Doing the blog thing
Hello world v2.!. This is a new attempt to jump start the blog. Unluckily some posts from the previous relocation were lost.
I’m taking a break from my management role, and going hands on once more (good for the soul, from time to time :).
Hope to post in the short term about some work I’ve been doing with VMware products & technology in general (SDN+IaaS+Automation).
Stay tunned!
Hi!, the blog as been relocated to http://iriarte.it, hope to improve the content of the site with this move.
Hope to see you there!
Setting up snapshots with Hitachi VSP we saw that many kpart processes were waiting for I/O trying to access VDEV devices. That’s because of the queue_if_no_path feature in multipath.
The thing is, that’s a good feature, if you have really small gaps of times without access to the storage (cluster transition, someone messing with fiber cables, etc) you want the I/O to be queued and resume once conection comes back to live.
On the other side, VDEVs appear failed if the snapshots are not active, so most of the time you don’t want to queue the probes from udev (hundreds of proceses in less than a day in our case). To solve this you can enable the “fail_if_no_path” feature per LUN, here’s an example:
multipath {
wwid 350760e9016040b000001040a00002001
alias snapdata02LU
no_path_retry fail
}And don’t forget to restart multipath daemon…
If needed, you can release pending I/O processes (and return I/O error) with the following command:
dmsetup message snapdata02LU 0 "fail_if_no_path"That’s all…
For Internet archiving purposes: After installing Sun JRE (rpm -Uvh jre-7u5-linux-x64.rpm), the properly way to use it is setting up the alternatives links:
update-alternatives –install java java /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/java 60 \
–slave jre jre /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05 \
–slave rmiregistry rmiregistry /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/rmiregistry \
–slave tnameserv tnameserv /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/tnameserv \
–slave rmid rmid /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/rmid \
–slave ControlPanel ControlPanel /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/ControlPanel \
–slave policytool policytool /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/policytool \
–slave keytool keytool /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/keytool \
–slave javaws javaws /usr/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/javaws
If you have more than one JRE, you can choose the new one with:
update-alternatives –config java
I came accross a great tool for collecting data called Observium, it works with mysql+php+rrdtool collecting data through SNMP. Here are my notes based on original Debian+SVN guide.
Continue reading “Quickguide: Observium installation on SLES11”
Hace poco me tocó automatizar el backup de una aplicación no soportada por NetBackup, puntualmente MS SQL Server Analysis Services. La idea es básicamente realizar un backup en frío sin dejar a la aplicacion fuera de servicio por mucho tiempo.
A modo ilustrativo, el equipo productivo tiene presentada una Meta de un VMax y el snapshot de esta Meta debe ser montado en un equipo secundario para copiar los datos a cinta. El script corre en el equipo secundario donde necesitamos PSExec y Solutions Enabler debe estar instalado en ambos equipos. Además se asume que el pool para snapshots y el grupo necesario ya están preparados.
Continue reading “Automatizando Snapshots en Symmetrix VMAX con Powershell”
Ok, last week I updated my laptop to openSUSE 11.4, that, unluckily, broke my MoneyManagerEx installation as I needed a package for this new distro and the one from Packman is currently broken because of some repo changes.
Because I have a pile of expenses pending to be added to my accounting, I was urged to find a working MMEx installation, so I went to it’s homepage to look for latest version and fix my OBS package that has been broken for months because of my lazyness ¬¬’
Then, that’s were I saw it, there’s a web version of MMEx!!!, and that’s great as it would allow me to use it from my new Android phone without the need to access to my laptop, “maybe it’ll be fully functional on its browser” I thought….. Reading a little more, I found out that it was part of some cloud platform called Tonido. That sounded like a lot of hassle just for running the application, but when I found out that Tonido has a dedicated Android application, I was sold!.
Continue reading “Quick Tonido installation on openSUSE”
Well, a few years back I came across the Oracle InstantClient SPEC file prepared by Remi Collet, it was great to find it because the original RPMs made by Oracle don’t help to build other packages depending on them.
I created a set of packages for a project using the original file from Remi. Some days later I enhanced them to make the use of the package by end users really smooth (ORACLE_HOME environment variable, PATHs, etc). Also added other tweaks like a script to help building Perl-DBD-Oracle (not made by me) and was really happy with the results. Here’s where everything went downhill. There was a policy of only allowing software with source code on the openSUSE Build Service and the guys in charge just deleted the package from my repo project and I lost all the work done.
I had the recreation of the package on my ToDo list, but never had time to do it… A few days before, facing a new project involving Oracle, I went to Remi’s blog to look for the original SPEC file and luckily a month or so earlier he modified it to support the latest version of the client (to this date, 10.2.0.2).
I made some changes to it (them, as they were split in two) and I’m sharing the result here. As a final touch I’ll be addind tnsping to the packages, which is only included on the “thick” Oracle installation and maybe I’ll merge the “precomp*” sub-package to “devel”.
Files:
oracle-instantclient.spec
oracle-instantclient-11.2.0.2.0-37.1.nosrc.rpm
My changes to Remi’s SPEC files:
* Sun Jan 2 2011 Ciro Iriarte 11.2.0.2.0
- Added ORACLE_HOME definition
- Added tnsnames.ora example and required directory structure
* Sat Jan 1 2011 Ciro Iriarte 11.2.0.2.0
- merge i386/x86_64 SPECs again
- fixed RPM Groups
- added Jean-Christophe Duberga's config script to help building Perl-DBD-Oracle
(this wasn't documented on my first change in 2007, and was lost in OBS)
- skip RPATH and BYTECODE verifications in OBS builds
- renamed oracle-instantclient-basic to oracle-instantclient
- added unzip to BuildRequires
- general cleanup to make openSUSE 11.3 sanity checks happy
o ToDo: Verify rpmlint filters
- add precomp and precomp-devel sub-packages
Ref:
Ok, we got our brand new HP rx8640 servers running HPUX 11.31 and needed to monitor them with nagios. As check_by_ssh turned to be a lot slower than NRPE+SSL on our former Solaris servers, we defined as policy that every server under our control should be monitored using NRPE.
Found that someone already did the nasty work of compiling it and even created a current depot (software package in HPUX terms) that works with 11.31. There are a couple of drawbacks though, it runs using inetd which is not practical when you run a lot of frequent checks and it’s compiled without the “–enable-command-args” and this last bit makes it useless for our needs.
