I’m using FreeBSD 10.2-RC2 here, with a bunch of HDD. Here are the current pools: The degraded music pool contains a drive I will be replacing later in this post. But first, I want to replace a mis-matched drive in the benchmarking pool. I noticed that when I saw this output: The serial number on […]
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NOTE: If you are looking to configure net-mgmt/net-snmp for the first time, the latest article is Configuration of net-mgmt/net-snmp on FreeBSD. I wasted a few hours today trying to figure out why special characters in passwords were causing problems. I was chasing the wrong problem. Conclusion: smart quotes are dumb. Full disclosure: I should have
Smart quotes are not so smart: net-snmp-config –create-snmpv3-user for LibreNMS Read More »
This turned up this morning: Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 d0 c4 6e 40 57 00 00 00 60 00 Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 40 (UNC ) Aug 5 05:10:04
CAM status: ATA Status Error READ_DMA48 Error 5, Retries exhausted Read More »
I’m using FreeBSD 10.2-RC2. One of my new hard 3TB drives was acting up. I removed it and sent it off to be replaced. In the meantime, I received some 5TB drives and I added one of them into the existing vdev of the zpool. First, I partitioned the drive much like the other drives
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I took delivery of another 10 x Toshiba PH3500U-1I72 5TB drives yesterday. They are installed into the latest server (varm). This sever also contains 10x Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB drives. Last night I wrote a wee script to start long tests on each of them. I was able to extract a list of the hard drives
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I noticed this in /var/log/messages today: Jul 30 13:25:21 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 b0 51 95 40 68 00 00 00 40 00 Jul 30 13:25:21 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error Jul 30 13:25:21 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 40 (UNC ) Jul 30
smartd: ATA error count increased from 0 to 1 Read More »
I noticed these messages this morning, on the new server: $ grep smartd /var/log/messages Jul 25 11:35:29 varm smartd[813]: Device: /dev/da15 [SAT], 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jul 25 11:35:29 varm smartd[813]: Device: /dev/da15 [SAT], 10 Offline uncorrectable sectors Jul 25 12:05:28 varm smartd[813]: Device: /dev/da15 [SAT], 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jul 25 12:35:29
smartd: Device: 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Read More »
As I was setting up the new varm server, one of the Nagios checks I included was check_ntp_time. It comes standard with nagios-plugins. The check was reporting NTP CRITICAL: Offset unknown. Running the check from the command line showed: [dan@webserver:/usr/local/libexec/nagios] $ ./check_ntp_time -4 -H varm NTP CRITICAL: Offset unknown| Running the check with a timeout
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NOTE: I found out these settings do not persist after a reboot. Annoying. I’ll get back to that soon for a fix. EDIT 2021-05-05: On more recent FreeBSD, say 12.2, to disable resolvconf.conf, do this, as provided by [dvl@r720-02:~] $ cat /etc/resolvconf.conf resolvconf=NO [dvl@r720-02:~] $ The above is documented in man 8 resolvconf.conf (search for
Configuring unbound on FreeBSD 10.x Read More »
World, please meet varm, the newest addition to my home lab. Some of the hardware has been described in an earlier blog post and not all of the hardware has been installed. But for the record: