how am I gonna go on in life ??? /s

Well, switched from check_mk to librenms this morning. and indeed, it’s a much better fit. Much more network oriented compared to many other tools.

Agreed, yet here we are.

So two choices: accept the call home or fix it yourself and learn something new. There are plenty step by step guides.

Most simply don’t care. Don’t think there is a turn-key solution. Just look up pihole and take it from there.

Most likely it’s calling home using a fqdn. Set up your own DNS, force all your devices to use it (use dnat in your firewall). Then watch which fqdn’s you TV uses and blacklist those. That’s how I do it ( I use technitium DNS)

Are you kidding me? True, there is time involved. My biggest ‘sin’ right now is “home gallery” for it works on MY directory structure which I won’t give up.

The geoguessing game that hides in it is superb ! I’m still amazed with the images I’ve been able to locate. Sometimes 40 years back.

Power consumption is the 2nd thing i look for in my IT devices (first is “do I need internet/cloud services to run it” … Yes is an absolut disqualifier)

Nice post. Recognisable too. I have an old server from work at home, but came to the same conclusion: with that power consumption it’s no fun running it 24/7 at home.

Thnx! This looks like the way to go.

I like the idea ! And looked at the project on github. But … snap disgust me so much more than searching the right source, i’m not adapting to it. But still nice thinking!

but…but… It’s sooooooo easy and convenient for you and it’s safe, we pinky-promise!

Bit broad question but Sounds like a nas can be a way to go. Read up on raid and think about your backup strategy first.

(I use a synology nas with 4Tb disk at home that backups to an offsite readynas with 4x 4tb disks in raid config and encryption)

Guilty too. There are names on router- and switch interfaces. Servers get fixed IP from dhcp so is in the note field there too. That’s about it

I love syncthing!! I have one VM with only debian an syncthing and that machine is backed-up frequently. All others PC’s and vm’s syncthing to that one machine.

All of them sync ~/downloads

All machines I use for coding also sync ~/code

My desktop machines sync ~/documents.

And so on. Works great (for me)

I never read such a thing. I never had that myself and run ha on proxmox since many years. on Debian OS on proxmox.

• website
• email
• dns
• adblocking
• home assistent
• home gallery
• eve-ng
• check_mk
• nagios
• git
• ansible
• backuppc
• zoneminder
• unifi controller
• central syslog
• syslog2irc
• kodi
• 3x moodeaudio

They always point at the network, but we know:

I found graylog and the likes nice but as you said heavy on resources. I now have a central rsyslog server (on debian 12) that first does some filtering of log lines I don’t care about and then stores log in postgress. Grafana lives on that same host and I’m very happy with it. It performs quite well with just a fraction of resources graylog had as bare minimum. (The server has 4 sockets and 8Gb mem, storage to SSD while 4 firewalls, 3 switches, 4 AP’s and 20 servers logging to it) In the proxmox console I see 2Gb mem is used and the cpu is bored (<5%)