Check Cisco HSRP State

Posted by Abi Rendon in Code | Sysadmin | Technology - (0 Comments)

I got tired of not having an HSRP monitor to check the state of my routers so I went ahead and modified this wonderful VRRP monitor to do HSRP instead.

The only HSRP monitor I’ve found here had some issues and was limited in the way I could check for my router status.

Download the script

Usage: ./check_snmp_hsrp.pl [-v] -H <host> -C <snmp_community> [-2] | (-l login -x passwd [-X pass -L <authp>,<privp>]) -s <master|backup|num,%> [-p <port>] [-t <timeout>] [-V]

Check if router is the master:
./check_snmp_hsrp.pl -H <hostname> -C <snmpcommunity> -s master

Check if router is the backup:
./check_snmp_hsrp.pl -H <hostname> -C <snmpcommunity> -s backup

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New Logos and Sites

Posted by Abi Rendon in Projects - (0 Comments)

I’ve got some new services coming out, craphost.com and fuckingservers.com. Finally got the logos done for me, I’m working on the actual sites and services now.

Craphost.com and WTFServe.com

Posted by Abi Rendon in Home - (0 Comments)

I’m in the process of doing some upgrade to our current infrastructure, part of this upgrade is also to add new services to the Azuretek Web Services roster.

Right now we only have been doing OpenVZ based VPSes with pretty good success at wtfserve.com. Recently however we’ve decided to invest a lot of time and money into bigger and better things. Right now we have a few Atom based servers that we expect to sell well. We are also migrating from OpenVZ to Xen Source as our virtualization platform.

Part of these changes include the addition of WHMCS and SolusVM so that we can more easily provision and bill our customers.

In addition to all these new services and features we’re working on a re-design of wtfserve.com as well as the launch of our new commodity web hosting service craphost.com.

Adam Carolla Podcast!

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Now that The Adam Carolla Show is off the air he’s moved over to a podcast format, listen to him now!

http://carollaradio.com/2009/02/23/acp-20090223/

Check him out, uncensored and unedited.

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New URL and Design

Posted by Abi Rendon in Home | Personal | Sysadmin | Technology - (2 Comments)

As some might have noticed, I’ve recently updated my domain to abirendon.com and I’ve also applied a new wordpress theme, just made a few tweaks but it all seems to be working splendidly and it looks good.

I’ll be posting some guides on setting up and configuring VMWare ESXi, converting VMWare Server VMs to ESXi format, configuring a raid 5 array on an MSA20 via linux command line and hopefully some more interesting pictures.

I’ve also just bought an iphone so I’ll probably be messing around with doing updates on the go.

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Snowpocalypse Lynnwood ’08

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After many warnings and fears there was in fact many a snow fall in the greater Seattle area… I’ve documented my neighborhood and what has come to pass…

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New Hardware for WTFServe

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Today was a busy day, at Airbiquity we went live with the Ford Sync Project, but before that I did some work for my own project.

We installed some new hardware, this includes 2 new VM servers and a storage array as well as networking equipment.

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I am voting for…

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Nobody!

If you’re an American of the United States variety you may have noticed there’s an election going on, and on, and on, and on. It’s been a long standing tradition amongst our culture in this great nation to stretch out events as long as possible, if you’re not picking out presents in August you might as well end it all now because god knows your grandchildren need new socks at the ready for that special day oh so many months away.

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Atheist Bus

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I’ve been reading a lot of back and forth between atheists and theists regarding the Atheist Bus Campaign, and I feel like the major idea behind the campaign is being lost. This isn’t about being anti-religion or pro anything, it’s about letting people know it’s ok to not have a belief in god, that you’re not evil or immoral if you don’t have a dogma.

Most people are afraid of being left out or disowned by their families and friends if they don’t at least say “I’m christian” or “I believe in Jesus”. People don’t really feel a connection but they say they do because they’re afraid, and eventually it turns into just another bad habit that they pass along to their children. You don’t need to believe in anything to feel alright with the world, or to be moral, god doesn’t make decisions for you and that’s ok.

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Splunk on SUSE with Firefox 3, forever loading…

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If you’re using SLES or any other Suse variant you might be wondering why your Splunk installation is constantly in a loading loop unless you browse to it using Internet Explorer. After lots of hacking around, reboots and google searches I emailed the splunk team about my problem. At first they didn’t seem to understand my problem but they did suggest I take a look at this article in their troubleshooting documentation.

http://www.splunk.com/doc/latest/admin/UnableToGetAProperlyFormattedResponseFromTheServer

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