Some useful CLI utilities for HP DL servers running Linux. hpacucli ctrl all show config . hpasmcli> show powersupply Power supply #1 Present : Yes Redundant: Yes Condition: Ok Hotplug : Supported Power : 85 Watts Power supply #2 Present : Yes Redundant: Yes Condition: Ok Hotplug : Supported Power : 110 Watts . [root@server ~]# hpacucli…
When experimenting with dracut custom initrd builds for Linux to support Dell megaraid, I came across some errors. If you're using dracut to build an initrd for a different system, you may need to add hostonly=no to your command line arguments. Without this approach, you may get…
If you need to, as a once-off, disable specific repos (e.g. if the version of a packages you need are in a lower-priority repo), or if you need to enable a specific repo (which is disabled by default), you cna use the below. yum install --disablerepo="base,epel,…
A few nights ago I attended the AWS meetup in Sydney http://www.meetup.com/AWS-Sydney/events/222805209/ The topic was "what I have learnt from using AWS", one perspective presented by Paul Wakeford from Fairfax (large AWS footprint / expenditure) and another presented by Andrew Boag from Catalyst…
When trying to run a "cobbler sync" I get an rsync failure. This seems to be because rsync can't find the module (in /etc/rsyncd.conf) for each section it needs to replicate. This is not a hassle to fix though, there's no need…