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12:00 AM
@MichaelHampton They often don't, they expect to be run from PoE
 
sup freaks
 
Or - they ship them to AU with US power cords angryface
 
@JoelESalas SAN is block, NAS is file
end of story
 
@MDMarra So you'd classify my QNAP with a shitty ATOM processor and 256Mb of RAM that can be an iSCSI target a SAN?
 
ya
a shitty one, but yes
just like my crappy 2 bay d-link dns323 at home is a NAS
Technically speaking, your QNAP is a storage node, which is part of the SAN, which includes your storage switches (or VLANs)
 
12:03 AM
@MDMarra But that is a NAS. Nobody expects a NAS to be brilliant
 
But colloquially, SAN is block and NAS is file
@MarkHenderson Tell that to people running Oracle on NetApp NAS
 
@MDMarra Hmm, I guess you're right. I tend to think of a SAN having multiple nodes that can cluster, or are at least aware of each other...
But they don't need to be I guess
 
NAS gets a bad rep because people abuse it
 
See, I use my NAS to house a sparse file that I then mount as a loop device splice it up with LVM and them use md to set up a RAID5 with the VGs. InstaSAN!
 
oh god
EVERYONE HAS NEW GRAVARARS WTF
 
12:11 AM
eh?
 
@MDMarra I know, and now we can all see how ugly they are in real life. It's throwing me off
 
Holy hell. Who's that pedophile in @voretaq7's picture?
 
nailed it
 
Nice
 
@jscott do you SCOM?
 
12:13 AM
@MDMarra No, I wish.
 
Oh
 
Our fledgling SCCM install hasn't even really progressed past "pilot, deploy clients, play about"
 
I have an interesting SCOM architecture fact that I learned today that I wanted to share but everyone in here is a nix idiot or Australian besides you
 
@MDMarra Wohoo I'm not a nix idiot!
 
haha
Do you SCOM?
 
12:15 AM
I may still enjoy an interesting architecture fact. Who knows, some day I grow up, leave this job and go somewhere that actually does implementation instead of just half-assing everything.
 
@MDMarra Nope
 
Then you're just as worthless as them!!
 
Don't have a single network large enough to justify it.
 
@jscott So, in SCOM, classes of objects and functionality like monitors or applications, etc are stored in management packs
 
@MDMarra We have SCOM guys. Please share and I'll forward.
 
12:16 AM
they're modular and one can build on another
 
Yep.
 
{{{@MarkHenderson}}}
 
So I can define a "computer" class and have it in one MP and then extend it to "Windows Computer" or something in another MP
Well, Service Manager shares much of the same SCOM code base
So these management packs for SCOM can also be used to define these classes in SCSM
 
@WesleyDavid Mmmmyes?
 
So if you export a MP from SCOM and import it into SCSM and enable to SCOM connector, it will automatically populate your service manager database with things like Linux computers, Unix computers, Network Devices, VMware datastores, etc all from SCOM
 
12:18 AM
That's pretty incredible the SC umbrella was big enough to get the OM and SM teams to agree to share nicely. Sounds awfully useful.
 
I imported 108,000 configuration items for a client today
mostly Windows, AIX, RHEL, and VMware hosts and related classes like storage clusters, etc
All automated from SCOM, SCCM, and AD into SCSM
 
That sounds like a dream.
 
I had no clue how the hell to do it when I started it but it works hahaha
 
@MarkHenderson You said to stop kissing you so I hugged you.
 
Yeah but being able to learn it all is probably what makes you a valuable asset.
 
12:20 AM
@jscott Now when they make a ticket, they can click "Affected CIs" and pick the actual server object that's impacted by the issue in the ticket. They can double click on that CI and see if it's part of a SCOM application, or if it's got any related items from SCOM like low disk warnings and all that
@jscott additional SCSM/SCOM fun fact. Since so much of the SCSM codebase is SCOM under the hood, you can't install a SCOM agent, since it has shared DLLs and all that jazz with SCSM. SCSM installs an unremovable SCOM agent as part of the install to facilitate monitoring
You can't even start the SCSM install if there's a SCOM agent on the system
 
Wild. What do you think of Ballmer's announcement?
 
