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Latest browsers not compatible with LSI 3ware 3dm2

On a windows7 desktop, none of the latest Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome browsers provide access to the 3dm2 management pages. Luckily I had a virtual with XP that has IE8 and that got me right in! Are there any … Continue reading

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SOLVED 421 Refused. The domain of your sender address has no mail exchanger (MX).

This is error is generated by receiving servers using the spamdyke filtering program Seeing the subject error in the maillog on some new CentOS 5 systems that were trying to send administrative emails. To fix it I had to change … Continue reading

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configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

On Centos 6.3 while installing PHP 5.4 I ran into the subject error. This fixed it: # yum install libxml2-devel note: on other OS you should try to apt-get install libxml2-dev Here is the configure command I’m trying to do: … Continue reading

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Configuring alerts with MegaRAID Storage Manager for LSI 9260-4i controller onESXi 5.0

This was a pain. If indeed the LSI 3ware 9750-xi is supported (and although not listed i believe it does work with ESXi 5), i STRONGLY recommend using that controller with 3dm2 vs this MegaRAID godzilla of the deep. UPDATE: … Continue reading

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VMWare ESXi: Could not find a trusted signer

While connected to the ESXi host via SSH to install the LSI MegaRAID vib, saw the error “Could not find a trusted signer” # esxcli software vib install -v /vmware-esx-provider-lsiprovider.vib [InstallationError] (‘LSI_bootbank_lsiprovider_500.04.V0.30-3000000’, ‘Could not find a trusted signer.’) vibs = … Continue reading

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ReadyNAS default password

Depends on the version, here are possibilities i’ve seen admin infrant1 admin netgear1 admin admin

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Verify integrity of MySQL slaves

Using this tool http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-table-checksum.html Download the program to the master db server: wget http://www.maatkit.org/get/mk-table-checksum Create the needed table in your DB; CREATE TABLE checksum ( db char(64) NOT NULL, tbl char(64) NOT NULL, chunk int NOT NULL, boundaries char(100) NOT … Continue reading

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MegaRAID Storage Manager headaches with headless

I’m trying to set up a brand new system on Ubuntu server 12.04 with an LSI MegaRAID 9260-4i controller. Everything was going great until I tried to set up the RAID management software aka “MegaRAID storage manager”. First I read … Continue reading

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DVD ROM woes on Ubuntu 12: mount /dev/sr0 no medium found

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 on a server used for ripping and encoding DVDs. About a week after doing so, the server started acting up with errors about /dev/sr0 no medium found and failing to mount the … Continue reading

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Manage Intel RS2BL040 on ESXi 5

Setting up a server with one of these RAID Controllers and trying to figure out if there is a management utility. This RoarkH guy has excellent instructions. Too bad VMWare communities don’t leave a way for me to thank him … Continue reading

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