Josh Olson’s Blog

Some of the jet direct emulation daemons on Kyocera Mitas are not compatible with the check_hpjd nagios plugin. I spent some time revamping our SNMP checks for certain printers - I have not yet fished, but am definitely making progress.

I ordered a server & rack extensions [plus round -> square hole converters] for one of our faculty members wanting to drop a Dell server in an instrument rack (25″ deep), this should be fun / interesting.

I’ve been spending a lot of time “putting out fires”, and resolving rt requests this week. Tomorrow night we’ll be migrating our storage from a local array to DCS network storage. This should be a major relief to our backup system.

Stacked, racked, and kicked our first 2950 today, it’s going to be an IDL cruncher for one of our departments. They’ve got a fancy new swing arm in back that keeps the cable management arm from swinging out too far. I spent some time customizing a kickstart file for flexruns, there were a few quirks, but everything appears functional now.

Flexruns is currently using RHEL4U4 as our campus RHN proxy is still not RHEL5 compatible.

Josh Myles has an RPM for IDL, it works great as long as you remember to install the i386 version of xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.

# up2date xorg-x11-deprecated-libs –arch=i386