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Eaton ePDU Auth Algorithm & Crypto Algorithm for SNMPv3 Configuration

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I recently acquired an Eaton EMA114-10 PDU. When adding it to LibreNMS, I did not know what Authorization Algorithm or Crypto Algorithm to use when configuring it for SNMPv3. Searching did not find anything. IRC did. dagb on the LibreNMS IRC channel knew what was used for older EATON devices. Turns out, that hasn’t changed. These are the answers: Auth Algorithm – MD5 Crypto Algorithm – AES I hope this saves you time.

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writing random data via geli

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You might recall that suspect drive from the zpool replace on the weekend. Thomas Hurst suggested: Might be worth overwriting the drive, try to encourage it to actually reallocate the sectors now the data on them is no longer needed. I, being one to take advice from people on the internet, and Michael W Lucas, decided to try his suggestion. The drive in question. [dan@knew:~] $ tail /var/log/messages Dec 14 00:00:00 knew newsyslog[88570]:

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Replacing a failing drive in a ZFS zpool

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In this post I will replace a working, but suspect, drive with another drive. No down time. The server is knew. In this post: FreeBSD 12.2 ZFS TOSHIBA MD04ACA500 5TB drive – the suspect drive: da17 TOSHIBA HDWE150 5TB drive – the replacement: da22 None of these drives are under warranty What drives are in this server? I have had good luck with Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB drives (presenting as Hitachi HDS723030BLE640), starting a

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Duplicating a zpool

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I have these boot drives, I want to copy them to another. They both happen to be zroot and bootable. I booted from mfsBSD and imported both new and old zroot, using the pool ID shown by zpool import -N. root@mfsbsd:~ # zpool import -N pool: data01 id: 2668514456528412656 state: ONLINE action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier. config: data01 ONLINE mirror-0 ONLINE gpt/S59VNS0N809087J_S00 ONLINE gpt/S59VNJ0N631973D_S01 ONLINE mirror-1

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Creating a 4 drive ZFS zpool: stripe over mirrors

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In this post, I am creating a 4 drive ZFS pool consisting of two mirror. In this post: I’m booting from mfsBSD 12.1 ZFS Creating partitions On FreeBSD, it is convention to create partitions. It is not necessary, but I don’t use all the space in case a future replacement drive is slightly smaller than these drives. NOTE: I am not, but have not confirmed that this is no longer a problem in

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Dell R720 flashing Dell PERC H710 mini into IT mode

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Dell PowerEdge Servers are common in #homelab use. The hardware gets sold after it goes out of warranty and they get dumped. Most of the disk cards in these servers come flashed for use with RAID and RAID only. Never use a RAID card with ZFS. Always give ZFS direct access to the drives. I won’t go into the details because the reasons why are easily researched. These cards usually arrive in IR

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PDU setttings

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This post documents the PDU settings so I know what is plugged in where and the delay they have on power up. pdu1 – before pdu1 – outlet 1 – r720-01 pdu1 – outlet 2 – knew pdu1 – outlet 3 – slocum pdu1 – outlet 7 – LTO4 tape library pdu1 – after pdu2 – before pdu2 – outlet 1 – r720-01 Missing, I can’t find that one. pdu2 – outlet 2

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laptop hits load averages: 407.41 128.53 49.18 during start up

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I’m not complaining. It’s just very amazing how much work a laptop does to start up. As soon as I can get a terminal session I start: [dan@air01:~] $ w 18:13 up 3 mins, 11 users, load averages: 164.29 42.91 15.80 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT dan console – 31Dec19 230days – dan s000 – 18:12 – -bash dan s001 – 18:12 – -bash dan s002 – 18:12 – -bash dan s003

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replacing an existing zroot with a proper zroot

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I wrote this post late one night while pondering how to solve this problem. I may have solved it with much less effort. I want to copy a zroot from old drives to new drives. The new drives are in a test box of mine. Once the new drives are configured, I will replace the existing mirror with them. Not shown here, I have already installed FreeBSD 12.1 on the new drives. I

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