It's the normal audits you have to really suffer through, because the auditors don't know a fucking thing, and can't tell the difference between a real problem and a tool that's not 100% accurate on its reporting.
Hell, I had a problem on a Sarb-Ox audit once because the company cheaped out (big time) on their backup software, and was throwing errors trying to backup pagefile.sys (which couldn't be excluded). Auditor's interpretation was that all our backups were failing. Dipshit. But, at least we got the budget for real backup software out of it, so not all stupidity is a bad thing, I suppose.
@HopelessN00b Haha yeah ok well we probably had experienced auditors who knew what they were doing, rather than green graduates on their first outing, determined to prove that their cock is bigger than yours
Like I said, I really think it's the security level that makes a difference. You're not gonna get security clearance to be doing those kind of audits unless you actually know anything. The normal run of the mill regulatory audits though, they probably just throw the nearest paralegal or CPA-washout at. how it looks to me, anyway.
A security auditor for our servers has demanded the following within two weeks:
A list of current usernames and plain-text passwords for all user accounts on all servers
A list of all password changes for the past six months, again in plain-text
A list of "every file added to the server from re...
Yeah, I saw that one. Honestly never had an auditor that clueless. (Send me plaintext passwords.) Just seem to get guys who don't really understand anything about the systems they're auditing and fall back on "the tool says..." which tends to start going downhill swiftly when I manage to figure a way to get the tools to output "you're an idiot" or similar. And that's the other thing. No sense of humor, those auditors.
@JoelESalas That means that they're connecting to your db server by its IP address. I bet somewhere deeeep inside a DLL in your software the IP and instance name are hard coded for the next 4,500 years
@JoelESalas totally the wrong approach. Tell them "it says 127.0.0.1". They thank you, and once they figure it out, stop asking you for help. It's great.
@HopelessN00b Tell em it's 127.0.0.1 and then it won't work so they'll go and ask on SU where someone will say "Oh, they said to connect to 127.0.0.1? Then you must need a proxy from your local machine to the db server" and then they will set an SSH tunnel from their local machien to the db server to forward the SQL ports
One chick insisted beyond insistence that Pi was 22/7. She could not understand that Pi was a number, 22/7 is a different number, and they are close but not that close.
@rnxrx Of course. Biggest bugbear at the moment is I'm trying to do my tax and they have a Windows Only version. But all my documents are in OSX. Pain in ass to copy them to bootcamp/reboot/etc
@Mark Yeah - I usually end up in windows for something like that (or Visio)... Like I said, been using Fusion for a long time. The Windows integration is good, if nothing else.
Ah, I found it. It seems like switching over to freerdp is on their todo list. Eventually, we will be transition to FreeRDP and development will speed up after that transition. Sorry, no timetables at the moment.
@JoelESalas FreeRDP doesn't work natively on OSX does it? You have to use X11?
I'm using HP DL360p Gen8.
In Ilo 4 I've noticed that one of two Power Supply is marked as "Failed".
What does it mean? No power or hardware problem?
Should I ask admins to check?
I do not have physical access to server, but I can ask admins to check.
@HopelessN00b My car has a big "check engine" warning and makes funny noises when I turn at full lock. Also, it blows smoke when I accelerate. Should I take it to the mechanic?
Hehehehe. Reminds me of something I read online that I like to do fuck with the OEM repair techs. Splicing power cables and various other computer cables together. Power to USB, power to CAT5, even power to serial cables. "Here, man, borrow my console cable if you need to configure the device." :D
I found a hell of a deal on a toroidal isolation transformer... the guy sent it to me with a power cord (C19) where the ground had been wired to the hot.
we had a problem once - we couldn't figure out why some tv's weren't getting power (breaker tripped but we couldn't find) it so i made a double sided power cable (prongs on both sides) plugged 1 end into a hot outlet, the other into the dead outlet and put a 120v tone generator on it. found it!
@JourneymanGeek Could be... I was just referring to the fact that once you get the close-vote privilege, you don't flag anymore, you vote to close. And at least for me, "this thread sucks, flagged" is about 95% of my helpful flags.
@HopelessN00b: I know. I'm a high rep user on SU. MOST of my flags are NAA or spam since the flagging badges came after i got VTC, and i hadn't really learnt to use the SE system well in my first year ;p
Hasn't quite been able to level up his server skills yet :/
@MichaelHampton: That and I'm still an unemployed student. I'm learning the theory as well as i can, and doing stuff that i need as i find the time/resources. I personally think its not the same as actually doing stuff on a larger scale
I'm not there until i can, on average answer a question a day, like i do on SU :)
Well, if it's not too late for you, might wanna reconsider learning anything about servers, then. No good can come of it. You'll just end up as a sysadmin or somesuch. shudder
Ya, what i'm familiar with. Next build will be some RH varient, but that got put off cause of busyness and my needing to play musical chairs with hard drives
You'll know you've arrived when you think it's perfectly reasonable to have RAID 60 in your workstation. Complete with SAS backplanes and hot swap bays.
