Keep an eye on your network – Observium Tutorial

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A wise man once said “You can’t know what’s wrong if you never knew what right looks like”. That was me. Keeping a watchful eye on your servers and network gear is quite a challenge, but where do you even begin? Today, I’m going to show you how to setup Observium to monitor and log activity for any device on your network. Best of all, its 100% free.

But first… What am I drinking???

From Big Ditch Brewing (NY) comes… a beer that tastes like beer in the form of A Beer That Tastes Like Beer. It’s definitely a beer, and it tastes like a beer, but I’m not sure if it’s the beer-like beer they were going for.

Copy/Paste instructions can be found here:

Hardware from my server rack

– Network –
UniFi UDM-Pro:
UniFi G3 FLEX Camera:
UniFi G4 PRO Camera:
UniFi USW-24-POE Gen2:
Mikrotik CRS317-1G-16S+ on Amazon:
Mikrotik Desktop 5-port 10Gb Switch:
Mikrotik CRS328-24P-4S+ 24-Port PoE + 10Gb Switch:
Ubiquiti UniFi UDM-Pro Router/Firewall:
10Gb DAC cables:
HP NC523SFP Dual 10-Gigabit PCIe adapter:
Asus XG-C100F 10Gbps PCIe 3.0 Network Card:

– HP DL80 Gen9 –
(Barebones) 2U:
HP Gen8 – Gen10 3.5″ Drive Trays:
Xeon E5-2660v3 –
Xeon E5-2678v3 –

– Supermicro Ultra Servers –

– Hyve Zeus 1U Servers –
Hyve Zeus Dual 2011-0 1U Barebones:
Hyve Zeus Rails:
Xeon E5-2650 v2:
nVidia Quadro P400:
nVidia Quadro P1000:
HP Dual 10Gb SFP+ Card:
1U PCIe Riser (the right one…):

– Chenbro NR12000 –
(Barebones) 1U 12-Bay:
Chenbro NR12000 Rails:
Hard Drive Rubber Grommets:
Drive Mount Screws (6-32 3/8″ Truss Head):
HGST 6TB SATA:
PCIe 1U Riser:

– Storage Server –
Supermicro 846 Chassis:
Supermicro H11SSL-i SP3 Motherboard:
32GB DDR4-2666 ECC RDIMM (x8) –
8TB HGST He8 Helium SAS:
Seagate FureCUDA 1TB NVMe:
Seagate IronWolf 110 1.92TB SATA SSD:
EVGA Supernova T2 1600W:
Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3:
Fractal Design Define 7:
AMD Epyc 7601:

– Cloud Gaming Server –
AMD Epyc 7742:
AsRock RACK ROMED8-2T Motherboard (7002/7003 Support):
256GB (8x32GB) DDR4 ECC-REG 2666:
be quiet! Dark Power 12 1500W 80+ Titanium:
Asus Hyper m.2 x16 V2:
Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3:
Noctua NH-U9 TR4-SP3:
InWin R400N 4U Server Chassis:

– UPS Unit –
APC Smart-UPS RM SMT1500RM2U:

– Air Conditioning –
Tripp Lite SRCOOOL7KRM on Amazon:
Duct Kit for SRCOOL7KRM:

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0:00 Intro
2:50 Observium Install
4:31 Linux SNMP v2c
7:44 Windows SNMP v2c
9:31 Linux SNMP v3
11:35 Windows ~~SNMP v3~~ WMI
15:51 Wrap up
18:02 Beer That Tastes Like Beer
Music:
Intractable by Kevin MacLeod
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