[tech] Post Rack Switch Status Update

James French frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Jun 26 13:07:37 WST 2011


Racks after: http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchiephish/5871172491/

(now sent to everyone instead of just to Adrian)

F.

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011, Matt Didcoe wrote:
>> Some of the management interfaces are also yet to be plugged in, this will be fixed in the next day or two.
>>
>> I'd add my thanks to those who came in and helped out today, it certainly looks a hell of a lot better in the machine room at the moment. There will be hell to pay if anyone messes it up :P
>
> Did someone take before/after pictures?
>
>
>
> adrian
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> [MRD]
>>
>> --
>> Matt Didcoe
>> Vice President (2011) / Wheel member
>> mattman at ucc
>>
>> On 25/06/2011, at 10:18 PM, Bob Adamson wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > What a marathon! 12 hours later, most of the machine room services are
>> > back online. Two new racks were put in the machine room, and they even
>> > fit, despite everyone's claims to the contrary! We finally have racks to
>> > support the newer gear, so motsugo got racked up, along with the UPS.
>> >
>> > Things that are still broken:
>> >
>> > Camwhore (being its usual self) decided not to bring any of the cameras
>> > online when it booted. Despite a couple of reboots, it hasn't fixed itself
>> > and needs some TLC.
>> >
>> > Centipede (the DECserver that was in the right rack) decided it hated life
>> > and died. [DAA] found a replacement and got it going but the door service
>> > is still refusing to work.
>> >
>> > The clubroom is more of a disaster zone than usual, film at 11.
>> >
>> > Mylah dropped a stuffed disk from the /space array overnight, so that got
>> > taken out during the downtime. It then refused to boot because another
>> > disk had exceeded its error count, so that had to be removed too. So
>> > currently that raid has no redundancy, and I'm backing it up to the san
>> > right now. We need to investigate purchasing 2 new ultra320 146G disks in
>> > the very near future.
>> >
>> > Musundo got upgraded to a v490. I'm not sure why it didn't come back
>> > up, maybe zanchey can shed some light on the matter.
>> >
>> > Not broken but needs doing:
>> > The UPS software needs installing on something and testing.
>> > Clubroom could probably do with a little cleanup...
>> > Buy a beer for everyone that helped out, you guys rock.
>> >
>> > Please email wheel@ or jump on irc if you notice anything else broken.
>> >
>> > Andrew Adamson
>> > UCC President
>> > bob at ucc.asn.au
>> >
>> > |"The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live."     |
>> > | ---Peter's Laws                                                        |
>> >
>
>


More information about the tech mailing list