Re: network monitoring

woody) and has a quite good configuration-sample. If you need help, you can also contact me off-list as I have compiled it just a few hours ago... :o) best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availab

Re: network monitoring

es. You'll have to write a few configuration files for all the services and each client you want to monitor, but if all nodes in the cluster are similar, it wont be too much work... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network

Re: How to get hpasm module on HP Proliant?

or that: www.debian-on-proliant.com Currently there is only a basic framework and a hardware-matrix online, but I hope to get some real content soon - just haven't had much free time during the last weeks. Comments, suggestions and especially contributions are welcome! best regards,

Re: FW: Woody and HP DL320G2

> Or, should I try to use Sarge? Sarge will probably work out of the box. At least the last time I tried I could install a DL140 without any problems... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High

Re: hardware/optimizations for a download-webserver

mic content - no problem at all. The HTTP-cluster next to it is intended to handle WAY bigger loads... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415

Re: debian on HP proliant

woody and update to sarge - definitely a lot less work ;o) [1] Copy it to your disk and adapt /etc/modules if you want to continue using 2.4.18-bf24. I usually install a current kernel before I reboot again so I don't care... [2] I've packaged DL380G3 kernels and the corresponding .config

Re: debian on HP proliant

woody and update to sarge - definitely a lot less work ;o) [1] Copy it to your disk and adapt /etc/modules if you want to continue using 2.4.18-bf24. I usually install a current kernel before I reboot again so I don't care... [2] I've packaged DL380G3 kernels and the corresponding .config

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

ce with coda, lustre or afs? Haven't used any of them yet as I didn't need any of their features... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

ce with coda, lustre or afs? Haven't used any of them yet as I didn't need any of their features... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 648541

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

l, apples and oranges... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

l, apples and oranges... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

ess (or switch to # maildir style, which needs no application-level lock controls). So if you use maildir (which you probably will with a setup like this) you won't have any problems with NFS at all. And yes, we run setups like this - with some hundred thousand mails per day - and never had a

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

ess (or switch to # maildir style, which needs no application-level lock controls). So if you use maildir (which you probably will with a setup like this) you won't have any problems with NFS at all. And yes, we run setups like this - with some hundred thousand mails per day - and never had a

Re: debian on HP proliant

Am Mi, den 14.04.2004 schrieb Christopher Sharp um 21:36: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:11:26 +0100, Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Having said that, the ProLiant ML330 come with an ATA-RAID which is > >based on an LSI chipset (MegaIDE) which is not supported

Re: debian on HP proliant

If it's too hard (read: time invested is too high) then > we'll go buy IBM instead for the Linux servers. We have a lot of them in production too - BECAUSE they're fast to setup and work flawlessly... ;o) best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \

Re: debian on HP proliant

Am Mi, den 14.04.2004 schrieb Christopher Sharp um 21:36: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:11:26 +0100, Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Having said that, the ProLiant ML330 come with an ATA-RAID which is > >based on an LSI chipset (MegaIDE) which is not supported

Re: debian on HP proliant

If it's too hard (read: time invested is too high) then > we'll go buy IBM instead for the Linux servers. We have a lot of them in production too - BECAUSE they're fast to setup and work flawlessly... ;o) best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \

Re: using hp proliant ml 330

en source to get driver image megaide.o. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development

Re: using hp proliant ml 330

en source to get driver image megaide.o. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ W

Re: using hp proliant ml 330

controller, buy the SCSI version or use a RAID controller wich is supported by the kernel. It will save you a lot of time and headaches... ;o) best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Avail

Re: using hp proliant ml 330

controller, buy the SCSI version or use a RAID controller wich is supported by the kernel. It will save you a lot of time and headaches... ;o) best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Avail

Re: Which SATA RAID controller?

l for raid-5 > performance. We have 4 160GB Maxtor drives attached to it, configured as RAID5. If anyone is interested I can do a quick bonnie++ benchmark, though I don't know if our card has 64MB or 128MB. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \

Re: Which SATA RAID controller?

