I had trouble with CGI access to Nagios after an apt-get upgrade on my debian box. I kept getting the error “It appears as though you do not have permission to view information for any of the services you requested”. The key is to remember to check that all the configuration files are […]
So, I transplanted the brains of one of my workstations today, taking out an aging k7 and stuffing in a new Athlon 64. This required some re-jiggering of my previous availability calculations, since the bogomips are low on these new Athlons. I decided to run a quick benchmark on all the machines and […]
We’re getting ready to replace our server. I’m going to start calling it the “master node” because it sounds cooler. Anyway, it’s three years old and the warranty is up, and it’s a 730 MHz Pentium III, so it needs to be replaced. When the cluster is fully active, we see load […]
I’ve got a pair of new Dell Precision 360n workstations coming next week, so when I was called in to consult on installation of Debian on new a Dell Dimension 4600, I was hopeful that I could learn something useful, since I’m sure the architecture is somewhat similar. What I’ve learned so far is […]
From yesterday’s email to my users:
Sunday morning, monitoring daemons reported an issue with the server’s main RAID filesystem, which cascaded rather quickly into a full-blown cluster-wide problem. As soon as I could, I came in and rebooted the server, checking the disk for errors. It appears that the problem was a minor part […]