@MDMarra Can you write all this up in a white paper that I can pass out? That would be easier.
 
@jscott Meh
@ScottPack If you don't use SCSM none of it matters
 
Is that different from SCCM?
 
ya
SCSM is a ticketing/workflow system
SCCM is config management
 
12:25 AM
Ah, well then. Nobody cares.
 
@WesleyDavid Oh is that what that was. You kids.
 
hahaha
 
All real IT shops use Numera Footprints.
 
@MarkHenderson You are so uncool!!
 
@jscott It's worrysome as someone relying entirely on their enterprise offerings
 
12:26 AM
@jscott Link?
 
I'm curious what features/products will get lost in this "re-org".
 
@ScottPack My last job used footprints
 
@MarkHenderson Getting over the sickness slowly or is it lingering? Taking a turn for the worse?
 
@MDMarra Wow, so you guys were the other client?
 
12:26 AM
hahahaha
 
@WesleyDavid Up to 98% which is just as well; flying to see my parents for a family event this weekend
 
@ScottPack Fucking Perl-based web apps on Windows server with a MSSQL back end are not good.
 
@jscott What a sensationalist headline
 
@MDMarra That sounds....god. I mean wow. That's just terrible.
 
@MDMarra No, you should never fuck a perl-based web app
 
12:27 AM
@MarkHenderson It's El Reg, they're all that way.
 
That shit makes your dick catch fire
 
@MDMarra We're at least running it on RHEL backended by MySQL
perldoc /mnt/usr/MarkHenderson/dickfire
 
@ScottPack I didn't even know you could do that
 
@jscott So, Ballmer is basically the Peter Griffin of the IT world, isn't it?
 
@MarkHenderson Yes, but two beats off and more CYA than Peter could ever be.
 
12:30 AM
 
@ewwhite You around?
Okay, I just got an amber alert on my iPhone - why?
I don't have an app that does that, AFAIK
 
@WesleyDavid Whats an amber alert?
 
It could be targeted.
 
A hottie named Amber is in Aisle 5 of the local supermarket and you should all go there to check her out?
 
An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency (SAME code: CAE) is a child abduction alert system originating in 1996, now employed in 9 countries. AMBER is officially a backronym for America's Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response, named for Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas in 1996. Alternate regional alert names were once used; in Georgia, "Levi's Call" (named after Levi Frady); in Hawaii, "Maile Amber Alert" (after Maile Gilbert); and Arkansas, "Morgan Nick Amber Alert" (in memory of Morgan Chauntel Nick). AMBER Alerts are distributed via comme...
 
12:35 AM
@MarkHenderson It's a notification that your two-tone monitor is about to go out.
 
oops
 
@ScottPack Ohh our library used to have them
 
@MarkHenderson I was chasing a girl named Amber a few years ago. Red hair too. Cute.
Ambers - A- would chase again.
 
You mean, 10/10 would chase again?
 
Okay, A-. She was a little annoying.
 
12:36 AM
:P
 
Was she also a ginger?
 
Wow, if I Google "Amber Alert" it gives me all local alerts.
@ScottPack Dyed Red. Naturally blonde.
 
Lame.
 
She went close to fire-engine red for her hair.
 
12:38 AM
@NathanC Automatic rectal prolapse in 3... 2...
 
@NathanC That'll teach you to try passing.
 
@jscott That'll teach you to drive in Russia!
 
This would make a good reaction gif...
 
