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 […]
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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
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
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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
Let’s find the dead cell in my Eaton 5PX Read More »
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,
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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
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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
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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
Dell R730 – moving disks from front drive bay to PCI slots in r730-03 Read More »
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
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NOTE: the images in this blog post were broken. As of 2024-12-01 1600 UTC, they are fixed. Sorry about that. Two useful links for future me: https://caniuse.com/?search=HEIC https://urlscan.io/result/31b29ced-bf41-415c-994e-df6ec532cb29/ The time arrived this morning. The batteries were charged up. I had most of the day to myself. It was time to replace the batteries. Elapsed time
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