or raid-5 > performance. We have 4 160GB Maxtor drives attached to it, configured as RAID5. If anyone is interested I can do a quick bonnie++ benchmark, though I don't know if our card has 64MB or 128MB. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Uni

Re: Woody on Proliant ML350 G3 (smartarray 641)

u can grab the compiled modules from my repository (http://people.iirc.at/moswald/linux/bf24_modules/bcm5700/) or the source directly from Broadcom (http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/) [1] It may work with the cciss module just as the SmartArray 5i does - but I read somewhere about a bug in the drive

Re: Woody on Proliant ML350 G3 (smartarray 641)

u can grab the compiled modules from my repository (http://people.iirc.at/moswald/linux/bf24_modules/bcm5700/) or the source directly from Broadcom (http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/) [1] It may work with the cciss module just as the SmartArray 5i does - but I read somewhere about a bug in the drive

Re: Remote server management

rtual console" either via an integrated webserver (which loads a java applet to emulate the console output) or via telnet. It's a little bit slower than the output on your normal screen but you can setup the whole server (BIOS, RAID and OS) without connecting a keyboard or screen at all.

Re: Remote server management

rtual console" either via an integrated webserver (which loads a java applet to emulate the console output) or via telnet. It's a little bit slower than the output on your normal screen but you can setup the whole server (BIOS, RAID and OS) without connecting a keyboard or screen at all.

Re: debian on HP proliant

e not accessible as "normal" IDE devices (i.e. /dev/hda) so you basically get a machine without any usable IDE interface except for one which is attached to the CD-ROM. If you buy one of these machines you'll either have to use a model with SCSI controller or install an extra IDE-contro

Re: debian on HP proliant

e not accessible as "normal" IDE devices (i.e. /dev/hda) so you basically get a machine without any usable IDE interface except for one which is attached to the CD-ROM. If you buy one of these machines you'll either have to use a model with SCSI controller or install an extra IDE-contro

Re: Creating custom, automated, Debian installs.

I do) you don't have to pay anything. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896

Re: Creating custom, automated, Debian installs.

www.gibraltar.at)? It's a Debian GNU/Linux based Firewall-Distribution which will boot straight off the CD - should be ideal for your application as many encryption tools and kernel-patches are already applied to the stock-ISO. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: How to investigate kernel failure?

Am Son, 2003-10-19 um 08.29 schrieb Arnt Karlsen: > ..I saw "raid over net" somewhere, where? Testing? Sid? > I allway keep finding stuff I can use, the next month. ;-) You probably mean DRBD. As far as I remember it's packaged for testing and unstable... best regard

Re: Sugesstions building a rather big mail system.

; http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snaprestore.html Disclaimer: I don't work for NetApp or any of their associates nor did I in the past. I don't even sell their products ;-) best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration G

Re: Best way to setup a cheap web cluster?

hould work just fine. It's "just" a kernel module after all. You may need to use a vanilla kernel instead of the Debian kernel (maybe some patches conflict but I doubt it) though. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administ

Re: Best way to setup a cheap web cluster?

(www.linuxvirtualserver.org) > How have others setup web clusters using debian? We're not adverse to > backporting packages or using outside apt sources if necessary. Either way, you don't need any backports - almost (?) everything should be packaged for Debian. If you want th

Re: Sugesstions building a rather big mail system.

ill generate a lot of I/O on the disks - you'll need a REALLY fast disk-array for that (not bulk transfer but I/O per second). best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluste

Re: Sugesstions building a rather big mail system.

data when only 100GB have changed since the last backup. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 31

Re: Sugesstions building a rather big mail system.

is something you'll definitely want to take a closer look at as 500k user will generate enough data to keep larger libraries busy for hours (don't forget the restore procedure may take a long time too). Incremental FS snapshots would be cool for this, but I don't know of any way how t

Re: Sugesstions building a rather big mail system.

talk a few hours with someone (real-life, not ML) who has build something similar (not necessarily a mail-cluster, but something with huge amounts of data on a network) as they probably know most of the pitfalls first-hand :-) best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \

