Christian Berding
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Feb 11 2023
vRealize Lifecycle Manager – Staging Updates
This post will describe staging updates or Images into vRealize LifeCycle Manager. In some cases vRSLCM cannot connect to internet directly and therefore updates have to be manually staged/updated.
Jan 11 2023
Home Assistant Modules
This will provide overview of modules/plugins/cars that have been used in my current environment
Jan 07 2023
Home Assistant
Home Assistant is free and open-source software for home automation designed to be a central control system for smart home devices with a focus on local control and privacy. It can be accessed through a web-based user interface by using companion apps for Android and iOS, or by voice commands . Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline set of voice assistant services for many human languages that works …
Dec 25 2022
Telegraf / Grafana – Smart Meter
Netherlands supports various “smart” gateways which support a P1 port for actual data discovery of electricity and gas consumption. This post will post actual references and details to configure this in Telegraf/InfluxDB for use in Grafana.
Dec 25 2022
Linux: Prometheus-Node-Exporter
Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting. Prometheus also has node exporters including windows to export OS specific metrics.
Dec 25 2022
Telegraf
Telegraf is a server-based agent for collecting all kinds of metrics for further processing. It’s a piece of software that you can install anywhere in your infrastructure and it will read metrics from specified sources – typically application logs, events, or data outputs
Dec 25 2022
InfluxDB
InfluxDB is an open-source time series database developed by the company InfluxData. It is written in the Go programming language for storage and retrieval of time series data in fields such as operations monitoring, application metrics, Internet of Things sensor data, and real-time analytics.
Dec 25 2022
Grafana
Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.
Dec 25 2022
Prometheus
Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting.
Dec 12 2022
GitLab CE
GitLab is a DevOps software package that combines the ability to develop, secure, and operate software in a single application. Git is a version control system used to track changes in computer files. Git’s primary purpose is to manage any changes made in one or more projects over a given period of time. It helps coordinate …