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Jul
27
2012
The blog was down yesterday
Posted by C.J. Collier on Fri 27 Jul 2012 05:12 UTC
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The brief outage was due to a scheduled move of the servers to a separate rack and subnet dedicated to our work with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity (ciac) at the University of Washington Bothell (uwb), and a11y.com

I am currently exercising the new (to us) equipment and hope to winnow the less than awesome equipment over the next quarter. I spent the last six months finding the best in breed of the surplussed DL385 and DL380 chassis we (work) were going to have recycled. The team and I were able to find enough equipment to bring up one of each with eight and six gigs of memory, respectively. These will make excellent hypervisors for provisioning embedded instances of Slackware, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, FreeDOS, etc.

When I initially configured this xen paravirt environment, I failed to plan for integration with libvirt, so I am now re-jiggering the software bridges so …

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Sep
21
2011
ESXi DELL servers and Intel-VT
Posted by Trent Hornibrook on Wed 21 Sep 2011 05:15 UTC
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Have you ever tried to power on a new ESXi guest host and come across an error message saying "The host is VT-capable, but VT is disabled. VT might be disabled if it has been disabled in the BIOS settings or the host has not been power-cycled since changing this setting". An example screen shot of this error:


To correct this issue, reboot the server and pull up the bios settings (usually F2)
You will need to pull up the …

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Mar
15
2011
Load balancing SIP across Asterisk with BIG-IP
Posted by C.J. Collier on Tue 15 Mar 2011 22:27 UTC
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Topology Participating hosts

* 1x BIG-IP VE
* 1x Debian Squeeze “Provisioning Server” serving DHCP, TFTP & DNS
* 3x Nortel/Avaya 1120E hard phones flashed to SIP1120e04.01.13.00
* 2x Debian Squeeze + digium asterisk packages: 

$ grep asterisk /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://packages.asterisk.org/deb squeeze main
deb-src http://packages.asterisk.org/deb squeeze main

DUNDi 

*CLI> module reload pbx_dundi.so
*CLI> dundi show peers
*CLI> dundi show mappings
*CLI> dundi lookup 4012@extensions bypass
*CLI> dundi set debug on

SIP 

*CLI> sip show peers

dialplan 

*CLI> dialplan show RegisteredDevices

Work in progress

Yesterday, I installed a trixbox virtual machine using the …

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