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at some point in the near future we are going to be getting a big TV to mount in our office to use Nagios and a NOC type screen add-in for quick glance monitoring.
something like this
http://labs.nagios.com/2012/01/20/nagios-xi-operations-screen-for-yournoc-monitors/
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My boss is an official reseller of PRTG.
And I vouch for PRTG. If you haven't seen, used, or tried it -- it is a must. When properly and fully setup, nothing compares to its glory.
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My boss is an official reseller of PRTG.
And I vouch for PRTG. If you haven't seen, used, or tried it -- it is a must. When properly and fully setup, nothing compares to its glory.
I do love PRTG, but I don't love this.
Unlimited Single Server Version
Old Price: $5,000
New Price: $10,800
That kinda made me go WTF?!?!?
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*shrugs* PM me if you would like my bosses work e-mail to see if you think you can get a deal. ;o That's the only thing I can suggest.
My boss is an official reseller of PRTG.
And I vouch for PRTG. If you haven't seen, used, or tried it -- it is a must. When properly and fully setup, nothing compares to its glory.
I disagree, but in the price range that's prolly true. (PRTG is an excellent product, regardless)
LMAO.. you really really don't want to see what other products cost then.
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We've priced others, they are a lot more. But they also work better and do A LOT more. For one, they do netflow much better.
That's what you get for getting tower units
Lol yep true fact right there!
That's what you get for getting tower units
I also got 9000VA for like $650, I'll live. If I was rich, I would have gotten three real deal 2000W/3000va rack units, lol.
What one would you use ? ( the free one ) simple and iphone / ipad support Assuming you need a app, or loging into a web browser would work... I'm planning to buy a APC network card so i can monitor it and have everything send me alerts & notifications...
I wouldn't use any of those. I'd use either Cacti(free) or Castle Rock SNMPc(rather expensive).
Yup, I'm playing with cacti right now on my iPad, they have a app,
Now to inure out how to get it to monitor my servers and xen
So I made a visit to The Gathering 2012 this Easter:
The "northern" core Cisco Nexus 7000, hidden behind messy cabling:
The "southern" core Cisco Nexus 7000:
The Huawei equipment racks from Altibox supplying the 200 Gbit Internet connection:
The "northern" core Cisco Nexus 7000, hidden behind messy cabling:
The "southern" core Cisco Nexus 7000:
The Huawei equipment racks from Altibox supplying the 200 Gbit Internet connection:
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For a temporary network, I have seen much worse, and much better. All in all if it works for a few days then it works.
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Wow I would hate to be the one that has to set all that up only for it to be removed after.
Man.. I've been watching their technet blog for more pictures. Seems like a yearly thing about this time I make a visit to their site to see what they changed from year to year. Messy or not it would be a cool thing to participate in
fishies have bewbies ?
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Must have been a wonderful night
Ever wonder if these guys get credit for testing some of Cisco's hardware and get real case numbers for them? If you look at some of their admin packs and config files they public for people they do limit some stuff from people..
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Have not posted a pic of my rack in a while, so here it is!
Top back (can't really see):
- Patch panel
- Shelf with DSL modem, couple switches, wifi router
Top Front:
- DIN Rail with a few terminal blocks for my hvac control system. May add more random electrical stuff there in the future, basically anything oddball that does not have a standard connection type that would go on the patch panel.
- Shelf with relay/temp sensor control board for my hvac system
- Pfsense Firewall
- HDD dock for my backups (I have a rotation setup with multiple drives, some go offsite)
- Main server. This is pretty much the most important server, it has all my dev/test environments for various projects, as well as all my actual data. Everything from word docs to code. Lot of VMs, movies, etc..... really, every file I own is on that box (and backed up in multiple places). I barely keep any data on my actual PC. It's all on there.
- Enviromental server, it's running the actual hvac system. I will be adding more stuff to it in the future such as a monitoring app for all my servers. I'd like to add some other devices to it to monitor things like battery voltages once I setup a better battery backup system. In a nut shell it's a monitor / enviromental control server.
- McData Fiber switch
- 4x IBM Fiber SAN enclosures
The fiber switch and SAN enclosures are not really used and more there for show. Got em for free. I can't put my own drives in those enclosures so I can only use those specific drives, when they die the thing is useless.
And lastly, two UPSes.
The stuff on the side is misc machines that arn't really doing anything but F@H. One is actually a storage box for I setup for my church, I should probably bring it back some day, just never think of it.
Right now I have poor cable management, but I've been brainstorming of a design to build an enclosure around the rack to make it look nicer, and on the back I want tons of power outlets, and cable ducts to make everything all neat and tidy. I'm thinking 2 power circuits per side. There will be 4 power cords at the bottom of the rack, and I can plug them into the UPS/Surge and have control over which outlets are protected by what UPS.
