Re: [lopsa-tech] Air-Gapped Satellite Server?

2015-10-28 Thread Allan West
uired manual step. > > B. If you can automate one way transfers through a VPN or equivalent to > eliminate the manual transfer, I have seen that done for transporting > patches and updates to a nontrusted network. > > -------

[lopsa-tech] Air-Gapped Satellite Server?

2015-10-28 Thread Allan West
I am interested in chatting off-list with anyone who has deployed an air-gapped Red Hat Satellite server. A unit at $WORK has a need to update RHEL boxes in their air-gap systems, and they're looking for information on the most straight forward way to do so. If there's a simpler / cheaper means th

Re: [lopsa-tech] Teradata 2700 Appliance available

2015-09-24 Thread Allan West
e hardware side of the shop, but horse trading for hardware is a well-respected part of sysadmin work in many shops. Allan West On 2015/09/24 09:14, john boris wrote: > I apologize if I started something not correct for the list but it is > the only place I knew to ask about this. That is why I

Re: [lopsa-tech] 3rd-party SFPs

2015-02-25 Thread Allan West
The tl:dr is: if you're paying for enterprise support, buy the expensive, branded SFPs. On 2015/02/25 15:03, Brodie, Kent wrote: > We have DELL SFP cables connected to a pair of Nexus 5596 switches, > they work. Can't speak for the "twenty dollar" variety, but.. If you buy a $20 SFP, keep a spare

Re: [lopsa-tech] Data on longevity of powered off disk drives?

2014-12-05 Thread Allan West
On 2014/12/04 21:28, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: >> From: berg...@merctech.com [mailto:berg...@merctech.com] >> >> My biggest concern about the longevity of disk drives for off-line storage >> would be mechanical. A disk drive has a fair number of moving parts, >> which have been designed t

Re: [lopsa-tech] Help with bash or find or grep or something

2014-09-13 Thread Allan West
On 9/13/14 3:11 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > On 09/13/14 11:51, Doug Hughes wrote: >> FWIW: this is a perfect use case for xargs instead of exec. You'll save >> a lot of fork/clone system calls and simplify your find. Brandon pointed >> out the main problem, but consider this alternative: >

Re: [lopsa-tech] Datacenter cable runs - labeling scheme?

2013-02-08 Thread Allan West
On 2/7/13 10:46 AM, Matt Simmons wrote: > Hi, > > So, my current situation is that I'm working in a datacenter with 21 > racks arranged in three rows, 7 racks long. We have one centralized > distribution switch and no patch panels, so everything is run to the > switch which lives in the middle, r

Re: [lopsa-tech] UID/GID migration

2012-12-12 Thread Allan West
On 12/10/12 8:37 PM, Howard Bampton wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Todd D. Taft wrote: >> Thanks to a reorganization, I have to move about 50 Linux systems from the >> LDAP server run by one group to the LDAP server run by a different group. >> In most cases, the UIDs (uidNumber) and GI

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Recommendations

2011-01-17 Thread Allan West
On 1/15/11 6:39 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 08:56 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >>> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] >>> On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams >>> Most recently we've used the Sun x4170 with the Nehalem processors

Re: [lopsa-tech] Has fedora moved to Desktop only?

2010-12-16 Thread Allan West
On 12/16/10 1:15 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:35 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: >> Yes, please do yourself, the next sysadmin, and the whole IT industry >> a favor and use a server-centric distro. > > +1 > > Use CentOS > >> Fedora and Ubuntu are nice >> for the desktop