Around the end of last year, I started having trouble with my used Eaton 5PX – I’d had it for about 5 years and it was used when I bought it off eBay. On Saturday night (about 21:33:48 UTC), the home network disappeared off the Internet. I figured my new gateway had died. The dead UPS Sunday morning, I returned from the remote undisclosed location to the basement #homelab. Entering the basement, it […]
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Earlier today, I installed FreeBSD 14.2 on gw01. EDIT: 2025-02-11: Yesterday, I found out the gateway draws 22W. And yes, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Here’s the link for that hardware. Here are some of the photos. The system is very quiet. I cannot hear it from 10 ft away. First boot – that first boot can take some time. 1-2 minutes. First boot trying the USB drive. Selecting
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Three weeks ago, I tooted about getting a new gateway/route/firewall for the home lab. After many fantastic suggestions, I settled on a Atom-based solution in a 1U case. It’s the “Qotom 5X 2.5G LAN 2 SFP+ Barebone Mini Router Q20322G9 with C3558 1U Rackmount Mini Server” as sold on Amazon and shipped from China. The unit arrived 8 days after ordering. It could have been 7. It was out for delivery yesterday, but
When I powered on my UPS yesterday, I predicted when it would power off: 24 hours later. To be clear, it’s removing power from the outlets and not sending any notifications to the hosts that it’s about to do so. Today, I captured the console when resetting and trying to power on the UPS. The reset This is the reset output: At this point, I waited. With no more output for 3+ minutes,
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Todays goals: pull both the ups and the external battery unit (EBU). While there, swap them so the UPS is on top. Take photos of the wiring. Disconnect each battery. Measure it. Replace anything not like the others. Expecting 13V or so on most. One should read way less. Maybe. But the UPS is now charged to 100% All cells in the UPS measure about 13.4V. Next, the EBU. All aboutt 13.4 or
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This afternoon, I was running an Ansible script to update the snmpd configuration settings on nagios03 (which replaced nagios02 – which was intentionally destroyed earlier today). After the script completed, I could not access the ngaios3 website, nor could I ssh into the host. My first thoughts: I must have messed up the ssh configuration, I’ll fix it through the console. I can’t get to anything. Anywhere. WIFI now? No, it’s me that’s
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This post shows my screenshots from the console of my Eaton 5PX as it was powered on. In this post: Eaton 5PX 2200 I was trying to clear the Replace Battery warning on my UPS after recently replacing the batteries. At present, the warning message has been cleared, I’m not sure how or why. Before taking these screen shots, the server connected to the UPS was not loading up the driver. This was
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In zpool replace, you can read about a drive which was giving errors and which I replaced. At present, that drive is [still] giving these errors, but it not part of any spool. [17:38 r730-03 dvl ~] % tail /var/log/messages Dec 25 14:52:17 r730-03 smartd[15472]: Device: /dev/da6 [SAT], 18 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Dec 25 14:52:17 r730-03 smartd[15472]: Device: /dev/da6 [SAT], 18 Offline uncorrectable sectors Dec 25 15:22:17 r730-03 smartd[15472]: Device: /dev/da6 [SAT],
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I’ve been seeing these types of errors for about 4 weeks now. I ordered a replacement drive. When it arrived, I realized I had no free drive bays. When a drive is still functional, I prefer to leave it in the host to retain zpool integrity. Instead, I will add the new drive in, run the zpool replace command, and when completed, remove the faulty drive. I decided to order more Icy Dock
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Three weeks ago, I wrote about Replacing batteries Eaton 5PX – 5PX2200RT & 5PXEBM48RT. Back then, I did not properly replace the front panel before connecting the battery… See also Eaton 5PX console booting screen shots for the followup work. Fixing this requires disconnecting the battery from the UPS. I’m not sure if I can do that live, but I’m not going to try. During this procedure, I will also move two drives
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