The Comms Room

Cole

20:01

@WesleyDavid long story

Joel E Salas

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MDMarra

@JoelESalas Did you take that job?

Joel E Salas

Still at my current job

MDMarra

so, no?

haha

or did you just stall more

Matt Bear

and dumps done!

ewwhite

20:10

@Dan I made good bonuses in finance... I think my base now is higher.

@JoelESalas Hmmm... playa

Dan

@ewwhite Finance scares me - I'd like the London experience for a bit, but I do value my sanity and work/life balance

MDMarra

@ewwhite It's why old folks your age start trending toward management.

Doesn't President and CEO of EW Consulting have a nice ring to it?

ewwhite

@MDMarra I need a better name

MDMarra

Mark Marra consulting

Cole

EW Consulting lol

MDMarra

20:12

I'll just take a 15% cut for the usage of my name and the esteem that it brings to your organization

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ewwhite

I think I pulled off a miracle with my HP SSD + Smart Array + ZFS zvol + compression + XFS solution for Produce Pro.

Joel E Salas

But don't you dare try to use @MDMarra's blog posts.

ewwhite

I used to gauge the intelligence of girlz I spoke to on the web back in the day by their reaction to my dating website username...

ewwhite?!?! Do you hate WHITE people?

Joel E Salas

@ewwhite My body is ready

ewwhite

That would be an automatic fail.

Joel E Salas

20:14

Depends on what you're into.

@ewwhite Best part of job hunting is you can't lose.

ewwhite

I've seen a situation where you could lose...

Joel E Salas

Story time!

ewwhite

An engineer at Produce Pro sent his resume to my old trading firm... who asked me, WTF?

remember, the people at Produce Pro software don't like me...

so now I know that one or more of their engineers is looking...

MDMarra

Grandpa Edmund, tell us the one about the guy whose dog took a dump in the lobby!

ewwhite

@MDMarra it stank

Joel E Salas

20:18

You guys made me lol at work

ewwhite

@MDMarra and the guy who was fired (and subsequently brought his dog in to poo) lost his job because...

Cole

Wait a guy who got fired had his dog come take a dump in the lobby?

ewwhite

He wrote a manifesto... A Sysadmins Rules of Engagement outlining what he WOULD and WOULD NOT do, when he could be contacted, on-call and off-call information and how he wanted to be approached with questions.

The boss said f-that... and fired him during lunch.

Cole

Holy shit

I'm going to try that at work

ewwhite

I need to find a copy of it.

Joel E Salas

20:21

I'll do that for my 2 weeks

Please do!

Cole

Sadly, I think I could get away with doing that

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite My rules of engagement are simple. You can call me anytime! You can ask me anything! (Contingent upon large sums of cash per hour, variable rates according to time of night and holidays.)

Joel E Salas

@ewwhite This was what provoked the poop-attack?

ewwhite

@JoelESalas yes

Basil

I'm so frustrated. My boss is "testing" multiple tier storage pools with a DBA and has a solid hole in his understanding of how it works.

Cole

20:25

globalknowledge.com/training/…

5. Lotus Notes Administrator

Basil

When he was describing his test in a meeting, I mentioned to him privately after the meeting that he would get no valid results because of his methodology, and he dismissed my concerns in a way that indicates that he just doesn't understand my point. Now he's seeing exactly what I said he would, and he's chalking it up to "the workload" of the benchmarks.

Joel E Salas

@Basil That's not a fun scenario

@ewwhite So the dude was a piece of work to begin with. How long had he been there?

ewwhite

@JoelESalas few years. I replaced him

and then I turned into a BOFH monster.

Joel E Salas

@ewwhite So how many poop attacks were you able to get in?

ewwhite

Oh, i did everything else... I was terrible

Joel E Salas

20:37

Can there be two story times in one day???

ewwhite

nope

WesleyDavid

@Basil Wow - sad. Wait, the workload of the benchmarks? What does that even mean?

