Bash

This will be quite short, but I wanted to put some new content out there. Healthy checks are a vital part of any organization, be it your homelab, a small office network, or a datacenter. Knowing the status (availability, load, temperature, etc.) of a server is critical in not only being aware of its health, but also of the potential need to scale. For my home server use, the only thing I’m really concerned with is availability, mainly because my toddler delights in pushing the power button. Sadly, my version of iDRAC doesn’t allow the button to be remapped. I could disconnect it, but that leads to annoyances when actually having to use the button, so… ...

UPDATE: See end for an update on the method I settled on. I run a home server, primarily as a NAS using Plex. It’s an old Dell T310 (X3430 @ 2.4 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 25 TB usable disk with n+1 parity, RAID1 SSD boot drives) which I’ve shoved HDDs into. It’s also my Linux environment when Mac just doesn’t quite cut it, and I don’t feel like starting a VM on the Air. Anyway, having Plex, eventually other people somehow find out that you have a fairly hefty amount (17 TB and climbing) of media, and Plex can share its libraries, so why not? ...