Once or twice I've started a vulnerability assessment that felt like that.
"Wait..what IP did I just type in...? OHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT"
 
@ScottPack Like the time I kept trying to shell into a certain public IP that my employer had, except I missed by one number. Then I caught it and corrected it, but checked IANA for kicks. It was in a DoD block. =(
 
12:40 AM
Why would "ps -A | grep ruby" give me much more results than "ps aux | grep ruby"? I mean both contain the a switch (for all running processes) and in addition the latter contains the x switch for background processes as well. u switch does not affect returned results. It just provides additional details to output.
 
@WesleyDavid To be fair, it'll probably get lost in the noise.
 
@ScottPack That's what I told myself.
 
@RyanRies Poke
 
12:47 AM
@RyanRies PokePoke
So, @WesleyDavid, have you figured out how to get rich yet?
 
@MDMarra ...I have some ideas...
 
@WesleyDavid The secret is to go on SF every day
 
@JoelESalas Okay! Where's my money...
 
@JoelESalas Why are you a dog on SF but a Mexican in chat?
 
@MDMarra I think because he has Area51 as his "default" chat profile site?
 
12:59 AM
ah
@jscott Want to move to Philly? :)
My Windows Engineer position is still open
 
@MDMarra ....
 
....
... --- ...
 
@WesleyDavid yes?
 
@ewwhite Incoming pic you might like...
Recognize that?
 
HP
 
1:02 AM
Friend got to trash a monster HP thingy.
Big ol' dog.
 
in the produce sites, I used to have a lot of those.
we'd just let the warehouse guys take them and try their luck at selling the gear on the street.
 
@ewwhite Heh
 
My guess is, throwing it out the window is probably the best option.
 
@MDMarra Flattered, I am. But I'm not sure I'd be a good fit.. I lack recent Exchange experience, no degree, no certs... and I'm getting really cheap health insurance for my wife/kid.
 
I got hired to do all this System Center work not having ever touched anything in it. It's all about what you can do, not what you've already done!
 
1:06 AM
+1 for sssd, -1 for using .local :) — Michael Hampton 3 mins ago
 
@jscott if you change you mind.. :)
 
I need so much Windows help, and nobody to do it.
 
@MichaelHampton please tell me he deliberately replaced ewwhite.local with mdmarra.local
That's like the ultimate burn
 
@ewwhite Oh Edmund, these things have been broken for so long they can wait another 48 hours
 
@MDMarra I just told the wife "This dude if offering me an opportunity if we move to Philly" and she was all "LET"S DO IT!".
 
1:07 AM
@MDMarra the Valley people deleted MORE files after I recovered them.
 
@ewwhite haha still a good burn
 
But she doesn't pay any bills here so no big for her.
 
Ha.
 
who uses .saas?
 
@MarkHenderson Dude do a search for mdmarra in the body of answers. He makes all fucked up servers mdmarra
 
1:08 AM
@ewwhite Is it a pain in the ass to move from winbind/krb5/samba to sssd?
 
Nagios...why you no snmp the firewall!?
 
@MDMarra Haha i'd never noticed that
 
@jscott I did it from the nslcd to authconfig in two steps across another environment
it all depends on whether you're using shared homedirs or not
 
@jscott Well, if you're really interested I'll pass your resume to my boss.
 
If only I had well, anything. :p
 
1:10 AM
@MDMarra I think we should make this an official SF best practice. When redacting server config, you must always replace the domain portion of an FQDN with mdmarra.local
6
 
@ewwhite You mean shared homedirs via pam_mount?
 
@MarkHenderson I'll allow it
 
@MarkHenderson You have my vote.
 
@jscott Like, I only care about local access to the servers and local home directories... It's not like I'm running automounts from SMB or NFS to the servers.
 
@ewwhite Got ya, thanks.
 
@ewwhite Oh valley
 
Malicious users, Samba and no accounting.
 
The same will happen on Windows if they don't define who should have access to what, though
 
No VSS?
 
