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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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 for this process, according to the photos I took, was about 90 minutes. However, looking at snmpd metrics,
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This post is mostly for myself. I’m just putting my Sunday morning thoughts down for later review and consideration. When Selecting replacements batteries for my Eaton 5PX UPS (5PX2200RT & 5PXEBM48RT), I began to think about: when the power goes off, why can’t I keep using my laptop? Usually, I still have an Internet connection: the ISP isn’t going offline. Why not turn off the two servers in the basement, and anything else
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This is the Microsoft Azure instance known as nagios03. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg
This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. This post has been replaced by a newer post. It replaced an earlier post. This new post was created because I added two more 12T drives. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-01. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. A few days ago, this host had a change in CPU and RAM. This is my primary developer server in my basement. gpart zpool list zpool status zfs list dmesg sesutil show jls
Yesterday, I changed CPUs in my main server. That server builds packages, is the database server for dev, test, and stage freshports, amongst other things. It is a generalized server. In this post: FreeBSD 14.0 powerdxx-0.4.4_1 Dell R730 2x E5-2699 v3 CPUs As folks started reading my tweets, crest pointed out that powerd++ may help. SPKaniu also mentioned cycling down. Straight out of ports After installing powerd++, I tried running it: [0:31 r730-01
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