October 20, 2005

[Firefighting] ROJ RAID battery

The batteries on the A1000s are nearing the end of their life again. Some notes on what to look for.

  • Hardware error 3FD9 is the warning that the battery is getting old but not yet expired. Look for this in the GUI.
  • /usr/sbin/osa is the home for rm6, raidutil, and other goodies. rm6 is the GUI. raidutil can show battery age, reset battery age, and enable/disable write caching.
Posted by Rowan Littell at 09:36 AM

October 06, 2005

[Firefighting] LDAP restart

I applied the Microsoft solution to an ailing LDAP situation. Rebooted one box and restarted Sun ONE on the other.

We’d been having spurts of failed logins, with no indication in the LDAP logs of what was wrong, since we could simply believe that all of them were bad passwords (some of these were cached passwords in SquirrelMail sessions, frex). Apparently something started to rot in at least one of the LDAP servers, and restarting the apps cleared things up.

Posted by Rowan Littell at 01:51 PM