1. Visits
- 2010-12-22 - Installed KVM cables for fritz. Cabinet is packed, organizing cables would be nice but not necessary right now.
- 2010-12-08 - Went to install KVM cables, but the VGA cable had the wrong gender on one end. rkd noticed that one drive in deleuze had failed. Ey pulled and re-inserted the drive, and clinton fiddled with megaraid, and it worked again (still working as of the next visit). clinton is monitoring via megaraid software.
/20100130 - shrink partitions on fritz's disks
/20100105 - install fritz
/20090821 - get hopper working, plus other cleanup.
2. To do, someday
- Move mire and hopper down by fractions of a U to free up 1U extra space in the cabinet.
- rkd should get his lenny cdrw back sometime.
- (pipe dream) clean up the mess of cables in the back. Probably not worth doing unless we shut everything down. Nothing is broken now. We could do this by only pulling all KVM related cables only and reinserting them in a more organized manner (wouldn't require downtime).
3. Peer1 facility information
- Peer1 is staffed during the weekdays. The staff have always been friendly to me. If you have questions, call them. For example, they received packages and put them in our rack itself, or helping to install a new machine.
- To get in, you need a access card and key to the cabinet. You enter the lobby of the building (75 Broad Street) and speak to the guard. The guard will ask for an ID and it will be scanned/checked. I'm not sure if this connects to some list of authorized people. Then you'll go to the back to an elevator. It's second floor, I think. You should have 24/7 access using this procedure. The guard can help direct you to the right floor.
- Once on the floor, find our room. There are at least two peer1 rooms on that floor, I forget which room it is. We are in the room that has the staff offices in the back.
- Once you enter our rooms's door, it is on the left, by the wall. We are NYC18 (according to pictures). The key unlocks the cabinet. You can go in the front and back both, and take the doors off for easy access.
- In the back (south side) of the room, there is a public room of various supplies. There's a small router with DHCP as well as various tools for your use (use ethernet to connect to it). Occasionally you can find useful parts here.
- There are crash carts, with monitors and keyboards, lying around. Just look around until you find what you need. You can plug it in at some wall socket. Our machines have front monitor/USB/PS2(?) ports, so work from the front.
- When you are there, there usually isn't open wifi around. You can usually get cell reception. Plugging into our own switch would require a static IP, and there may not be room on the switch. Best to plan on using cellular data for IRC, if possible. Or you can always log in to a machine on the console, too. If you need to download something big, go to the back room and plug into the DHCP router.
- In our rack is a screwdriver and other miscellaneous things. Most machines are labeled, some with labels and some with chalk. If you need something else, check the back room.