Tag: 23. April 2013

Start into week #3

Good news everyone,

as I mentioned in my previous blog entry we had to wait for the correct iSCSI controller, which was to be delivered on Monday and guess what…it did and this time it was the correct one 😀
Shortly after delivery the HP technician arrived and installed the controller and took approximately only 5 minutes to install it but at least 45 minutes until the controller had configured itself and started operating, which means I we stood in front a laptop and started at the screen occasionally refreshing the configuration page.
After ensuring that the controller was running properly Graham and me went back to Cultra (I should have mentioned that I met with Graham at the Ulster Museum) and I started working at my Gallery Project project and tried to help a colleague with a problem, the emphasis lies on tried.
She reported a problem with the start up of a program which takes like 5 minutes and longer to load. The first thing I checked was the hard disk drive (HDD) with a diagnostics tool (big shout to HDtune) which showed some unsettling results.
From this result i concluded that the long load time is due to an impending HDD failure, so exchanged the HDD with a new one and cloned the old System onto the new drive.
But after that the problem wasn’t resolved so I exchanged the RAM with the same result and with that I was at a loss and I’m now suspecting the connection between the client and the server but this will be problematic to prove, seeing that no other client has this problem.

Today I worked most of the time at Cultra Manor, where a new training center is installed respectively extended, I upgraded the software on the existing clients and setup a few temporal environment with the new clients to test the new remote installation via Microsoft System Center 2012.
In addition to this I started to install the first VPN-router in the Manor which I will complete tomorrow because I forgot to pack a mini switch 😛
but it basically plug & play tomorrow as I have completed most of the configuration today.

And I have bad news regarding my trip to Donard park is most likely to get cancelled because the forecast for this weekend is frosty but we are hoping that this will turn around in the next days, if not there is always the next weekend.

I leave you with this and hope you had a good start into the week.

Yours sincerely,

Tobias

P.S. Starting this post I will use a new title pattern so you can easily identify of what part of the week I write about and the week number.
(But mostly because I’m to lazy to come up with a witty/funny/creative title for every post)

It’s Run

(please read this entry as if it was posted yesterday.):P

 

Good news my Zabbix server is running first, the agent sent data to the server and I can monitor the first Servers.

But now I must configure all graphics, applications and items. And that’s a lot of work. At the moment I don’t have all items in the list that I need. As an example, I miss CPU and network utilization and currently they do not want to be integrated.

The graphics are now a little tricky because I must configure it so that you can understand it at first glance.

That’s my work desk a little bit messy but that happens when you work!

Today was a very lovely day in Belfast as you can see. We had a very sunny day and it was relatively moderately warm, just a little bit windy. I hope that the next days will be similarly well, but I don’t think so because it’s Northern Ireland.

Normaly Day in 3 Week

At Monday at work I watched library videos from pluralsight, it’s an internet learning
Platform to the topic WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) basics.
It isn’t an easy task to learn WCF programming in Visual Studio 2010.
But it is better than nothing.   After 3 hours watching videos and the lunch I created a
console.application and wcf-service-library with the simple test
“helloworld“. After work I cooked for my colleagues and me. The evening wasn’t so long for me, because I have to cure my cold.

Today was a normaly workday. I watched the other videos about my project. The topics are as interesting as hard. Because the videos are in a good english
I learn a lot and understand the most even if I watch the videos only once.
After a hard day, Richard and I resolved some issues in a report.

Now we watch the cheampions leage and cook our dinner.

See you later