Status of Fly

Finally got around to unracking one of the old dead Opterons from Dartmouth. I’m hoping that I’ll get a new lefthand rack with actual square holes from Chris and Jeremy shortly, so in preparation for that, it’s time to get rid of the cruft.

I also really hope to get rid of the blades sometime soon and replace them with something far better, preferably something more like Rack 1, which has been great. Basically, I want those cases exactly… they’re my favorite rackmount cases ever.

We had four MGE Pulsar Evolution 3000’s and two free-standing tower units (one APC, one Tripp-Lite, both 3000VA), as well as a smaller BACK-UPS Pro 1000. One of the tower units stopped “booting” – I threw it out. The two bottom rackmount MGE units stopped getting us through power failures and were beeping at me to replace the batteries, so I ordered some. Much cheaper than a new UPS! Just today, the top UPS randomly power-cycled itself. I don’t really trust it and think it might actually be dead, but I will test it by putting the batteries from another unit in it and seeing if it works then. If it does, I’ll get it new batteries, too. For now, I’ve offloaded the machines that were plugged into it onto the bottom two UPSes that have brand-new batteries.

Upgraded to tractor 1.0.5 and RMS3 awhile (three weeks?) ago, forgot to post it.

That’s all. Cluster-wide, installed from RPMs.

It was rebooting randomly, figured out eventually, after testing many other things, that it was the power supply just not quite supplying the correct power. The power supply in there is an el cheapo unit from like 8 years ago. The node is currently sitting on the table, top off, running, with another temporary power supply from another old machine (I think it’s from a PIII/500) plugged in while we wait for the new, good-quality Antec power supply to come in. I think I’ll have to turn the fan in it around, as the new one is designed for a standard PC case and the airflow will be backward.