My biggest challenge is finding the neatest way to fit the row of outlets and the cable duct without making the rack ridiculously wide. I'm even thinking of having just a cable duct on one side, and outlets on the other.
I have lot of projects around the house to do before I do much with that room, but I'm hoping to at least do the cable management stuff in the next few months, as it should not cost that much. Basically a couple 2x6, 2x4's, some primer and paint, and then lot of junction boxes and outlets.
Top back (can't really see):
- Patch panel
- Shelf with DSL modem, couple switches, wifi router
Top Front:
- DIN Rail with a few terminal blocks for my hvac control system. May add more random electrical stuff there in the future, basically anything oddball that does not have a standard connection type that would go on the patch panel.
- Shelf with relay/temp sensor control board for my hvac system
- Pfsense Firewall
- HDD dock for my backups (I have a rotation setup with multiple drives, some go offsite)
- Main server. This is pretty much the most important server, it has all my dev/test environments for various projects, as well as all my actual data. Everything from word docs to code. Lot of VMs, movies, etc..... really, every file I own is on that box (and backed up in multiple places). I barely keep any data on my actual PC. It's all on there.
- Enviromental server, it's running the actual hvac system. I will be adding more stuff to it in the future such as a monitoring app for all my servers. I'd like to add some other devices to it to monitor things like battery voltages once I setup a better battery backup system. In a nut shell it's a monitor / enviromental control server.
- McData Fiber switch
- 4x IBM Fiber SAN enclosures
The fiber switch and SAN enclosures are not really used and more there for show. Got em for free. I can't put my own drives in those enclosures so I can only use those specific drives, when they die the thing is useless.
And lastly, two UPSes.
The stuff on the side is misc machines that arn't really doing anything but F@H. One is actually a storage box for I setup for my church, I should probably bring it back some day, just never think of it.
Right now I have poor cable management, but I've been brainstorming of a design to build an enclosure around the rack to make it look nicer, and on the back I want tons of power outlets, and cable ducts to make everything all neat and tidy. I'm thinking 2 power circuits per side. There will be 4 power cords at the bottom of the rack, and I can plug them into the UPS/Surge and have control over which outlets are protected by what UPS.
My biggest challenge is finding the neatest way to fit the row of outlets and the cable duct without making the rack ridiculously wide. I'm even thinking of having just a cable duct on one side, and outlets on the other.
I have lot of projects around the house to do before I do much with that room, but I'm hoping to at least do the cable management stuff in the next few months, as it should not cost that much. Basically a couple 2x6, 2x4's, some primer and paint, and then lot of junction boxes and outlets.
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Oh it's still sitting on my workbench lol. To be honest I did not get a chance to play much with it. Been busy with other stuff. I will probably put Asterisk on it and mess around with voip. I'm also debating of maybe replacing my firewall with it. Probably uses less power, and at least the drives are sata so I can easily buy new ones if they fail. My current firewall box uses a SCSI drive. If it dies I'm without a firewall for a while till I figure out what to do.
Been busy with other stuff. I will probably put Asterisk on it and mess around with voip. I'm also debating of maybe replacing my firewall with it. Probably uses less power, and at least the drives are sata so I can easily buy new ones if they fail. My current firewall box uses a SCSI drive. If it dies I'm without a firewall for a while till I figure out what to do.Red Squirrel
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To be honest I don't recall measuring it. I do know that my whole setup uses about 320watts. My guess is it's pulling 150watts or so on it's own. I'd have to measure it and measure the other server to see the difference.
My whole setup is pulling 318 right now,
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I wrote a bash script that mounts by name, so I name all the disks the same. On each drive there is a "pointer" script that points to a job script that is stored on the server. Basically it just uses rsync. For stuff like SQL I have separate scripts that run and back that up locally. The backup jobs then just grab those prebacked up files over.
The drive is connected via sata. I tried USB over ethernet once as I wanted the drive in my office, but it was bloody slow. esata is pretty quick. It's a decent setup though as I can just add drives to the pool as I please. When a job is done is sends me an email and a broadcast message if I'm sshed in the server, so I know to go turn it off and remove the drive. It also puts the date in a text file on the drive itself, but I also use a spreadsheet to keep track.
What I want to do eventually is make it tell me what drive to put in, based on retention periods. In the future I also want to not make it use the disk label, as right now I can only run one job at once.
The drive is connected via sata. I tried USB over ethernet once as I wanted the drive in my office, but it was bloody slow. esata is pretty quick. It's a decent setup though as I can just add drives to the pool as I please. When a job is done is sends me an email and a broadcast message if I'm sshed in the server, so I know to go turn it off and remove the drive. It also puts the date in a text file on the drive itself, but I also use a spreadsheet to keep track.
What I want to do eventually is make it tell me what drive to put in, based on retention periods. In the future I also want to not make it use the disk label, as right now I can only run one job at once.
