Since I need to try and restore my configuration on my new Virtual Connect modules in my HPE C7000 Blade Chassis I need to power down and apply the configurations. Hopefully the backed up configuration from my VC-Enet 10/10 modules takes to the new modules VC-Enet 10/24 modules. Should the configuration not do what I like I may end up rebuilding my entire networking environment on the blade chassis end. This may affect drivers in the various OS’s on my blade servers as well, we shall see how long this process will be!
I did this backup so I would not have to workaround viewing the Virtual Connect environment in web browsers that no longer support flash. I could have done workarounds to having standalone flash stations in my environment or did all cli but decided I didn’t want to take away my flexibility to administer the environment from different systems. Better to make the changes now than later!
Starting now at about 1830 PST starting another Snakeice House of Beats Workout mix.
Not going to list the type of artist this time as its going to be a typical Snakeice mix of genres from all eras and most importantly I need to jump into my workout ASAP!
February 4, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Interesting Random Genre Work Out Mix
Time to get into that workout mix I have been long neglecting! I need an interesting mix since I’m in such poor shape at this time.
This Gumbo workout mix will have some of the following type of artists: Shalamar, Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three, Queen, Pop Smoke, Kitty, Aretha Franklin, Blondie along with some Too Short and many artist like this.
The will move into some more mellow tunes with artists like TLC, Rose Royce, Adele, Kem, Paul Hardcastle.
Well you get the picture its a plethora of genre’s and eras in that unique Snakeice House of Beats style.
January 30, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on New Workstations Notes
Well I built 2 new powerful workstation, one using Windows 10 Pro Workstation and the other Fedora 33 Workstation but of course with all types of server packages. The Windows workstation I’m using Asrock X299 WS/IPMI and the Linux Fedora 33 ASUS x99ws/ipmi. I put both into cases with hot swap backplanes for SAS with matching SAS controllers and K1200 Quadro GPU’s.
I have had to update bot motherboards BIOS and IPMI but the ASUS I had a few more challenges but tonight was able to get the IPMI working but not sure I’m happy with it since it requires the onboard VGA to be activated and when it’s activated it doesn’t see to allow my NVIDIA K1200 Quadro to run its one of the other and I am not going to 1024×768 video or the ‘90’s when I have these nice Display Port GPU’s. I will see what suggestions ASUS support can give me they have been pleasant but hoping for more.
Anyhow tried every iteration I could think of with monitors and in the bios now to determine if I want to keep the ASUS which was initially put out a few years before the Asrock X299 mother board I bought or can I get it to perform like the Asrock where I can go into a better resolution of 1920×1080 even on the VGA port but then extend to my Display Ports on my K1200 Quadro.
More on this later going to try to get some sleep and to think I thought I was going to bed early at about 11am, that didn’t work out!
January 30, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Updated Streaming Music Server OS and Sam Broadcaster Application
Well I was working on getting my Linux workstation’s IPMI working properly and then see if its working in the manner I wanted when I decide I may as well start the W2019 OS updates on my streaming server. After 3 reboots I brought up my streaming software Spacial Audio’s SAM Broadcaster noticed a new version and decide to update that as well.
Another nice late morning getting my domain updated and future proofed. More to come as I will be updating my HPE C7000 Flex modules soon as well.
December 15, 2020
by dhoytt Comments Off on Big Hard and Deep Beat Tuesday Evening
Well it’s been a while but time for some deep hard beats from all errors and all the genre’s that set that tone! You know I love that old school heavy beats so it will be full of that!
December 13, 2020
by dhoytt Comments Off on Back Up and Streaming After Relay System OS Updates Gone Astray
Well I’m back up and running with my Centos 8 relay server after some OS updates. Seems that during the updates for Linux Centos 8 included a new kernel for my system as well that didn’t support my C7000 Bl460c 10gb Emulex card. This was also an issue during my initial Centos 8 install and almost made me stay at Centos 7. I was able to get the “be2net” driver from “El Repo” Linux repository and it worked before.
I can see everything with “lspci” but for some reason now the new Centos 8 kernel doesn’t recognize this driver even though I loaded the kernel with “modprobe” several times. I created a file in /etc/modules-load.d/ with the module then created a file in “/etc/sysconfig/modules/” saw that the module was loaded with lsmod and just couldn’t get the network to see it. I uninstalled and re-installed from the El Repo repository “kmod-be2net” still no luck.
I the suddenly started not being able to use my “ilo” or my kvm\keyboard which started printing out strange signals every time I typed. After correcting those issues I could get back to why the network couldn’t see my 10gb Emulex network cards on my Flex10 interface but could see my 10gb Broacom 10gb interfaces coming from my Procurve switch in my C7000 chassis.
Tried a few more things then decided to switch my primary network over to my Procurve. I had to go through my Virtual Connect Manager to make sure I wasn’t going to disconnect any of my other systems and remind myself what my setup was. I switched my main network over to one of my Procurve switches.
I then got my ShoutCast relay up and then IceCast relay and then discovered neither could make it out to the rest of the world due to the routing table on my Centos 8 system getting borked up due to all of the changes I made. I started correcting the routing issues on the systems CLI and then just made sure my network files were correct and rebooted and voila my music streams are going out to the world again.
This system also hosts my Zoneminder CCTV camera systems and that network didn’t have a problem with my cameras on it but I route that to my user interface on the network that was having issues so that was an issue. I also have an instance of Plex on this system and its okay since I have other virtual servers with Plex Server but still it was a nuisance!
Anyway I’ll probably build one of my other bl460’s gen 7 systems back up with Centos 7 and put everything back on that system. Read about the road map of Centos 8 while looking through forums and earlier this week at Tweets and I don’t like how it looks. Centos 7 will be updated until 2024 so that’s good for me. I can’t waste time with OS updates that depreciates or doesn’t take into account widely used hardware with everything else I’m trying to accomplish to get my systems to certain state. This keeps up they may push me to the Debian side of Linux but they are using those “Snaps” way too much on that side of the Linux universe for things like databases!
Anyhow I’m up and operating with things Frankensteined for now music is flowing cameras are recording an movies and TV shows are streaming in the house as well.
December 12, 2020
by dhoytt Comments Off on Update Centos8 Relay Server
Doing and update for my Centos8 Linux server’s OS and will be rebooting and temporarily not streaming music. This server hosts my IceCast and ShoutCast streams. Since my relay server would be down I decided to install the Security updates on my W2019 Data center music server as well that hosts my Spacial Audio Broadcaster software that runs my music catalogs with the help of the MariaDB database.
Be back shortly!
December 3, 2020
by dhoytt Comments Off on Update of Streaming Server OS Rebooting
Playing a Snakeice House of Beats mixed up genre type of set. Thanksgiving prepping just a little bit for a few. And some good music to listen to while tooling around in the house then later of course going to have some nice mellow music to stare at the stars with.
Just a feel for the artists who may show up to give you an idea:
