New version of Cnagios
I released a new version of Cnagios today. There's not really anything interesting it in. Oh, yeah, it uses the real function keys now. And it compiles with OpenBSD 4.0, RHEL4, FC5 & 6, SeSE10 etc.
New Submit Machine
I cooked a new "cinnnamon" spice submit machine today. It's got a RAID made from 280 GB disks resulting in 699 GB raw and 698 GB of usable disk space.
Scientific Linux 4.4
Our automated (PXElinux + KickStart + CFengine) "SL44-64" installs are working pretty nicely now.
Monitoring PhEDEx
We're monitoring PhEDEx now. The result, in Cnagios is... well... too wide to fit this blog. Trust me. It's in there. Try the web interface.
Storage Server IO Graphs
About 50 lines of perl later and now the dCache server network IO graphs semi-automatically maintained...
http://noc.hep.wisc.edu/ad-hoc-graphs/StorageServerNetIO.cgi
Monitoring New GridFTP Doors
We're monitoring port 2811 on the new GridFTP doors (whatever they are?!)
Monitoring RAIDs on s5nXX
We're monitoring their utilization at least. The actual
RAID status monitoring will happen really soon now.
Absent CFengine Clients
The CFengine FriendStatus( N ) etc stuff doesn't work too well, so I wrote a wrapper around cfshow --last-seen. It tells us about CFengine clients that have stopped getting automatic configuration.
Whereabouts?!
I highly doubt anyone has noticed the lack of posts to this blog lately(?) But I'm throwing this up anyway for my own sense comfort: 1) On November 1st 2006 I was saddled with the job of being the sysadmin for the whole Physics Dept. The previous sysadmin put together a, ah, rather unnecessarily complex and not-so-workable environment and thus it's, ah, consumed a lot of my time. 2) For the last month I've been plagued with an on-again-off-again "acute sinus infection" and to top it off I came down with the flu at 2300 hours December 31st 2006. Thank god for antibiotics and Pepto-Bismol!
Intrusion Detection Software Upgrade
The ol' (open source) Tripwire was getting long on the tooth (and it doesn't run under RHEL4/SL4) so I recently rolled out AIDE. It's pretty much a drop in replacement for Tripwire--at least I was able to write a script to munge it's output into Tripwire style output so our existing IDS and meta file integrity checking systems don't need upgrading.
