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@brianlittlejohn said in Who is the Real IT Manager?:

I must be lucky...I'm not micro managed and routinely asked for advice on how we can improve processes etc.

This is my situation. Our management doesn't want to be bothered with the decision making, so they rely on me to. Not S.O.P., but I love it.

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Groundhog day? Doesn't look as bad as yesterday, yet...

Damn... glad I live down here...

Man I would love to come to this... Have fun guys!

@Romo said in CentOS automatically created virbr0 and virbr0-nic and killed my cloud services (?):

You have libvirt installed that's why the virbr0 nics where created and you could delete them with virsh.

It is not part of the default Centos 7 minimally install.

Thanks Romo. It is probably included in the gnome package. I had installed the gnome desktop to get a look at centos. After some further testing I am beginning to think that the problem didn't have anything to do with the vnic's, though.

@scottalanmiller

Guten Morgen guys and gals, been running the CentOS for a good while now and it seemed pretty stable, so I move our production cloud to it.

This morning the cloud was down, it was coming up with a certificate error. On my vSphere client I could only see the 192.168.122.0 IP address on the VM, the IP for the cloud was not being shown. I was still able to connect to it with webmin, so I checked out the NIC's first. 2 new virtual NICs had been created, virbr0 and virbr0-nic with a subnet of 192.168.122.0. I was unable to deactivate the nic's, so I virsh net-destroy'ed them. Everything is back on track, but I have some questions. Were they the probable cause for no connectivity? What created them? I have not installed any virtual server services. Are the services included in the default CentOS install?

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

Armed drones are now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota. That can't go bad.

That's disgusting. We all know where that's headed.

So a power beacon sent from a (possibly) Kardaschow Type II civilization 95 light years away. Do we really want to meet the cats? I'm gonna go play some guitar.

@scottalanmiller Alright then! Gnight, sleep fast!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The drive from my house to my dad's house is almost exactly the same as driving from London to Moscow.

Flight!?!

@scottalanmiller That's what I meant. Not getting up early, but staying up so late! Jeez, I don't miss those drive times over there, man. 14 hours here and I'm on the Coté de Azur...

@scottalanmiller You certainly are up early. How do you do that??? I think we are the same age and it would kill me...

@brianlittlejohn thanks, yes I have heard this before, but I still don't understand why. Obviously you don't run a machine as root to work on documents and email. Only ever to make administrative changes to it. Never really got or found a direct answer to this question.

Edit because I was slower than @coliver: Got it, I will check that out, thanks!

@aidan_walsh @DustinB3403 Thanks guys

@coliver thanks, I had been using sudo -i, which doesn't work in centos with no entry in the sudoers file. Any other reasons not to use root if only one admin is managing the box?

Guten Morgen!

So if I want to use my user account in centOS to do anything administrative I have to add it to the sudoers file.

Since ML seems to be very centOS driven I thought I would ask, do you guys root in to work on a machine, or do you have a sudoed user?

Any dangers involved in a sudoed account?

Thanks!

Really Intel? :rolling_eyes:

Hi guys,

we have been having major problems over the past year with our HP DL360 gen8 server fans.

The server is in a clean, cool environment.

If I take the fan out and spin it up with compressed air and reinstall it, it runs again for a short period of time. I thought maybe it could be a problem with iLo, but I checked and the fan in question has always stopped.

Here are the fan cautions from the iLo log:

id Severity Class Last Update Initial Update Count Description
213 Caution Environment 07.27.2015 09:29 07.26.2015 12:03 1 Fan Failure (Fan 4, Location System)
230 Caution Environment 07.27.2015 10:47 07.27.2015 10:46 1 Fan Failure (Fan 5, Location System)
244 Caution Environment 08.17.2015 10:36 08.17.2015 10:31 1 Fan Failure (Fan 6, Location System)
262 Caution Environment 05.31.2016 17:02 05.31.2016 16:49 1 Fan Failure (Fan 3, Location System)
276 Caution Environment 06.06.2016 16:25 06.06.2016 16:22 1 Fan Failure (Fan 3, Location System)
289 Caution Environment 07.07.2016 22:51 07.07.2016 21:15 1 Fan Failure (Fan 4, Location System)
300 Caution Environment 07.08.2016 09:28 07.08.2016 09:26 1 Fan Failure (Fan 4, Location System)
309 Caution Environment 07.10.2016 16:02 07.09.2016 15:47 1 Fan Failure (Fan 4, Location System)
315 Caution Environment 07.11.2016 08:59 07.11.2016 08:59 1 Fan Failure (Fan 4, Location System)
331 Caution Environment 08.16.2016 09:50 08.16.2016 08:47 1 Fan Failure (Fan 7, Location System)

Anyone else had this?

Contacting HP support... A fan in our DL360 gen8 crapped out. For the 7th time. You guys ever heard of this?

Edit: original Post: https://mangolassi.it/topic/10301/hp-dl360-gen8-fans-dying

You got me, @scottalanmiller.

@scottalanmiller I couldn't find a way to mark the post as closed/ answered. Do I need to do anything to shut this one down?

@NashBrydges said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

• Ubiquiti ES48-500W
• Netgear GS724Tv3
• 2 x PowerEdge R210II running HA Sophos UTM 9
• 1 x PowerEdge R210II used for family remote backup
• 1 x PowerEdge R210II for the teenage kid to run Minecraft and some other war game for he and his friends
• PowerEdge R710 & MD1000 Veeam backup target (52TB RAID6)
• Spare MD1000
• PowerEdge R510 Hyper-V host running Plex media server (60TB RAID6)
• PowerEdge R420 Hyper-V host running a bunch of VMs including various desktop OS for testing as well as FreePBX, Sophos iView, Fastvue
• PowerEdge R610 spare server. Will probably get sold off as I haven't used it in some time.
• 2 x Dell 1000VA UPS
• Not pictured is a Synology DS2415+ as offsite backup target (80TB RAID6)

Hope you have your electricity meter tied down with some A490 hex bolts!
Ok I'll say it. Nice rack.
I would love to have that!