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up_the_irons: i just installed OpenNTP on our cacti server, fixing the time lag (which was about 35 minutes), so your graphs will have a gap in them
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qbit_: CaZe: that is awesome :D
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jdoe: lol 35 minutes
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up_the_irons: damn, one fan not responding in a new server; i know where i'll be tonight... < sigh....>
Ahmed: up_the_irons: no remote hands at the DC?
up_the_irons: well, there is, but... have you ever dealt with remote hands at a DC? i need not say more...
Ahmed: depends on the DC
up_the_irons: plus, i have very high standards as to how things get handled
it's also not worth the fee they charge; i gotta add ram to another server anyway, so i'll kill two birds...
Ahmed: Not too bad heh
Which DC do you have your boxes at?
As long as it's not ubiquity heh
btw, thanks for updating the ticket. I guess I had it all wrong, so I actually reversed the cancellation. Not sure if you're still watching that ticket.
jdoe: heh, I barely trust remote hands to push a power button on the right machine.
a DC we were in, took them about a week to figure out how to boot a livecd. Guess it was interfering with WoW time :P
Ahmed: Seriously?
jdoe: yes.
Ahmed: Which DC is that so I stay away from it...
up_the_irons: i had to do this once:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51184165@N00/2174345059/in/photostream
Ahmed: we're at CoreSite in LA
900 N. Alameda
Ahmed: LOL
HAHAHAHA
You actually did that?
good lord
Who the hell was the remote hand, Uncle Dad?
up_the_irons: someone who didn't know anything about servers
Ahmed: oh brother
up_the_irons: omg, after 3 hours last night of writing an incident report, gathering evidence, etc... regarding yesterday morning's outage; i now get this:
"At approximately 9:30 AM PST a CoreSite Network Engineer connected a newly delivered fiber circuit in
preparation of upcoming maintenance. Unknowingly to the Network Engineer a physical loop-back was in
place on the circuit. As a result of the physical hard-loop an L2 Loop was introduced into the Any2 IX
switch fabric causing several Any2 participants’ BGP sessions to drop.
"
all my evidence and investigation pointed to a loop somewhere, but i couldn't figure out where!
Now I Know(tm)
"causing several Any2 participants’ BGP sessions to drop." -- that puts it mildly
b/c of the loop, CPU utilization on our core went so high, that it started not to be able to send / process keepalives, so all sessions eventually melted
Ahmed: Oh goodie
they have a Boston DC
up_the_irons: yeah, coresite has several
jdoe: up_the_irons: so sad, ruined my 6.5mo irc connection. Don't they know there's critical infrastructure here? ;)
up_the_irons: jdoe: LOL
Ahmed: 6.5mo?
dafauq?
vapor: "network engineer" should be changed to "noc monkey"
Ahmed: vapor
you're everywhere
Next thing I'll find you in my sock drawer
jpalmer: up_the_irons: that picture, is one of the reasons I hate apple xServes.
Lefty: my irssi has only been up 61d
up_the_irons: jpalmer: ah
jpalmer: up_the_irons: btw: thank you for the phenominal support with that vps issue I was having. you went well above and beyond.
up_the_irons: I'm thinking we may want to add a FAQ for that, since.. I'm sure you'll see it again.
Lefty: what was the issue?
jpalmer: lefty: an unsupported OS would dump core and segfault occasionally, even after a fresh install
Lefty: Gentoo? ;)
-: Lefty ducks
up_the_irons: jpalmer: it was no problem at all!
jpalmer: centos
specifically, centos6. centos 5 worked fine
Lefty: ah, I'm rolling out centos6 here too
up_the_irons: jpalmer: so are you seeing that issue finally go away with that kern param?
Lefty: everything at work is currently a mishmash of 5.5, 5.6, or 5.7
up_the_irons: jpalmer: i just learned about that kernel param last week, from another customer at that; i feel obligated to share the love
;)
Lefty: also I'm puppetizing ALL THE THINGS
Ahmed: I never had any luck with Gentoo
jpalmer: up_the_irons: might be too early to say for certain. but previously a "yum update" after a fresh install would segfault. with that boot param, it worked.
Lefty: i *love* puppet.
jdoe: Ahmed: month.
up_the_irons: jpalmer: awesome, glad to hear
Lefty: jpalmer: it really is the best way to learn the infrastructure at a new company
by puppetizing it, I'm forced to know everything about it
pjs: puppet is great.. still not 100% on using it on FreeBSD though. Seems to give me issues, but I'm not very strong with Puppet yet so..
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b1k3ryd3r: hey up_the_irons
portertech: disregard puppet, do some cook'n w/ chef
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doomviking: <--- chef fan
-: mhoran needs to get his VPS configs into chef.
mike-burns: Agreed.
pjs: How's Chef on fbsd?
mhoran: No idea. That's one of the reasons I haven't tried it yet. Also managed to not have ruby installed on my VPS so far.
portertech: https://github.com/portertech/portertech-chef-repo :)
use chef-solo for my personal box (asterisk, znc)
mhoran: Awesome
Yeah that's what I wa splanning to do.
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