Category: Technology

Bifferboard powered weather station

November 6, 2011 - Geek , Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

So, I’ve been busy hacking bits and bobs together. End result is a VPN endpoint with a weather station attached to it. Win! http://lodge.glasgownet.com/tech/remote-bifferboard-powered-weather-station/

Automating HP Server Startup

September 2, 2010 - Geek , Linux , Technology , Windows , Work - by admin - No Comments

It may not be much, but I stuck together a small article about how to remotely automate the startup of HP servers. We did this ages, and only now have I gotten around to tidying up the notes! Over here

Changing OES DHCP Range

May 21, 2010 - Computers , Geek , Novell , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

Recently we were in the unfortunate position of running out of IP address in our DHCP pool. The Novell DNS/DHCP Management Console will give you a handy utilization % for your subnet, but will not tell you how much of your allocatable pool is in use. As a result, machines […]

4500G Clustering

December 9, 2009 - Geek , Technology - by admin - No Comments

Recently we’ve obtained a bunch of 3Com 4500G 48 port switches, and we’d like to be able to manage them slightly more effectively instead of leaving them as dumb switches. However, rather than giving each switch an IP address, 3Com allows you to use HGMPv2 to cluster them all under […]

Tagged: network switches

Lost your APC UPS?

November 10, 2009 - Computers , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

I was in a sticky situation this weekend. I had casually set up one of our APC UPS RT 5000 units to use DHCP to get a statically assigned address. However, I hadn’t implemented Option 43 on the DHCP server and the APC management card had fallen off the network. […]

Tagged: apc ups sysadmin