Iain

@pauska gmail !

Basil

@WesleyDavid we're using RAT from oracle. He thinks it's some unquantifiable issue with the segment of IO that we are playing back

Joel E Salas

@Basil It's a database, everyone knows you can't quantify those.

Basil

20:47

@JoelESalas heh

Anyways, that's enough IT for one day. I'm going home.

cheers

ewwhite

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Q: Methods for analyzing Red Hat sosreport output?

For some time (since EL 4.6), Red Hat has embedded a system report and troubleshooting tool into the operating system. The tool, sosreport, collects system information and settings and bundles it into a tar.bz archive for easy distribution. Normally, this is intended for Red Hat support, but can ...

Joel E Salas

@ewwhite What about that tool you showed me that generates puppet configs?

ewwhite

@JoelESalas Blueprint is nifty...

Joel E Salas

Would that help in this scenario?

in case anyone is interested: devstructure.com/blueprint

ewwhite

but sosreport shows the following...

[root@xt ~/sxarchive/ereports/15555553/2013-04-17_155601/xt]# ll
total 52
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Apr 17 15:53 boot
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   37 Apr 17 15:56 chkconfig -> sos_commands/startup/chkconfig_--list
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 Apr 17 15:56 date -> sos_commands/general/date
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   27 Apr 17 15:56 df -> sos_commands/filesys/df_-al
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   31 Apr 17 15:56 dmidecode -> sos_commands/hardware/dmidecode
drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Apr 17 15:53 etc
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 Apr 17 15:56 free -> sos_commands/memory/free

Guess what... Wife's company was struck by lightning again!!

syneticon-dj

21:03

Zeus loves her. Look out for oversized bulls descending from heaven.

Is anybody actively using New-MailboxExportRequest to move messages out of Exchange mailboxes to PSTs?

WesleyDavid

@ewwhite You are the only one on the site that can ask a question like that with all the worst features that we all hate, and still get 31 upvotes, no close votes, and 9 favorites. =P

Joel E Salas

ewwhite

@WesleyDavid Don't hate.

WesleyDavid

@JoelESalas =D

syneticon-dj

@WesleyDavid It's not bad as a question. Amusing to read too - tons of Schadenfreude

and a bit of hope that you won't ever face that while being in charge of the infrastructure.

ewwhite

21:09

It just happened again... so being remote, I have to figure out what's broken.

most devices are up

Barracuda Web Filter is down.

elfiq link balancer is down

syneticon-dj

so this time the current came through the telco's line?

don't you have any monitoring there or has it been struck by lightning too?

ewwhite

@syneticon-dj What do you mean?

I said what's down.

Cisco ASA 5505 is up... servers and SAN are up

Joel E Salas

I'm still kind of amazed that lightning is a problem of this magnitude

ewwhite

three switch members in a stack are down..

but I have four new switches ready to go...

syneticon-dj

@JoelESalas it might even be not the lightning itself but currents induced by its EM pulse. If you have a large cable plant with long runs (like telcos tend to have), you can bet there would be quote a voltage spike if a lightning struck nearby.

Joel E Salas

21:19

@syneticon-dj Holy shit, so the lightning moving (safely) through the building will still induce current in the surrounding components?

Makes sense, yes

Iain

I lost some equipment at home to lightning a few years ago (as did several neighbours) - a strike on the telephone pole serving us all was to blame

ewwhite

See how I'm not panicking.

Safely in NYC.

As the wife's server equipment burns. Really. On fire!!!