@MichaelHampton: Parentals give me an allowance (I'm grateful for it at my age). I wasn't allowed to save it or spend it on computer stuff until recently tho ;p
@MichaelHampton: Oh, i do know. I used to own a pair of handmedown servers but i got rid of them when i moved.
OTOH, i do want a proper switch for home networking and such
@MichaelHampton What else are you gonna do with your closets? Store 200 pairs of shoes in 'em? that said, a rack's several hunderd bucks you probably don't need to spend. Mine sit on the floor or shelves, and they do just fine.
@MichaelHampton Classic mistake. "don't make me choose between you and my servers, honey..." :) And I don't host anything external at home, because, well, that. Media server, VM "farm" for professional growth, a couple old servers I picked up for a few hundred bucks for the same reason, that's all.
@MichaelHampton: there's periodically sales here where companies dump project stuff. Need to keep an eye on the papers (which i don't), but its a good place to get reasonably priced hardware
I also know where the local second hand server stores are, though i've never enquired price ;p
@JourneymanGeek I keep debating trying to pipe the hot air somewhere, but most of the places I could pipe it would have odd effects. Putting lots of warm air (and positive pressure) into a crawlspace, for example, seems like a great way to grow mold and broadcast it everywhere.
@MichaelHampton Papers are usually a bad place... works better to get connected and find out when tech companies or datacenters are failing. Show up with a pocket full of $20's, and you can get a surprising amount. That, or eBay. Pick up a nice 3-4 year old server for a couple hundred.
@MichaelHampton Look for local auction houses - lots of the online and often dumping huge amounts of crap for almost nothing... Friend of mine picked up about $10K worth of servers for $15.00.
We lost power for 4+ days recently and it was well over 100F each day with humidity in the 80%++ range... wow
When I was in Florida it was hot as hell, but at least there was a breeze... now I live where we have winters but the summers just stagnate. Feels much worse. This is why I am going to drop some serious $$$ on a big-assed generator to run everything indefinitely (or so).
@ewwhite Don't suppose you've got a line on a previously loved SAN someone outgrew? That's about the only thing missing from my home collection... I'm thinking I might need to wait a few more years before those become common enough to hit my price range, though.
@MichaelHampton: eheh. My current, in progress computer build started cause I took one look at Jeff Atwood's Case, realised they had it in black, and wanted one.
Finding a cheap FC-attached disk array (well... one that takes SAS or SATA) is kind of a pain.. lots of crap Sun gear from 1999 with FCAL and FC disks, though!
@ewwhite Probably looking for a proper SAN. I've got a 12x2TB Dell NAS server, so it's not raw storage I'm looking for, but storage I can provision for VM OS disks, basically.
@JoelESalas It's basically a media server. Nearline-SAS, so it's not gonna win any IOPS contests, but it can stream HD video to every screen in my house, which is all I need.
I've built a number of these "all-in-one" ZFS storage setups. Initially inspired by the excellent posts at Ubiquitous Talk, my solution takes a slightly different approach to the hardware design, but yields the result of encapsulated virtualized ZFS storage.
To answer your questions:
Determini...
@HopelessN00b Not too bad... Free is good. But $500-$600 for a license for three hosts and Virtual Center is a good deal. The jump to the next tier is not good.
That's sure true. Been looking over the licensing to set up BladeCenters in some of our smaller sites... VMWare priced their paid offerings right outta that market, so it's ESXi for us. Seems maybe they give away "too much" on the free version, at least to me.
We did it almost just for DRS. This was on a Dell 1955 chassis, which had 6x 15-amp 240v power supplies and used about $1000 of electricity every month
Also when you're running blades, their internal storage sucks so you most likely have shared storage. And things like HA and vMotion also make the paid versions very attractive
In fact, in almost half our blades, we have no internal storage, just ESXi installed on RAID1'd SD cards in the back of the blade
Yeah, this is true, but it loses its value (at least for us) where the smaller sites run up to 6 VMs. If we had a real server refresh cycle, all those sites would be running with one server now, instead of some number of blades. Of course, our main site, with 2 nearly full BladeCenters runs one of the paid versions of ESX.
The dedicated server is running Cent OS, has 2 x 1TB hard drives. One domain is hosted on this server. I've been uploading files to the public/html folder no problem, but I've reached the maximum capacity of the hard drive this folder sits on.
What I want to do is to continue uploading files ont...
@JourneymanGeek Yeah, but you gotta cut back on the incomprehensible technobabble a little. Like, what's this "plan" shit you ramble on about? Never heard of that hardware.