@MDMarra but with VSS, it'll be easier to recover
 
1:15 AM
@jscott It's on RHEL now. Ed's been bugging me to move the shares to Windows specifically so we can turn VSS on
@ewwhite Yep
 
@WesleyDavid @MDMarra Sup? Sorry... spending time with the lady
 
@MDMarra So you need to handle business!!
 
With VSS, the users can restore themselves... until someone reverts an entire share and ruins everyone else's day.
 
@jscott I mean, I should be backing this stuff up
 
@RyanRies I pinged you because @WesleyDavid did and I'm a follower of the @WesleyDavid school of pinging @RyanRies
 
1:16 AM
@ewwhite Nah, it generates more work without backups available.
 
@RyanRies Also, I learned/did some crazy SCOM/SCSM shit today, but I already dominated chat with that a bit earlier
Kinda sucks when no one on the planet uses the product you're specializing in :(
 
@MDMarra vCloud Director
 
....jesus Avast
 
@MDMarra You're an early adopter, congratulations.
 
just about made me need a new pair of pants :(
 
1:18 AM
 
@MichaelHampton The first version came out in 2010!
 
@MDMarra Yeah, but nobody used that.
 
I spent all night and even fell asleep at the computer working on a vCloud Director problem.
and there's nobody to ask or get HALP from.
 
snerk
 
@MDMarra makes sense if you're dealing with Windows shops.
 
1:20 AM
@ewwhite We do a lot of VMware work and have a bunch of VMware engineers on staff
 
Lucky me, I have places that need 300 Linux VMs and a single domain controller.
 
Lots of our clients have View clusters and all that
 
@MDMarra they'll pick it up... VMware has gone schizo...
 
not for looooong
 
I kinda like VMware, but it seems there's literally products out there just to suck out more $$$. Then again, M$ does the same thing.
 
1:22 AM
Microsoft's licensing model has gotten simpler and better (for the bulk of customers) over the last 2 years
 
"Oh, you bought a $3000 license to use our server? Cool, now fork over $99/client so they can actually use it!"
 
VMware has done the opposite
 
(Granted, I'm just tossing numbers, but you get the idea)
 
@NathanC No one pays retail!
 
@MDMarra We do :( I cringe every time my boss goes on Amazon to buy an office 2007 retail box...
 
1:23 AM
Figuring out CALs does suck though
two thousand...seven?
 
I'll show a screen from a project I'm working on...
 
Yes, you heard that correctly.
2007.
 
if you saw this... would you think something was wrong?
 
@ewwhite I'm no expert, but that there be broken.
 
looks like your whole shit is fucked
 
1:24 AM
So I racked my brain trying to figure it out...
 
open a support case!
 
and it was just a series of vCloud bugs.
we hit some imaginary limit.
it all works, though!
 
@MDMarra You can get support using a keygen?
 
haha
 
@jscott c'mon, I posted my key access.
 
1:26 AM
@jscott @ewwhite is so advanced at keygens, he probably has a keygen for support contract agreement numbers too!
 
On the bright side, my raspberrypi-as-a-thin-client project is actually making progress.
 
I kid, I kid.
 
I got so many keys, it takes the VMware website 3 minutes to display them all.
 
They must be virtualizing that database workload
:D
 
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Q: Nginx: Is there a way to priorise requests from a specific IP address?

AndrewWe have a public website that also serves requests for an internal system (on a dedicated IP address). When the website gets busy, and the server load increases, all requests slow down. This is acceptable for the public site, but not for the internal system. In Nginx (or Debian Linux), is there ...

 
1:27 AM
With vmware
 
What a jackass.
 
We had to buy our VMware via HP (or some HP reseller)... invariably, with every PO, they would screw something up. We never resorted to keygens, but there were serious nastygrams send from our higher-ups.
 
@MichaelHampton I'm so tempted to post this as an answer...but i won't...
`Simple answer: No.

