The Comms Room

ewwhite

19:00

Dirty looks from people and shit.

Wesley

@NathanC Considering how much rectum DRAC prolapses when you use it, I can't imagine how bad DRAC Express would be.

ewwhite

It's a mix @wesley

Jeffrey

I have Super Micro boxes with the uPNP exploit in the BMC and they haven't fixed it yet, kind of a pain when you're in a DC with no H/W firewall

Wesley

@ewwhite You're getting dirty looks? Why? Are you wearing your dom leathers?

ewwhite

Ick, SuperMicro

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faker

19:00

@NathanC oh no, not out of band management. Our servers get 2 IPs each, one for serving requests and one for management (backups, cfengine, SSH, etc.) - that management is down

Wesley

@ewwhite The words of a haunted man.

cole

NSA Director Alexander Admits He Lied about Phone Surveillance Stopping 54 Terror Plots: thestateweekly.com/…

ewwhite

@cole nice.

cole

@NathanC our 100+ servers have unconfigured DRAC cards

tombull89

@cole wat. why?

Nathan C

19:02

@faker Oh...dead switch or something?

cole

@tombull89 /shrug

@tombull89 lets blame it on NT4

ewwhite

I called my datacenter yesterday because I needed smart hands service.

I was installing a server and forgot to configure ILO.

tombull89

New on-site service: Jazz hands. Like Smart Hands but they just wave at your server for a bit.

ewwhite

And they threw a nice portable IP KVM on the box, and gave me a public https page to access it through.

Wesley

@ewwhite Like a Lantronix Spider or a Raritan Dominion II?

Danila Ladner

19:04

what colo is it?

Jeffrey

All I know is I set up my servers to have terminal access using serial redirection :-)

faker

@NathanC unsure, the network is "managed" by our datacenter

ewwhite

I used to compare/contrast their service to the service we provided at logicworks.

Nathan C

@faker Sounds like their management is down, too! :D

ewwhite

@danilla I'm in the DuPont Fabros CH1 facility.

And a tenant of ServerCentral.

Wesley

19:06

@ewwhite Need any Phoenix datacenter space? =)

ewwhite

@wesley, the device was tiny and portable.

Danila Ladner

i heard DuPont is pretty good

Wesley

C'mon man, we got cheap electricity, no natural disasters, and the biggest nuclear power plant in the nation!

ewwhite

@wesley. I pay more here than most people pay for rent.

MDMarra

fml, I have to drive across the state for first thing in the AM tomorrow to help a customer's on-site IT staff prep for a presentation of a product I deployed for them 6 months ago to their own IT management.

I don't even...

ewwhite

19:07

$$

MDMarra

I don't get paid extra to do that shit

Wesley

@ewwhite Couple grand per rack?

Nathan C

@MDMarra facepalm

faker

I'm actually surprised how good we handle this, only monitoring is going insane, but no service breakage. I think we'll escalate it during office hours tomorrow

cole

@MDMarra ...wat

ewwhite

19:08

@wesley enough.

MDMarra

For real

Magellan

@MDMarra What? You're not even getting mileage for that shit?

Danila Ladner

well it is at least not $$$$ like in equinix

cole

This week is dragging

MDMarra

@Magellan Oh I mean I get mileage and all that, but still stupid

Wesley

19:08

@ewwhite One MEEEELION dollars!

ewwhite

@danilla this place puts Equinix to shame.

Magellan

@MDMarra Meh. Sometimes you gotta do the shit details too. With my every 2-3 week flights from SEA to Orlando last winter, my sympathy is limited. =)

MDMarra

haha true

Wesley

@ewwhite You should see IO in Phoenix...

MDMarra

The thing is, I always deliver outstanding documentation for any engagement I do. I think the smallest doc I've ever delivered is 15 pages

Danila Ladner

19:10

@ewwhite I can imagine.

jscott

@MDMarra It must have been a pretty nice contract if they'll send you in person rather than just webex/etc.

Danila Ladner

remote hands guy was replacing a disk 2 hours with the pic sent to him, and even then took the wrong thing out

MDMarra

@jscott We're about to lock up another 4-5 week engagement with them to expand their Service Manager install from their Network Services team to their whole org

jscott

@MDMarra Ah, the dangling carrot...

Wesley

"You place your index finger on the right-most button, depress it briefly before releasing, and then gaze upon the computer screen. At the exact X and Y location of your mouse pointer, you will see what is commonly referred to as a "flyout menu." Scan the available options for a line of text that forms an incomplete sentence stating "Run As Administrator."

Place your cursor over that sentence, in spite of its grammatical errors, and with your index finger, depress the *left* mouse button briefly before releasing it."

Nathan C

19:12

Waited 4 days for a license key for this software, support closes ticket without key. idgi.

Magellan

OK. This is weird. Got a LinkedIn request from my future Mother-In-Law.

Wesley

@Magellan IT'S A TRAP!

Danila Ladner

@Wesley that plus the pic man

Wesley

@DanilaLadner And a screencast.

Magellan

My MIL is pretty awesome. But she's also 77 years old.

Wesley

19:13

@Magellan Pee on her to establish dominance.

Magellan

And I guess I wasn't expecting her to need an LI account to go job-hunting.

@Wesley Squirt Kitty needs the spray bottle. Again.

Danila Ladner

is it reasonable veeam snapshoting exchange?

Ry Jones

I spiked my linkedin account. every once in a while I feel I shouldn't have done it, but then I look at my empty inbox and rejoice

Danila Ladner

the one which is mailbox server

faker

@Magellan endorse her for her childbirth skill!

