The Wandering Sysadmin
Blogging about various IT bits and pieces

Extracting Credit Card data from Ubersmith

October 27, 2016 Categories: PHP, Uncategorized, and WHMCS. No Comments on Extracting Credit Card data from Ubersmith

So we recently purchased a number of companies who use Ubersmith as their billing system. As I’ve mentioned before, we use WHMCS.  Ubersmith weren’t overly helpful with extracting our customers’ credit card data, so I had to spend some time playing about with ubersmith.  As it turned out, it wasn’t hard at all to pull […]

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Extending the WHMCS API and Fetching Invoice PDF’s

September 17, 2014 Categories: PHP and WHMCS. 12 Comments on Extending the WHMCS API and Fetching Invoice PDF’s

At work, we’re currently doing a FULL rebuild of our customer portal.  Part of the requirements of the system are that our staff must only be logging into one place.  At present they have to be logged into the portal AND WHMCS.  So in v2, we have to basically rebuild 90% of the WHMCS admin […]

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Installing dig on a Centos Linux Server with Yum

May 14, 2014 Categories: Linux. No Comments on Installing dig on a Centos Linux Server with Yum

Installing dig on a CentOS server is pretty easy, using yum.   Dig is part of the bind utils package, so you will want to install bind-utils. Basically

Installation will look something like the following:

And you’re now ready to use dig!

 

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Quick Tip: Get the UUID for a Disk or Partition

April 10, 2013 Categories: Linux. Tags: debian, LVM, and uuid. No Comments on Quick Tip: Get the UUID for a Disk or Partition

I was just quickly running up a small linux server to use as a backup server at a remote site, and added a new disk to an existing install. Since it’s at a remote site, I don’t want the chance of it barfing on boot, so I definitely want to specify my partition by UUID. […]

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Initial setup for Avaya 1608 IP Phones on an IP Office 500

April 8, 2013 Categories: Phones. Tags: Avaya, IP500, Phones, and VOIP. No Comments on Initial setup for Avaya 1608 IP Phones on an IP Office 500

So we’ve filled the Avaya IP Office IP500 at our management office.  At other offices, we just buy a DS16 or DS30, depending on site.  But at this office, we run a VOIP trunk, so have a VCM32, and only use up to 10 channels on that. As we discovered, the VCM32 comes with 12 […]

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