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Puppet & Chocolatey – Install GDrive Stream

Introduction Experimenting with Puppet & Chocolatey on Windows. Little snippet to install Google Drive Stream. class windows::google_drive_stream { Package { provider => 'chocolatey' } package { 'google-drive-file-stream': ensure => installed, } }

Postfix SMTP Sender Routing

Recently, I had need of setting up a postfix “smtp router” to distribute mail from various users among a cluster of outbound relays (on unique exit IP’s, with difference QoS policies applied) Part of the functionality that was desired was the ability to route...

Perl Get Active Queue Size (NetXMS/PRTG Use case)

The following Perl script gets the size of the Postfix Active queue and outputs it. (Used for queue monitoring on our NMS via SSH sensors, but might be useful in your environment) #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Symbol; sub count { my ($dir) = @_; my...

Zimbra SASL Errors

If you’re observing errors on your Zimbra servers’ mail-log similar to the one below, and your users are reporting password prompts on ‘sending’ e-mails. Nov 24 17:12:07 areto postfix/smtpd[5528]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd...

Proxmox – Remove local LVM

I’m  a big Proxmox fan, having deployed more than 20 systems both at customers and on my home lab this year without drama. However, the Proxmox LVM structure bugs the heck out of me. I prefer to utilize a single LVM Volume due to some weird glitches with LXC images...

Fortinet/Cisco IPSec VPN – Asterisk Peer Unreachable

Recently, i had to troubleshoot an Asterisk to Asterisk trunk which was running across a site to site IPSec VPN. (Fortinet to Cisco) After running tcpdump “port 5060 and proto UDP” on either end, I discovered traffic from the Cisco end was not reaching the PBX behind...