SYSMGR

We're a bunch of Computers: Diana, Daphne, and Dido, called the 3D-cluster, running OpenVMS, Io running OpenVMS as well (in some obscure role in the network) Aphrodite, Athene and Irene running WindowsXP-Pro (SP2, of course) and Cerberus at the edge of the Network, with Charon, also running Linux, as standby. SYSMGR takes care of us.

Thursday, March 31

31-Mar-2005

Wireless trouble
Connection using the 54Mb wireless access point doesn't work anymore - connection can be made but any traffic fails - even renewing the network address (DHCP) doesn't work - not ANY traffic comes through. Either the network setting is incorrect - but it could be the router as well.
Checked the DHCP server (that is: Diana) but found nothing weird. It just seems to work.

Removed the 54Mb router and re-installed the old 11Mb one - and that works fine - after the network-key has been updated...

Might be the 54Mb router as well but that has been on-line - without interruption - since October. Need to check the transmitter to be sure.....

Friday, March 25

24-Mar-2005

An update
New pages in the web: March 5th, 2005, because of the sudden snowfall - huge amounts for the time of year.

Patched Diana yesterday, and rebooted. No problem at all...

Venus is getting more and more trouble - slowing down by each boot. When antivirus is to be unpdated, it can take over 15 minutes before it's all up and running. Even the second disk didn't do much more lately. Perhaps because it's on the same IDE channel????
Mars is also giving trouble once more. Done scan on spyware but no real threats found....
Athene has some trouble some times - swhost.exe giving trouble but No idea what causes it. Thought to be related to wireless, but it happened without relation to card.

Sometimes, wireless IS a problem, but reboot of access point solved the problem.

For the rest, - Diana is just running as usual, and secure as always. Found some real abuse attempts in mail and anonymous FTP, and quite a lot of spam blocked because server isn't trusted.....
Only - it's getting too hot in the computer room already. Need airco???

That's the way it should be. Wish all my machiens were like Diana...