Category Archives: proliant

The blog was down yesterday

Posted on July 26, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

The brief outage was due to a scheduled move of the servers to a separate rack and subnet dedicated to our work with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity (ciac) at the University of Washington Bothell (uwb), and a11y.com … Continue reading →

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New whiteboarding

Posted on July 13, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I should also sketch out the physical and virtual circuits at and between each PoP as well as the vast array of Virtual Machines provisioned on the hypervisors.

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oops

Posted on June 25, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

the hypervisor wasn’t configured to enslave the correct physical interface to the correct bridge on boot. My bad. Sorry for the outage. Again.

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software bridge loops suck, too

Posted on February 15, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I didn’t realize that I had two of my machines attached to openvpn from the same l2 segment. It caused a network outage for about 24 hours. Sorry for the downtime folks. I believe that if I turn on stp … Continue reading →

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UW Hypervisor looks stable

Posted on January 16, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

The new hardware looks like it’s reliable. The one I swapped out 10 days ago crashed every 3 days or so for reasons I couldn’t discern. I changed that one for a spare I had laying around and have been … Continue reading →

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Replaced hypervisor

Posted on January 6, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

The system which was hosting this blog had a tendency to go down every few days. I swapped it out for a spare yesterday. Let’s see if it stays up. The hypervisor hosts this web server, a mysql server and … Continue reading →

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Running a console cable to the radio

Posted on March 25, 2009 by C.J. Adams-Collier

So, I’m attaching a radio to the chimney. I don’t want to have to bring it down every time I need to flash the firmware, so I’m also running an rs-232 cable up to it along with the PoE data/power … Continue reading →

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