Author: Shawn Jackson

I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.

Zabbix Proxy Error: invalid field name "globalmacro.type"

Shawn Jackson Hardware December 19, 2020

Recently I’ve been standing up Zabbix for monitoring my systems for Resgrid and Consulting Clients. Due to how my network is segmented between my primary site and secondary site I needed to use the Zabbix Proxy feature to broker monitoring calls from one to the other. This error seemed to prevent the Proxy from getting
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Adapting to Remote Work

Shawn Jackson Business, Companies November 3, 2020

It’s finally happened. It only took a global pandemic, but remote work is not mainstream and really, for technology and knowledge workers is going to be the norm. So now, companies that were ‘anti-remote work’ are going to need to get up to speed. Remote work is here to stay. Even after the pandemic is
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HAProxy in front of Kubernetes Workloads: 503 Service Unavailable Errors

Shawn Jackson Development October 18, 2020

I’ve been working to get Resgrid stack running on Docker utilizing Kubernetes. My networks utilize a PFSense firewall running HAProxy that front connections for multiple domain names. Although I have some small static IP blocks dedicating 1 IP in a straight firewall passthrough is not ideal. For all my other setups HAProxy has been working
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