@Sparkum said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

Random question.

Why would you do something like this? Send your logs to another server?

Thanks

So you can look at logging from multiple servers (or other devices) at once.

@BRRABill said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

@Sparkum said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

Random question.

Why would you do something like this? Send your logs to another server?

Thanks

So you can look at logging from multiple servers (or other devices) at once.

Also, things like having a common place to backup all logs form across your system.

And good logging program can also piece together data from various sources to paint a picture of something.

If you have some time, check out this thread.

https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/6628/backup-system-for-5-pc-smb/29

@olivier said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

No need to reboot, you are not on Windows xo-server runs in memory, so to get last version, you need to restart the process. That's all.

Thanks @olivier

I try not to ping you on these. You have better stuff to do than to educate me, which you always do a great job of anyway!

Or just buy a second license and do whatever the hell you want.

Or, like probably like 95% of people do, say "That's a bunch of crap" and just do what you want.

@olivier said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

Nope but I'm not surprised npm can trigger this from time to time. That's why we are carefully testing our own packages before any release on XOAs.

So, at this point, maybe just start over, do you think?

(For me.)

@momurda said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

@BRRABill
I'm wondering if you ever solved the 4 TB of data/snapshots/stuff that you had a problem with. That is a lot of posts to read and I don't know where it was in the thread.

That wasn't me.

I have had an f-ton of problems, but not that one.

Set up a new 15.10 VM, and installed XO with no issues.

Man I love open source and virtualization!

@IRJ said in WordPress Hosting:

@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:

@IRJ said in WordPress Hosting:

I have tried quite a few hosts. A2 has been the best. The speed is great and service is good as well. One of the big advantages for me is the optimized wordpress install they offer.

Their install automatically sets up caching, CSS minimization, HTML minimization, database optimaztion, image compression (lossless), some other features. It also setups security on your site and renames wp-admin to something random, locks editing files (you can always unlock, etc).

You can turn any one feature off at anytime and it's a great time saver vs doing all those things manually.

That's with their top plan that included Turbo, I presume?

You dont even have to have A2 hosting to take advantage of that. Their are 13 speed enhancements available with their plugin. If you dont have A2 hosting you can use 11 enhancements the other 2 are built in to A2 hosting. All their plans offer the Optimized site.

I've been pretty happy thus far with A2.

I am trying them and ASO.

One thing I like is they assign a name to your temp domain, so it's accessible.

Like mangolassiit.a2shared.com

@dafyre said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

@BRRABill said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

I am the new King of Open Source.

H aha ha. How's that?

It's my answer to anything.

Need a new logging server? Open Source!

Need a new XXXXXX? Open Source!

@scottalanmiller said in Help with SQL query:

If you expect this product to explode

Possible poor choice of words.

@BRRABill said in Replacing Evernote?:

I wonder how hard it is to convert from Evernote (what I use) to OneNote.

Ooooh, they have a program that does it for you. Interesting.

@Reid-Cooper said in Why is Hyper-V More Confusing:

@Jstear said in Why is Hyper-V More Confusing:

I will mention that when I took Windows Server classes in college, we were using Windows Server 2008 R2 and installing the Hyper-V role. It wasn't until after college that I realized there was an actual free version called "Hyper-V Server".

Because.... College.

Nah, I think that is pretty much the problem everyone has, and the root of a lot of this.

@travisdh1 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

@fuznutz04 @BRRABill may be correct, that lv isn't getting loaded for some reason. Does 'lvscan' show anything?

The 'unrecognised disk label' shouldn't happen. Something went wrong for XS to not load lvm on boot, figuring out what is the hard part. If it's the same thing that happened before, @scottalanmiller is probably correct that the RAID card is at fault.

It does say it is ACTIVE though, which is strange.

But it definitely seems like XS isn't "formatting" it correctly. "Formatting" being whatever you call setting a LV up.

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer installation SR issue:

@BRRABill said in XenServer installation SR issue:

@travisdh1 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

@fuznutz04 @BRRABill may be correct, that lv isn't getting loaded for some reason. Does 'lvscan' show anything?

The 'unrecognised disk label' shouldn't happen. Something went wrong for XS to not load lvm on boot, figuring out what is the hard part. If it's the same thing that happened before, @scottalanmiller is probably correct that the RAID card is at fault.

It does say it is ACTIVE though, which is strange.

But it definitely seems like XS isn't "formatting" it correctly. "Formatting" being whatever you call setting a LV up.

LV would be voluming. Formatting is a reference to the file system level.

Thank you LVM/Linux sensei.

@fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

48% initialized. I might actually be able to try an install again today!

Are you watching it? It always goes slower that way.

I like to go across the building and have a few beers while waiting.

@fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

@BRRABill said in XenServer installation SR issue:

@fuznutz04 said in XenServer installation SR issue:

48% initialized. I might actually be able to try an install again today!

Are you watching it? It always goes slower that way.

I like to go across the building and have a few beers while waiting.

Well, The server is sitting on my floor, with a monitor beside my desk. I cant help it, I keep glancing over at it. Maybe I should just turn the monitor off. Cant have a few beers just yet... need to focus for a few more hours.

Beer helps me focus. Then makes me sleep. So I have to be very productive in those few hours I'm awake.

Wasn't the XS logging. I pointed it at my Splunk install and it immediately worked.

@BRRABill said in Final Call ... XenServer Boot Media:

@DustinB3403 said in Final Call ... XenServer Boot Media:

@BRRABill said in Final Call ... XenServer Boot Media:

What log server are you using to collect the logs?

What changes did you make to the config file for the logs?

I was using Graylog, which was working before. However now it is NOT working.

Trying to reinstall GrayLog.

I figured out why Graylog wasn't "working".

It installs with a timezone of straight UTC. I set my timezone to America/New_York and rebooted. And VOILA! It is now working again.

Still good!

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38273316 Sep  6 11:25 lastlog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp    43776 Sep  6 11:25 wtmp
-rw------- 1 root utmp      768 Sep  6 11:21 btmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Sep  6 11:20 blktap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      792 Sep  6 11:16 ovs-xapi-sync.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     2628 Sep  6 11:15 ovs-ctl.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1784 Sep  6 11:14 restoreeswitchcfg.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      348 Sep  6 11:14 interface-rename.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      128 Sep  6 11:14 xenstored.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    11212 Sep  6 11:14 boot.log