather my thoughts about using Ansible as a network engineer for a while now; but I’ve never found a good perspective to tell the story through. Even to begin to summarize how useful Ansible can be in a network setting can be a daunting task; my ongoing Obsidian web of notes seems to grow exponentially the more I explore. Intro and context Since I have to start somewhere, I think that covering the basic framework of how I use Ansible, and some of the most common tasks that I have been able to automate and speed up over time. ...

Over the last few months, I have been playing around with moving my website from Wordpress where it has lived in one form or another since around 2004. When I first installed it, I believe I was really just looking for some software to run on my newly hacked together LAMP server; I never imagined I would use it for so long. A plain quote — stays blue, no label. Note Blue, with a “Note” label and info icon. Warning Amber. Caution Red. Really Interesting! The xfrm interface has to exist before strongSwan can bind the tunnel to it — which is the kind of ordering detail that costs you an afternoon. Tip Talk to your computers like this “beep boop beep beep” Important Vote in your local elections IDK this is just something QuoteNeil Breen Network processor NP7 - Fortinet’s breakthrough SPU NP7 works in line with FortiOS functions to deliver: Quote Network processor NP7 - Fortinet’s breakthrough SPU NP7 works in line with FortiOS functions to deliver: ...