Re: Sugesstions building a rather big mail system.

for storage might be an advantage here. > Anyone used supersparrow for source based load balancing? Nope. Don't see a reason why to use it here as LVS does everything (and more) I need for setting up something like this. As hardware planning might go "a little" in detail (and th

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

Samba, ... ) you might want to take a look at heartbeat, piranha, failsafe or something like that. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

routing/firewalling if you choose to use direct-routing or tunneling instead of NAT behind your balancer) and can be integrated in the cluster within a few minutes. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

build into the FreeBSD kernel like LVS? How does *BSD handle it? Any URL? best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fa

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

don't think this would work. You'll need a third box which will do the balancing (well, maybe you could get it to work but it's not intended this way). As I said before, the balancer doesn't have to be a fast machine - almost anything you can find will be sufficient. best reg

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

you would expect. A dedicated loadbalancer is probably the better solution as it doesn't add much overhead - its only job is to distribute incoming requests. Anyway: please correct me if I'm wrong! ;o) best regards Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

... If you have further questions, we can discuss details off-list as I may become OT. best regards, Markus Oswald -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\

RE: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

lock device. You can use almost any filesystem on top of it. Preferably journaling of course. best regards Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\

Re: Apache clustering w/ load balancing and failover

clusters, some with quite a lot of traffic (well, that's what load-balancing is good for) some just needed the HA features. No serious problems with keepalived and no problems at all with LVS. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration

Re: Woody with Intel S875WP1-E board? - OT

o install it for some customers and there where no problems whatsoever, neither when installing nor running it in production. best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Clus

Re: Comparison of antivirals for postfix on Debian

s (like subscription, updates, ...) Installation on Debian is really straightforward and even supported! (i.e. documented in INSTALL) best regards Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster

Re: Ethernet on a Compaq Proliant DL360 G3

kets incoming. Even with wrong IP-addresses or routing you should see traffic from others hosts on the same network (at least their broadcasts)... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Av

Re: apt-get

is to let the user select which version of a package will be installed. This selection can be made in a number of ways that fall into three categories, version, release and origin. [...] HTH Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Admi

Re: apt-get

is to let the user select which version of a package will be installed. This selection can be made in a number of ways that fall into three categories, version, release and origin. [...] HTH Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Admi

Re: loadbalancing

regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development

Re: loadbalancing

regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: realtime email backup across computer centers

d provide reasonable fast re-sync times. > Does there exists a solution? Maybe with qmail? The scenario above is completely MTA independent - you can use qmail, sendmail, postfix, exim, courier-mta, $whatever... best regards, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: NON-US can anyone reach aljazeera.net?

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 23:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone reach aljazeera.net or english.aljazeera.net from outside > of US? Or any nameservers for it? > > I'm trying to determine if this is a US only issue, . As this seems to be a large-scale outage/attack a group of independent people

Re: NON-US can anyone reach aljazeera.net?

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 23:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone reach aljazeera.net or english.aljazeera.net from outside > of US? Or any nameservers for it? > > I'm trying to determine if this is a US only issue, . As this seems to be a large-scale outage/attack a group of independent people

Re: Re Lilo

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 05:30, Brad Lay wrote: > I'm sure theres a debian-specific way, but this way works ;) Of course there is a debian-way of doing this ;o) man mkboot best regards -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration

Re: IPSEC and PPTP

try to help you as good as I can. HTH Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web Development -

Re: multiple auth @samehost

ral servers without any significant problems. HTH, Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \

Re: how to isolate iptables log ?

g regular expressions. Just 'apt-get install syslog-ng' (and klogd if needed) HTH Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415\ System Consulti

Re: cold fusion 4.5 on Debian

lien and install some strange RPMS - just get the native packages via 'apt-get install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1' > Are there any other simple packages that I might recommend as a dummy > proof alternative ? PHP4? regards Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: RAID starter

again... mfg Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415 || +43 664 4865125 \ System Consulting Fax:+43 316 428896 \ Web D