With the weekend maintenance window agreed, begrudgingly, by the internal customers at home I set about replacing the EdgeRouter we last visited on https://itskimpossible.blog/farewell-my-little-edgerouter/ with my frankenrouter Futro S920 OPNsense. First of all, before pulling the connection down, I booted up the S920 with the power consumption monitor to see how things looked. Initially shocked […]
Farewell my little EdgeRouter
5+ years, two power supplies, and various configurations later the day has come to retire the little faithful EdgeRouter that has served this household well. With a near daily frequency of it just dropping the WAN interface until a reboot, the ‘Dad, the WiFi is down again!‘ cries from the internal customers has forced my […]
Patch Management Engine
Over the holiday break, I have been enrolling devices into our Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) tooling and seeing what quick wins could be realised. One of the first things we do after installing the RMM agent across an environment is to allow the ‘Detect Only‘ patch management task to run. This task runs twice […]
The importance of facetime (workshopping)
The global pandemic taught us (some of us already knew) that we could work collaboratively without being in the same room. Normally this is a decision taken through choice be it for logistics, timezone convenience, or doing our bit to save the planet but the pandemic effectively made it impossible to be in the same […]
Finally… a blog
For what feels like years of saying ‘I really should write a blog’ and ‘I don’t have time to curate material that would be interesting for others’, I have realised that at least once a week I search my mailbox, or previous support tickets to find something I have done in the past and need […]