http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer Summary of major operational/project activities Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:13:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In pursuant to HR Policy HR-025, all non-work related material has been removed from this blog. http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=68 "Wins" for the month of September: 1. First up, the University and Medical Center now share a unified view of RFC1918 addresses, the reverse space for the Medical Center networks, and the foward zone for mc.vanderbilt.edu internally to the Vanderbilt community. This resolves a multitude of issues where data between ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=67 Wins for the month: First off, it's was a year ago on July 31st that we began to actually gather metrics on our DNS servers...  Looking back over the past 365 days, here are some interesting tidbits of information you may or may not care to hear… Total ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=60 "Wins" for June... DNS BIND VIEWS ARE NOW IN PRODUCTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sure, it took a LONG while to get in place, but it was implemented without any clients needing to change any of their configurations or any changes to all of the ICANN/ARIN registrations.  The implementation itself was ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=54 1. BIND Views are finally working in DIP on the primary name server. There is still an issue with getting the views propagated to slave servers. Following the ISC instructions does not work and the vendor has been engaged. 2. The issue with pushing updates in the DIP environment ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=53 WINS Routine system patching was performed on 8 servers. One of the bastion hosts was moved out of the soon to be removed AMD Stevenson Cluster and into the Intel Stevenson Cluster Backup issues were corrected on 3 servers. ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=50 1.  DNS/DHCP The Diamond IP environment received an upgrade to 3.0.62 in a hope to solve some issues with zone publishing.  While the software itself is stable, the problem was not solved.  Oh well... The remaining 4 personnel in Application Hosting received their training ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=48 Quite simple actually... First, you need to get the HBA's to issue a LIP and then a re-scan echo 1 > /sys/class/fc_host/<host #>/issue_lip echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/<host #>/scan Do this for every host path. Now you just need to tell PowerPath ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=47 1.  DNS/DHCP Initial imports of NetID data into the Production Diamond IP environment was initiated.  There has been some hiccups along the way with records having old hostnames with different associated DNS records.  The update to the record caused some of the resource records to be ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=46 1.  Patching fun - Solaris & Linux servers received their patches 2.  DNS/DHCP - The production Diamond IP environment was patched to Sapphire 3.0.58 and IPControl 3.0.53. 3.  ESX Stabilization - Switch diversification was completed preventing a repeat of the Aug outages.  DRS rules were added to prevent failover VM's from running ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~dan.raymer/?p=45