A new Dell PowerEdge 1650 server was installed to serve as host to the Best Access system, which will move off Ketron.
Server Name: lenel
Domain ups.edu
1 RAID5 container (3X18GB disks)
2 Partitions
C: 4 GB
D: 31 GB
Database Servers dropping connections, losing packets
The database servers, tahoma & baker, and the frontend forms servers snidley, dudley, and fenwick, began dropping persistent client Oracle and telnet connections. ICMP packets were also lost.
Speed and duplex settings on the switch ports to which these servers were connected were checked and found to be correct (100 Mbps, full duplex).
The problem cleared up after about 1 hour. Will check further.
Best (Lenel) System Stopped Polling and Recording Events II
A corrupted dabase trigger in the basis Oracle instance caused the B.A.S.I.S. system to stop polling and recording events.
The faulty trigger was LENEL.EVENTS_SPEEDY_TI1, and the fault was the insertion of carriage returns within two AND operators.
Paul corrected and revalidated the trigger, which cleared the problem.
Best (Lenel) System Stopped Polling and Recording Events I
Ketron was rebooted to attempt to clear a “Polling Stopped” error with the B.A.S.I.S. software. It did not clear the problem.
Web Server PHP Upgraded to PHP 4.3.0
The PHP scripting engine on the University Web Server, www.ups.edu, was upgraded to version 4.3.0. Details of the configuration are at http://www.ups.edu/info.php
New Millenium OLAP Server Installed – Part III – OS and SQL Server Installed
The new Millenium OLAP Server was configured with Windows 2000 Server and SQL Server 2000, SP3.
Server Name: maury
Domain admin.windows.ups.edu
Disk:
1 RAID 5 container (3X18 GB disks)
2 Partitions:
C: 5 GB System and SQL Server program
D: 29 GB Mill OLAP data
Tape Backups on Windows Automated
Jeremy was able to automate backups on the Windows 2000 systems with a scheduled script. This will allow us to start backups on these systems later, and avoid some problems we’ve been having with open files.
VPN Concentrator Restarted Twice
The VPN Concentrator was restarted twice this morning in an effort to diagnose some connection problems that happened last night.
Clock Craziness with silentbob
silentbob’s clock went crazy this morning. The problem seems to have something to do with the Windows time service. Jeremy has disabled that service on all the Windows domain controllers and replaced it with Tardis.
New Millenium OLAP Server Installed – Part II
The new Millenium OLAP server was received and put in place in the server room. The machine name will be MAURY, in keeping with the convention of naming database application servers after islands in Puget Sound.
Software installation is scheduled for tomorrow.
Clock craziness with GANESH
The clock on GANESH went crazy. Apparently this is due to a faulty NTP server somewhere out there, which causes a loop when contacted. We are reconfiguring all our NTP clients to look at a known subset of NTP servers. GANESH was rebooted to solve the immediate problem.
Best Access System Hung
The B.A.S.I.S. software on KETRON hung. A symptom of this was that none of the B.A.S.I.S. applications on workstations would launch. This included the System Administration and the Alarm Monitoring apps. KETRON was rebooted to clear the problem. Conversations with Lance Holloway indicated that the system should be rebooted more frequently than it is:
Lance:
“I’m not as familiar with the reboot requirements of Win 2k as I was with NT. I know that NT could go maximum about two weeks before memory issues took over. Depending on the application. We’ve seen other sites lock up after a while if they have screens open for event stacks etc, and not be rebooted.”
Time on houdini reset
The time on houdini, primary DNS server, drifted 10 minutes out, causing a failure in synchronizing with the secondary DNS server, harry. Time was reset. Josh will install NTP synchronization.
SDLT Tape Drive Installed on MERLIN2
A new SDLT 320 Tape drive was installed on MERLIN2 to replace the existing DLT4000 tape system, along with a new SCSI Controller card. The replacement was successful. A backup was initiated immediately which was projected to take 4 hours to complete.
New Millenium OLAP Server Installed -Part I – Install Attempted
A new server for the Millenium system to do OLAP for University Relations was recieved. I attempted to do the install today. Unfortunately, the hardware that was recieved was not the hardware that was ordered. The machine came with no Windows operating system licenses, no RAID controller, and only one disk drive.
I checked the order forms, and we ordered the correct hardware. We will talk with Dell to get this straightened out.