"It's Big"

Experiment visit to ATLAS today. Flip. Tis impressive.

On a more mundane note I discovered this snippet while trying to get our areca raid cards monitored with SNMP on the out of band management


Basically if you want to avoid errors such as
snmpwalk -v1 -c community_name -m ./compile/snmp/areca1.mib mgmtaddress Areca
Bad operator (_): At line 20 in ./compile/snmp/areca1.mib
Areca: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> Areca)

Then you need to add -Pu to your command line

bash: apt-get: command not found

Minor Rant. There's nothing wrong with Redhat clones, and Scientific Linux is packaged nicely as the rest. However, running a 3.0.5 version on a Laptop, without any decent music (mp3) support when the latest is 4.4 is getting to me. Time... for a swift Ubuntu install.

Just another Perl Hacker^W^WBlogger

Caught up on userfriendly and yesterdays seems remarkably apt...

Transfer tests

OK, so discovered why the transfer tests were failing - I'd done the voms-proxy-init part but omitted the myproxy setup. Doh!

Finally got up n running, then discovered that one of the files was failing with a "550 - not a plain file" the helpful instructions here say

Although it appears in the DPM namespace, the file doesn't physically exist on disk anymore. You should un-register the file from the namespace, to avoid this inconsistency.

Well, that'd be good if they gave a hint as to how to do so. "dpns-rm" didn't seem to work as planned.

On the plus side, it appears our bandwith INTO glasgow is ~650Mb/s shame the outgoing peaked at ~250Mb/s though.

Scope Extension

OK, so I set up my blog with blogger beta whereas the scotgrid blog is still the old one. Bah. Looking at the help on the subject it's coming Real Soon Now (tm). In the meantime apart from learning more voodoo for GridPP file transfers the vexed problem of Ticketing Systems.

At the moment there's a pile of disjointed mail aliases for scotgrid, research group, and possibly faculty support. Grand plan is to find a tracking system that fulfils the following:

• Easy to install and administer
• Uses central signon system / x509 certificates
• Several Queues
• Q-Specific "Munger" access
• User "self service" visibility
• Prio / update
  
• Reporting tools
  

Hello World!

Yep, it's that frost piste syndrome again. Apparently a .plan isn't consider Hip n Trendy enough these days. Us Ol' fogies are just not compatible with "leet 2.0"