SYSMGR: 25-Aug-2005

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.

Friday, August 26

25-Aug-2005

Web update flaws smashed
Redone the holiday picture slide pages and republished them. Now the links to the originals do work - the vast majority won't fit on the screen, but they can now be downloaded. Perhaps rescale them to fit (1024x768) and prevent download, but there are so many (about 320 to do!).

Still need power to fire up the cluster members Io and Daphne, and set up the fourth one (that's an Alpha-NT machine, at the moment so console needs to be changes as well). Install Java 1.5 on any of these, and test XMPP server and clients? Set up Apache and SMTP anyway (backup systems), and DNS and DHCP - in case these are needed.

Time to install the new router/firewall (low power) so Charon is free for other tasks: could become a Linux or FreeBSD box...(no idea what to use it for, at the moment)