Category: Tech-Notes

  • Graylog – Node Appears/Disappears

    ANOTHER graylog issue 😀 yeah In the UI you could see the graylog node appearing, and disappearing again. It also showed the message “no leader”. BUT, looking at opensearch, you can see the data still comming in. So what happened? Basically, graylog changed some stuff without telling us, so now it want’s to talk to…

  • GeoIP in Nginx Proxy Manager

    I’ve tried to add GeoIP2 to my Nginx Proxy Manager. After finding a few blogs and articles that “explain” how to do it, I got more confused. Here is the final guide, that will help you. First you need to setup a 2nd docker container, that will download your GeoIP2 database from maxmind. They got…

  • Opensearch – Yellow / Top Queries

    With an update of opensearch there suddenly is a new index called top_queries-xxxx. This will turn yellow on a single-node cluster, as it want’s two replicase. Apperantely, it’s not in the interest of opensearch, to create stuff, that works with their own software. So we have to fix it ourtselfs. Once again. Luckely this is…

  • Veeam VMs deleted – Tape Job

    When you delete a VM from VMware, that has been backuped by Veeam and Tape, the tape job will prompt a warning. This can easily be fixed, by disabling and enabling the Tape Job.

  • Graylog fix wrong field type

    Sometimes you’ll get a indexing error, because the field type couldn’t be matched. This will look something like this: You can fix this, by changing the mapping in opensearch. Usually you do this directely on the index, but with roating indexes like in graylog, this won’t work. That’s why we need to create a template,…

  • acme.sh & traefik cert issue

    acme.sh renew doesn’t work Let’s tackel the acme.sh issue first. I sent a renew command with manual DNS verification, the renew went through without errors, but the cert didn’t renew. This is a known issue: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/4041 The solution is to delete these lines in the config file under ~/.acme.sh/yourdomain/yourdomain.conf: After that send the usual renew…

  • VMware Tools Install – Error 21004

    When we tried to mount the VMware Tools with the button “Install VMware Tools”, we got the Error 21004. In the vmware.log of that particular VM, we got this error: This is a known issue, where changing the product locker leads to file permission errors. This can be fixed by reapplying the file permissions. Put…

  • Self-Signed Cert on Windows

    It’s easy to create a self-signed cert on windows: If you have something like the SQL Reporting Service, you’ll have to trust the certificate. So we can extend the command like this: