Archive:Piper

Piper was sounding very unhappy. It's still in the rack, but strongly recommended you don't use it. As such it has been retired, probably indefinitely.

• NFS Service is now on Astrid
• LDAP Service is now on Earth
• Log host still needs a home

Hayden (talk) 21:35, 12 October 2013 (BST)

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Piper

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Operating System: Debian Linux (Lenny 2.6.26-2-686)

Hostname: piper.tardis.ed.ac.uk

IPv4: 193.62.81.2

IPv6: none

Hardware:

1U Dell Poweredge 1650

2 x P3 1.13GHz (Tualatin), 2GB RAM, 3 146GB drives

Controller: Dell PERC 3/Di (hardware RAID5 card with integrated cache and backup battery)

Primary Services:

NFS Service

LDAP Service

Log host

Other Information:

Originally named after Borad from Timelash. Donated by User:Pert

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Install Quirks

The PERC 3/Di card takes some time to initialise between loading the driver and the raid array becoming available. As such the LVM script in the boot sequence was running before the drive was available, so it failed to load the LVM volume groups, and the machine failed to boot. It needs rootdelay=15 on the kernel command line.

Monitoring the PERC 3/Di is also somewhat tricky. I used a process from the CMU Computer Club (tardis.ed.ac.uk ~= cc.cmu.edu?), to install the `afacli` on piper.