B4
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B4 ~ 136.206.15.15
Details
Type: | Dell PowerEdge 2650 |
OS: | FreeBSD 8.0 |
CPU: | 2 x 2.4Ghz Intel Pentium 4 Xeon |
RAM: | 4GB |
Storage: | Onboard PERC RAID controller |
OnBoard Untrawide SCSI controller | |
Disks: | 2x 73Gb 10,000 RPM SCSI Disks |
Drives: | Internal IDE CDROM |
Internal FDE Floppy | |
Network: | 2x Gigabit Ethernet BroadCom |
1x Mutilated Intel Gigabit card | |
Extras: | Onboard Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) for remote management. |
Extra serial ports + controller, stolen from sprout | |
The Name: | Named after the slightly stupider twin android out of Star Trek: Nemesis, to reflect it being the slightly stupider twin in it's pair. |
Description
B4 was purchased for a rediculously small sum (154.395 Euro) from the Dell warehouse auction, after the Dell plant in Limerick closed. It's being used as a replacement management server, replacing Sprout (which in turn replaced welmar last year, and was never particularly good at...er...running).
It currently has a malfunctioning internal fan, so every 2 minutes (give or take), it decides something's wrong, spins all the other fans up to full power, flashes bright orange and displays warnings on its little LCD screen. A replacement fan has been ordered off eBay.
Services
- Serial consoles for things-that-support-serial-access
- Gateway to the management network
- Nagios
- VPN tunnel to Severus, which lives in the CSD server room in the library.
- Remote logging