Magellan

19:16

@RyJones Well, there is that. My texts forward to my Gmail also though, so that's never going to happen.

Danila Ladner

or it is better do block level san snapshot for that?

cole

Wow

This is the computer place near me: ravencomputer.com

Ry Jones

also, I'm starting to hate our IT guys. Delete 6 VMs freeing 12vcpus and 1.2tb of space, ask for copies of vm to use same amount of space and cpus, can't do it out of disk space sorry.

@cole blocked by corp firewall

cole

@RyJones probably better that way

Magellan

@faker Um, no. she's probably a hell of a lot smarter than I am. That would be very contra-indicated.

She's nearly 80 years old and is usually the one to show the doctors half her age how stuff works on the computer.

cole

19:17

faker

@cole name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0" - well who knew?

jscott

@cole Dude that Magic Mirror Butler image is killing me.

Ry Jones

@cole nice

Nathan C

I hate that I have to use the actual vsphere client to move files between datastores

the web client just stares at me funny

jscott

cole

19:19

I know, I was dying @jscott

Magellan

@cole Although a bluetooth-compatible tube amp is kind of interesting.

@cole You're also going to drive me to drink (more) with that lower-case spelling. I keep thinking I forgot to tab it out to the capital C.

jscott

They have some cool stuff on their Youtube as well.

cole

LOL

Nathan C

@Cole Good god...MY EYESSSS

cole

I wonder how these people get clients

Sometimes I miss doing small biz consulting

then I look at my paycheck, and I don't miss it at all

My niece is so cute

Nathan C

19:26

@Cole daw

Wesley

You've got to be kidding. AOL is rejecting email from this client because the client's acronym is AOI and as a result their main email account is AOI@ and that apparently gets caught in a security filter now because it looks visually too close to AOL@ and could therefore be potentially used for scamming.

Email from other addresses at this client are making it to @AOL.com addresses, but the one account gets sporadic acceptance.

>_<

cole

@NathanC also, my sister took that picture.

Nathan C

@Wesley Failure on aisle 12.

Wesley

Also, you can accurately measure the viability of a business by how many of their clients have an @AOL.com email address.

Nathan C

@Cole Expensive camera was probably expensive.

=P

cole

19:28

@NathanC ...

It's not all about the camera

Nathan C

I know I know lol

cole

I have a Canon 50D and all my pictures look like they were shot be Michael J Fox with an iPhone

tylerl

Dear everyone I've heard talking in the past 3 days: "Tweak" != "Twerk"

"So it turns out that if you twerk the configuration on the..."

cole

@NathanC however, yes it's an expensive camera and she has a photography business.

leighmariephotography.com

Nathan C

@Cole Damn...yeah, expensive camera != skilled lol

my girlfriend's learning her camera still. She wants to eventually do photography professionally

Welp...

cole

19:30

ugh 1 more hour

I'm so bored it hurts

Magellan

@NathanC wat?

Are those morons phasing out the Windows client or something?

cole

uh

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Q: How to set the fqdn on a CentOS server?

I set my hostname in the /etc/sysconfig/network file to host.example.com HOSTNAME=host.example.com Fyi, I then issued a reboot on the machine. I have a problem with Puppet: when I run Facter on this machine, it returns the following information : #facter fqdn host.com So puppet ...

Nathan C

@Magellan Apparently. There's a warning on the start screen that the web client should be used for 5.5 hosts

cole

is he answering his own question..?

Nathan C

But yet, I can't copy files from one datastore to another with the web client...

Magellan

19:35

@NathanC Interesting. In unrelated news, the new job uses OpenVZ containers. that will be interesting.

Nathan C

I have to install the client tools. What's the purpose of a fsking web client if you still have to install something?!

._.

On another note, booted up the zabbix appliance. it looks nifty

Magellan

@cole Sure looks like it.

The key management aspect of Puppet is rather annoying.

cole

Never used Puppet

or Chef, etc

Danila Ladner

why not?

cole

@DanilaLadner just never had a use case for it

Tanner

19:50

because Windows?

cole

We're 90% Windows here

Magellan

@cole Yeah, that would be one significant reason

Tanner

on that note, can't wait for DSC

cole

the other 10% is a few RHEL VMs and Solaris 10 boxes

Solaris 10 boxes haven't been refreshed in 6 years.

and the RHEL VMs at RHEL 6.0 since that's all IBM supports to run Domino on

Magellan

@cole And a deployment under 20 machines probably doesn't justify config management unless there's a large amount of turnover of those VMs.

cole

19:52

@Magellan there's not.

The VMs haven't been touched in a long time

$newjob I'll be doing Windows and VMware only really, so.

Magellan

@cole yeah, there's probably no sense in config management then as long as they were documented when they were built.

cole

The systems I built are documented very well.

Everything else? nope.

Magellan

@cole Oh, for some reason I thought you were talking about the new job.

cole

@Magellan ah no, current job is 90% windows, 10% Solaris/RHEL

The new job I'll be on the Windows team, not the Unix team

Magellan

The current job? well, they clearly don't know enough to come in out of the rain, either.

@cole My current pondering is whether I should move my personal projects back over to CentOS. The new job is a RHEL shop.

I kind of like Debian 7, so I'm thinking not. But that might also hamper my efforts when I decide to go get my RH certs.

cole

19:59

I'm partial to CentOS

I run Fedora on my work laptop though

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