Joel E Salas

(•_•)
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(⌐■_■)

syneticon-dj

Burn Barracuda, burn?

freiheit

@ewwhite Have you suggested they add some proper lightning rods around that building?

syneticon-dj

21:30

or enclosing the entire estate into a Faraday cage?

ewwhite

@freiheit there were. This facility was built new.

and has the only real wind turbine in Chicago

testaproduce.com

freiheit

@syneticon-dj Maybe also sacrificing goats to Thor, Zeus and any other gods that are angry at them?

syneticon-dj

Nah, no goats. The Gods obviously want new HP Gen8 servers.

ewwhite

I don't even want new HP Gen8 servers.

freiheit

@ewwhite So what's wrong with Gen8, anyways?

syneticon-dj

21:33

So sacrificing them would not be a problem then.

freiheit

(we have a couple and may get more soon-ish, but haven't noticed anything problematic yet...)

syneticon-dj

what is burning BTW?

ewwhite

@freiheit Chenged the disk form-factor, overcomplicated monitoring, stepped back in each of physical deployment and added features nobody asked for.

(smart drive carriers?!?)

The Gen8's do the Dell-style rail mounting.

syneticon-dj

What is the Dell style? I have to say I liked the HP style up to Gen7 quite a lot.

ewwhite

lay the server on top of the extended rails

freiheit

21:35

@ewwhite You don't like every drive carrier having something like 6 lights?

ewwhite

try mounting that server in rack unit #42 without help

syneticon-dj

ouch

freiheit

Did seem like the rail mounting wasn't quite as nice as I was used to with HP... have to get the back in first, then the middle, then the front...

syneticon-dj

@freiheit the next generation would come with a color hi-res LCD panel visualizing a spinning drive

freiheit

@syneticon-dj 4 of the LEDs form a circle that they use for the spinning drive, so Gen8 doing that in hi-res is pretty plausible...

ewwhite

21:37

right.

it's silly

means people are stupid

freiheit

The "whatever you do don't remove this drive" light is kinda nice

syneticon-dj

it's smart. HP is going to be making money out of options after all. Just like Dell.

ewwhite

G7 sales spiked

syneticon-dj

And be bought by Microsoft shortly after as server sales drop

Joel E Salas

@freiheit It should include a 3G chip and a touchscreen so you can check your facebook on it too

freiheit

21:39

@JoelESalas Wait 'til gen10 for that

Joel E Salas

Best VPN? SCP server exposed to the Internet.

syneticon-dj

HTTP over IPv6 with opportunistic encryption by IPSEC

Matt Bear

is $25,000 a little much for a SAN? when we only have 3 physical servers that will be attached to it

Joel E Salas

@MattBear If you can afford it and it fits the use case, why not?

ewwhite

@MattBear No.. What are you planning?

Matt Bear

21:44

@ewwhite using it as storage in the ESXi cluster,

ewwhite

right;

what are you talking about?

make/model/etc

syneticon-dj

IOPS

Matt Bear

@ewwhite dunno, I diddnt spec it out, all I was told was the price tag

syneticon-dj

Oh, it will be fine then. Don't you read Dilbert comic strips?

Matt Bear

@ewwhite im speccing out what we need from HP, and seeing if the prices are similar

Joel E Salas

21:48

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I'M DOING IT

syneticon-dj

@joelesalas What? SCP? Could it be that exciting?

WesleyDavid

@JoelESalas I hope you're wearing protection.

syneticon-dj

Hey, SCP is secure by default

Matt Bear

@ewwhite our budget is pretty lean right now, if it was me, I would go for it, but the boss wont approve... (if you remember the story on this place).

ewwhite

@MattBear HP P2000 G3 can be had from me for under 10k

Dennis Kaarsemaker

21:57

@ewwhite I forgot what the regex was I gave you, but I'm pretty sure I anchored it properly and left no odd behaviour in there.

ewwhite

@DennisKaarsemaker I'll show you what I'm getting...

Matt Bear

@ewwhite thats actually what I was just looking at lol

ewwhite

@DennisKaarsemaker I'm getting this and this...

the first is fine... the second isn't.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

so you're missing an anchor

/^zd\d$/

ewwhite

so no "+", but "$"

Dennis Kaarsemaker

22:01

or both if you can have a zd10 and want it

I'd still combine the three regexes

ewwhite

better example...

