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Back to our regularly scheduled programming.  I’ve written a lot of not-quite-technical posts in the past few weeks.  I know I did this week (because the gas tax has me furious).  All that being said, I decided to make a right-proper one this time because I’ve been toying around with this project at work and information is pretty slim because it’s out of date.  We needed a web server.  A small web server.  Apache, PHP, MySQL.  PhpMyAdmin to make part of the project super easy.

Well, the tiny part was easy.  Damn Small Linux.  Base install less than half a gig.

Adding Apache, PHP, MySQL, and PhpMyAdmin: not so much.  All the instructions were hand-wavy and the newest installer scripts don’t work on the size of disk I wanted.

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So, we’re getting ready to deploy Windows 10 next year by preparing for it this year.

Well, everything sucks and is miserable while trying to do it with Altiris Deployment Services and Ghost, so I took it upon myself to work on alternatives. WDS here we come.

This is the start of the project, and it starts with testing it in the Homelab. Well, the first part of getting the whole process started is: setting up the Homelab, which I’ve never done before.

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I’ve been talking a lot about Zabbix lately (mostly because it’s a lot of what is on my plate at work)  and I keep finding little gotcha points that I understand but are very frustrating.  Last week (and into this week) I’ve been setting up trigger dependency.  Here’s an example, just as a hypothetical situation.

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This guide modified from 2DayGeek’s post available here.  Some of the steps (namely 7) didn’t work, so I wanted to publish my own step-by-step guide because Zabbix’s provided instructions of build from soure and hope for the best were found lacking in my view.

For your information, this guide is written for upgrading Zabbix 2.4.7 to 3.0.1 on an Ubuntu installation.  The steps will be slightly different for different flavors of Linux/Unix and completely different for Windows.  If you’re doing a Windows Zabbix box you should already know how to manage it because .exe is simpler than this.

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