Long answer: Clustering is your friend. Oh, and running a cache in front of it. Having more capacity would never hurt either.`
(markdown strikes again, but w/e)
 
@jscott Dude my first VMware purchase was the same
 
1:29 AM
I do wish I knew how to make cracks and deal in warez...
 
You get an entitlement from HP to register on their site which gives you a redemption code that you redeem at VMware which gives you licenses that you then register to get actual keys
wtf is that shit
 
wat
 
@MDMarra It's enterprise.
 
If you're smart, you can leverage HP SKU's to get VMware for a lot less.
 
Or more appropriately
 
1:31 AM
I'm not so sure about buying VMware licenses on eBay...
 
@ewwhite Right it costs a lot less because 40% of customers can't figure out how to redeem the keys so HP makes a killing!
 
@MDMarra maybe
 
VMware has been pushing smaller partners away
 
@MDMarra We had something similar with our HP EVA. You needed a key for the management software but the HP reseller never gave us a hardcopy. It took a few weeks of emailing with a CC line half a dozen deep to get someone to ship up a paper copy of a serial number.
 
@MDMarra You don't want to have too many partners anyway... It's risky.
 
1:32 AM
Oh, I had nuked the mgmt server before anyone knew this of course.
so... no SAN management for a bit. ;)
 
Not HP by any means, but not small potatoes either
 
@MDMarra Pft I don't get out of bed for less than 75 mil
 
@jscott Doesn't the EVA interface require flash too to top it off?
 
i take it the removing is to prevent NSA Google from indexing eh?
<.< >.>
 
@MDMarra Ya, the new version of the EVA Command View was all fucking Flash. Believe me I was so pissed when we finally got the key and installed the update.
 
1:35 AM
@NathanC So that if anyone from work stumbles in here, I don't get in trouble :)
 
I just built a VMware cluster at work, and a coworker double-checked it for me and sent his feedback.
 
Ah
 
I'm a fucking amateur...
3
 
I like my theory better :P
 
> Ed, the cluster looks good except that I didn't build the chassis that it's running on from my bare hands in my back yard with scrap metal from my last car. Let's talk about hardware options next time.
 
1:38 AM
Thank you. What is a glue record? (Yeah, I'm heading to Google now.) — tcv 1 min ago
 
@MDMarra Chassis? What chassis? I just used the pizza box when I ordered delivery.
 
-NIC uplinks on (d)vswitches are not x-crossed to prevent from single NIC failure (should be vmnic0/2 and 1/3)
-hosts can’t talk to storage with Jumbo frames
-no pub access from hosts (NAT gw not configured?) hence NTP and DNS current settings are single point of failures
-no VAAI installed on hosts  for Isilon (I was doing VAAI install on other hosts and I went ahead and installed it on hrm)
-EVC mode not enabled
-HA Admission Control settings not configured
-once line above is fixed, OVDC’s memory allocation needs to verified again
 
@ewwhite Bro, do you even VMware?
 
that's a pretty big "do it over" list
 
Tell him you're switching to Hyper-V and then pee on the CEO again.
 
1:39 AM
@ewwhite For what it's worth, I don't understand most of those.
 
For instance, this is a Supermicro cluster.. 2 hosts.
each server has 2 x 2-port NIC cards.
 
You use Isilon for datastores over NFS ?
 
Ah, so I get the x-crossing
 
so I'm supposed to use eth0 and eth2 together... and eth1 and eth3 together
 
yeah, so each pair is on a separate NIC
er, both
 
1:41 AM
whereas on the HP boxes, they're one chipset and on the damn motherboard, so I go eth0, eth1 and eth2, eth3.
Jumbo frames was set everywhere... if there's a problem, it's storage side.
 
@ewwhite And the documentation is... where?
 
@MDMarra yeah, we have Isilon and VNX for NFS
@MichaelHampton bingo
 
You use VNX for something other than block?
Yuck
 
it feels like he went down a checklist... I want that checklist
 
@ewwhite why are you even setting this shit up? Host Profiles, done.
 
