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N.U.T - UPS Monitoring via PfSense / Grafana

Server owners love electricity, that's why I'll tell you how I monitor my UPS to prevent my servers from shutting down the hard way. N.U.T (Network UPS Tools) is a good choice to unify multiple brands UPS for monitoring. I didn't want

Pfsense - Connect to VPN PIA

This tutorial use : https://www.privateinternetaccess.com as VPN but the operation will be mostly the same with another provider. I will explain how to connect your PfSense to PIA VPN and chose which device you want to "protect" with. In this tutorial I'll use the

🔎 PfSense to InfluxDB - Monitoring

Networks can become kind of cluttery, and there can be lots of interactions between interfaces * LAN * WI-FI * WAN * DMZ This is why I want to monitor my PfSense via Grafana Prerequisites * An InfluxDB server * A Grafana server and... * A PfSense firewall! Installation of Telegraf A while ago, I installed Telegraf

🔐 FreeBSD - Adding self signed certificate authority

I wrote an article to monitor PfSense (which is based on FreeBSD, so it'll work on it too) via Telegraf and got problems with my own CA. Telegraf agent did not send data because the authority was unknow : InfluxDB Output Error: post https://influxdb01.pla01.lbdg.lan:8086/

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