Chiller Rental Services

Phew. A long morning bashing out the details for the rental agreements for our chillers.

We are still considering two different companies but today I was meeting Chiller Rental Services

They seem a good bunch of guys and have an excellent understanding of the concept of high availability with nothing less than N+1 being spoken of.

We are also trying to do our bit for the environment and reduce our carbon footprint by using "Freecool" units which basically use the natural temperature of the surrounding air to cool the water if the temperature outside is lower than inside. Looking at the average temperature graphs, this does not look to be too hard in Belfast! No offence folks, but if we can cool your servers for minimal electric and save the environment too, then it all can't be bad.

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MySql and Radius install.

Just thought I would pop a quick post in. We are currently bored bored and more bored installing CentOS umpteen times complete with MySql, Radius and DNS etc for the core infrastructure servers and testing etc.

Its like a production line, box opening, flashing, CentOS blah blah... Pass the coffee
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Syslogging and Configuration Backup

After quite a bit of hunting for a tool that would syslog equipment and also capture config changes securely, we decided on Kiwi Enterprises Syslog Daemon and CatTools

Having tested the trial versions some time ago, I was impressed with the pricing and the level of functionality available and even after a bug in the syslogger was identified which was making a bit of a mess of formatting Cisco Pix logs this was fixed by Kiwi while we were still evaluating the trial versions. Very impressive service.
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