I fired up a small RTMP repeater at streamtriplej.com for overseas people, a lot of them are from Japan. This guy is from Japan. Maybe they run old shit there.
@JourneymanGeek If I leased a server from some hosting company and it wasn't ALREADY installed with LVM, I would be on the phone with them instantly telling them to do it right this time.
@MichaelHampton Well, but who knows what the SoW/contract said? Don't get me wrong, I would too, but I'm thinking somehow that maybe OP didn't ask for or stipulate much of anything from his webhost. So we got what he asked for - a mostly unconfigured piracy webserver. (Or whatever the hell he thinks he's doing with all that data in public_html)
In Plan 9, all system interfaces, including those required for networking and the user interface, are represented through the file system rather than specialized interfaces - Gee, that sounds clever
Supposed to be the next UNIX, but never took off. I was in highschool too when it was first being released, but was unencumbered by schoolwork, and was able to find time to hack around a new and interesting OS.
Well, there was when I as young, but yeah, aging sure seems to take a lot of our time away, doesn't it? I blame needing a job to pay for things like food and shelter. :(
my own stuff's on 7. Next desktop will likely run 8 (even if i'm not sold on metro, i don't think its as catastrophic as valve and blizzard seem to think)
I have an application which does packet capture from an ethernet card. Once in a while we see packets dropped (we suspect due to the buffer in the network card or kernel being overrun). I am trying to figure out if turning on interrupt coalescing will help or worsen the situation. On the one h...
@ErikA: Well, the main things i miss from MS Office are stuff like automatic citations, and that the layout for OO/LO writer is a bit wierd - Abiword does it better
Automatic citations are the killer tho, my school is uberstrict about them on reports
One of my college profs offered extra credit if we would submit assignments and papers as LaTeX documents. I decided it was worth learning for that. :)
@JourneymanGeek That sucks. They don't let you get away with "thought of it while doing drugs" as a citation? What the hell kind of party school is that?
Yeah, I'm so glad I'm outta school. Fuck that shit. In the real world, if it's late, you just blame it on the mainframe team, or the user being stupid, or the contractor, or the OEM and get about to finishing it before anyone can verify it. :D Marks off, pfft.
One of my stand-out memories of uni was when the lecturer was handing back assignments. I thought that my assignment was shit. Like really shit. So i was expecting a pretty rubbish score. And then she said "If your student number is S00032151, congratulations, you came first". Which was me. I wasn't even listening fully. It was then that I knew that if my shit assignment came first, my classmates were dumbfucks and Uni was going to be pretty damn easy
@HopelessN00b Damn straight
Turns out 50% of the people in our course were only in it becaus ehtey didn't get the marks to get into a MBA, and then they transferred after 1st year
@MarkHenderson I have similar memories from the rare occasions I showed up to class. Looking back on it, I find it a little surprising I graduated all for how infrequently I showed up, and how often I was drunk when I did.
'Course that is something I can't get away with out in the real world. sigh "But really, I route better after a few beers..."
I was never drunk. Catholic uni, so no on-campus bar. But I started skipping classes pretty often. But my lecturers loved me. In fact one day I totally forgot we had an assessment worth 20% so I just skipped the class. The next class the lecturer was so upset with me that she wrote me a fake sick note just so I could sit the assessment a week late.
I suspect that she was relying on my mark to bump up her average
Lucky you. Most of my CS profs didn't like me too much. I only ever caught breaks in my secondary major and non-major related courses. I think my core CS GPA ended up being 2.something. Excuse me for not giving a crap abut bubblesort, I guess.
Not that it matters I guess. A few years out, and I can't remember the last time anyone even asked about my GPA, let alone cared.
Never. If I told him that, he might find out that he could mostly replace me with a simple script and a little Google-fu. Gotta think that would be bad for me, long-term.
@JourneymanGeek I actually have an American steam account that I use for purchasing and gifting to myself. My CC doesn't seem to ahve any geo-validation on it, and I signed up over Tor to get me an American IP
But its just such a hassle
I think my username is also "myaccoutnforpurchasingfromoverseassoidontgetrippedoff". Or somethign
I'm using HP DL360p Gen8.
In Ilo 4 I've noticed that one of two Power Supply is marked as "Failed".
What does it mean? No power or hardware problem?
Should I ask admins to check?
I do not have physical access to server, but I can ask admins to check.
I've built a number of these "all-in-one" ZFS storage setups. Initially inspired by the excellent posts at Ubiquitous Talk, my solution takes a slightly different approach to the hardware design, but yields the result of encapsulated virtualized ZFS storage.
To answer your questions:
Determini...
I have an application which does packet capture from an ethernet card. Once in a while we see packets dropped (we suspect due to the buffer in the network card or kernel being overrun). I am trying to figure out if turning on interrupt coalescing will help or worsen the situation. On the one h...