I don't want the "p1"

Dennis Kaarsemaker

/^zd\d+$/ won't match the p1

ewwhite

Matt Bear

basically right now... I'm showing them whats possible, without the equipment for good performance. Once they can use everything, like it, but want it faster, is when I can get some budget

ewwhite

First is good.. second is bad.

@MattBear WHere are you located? How much usable space you need?

Matt Bear

22:03

@ewwhite CA, and 3TB with expandability

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@ewwhite so the anchored regex is still good

Matt Bear

wasnt there a site where I can find used equipment?

Joel E Salas

ewwhite.com

Dennis Kaarsemaker

if( $name[$r][$i] !~ /[0-9]/ || $name[$r][$i] =~ /c[0-9]d[0-9]$/ || $name[$r][$i] =~ /zd\d+/ <== are you sure this means what you think it means?

it matches things like "fnarble" or "asdasdc0123"

ewwhite

@MattBear I can do SAS-connected or Fiber 8Gb connected P2000 G3 with 24 x 300GB disks for under $10k

@DennisKaarsemaker I don't want it.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

22:05

What is it you actually want to match?

"hda" "sdb" "c0d3" and "zd213" ?

Matt Bear

@ewwhite I'll need a quote

Dennis Kaarsemaker

If so: /^([hs]d[a-z]|c\d+d\d+|zd\d+)$/

ewwhite

22:21

@DennisKaarsemaker all of them.

@MattBear email me from my profile page contact details.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

then go for just the regex above and kill the other 3

ewwhite

@DennisKaarsemaker so fancy

Matt Bear

@ewwhite maybe I'm slow or somthing... but I cant find your email

ewwhite

@MattBear yes, you're slow.

Matt Bear

@ewwhite that hurt my feeler

:(

syneticon-dj

22:40

@ewwhite how did you set the "The Workplace" user to be your parent user?

@MattBear check out the network profile instead of the one on "The Workplace". They are different it seems.

Matt Bear

ahh hah

ty

syneticon-dj

@MattBear you are welcome. How's your feeler?

Matt Bear

still hurt

syneticon-dj

you should take care of where you stick it.

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MDMarra

23:02

Today on Hardware with Ed: a P-series SAN for under 10k. Stay tuned, more after the break!

ewwhite

@MDMarra I should mark it up

MDMarra

You don't already?

ewwhite

@MDMarra on some deals... but for someone just in need of a SAN.. meh.

I'd make it back on the servers.

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra Getting a P-series san for < 10k is easy. Just order the $8,000 model

ewwhite

Full of dicks.

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MDMarra

23:09

@MarkHenderson after VAT, that's like 90K for you, right?

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra GST for us, and no because it's only 10%

For once ;)

freiheit

https://twitter.com/augie/status/324646861896048640

damn you onebox!

MDMarra

23:25

0

Q: Finding the domain a domain controller belongs to

How do I figure out the name of the domain a domain controller belongs to? For example I have the domain controller \\nFS01.nfs01.local. It says the domain of this is NFS0101 but I don't remember setting a domain name like that, so is there a way to find this information out for another domain s...

active-directory domain domain-controller

Some people shouldn't touch computers

Mark Henderson

23:38

Halp!

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Q: DHCP Server only remembering one lease

I have a Server 2008 R2 DHCP Failover Cluster that serves two VLANs - an office network and a guest WiFi network. Both of the members of the failover cluster are virtual machines (ESXi) and use the iSCSI Initator inside the VM for their shared storage. Each node in the cluster also runs other FO ...

windows-server-2008-r2 dhcp failovercluster

Help me @MDMarra you're my only hope!

MDMarra

Ha

I was just about to write a snide comment on it

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra :(

MDMarra

Upgrade to 2012 and use cluster-less lease replication, noob

Mark Henderson

Why everyone on this site so mean?!

