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27/04/2024

PRTG and Custom Sensor Scripts

I wanted to get the result of a PowerShell (PS) script into PRTG to monitor the result of the script. This proved to be more challenging than I expected, mainly as there are some “gotchas” if you running the script on a remove server/PC using the PRTG Remote Probe. The key things which I learnt (aka tripped me up!) are:...

PRTG Comments: 0

15/04/2024

PowerShell Graph SDK and Personal OneDrive

I’ve spent an age going round the houses to find the right PowerShell Graph SDK commands to retrieve a list of the contents of the root of a Personal OneDrive (ie not OneDrive for Business!). I was trying get MgDriveItem, but some trial & error, plus using the Graph SDK Explorer eventually turned up the right commend Remove the -debug...

PowerShell Comments: 0

10/04/2024

PRTG & Let’s Encrypt (2024)

My original post on configuring PRTG to use a Let’s Encrypt certificate can be found here. In the time since I set that up, the process has changed (for the better). The biggest change is v5.x of Certify the Web (CtW) introduced Deployment Tasks. This means we no longer need to use a PowerShell script to get the certificate files...

Lets Encrypt/PRTG Comments: 0

10/04/2024

Pi-Hole & Let’s Encrypt (2024)

Since writing my original instructions for using a Let’s Encrypt (LE) SSL certificate to secure the Lighttpd web server used by Pi-Hole back in 2020, lots has changed. A double disk drop-out in my server (argh!) meant I needed to build a new Pi-Hole VM, so I took the chance to move to the current Ubuntu LTS (22.04). I’m still...

Lets Encrypt/Pi-Hole Comments: 4

29/05/2020

CyberPower UPS – ESXi Monitoring & Shutdown

First up, this post is really a summary of a great how to from TinkerTry. https://tinkertry.com/configure-automated-shutdown-homelab-datacenter-15-minutes I wanted to move my lab server to a shelf in the eves in my garage but didn’t fancy having to go out there to poke it after a power cut. A UPS was therefore needed – normally I would buy an APC but...

CyberPower/VMware Comments: 4

22/05/2020

CyberPower UPS & PRTG

My small home lab is protected by a CyberPower CP900 UPS (full spec here). I will write-up configuring the CyberPower PowerPanel software (I used their CentOS VM which comes as an ESXi OVF template so is really easy to deploy) in another post soon. Update 29th May 2020 – setting up PowerPanel is detailed here: To monitor the UPS via...

CyberPower/PRTG Comments: 0