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Unreal... for reasons I cannot explain the BIOS had external USB ports disabled. Made a quick change and everything is working fine. Because the OS was booting I never thought to check USB in the BIOS. Never thought of internal UDB vs external USB. My only concern now is how the OS keeps track of the devices. I have a Dev 1 and a dev 1. I suppose as long as unraid uses the Identification info and not anything else I should be OK. Thanks dlandon

Strange that it worked before but not now. But if you say it isnt detected in BIOS, that explains it all. I'll check the BIOS and see what I find. Worst case I can try a liveboot ubuntu/debian etc. Thanks DLandon

I am currently unable to detect a WD 14 TB external drive. It has worked in the past and was disconnected for a few months. Its not working anymore. I have no idea why its not showing up in unassigned devices. The only thing listed is Dev 1 - HP_iLO_LUN_00_Media_0_000002660A01-0:0 (sdb) BASICS -------------- HP Gen 8 Microserver 16GB or OEM RAM. Xeon CPU. 14TB Western Digital - not shucked. OEM power cable. OEM USB cable. - Has worked on this machine before. Tested on Win10 laptop. Files are detected and disk is formatted as NTFS. SETPS TAKEN --------------------------- Swear, etc. Verify that the file are readable on another machine Try multiple USB ports on the machine. Uninstall Unassigned Devices Plus Uninstall Unassigned Devices Re-install Uninstall Unassigned Devices Nothing seems to get this external drive to show up. Any help is greatly appreciated. Logs attached. unraid-diagnostics-20241229-1303.zip

No you don't need to use the versions written in the dependency list. There have been many updates since that tutorial was written. Truth is most people on this thread set their system up long ago and the front-end GUI is really all that changes. The 2 or 3 backend parts just stay mostly the same. Nobody really documents the set up from scratch anymore. So here we are... I just installed this Dec 24th 2024 and here is what i did to get the basic install working. I still have to configure it to my environment, but its at least running. 1- Install InfluxDB 2 - I tried to use 1.8 as instructed, but other pieces later on seem to require version 2. I then went to localhost:8086 and set up the admin account. 2 - Installing Telegraf. For now, ignore all the unRAID instructions about enabling inputs. Getting Telegraf installed and running requires a config file. This file of course is not provided and the container wont start without it. Google provides you links to a now-deleted file. YOU WANT THIS >> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/telegraf/master/etc/telegraf.conf It is located at the internet archive link because it does not seem to be anywhere else. GET THE FILE HERE >> https://web.archive.org/web/20230209014553/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/telegraf/master/etc/telegraf.conf Copy the contents of that entire file. Its 10,000+ lines. Save it on you mac/PC somewhere, we will need it soon 3 - If you have already tried to start telegraf it has automatically created a folder for you in /mnt/user/appdata. You do not want them and it needs to be deleted. Open your unraid terminal and delete the /mnt/user/appdata/telegraf/telegraf.d folder I repeat - the telegraf.d folder. it is empty and we do not use it. If you are unsure how to delete the folder stop here. 4 - while you are in the /mnt/user/appdata/telegraf folder create the correct file with "touch telegraf.conf" Now you have a config file in the correct location. Type "nano telegraf.conf" Paste the 10,000 line file into nano with a right-click. Ctrl+O to save. Press Y then Enter. 5 - restart telegraf in the GUI and hope it stays running. This means your telegraf.conf file is being processed by the container. 6 - Install Grafana. You will need to tell it to use influx/telegraf as a data source. Follow the existing guide for that. 7 - Download the UUD dashboard template from this thread and follow the steps to make a dashboard. It will show nothing but errors, blanks and "N/A" Congrats. You did it. Now you can go back to the guide and follow steps for specific inputs you want to monitor. 8 - Follow the guide about inputs and outputs. This is where you make changes in the 10,000 line file. Rather than searching sections in the nano terminal, just use Ctrl+F in the local copy you saved on your local system. OUTPUT PLUGINS section starts at line 116 INPUT PLUGS section starts at line 3400 In nano you can jump to line numbers using Ctrl + <underscore>. Most people press "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "minus sign". The Shift and "dash-key/ minus sign" gives you the underscore needed. Type line number and press enter. 9 - Eventually you can add in things like Varken and Tautulli. 10 - Keep in mind every dashboard is unique to every system. So you will need to customize it. You can also try out older version of UUD as they don't have 30 HDDs configured and all sorts of stuff that have been added to the current version. You can have multiple dashboards at once so don't delete 1.7 if you want to try 1.3 I know I probably missed some stuff. I'll make updates as I find them.