[OZAPRS] RE: [radio] ozaprs Digest, Vol 27, Issue 6

[Alex]

Damien,

When I ran Network Services for ActewAGL, our SMNP box would kindly dial
our
on-call mobiles with an SMS message showing the state of the error
condition.. I see now that Jaycar has a sweet little $44 kit that does the
same thing with an old Nokia 5110 or similar..  Monitors a switch or PIR
and
sends a text message on error.. much better than staff who are probably
happier the servers are down.. ;-)  Gives YOU the chance to ring one of
them
and have 'em check the server room..

Alex - VK1AC

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:26:43 +1000
From: "Damien gardner" <rendrag at rendrag.net.au>
Subject: [OZAPRS] DNS/VK1Igate down :(
To: <ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au>
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Howdy Folks,

Just got back from a weekend at the Minis on the Murray thingo down in
Wodonga, to find that the main aircon in the server room at work has died
(and the backup didn't kick in), so half the server room has shut down,
and
the rest is sitting there with their overheat alarms going off (air temp
was
55C at shoulder level, 59C at roof level), so I flicked a heap of
breakers,
kicked in the backup aircon and headed home for a few hours..  Spoke to a
couple of staff, and it seems some things have been down since late last
night (nice of someone to go in and look at things, or at least phone me
to
go 'everythings down!'..  Will head back in around 8:30 (the server cases
were too hot to touch, so giving them a few hours to cool down..), and
start
powering things back up, and see what died.. :\

In the meantime, three of the seven DNS servers for APRS.NET.AU are
currently down, so DNS lookups will likely be a little slow, plus the VK1
igate is offline (thankfully I know the overheat alarm shuts down the box,
from when the CPU heatsink fell off a few months ago.. :)

Regards,

Damien

PS marconi is REALLY slow - took me ~15mins to get to the subscription
page,
subscribe, and confirm my subscription...




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