1:42 AM
to build this 2-host ESXi cluster, I had 130 separate tasks.
 
@RyanRies I forgot.
Go woo the ladyfriend.
 
@MDMarra each cluster is different. Different client, different switches...
 
You run a fucking cloud. Standardize your hardware, use host profiles, provision via PXE/iLO automatically and never touch hardware again
HARDWARE IS DEAD, LONG LIVE HARDWARE
 
@MDMarra Except, we ARE the cloud... and you can't cloud the cloud.
 
You're not very cloudy with all of these manual build processes
 
1:44 AM
servers ARE provisioned via ILO/IPMI and PXE
 
No, you aren't a cloud, you're a little fog bank that can't quite get it up.
 
what I'm handed is some servers, some partially configured switches... and I have to make the rest work
our datacenter staff only images the server and makes sure ILO works
 
Right but shouldnt the rest of it be automated?
 
Why the fuck does Azure keep shutting down my VM?
 
1:46 AM
@MDMarra I think so... but each deployment is totally different
 
@MichaelHampton Because Microsoft knows you're a Linux user.
 
so the switches, hardware type, external networking, can all be considerably different install to install.
 
Right that's a problem
 
step #92 - Create host profile
 
Standardize!
 
1:47 AM
@MDMarra Hey, if they're going to give me free stuff, I'd at least like to be able to use it!
 
@MDMarra I don't see how.
these are private clouds... built to a client's spec
 
VMware can't be automated? I"m quite sure they have some nice APIs...
 
@ewwhite I installed ESXi on an EC2 istance so I could install KVM so I could install Windows and virtualbox and then XP and FreeDOS to play Doom.
 
@ewwhite Private butts?
You're running a brothel?!
 
@MichaelHampton but it's the changing spec... many parts of this can be automated, though
 
1:49 AM
@NathanC Yeah, I bet @ewwhite has done work for LiveJasmine too.
 
Oh wait, those are more...public.
giggity
 
Heck, I bet @ewwhite has his own channel on LiveJasmine.
 
@WesleyDavid No, but there's a used realdoll for sale on Craigslist.
 
All Edmund, All the time. Bring your own socks!
Edward? The hell did I get that from...
 
socks?
 
1:50 AM
@pauska Not you again...
 
@ewwhite why do clients get to choose their hardware though? You're a cloud
 
@MDMarra honestly, it doesn't sound like a cloud service to me
 
Azure and EC2 don't let people choose whether they get SuperMicro or HP
 
they're just colocating and running private clouds for customers, all separate
one SAN for that customer, that SAN for that customer etc
 
Right but even that can be automated with standardized hardware
 
1:51 AM
@MDMarra they don't... it's more like... the client chooses what they pay
 
@pauska I authored some management packs today and that shit is way more difficult than it should be
 
and these deals take so long, there are a lot of Supermicro installs grandfathered in before my HP changes
 
Bleh. I wreak of onions. Who wants to make out?!
 
@MDMarra SCOM?
 
SCOM and SCSM
MPs are compatible between the two
 
1:53 AM
we do have a pubic cloud offering... and obviously, people don't get a choice on gear.
 
Can you get me free servers?
 
@MDMarra sure
 
Free... Supermicro servers! With "real we'll get around to it eventually" support when they break.
 
One of my old trading firms dropped some of the blade servers I installed. I have access to them ;)
 
hahaha
 
1:56 AM
it's a full 2 x C7000 enclosures..
and maybe 20 blade servers
 
@ewwhite You allow 32gb of RAM on a single VM. Nice. We looked at a public cloud like yours about 3 years ago, they only permitted up to 16Gb per VM
Anything after that needed to be specifically approved
 
@MDMarra Should I become a cloud
 
@MarkHenderson And, when a NIC fails, you get to have the entire staff stand around staring at it for hours on end.
 
@MarkHenderson In general I'd say too much RAM is a bad idea
 

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