Last night, I got called out for standby services. When I arrived in Almere (19:40), I noticed that SARA (the datacenter where we’re hosting our systems), was completely black (NOT good). Turned out, they had a power outage, and the no-break system didn’t work, causing all equipment to be restarted. Since they need way more current than available to start everything up parallel, they had to shutdown some HPC equipment in order to let the rest of the servers power up. At 21:10 all our systems were back online. It took till 23:30 till I was back home tho, due to some systems not being as correct as our monitoring was telling us. All in all, it was a pretty stupid thing, especially for somebody like SARA.

To ease the job of the most common actions taken when working with Quagga and Virt-IX, I’ve written a sh script, combined with some expect scripts and a couple of whois lookups. This script can add/remove a peer, do a sh ip bgp sum and show some information about a peer (name, email, received prefixes, etc). It’s not quite finished yet (needs more features), but it’s usable enough to use for testing.

Go to the Software page for more information and download links.

Over at SysadmMag there’s a nice article explaining how to setup Nagios passive host checks based on input from snmptraps. Check the article here.

One funny thing about blogging is that people always wonder when you’re going to blog again. What really surprises me of a couple of people (I mean you Blaasvis & Moto-moi) is that they always bitch, moan & complain that my blog isn’t uptodate, but I’ve never seen a link to their blogs… So guys, when are your blogs going to be online :+

This morning I had to de-ice my car windows. One thing I dont really like doing is de-icing my car windows. Every time I need to do that, it reminds me that it will take an awfull long time till it’s summer again :/

In other news, my network has been completely redesigned, again. For an idea how it looks now, check out this map. Ofcourse, some things have already changed, so this map isn’t completely accurate.

In my previous post, I told that IPv6 support was forthcoming for my network. Unfortunately, due to a political disagreement between two people of Virt-IX this has now been dropped. I do have my netblock (195.16.86.120/29) fully attached and routed. Mainly due to the success of this, I’ve now got round-robin dns balanced SMTP, IMAP and HTTP servers, balanced over my tweakdsl and virt-ix routers.

Lots of after-configuration and integration still needs to be done. Nagios configuration needs to be expanded, Snort needs to be kicked back alive, and so on.

Also, If you’re a #anti-rpm addict, you probably already heard; there will be a POST-WTH-LAN at my place somewhere in december. Not much other details are known, except that this will be a lan where games aren’t really the thing If you’re invited, you’ll get the info as needed.