@MDMarra Totally an option. I've been looking for an excuse to go to 2012

MDMarra

there you go

HA DHCP without clustering

Mark Henderson

23:39

Unfortunately doesn't fix my problem right now ;)

MDMarra

As for your actual question, no clue

I've never clustered DHCP

Mark Henderson

The biggest reason I've not gone to 2012 is the lack of RSAT for Windows 7

MDMarra

Sort of embarrasing to admit I suppose

Windows 8 isn't bad

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra I'm considering un-clustering it to see if that fixes it

MDMarra

I use it at work

Mark Henderson

23:40

@MDMarra Yeah but a core piece of software I have to use doesn't work on it

MDMarra

oh

Joel E Salas

I loved Windows 8 in the pre-release era

MDMarra

thats too bad

syneticon-dj

@MarkHenderson ever considered breaking the cluster and seeing if it would work with a single DHCP server?

Mark Henderson

@syneticon-dj Yep

56 secs ago, by Mark Henderson

@MDMarra I'm considering un-clustering it to see if that fixes it

syneticon-dj

23:41

It might be a database corruption issue or something like that

MDMarra

@MarkHenderson what software? FoxPro 2.6?

Mark Henderson

It's next on my todo list. Just haven't gotten around to it yet, too busy

@MDMarra Hah actually not far off

eDeveloper 9.4 - last updated 2007

MDMarra

Is that a Novell thing?

Mark Henderson

@MDMarra Nah it's a RAD tool that actually dates back to the 80's

Joel E Salas

I did it! Put in 2 weeks

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MDMarra

23:42

cool

Mark Henderson

there are up to date versions that we use at all, but we have one client on a super old version

MDMarra

where are you going?

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas Good for you

Joel E Salas

I don't know!

MDMarra

Fashion land or Ed White city?

Do you have offers on the table?! haha

Joel E Salas

23:43

I don't know yet, it's really up to Ed White and the Defenders of Porn

MDMarra

Did you turn down HL?

Joel E Salas

No, didn't turn down

MDMarra

(or let them pull their offer)

WesleyDavid

@JoelESalas Wooo!

Joel E Salas

I really need to stop job hopping. Why do people keep offering me money???

MDMarra

23:44

Have you seen @ewwhite's resume?

Apparently no one gives a fuck about job hopping any more

Matt Bear

well in that case... I need to start hopping!!

someone offer me more money!

MDMarra

My last move came after 10 months

Although, I was at $job[-2] for 4 years

Joel E Salas

@MDMarra I don't have a single stint longer than 1.5 years

MDMarra

Yeah but you're Mexican. Employers probably look at that and think "He's probably just trying to keep immigration off of his tracks"

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And then they give you tacos with ranch dressing

It must be nice.

Joel E Salas

loling

MDMarra

23:49

Seriously this taco with ranch knowledge that you dropped on recently me is brand new.

Joel E Salas

It's very regional, like the California burrito

MDMarra

I never would have guessed that. I have some Puerto Rican friends and I assumed you guys were all the same, but I guess not.

Joel E Salas

Burritos are a hotbed of contention

not even close, Latin American food is quite varied

Cubans make the best sangwiches though

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas Had a burrito for dinner last night, my asshole is still on fire

Why oh why did I order chipotle sauce...

MDMarra

@JoelESalas Haha, was making an intentionally broad statement

Joel E Salas

23:50

Are your people unable to eat the spicy stuff

MDMarra

@JoelESalas Because they make their bread with lard

mmmmmmmmm

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas Fucking love the spicy stuff. I love it on the way in anyway...

ewwhite

My resume is great!

MDMarra

This is what Ed's resume looks like when he's applying for jobs

freiheit

@MDMarra Is that an HP laptop? It should be. ;)

ewwhite

23:56

Apple PowerBook 1400cs

MDMarra

He would know. It's his resume setup

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