- Got back the replacement disk from IBM RMA 60868819.
- Removed and changed '@bombay' email addresses on the eqalarm-local
mailing list.
- Increased kern.maxfiles to 8192 and kern.maxvnodes to 16384 on Eqinfo1.
Qmail was giving warnings about too many open files.
- Started building the new NFS RAID file server.
- Added Nick and Ellen to the paging list for Hotspot disk space errors.
- Installed the Maps0 update to the Simpson maps to include the desert
towns.
- Refrigerator problems in 535.
- Made an account for Edna on the LRS.
- Dog Day and Mary Lou Zoback visit to the office on Thursday.
- Talked to Akamai and went over the information. They said we would be
ready to go by Monday.
- Set up new print queues for the HP printers on Ehzsouth.
- M4.2 near West Hollywood at 16:59 on Sunday.
- Sent Akamai some more information about paths to not cache.
- Terrorist attacks in New York led to our office being closed on Tuesday.
- Built a 4-disk RAID-5 array for testing on the new file server. Installed
FreeBSD on an 8GB slice, leaving the other 232GB for data. Mounted the disks
on Hotspot for testing. Tried using this array as the temporary wavepool to
see how it would stand up to a high sustained I/O load. The single array of
four disks was not able to keep up with the load. Built a second four-disk
array for more testing.
- Got a new Soyo motherboard, Athlon CPU, and memory from Doug.
- The Akamai servers were all ready on Thursday. We are currently testing
to make sure everything works as expected before throwing the switch.
- Vacation day on Friday.
- The license for Arc/Info on Willow expired unexpectedly on Monday.
Called ESRI at 909-793-3774 and talked to Neil at x2325. Our customer
number is 1699. He said that the license had expired due to an error
by the person who created it. He sent a corrected license. Put it
in /opt/esri/arcexe80/sysgen/license.dat.
- Started switching CNAMEs for Pasadena, Earthquake, and NEIC on Monday.
Pasadena and Earthquake worked all right. NEIC had a few problems
due to the alternate URLs for the site. Contacted Akamai.
- Nimda worm attack on Tuesday.
- Got information about how to get reports from the Akamai portal.
- Quake [Menlo Park] switched their site to Akamai Wednesday. It came up
broken due to its alternate name [quake.usgs.gov] not being recognized.
Contacted Akamai, and they fixed this Wednesday afternoon. They also
added the alternate name for Earthquake [earthquakeS.usgs.gov]. Quake
switched over on Friday.
- Got the rest of the disk brackets for the new file server. Finished
assembling it and began testing on Friday.
- Put the new file server online. Built a wavepool on it, and mounted it
as the main wavepool for Hotspot. Started writing data to it on Tuesday.
- Ellen moved the Hotspot database to the new file server on Wednesday.
- The AA RAID on Spring suffered a massive failure on Tuesday. Three disks
and one power supply went bad. Got RMA 26967 from nStor for the power
supply. Called nStor and talked to Tom for help in restoring the disk
arrays. Replaced all the failed units with cold spares and got RMAs from
IBM for the drives. Shipped all failed units out on Wednesday.
- Upgraded Bort with a new Athlon and Soyo motherboard.
- Installed the 3dm disk utility on Pluton [the new file server] on Tuesday.
It has a web-based status display at http://pluton.gps.caltech.edu:1080/
- Set up a virtual server to sit on 131.215.66.193. This will issue
redirects to browsers that try to access the Pasadena web site by
either the numeric address or by the old URL, www-socal.wr.usgs.gov.
- Started building a second Pasadena office web server using the
hardware from the former Pasadena squid server.
- Assisted with the Paseo Pasadena outreach on Friday.
- There was a problem on Agent86 after setting up the virtual server
at 66.193. There was a typo in the netmask, so the machine was unable
to see the Caltech network outside of the 66 subnet. The outside world
was all right. The most visible effect of the problem was that QDDS
broke. Apparently, it does a reverse lookup on the IP address of
incoming connection requests.
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- Set up new printer queues for the HP printers in the USGS office.
This was necessary to move the print queues off of the old VAX systems,
as they are slated to be retired soon.
- Built a 1-terabyte file server for use for seismic data storage on
the Trinet online systems. This will hold more than three times the
current system's capacity.
- Got the contract with Akamai up and running. The Earthquake Hazards
Program page, the National Earthquake Information Center, and the Menlo
Park and Pasadena regional web pages are all now being served through
the Akamai EdgeSuite service. This will give us much more capacity to
handle the large spikes in traffic that come after big earthquakes,