[sf-lug] Regarding the "new" (Silicon Mechanics) SF-LUG box ...

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Michael Paoli wrote:

> So, when do "we" (me/Jim/Nathan) (plus anyone else we want to invite to
> tag along) want to set up this new box?  This week (through this coming
> weekend) is out for me, as I'm on-call for work, ... but maybe an
> upcoming Monday evening other than when SF-LUG meets?

This coming Monday evening would work fairly well for me.  Tuesday Jun 10 
works okay, and then I'm busy or out-of-town the evenings until Thu 6/19 
(when I am free or possible-to-be-free again).

> Got IPMI[1]?  I believe we also got an IPMI card/module for this system
> which we also still "need" to install (which will significantly ease
> some important aspects of remote administration).

Freaking yes, that'd be awesome.

My server in Japan, where I have an IPMI card installed but not properly 
set up, recently kernel panicked.  The nice people in the lab where it 
runs rebooted it, but took this picture of the console first: 
http://paulproteus.acm.jhu.edu/screenshot1.jpg

It sat there like that for almost one full day before anyone knew what had 
happened.  Mea culpa for not setting up IPMI (and I, for one, plan to 
waste a full Internet-routable IPv4 address on it as soon as I can...).

-- Asheesh.

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Bus error -- driver executed.