This is the first day of the Usenix Annual Technical conference June 2016, held in Denver, Colorado, USA. Specifically, the "HotStorage" and "HotCloud" events were held over the first two days of the conference. As each presentation was delivered by a single researcher, only this main…
The error on http://ipxe.org/err/040ee1 is generic, basically saying “No Configuration Methods Succeeded). This was a pretty useless generic error code. In this situation, I was chain loading from pxelinux into ipxe. The boot code (in pxelinux.cfg) is LABEL iPXEServer MENU LABEL iPXE boot MENU DEFAULT…
To unpack the contents of an SRPM, make changes, then re-package it, follow the below steps 1) Install rpmbuild yum install rpmbuild 2) Install the srpm rpm -ivh http://server/package-1.0.1.src.rpm * This will install * source into ~/rpmbuild/SOURCE/package-1.0.1.tar.gz * Spec file into…
The below puppet error occurred. Despite the usual unhelpful reference to a ruby script, it turned out that the Puppet V3 client had been automatically uninstalled and replaced by puppet-agent. Normally, you can easily force certain versions of a particular package, however in this situation, PuppetLabs have reverted to earlier…
Brocade MAPS (Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite) can be configured to provide best practice proactive port management on switches. It can take a little bit of tuning to get it right, but for the most part, it provides some good automatic protection for ports. I've found that it…