From previous posts, we have deployed Zabbix Server on a Proxmox container. We also hardened the installation through Let’s Encrypt certificates for the web frontend and TLS encryption for the communication between Server and Agents/Proxies, after all, although encrypted Zabbix Server <-> Agent/Proxy communication with PSK or SSL certificates 🙂 In this post I will…
In this post we are going to configure a NFS share on our Synology NAS so that Proxmox Backup Server can use it as storage (aka Datastore) for all VMs and container backups. The first step is to configure NFS share on your Synology, then we need to mount the NFS share on the server…
Recently I have added a Supermicro X10DRi-T4+ to my homelab and a natural idea was to install a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate and replace the original self-signed one. For such, I had to adapt a couple python scripts [1] [2] first published by Jari Turkia. None of them worked for Supermicro X10DRi-T4+, but it wasn’t…
In previous posts we have discussed how to enable SNMPv1 support on your APC UPS for remote monitoring. Here we are going to leverage this configuration to allow your Synology NAS to monitor your UPS and protect it from outages! The first step is to open Control Panel >> Hardware & Power >> UPS. Note…
A Unifi controller is a required piece of software if you have any Unifi gear, such as their famous Access Points. You can have the controller running on a dedicated hardware, as Unifi Cloud Key or Dream Machine Pro. However, in this post we are going to install the Unifi controller on a Docker container…
In this article we are going install Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates on a Synology NAS, but with a twist! The certificates are actually issued by pfSense, which is in the edge of our Internet setup, and then reused by Synology NAS too. Configure pfSense In short, you have to use pfSense to issue a certificate…
In this article I’m going to show how to authenticate users on your pfSense using LDAP server powered by Synology DSM. The steps will include SSL encryption based on Let’s Encrypt certificates. You need to issue Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, configure SSL certificates on your pfSense, and finally configure SSL certificates on your Synology that…
For future posts, we will need to have SSH enabled on the Synology NAS, so let’s get this out of the way. Although you can use admin user to connect to Synology DSM, you can create a new user for this purpose. Go to Control Panel >> User and click the Create button, fill in…