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OnSiteVisits / 20100105

1. Report

Rack space map:

10

KVM

9

KVM lower lip - unusable space as it is set up.

8

krunk (decommissioned, just lying here)

7

fritz

6

fritz

5

hopper (U3-5 are misaligned, and thus we are losing 1U of space. This will need to be corrected someday.)

4

mire/hopper

3

mire

2

deleuze

1

deleuze

I think that mire/hopper could be scooted down by one knotch without having to power them off. That would align them properly and free up 1U of space. Alternatively, we could move mire down where it belongs, and then power down hopper, and move it up to where krunk is and free up 2U of space(U4-5). One of these should be a

1.1. Report

All tasks done, left to do:

  1. Insert disks 2x 1 TB WD disks (waiting in our cabinet) into Dell server (missing drive brackets)
  2. Recable the whole thing? (too many too dense wires at the back)
  3. Attach KVM or serial things onto fritz. Right now there is no remote access mechanism. There is a PS/2->USB adapter in the cabinet, so all we need are VGA+PS2/KVM cables like we have for the other servers. The KVM has plenty of channels, it seems like 8.

  4. Power cycle the kvm/ipkvm - it was left in an unusable state.

1.2. Photos

http://hcoop.net/~hcoop/rkd-etc/hcoop/imgs-2010-01-05/

2. Software installation

2.1. Questions