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.