Schlagwort: NMNI

Hello switchy

As I wrote in the previous article, the last days I was busy editing some 3D models but today I had a new task. My boss Robin gave me a big package. I could read the sign: A new Hp 5130 switch! To that he laid two SFP transceiver and asked me to install the newest firmware. After that I configured the device. Once in a while I even played a little bit around on a Hp switch but it was a virtual one. I personally like Hp more because I don’t like the marketing of Cisco. Therefore, I was happy to configure a switch of Hp.

The firmware upgrade is a little bit different on Hp switches than on Cisco devices. I write it down here if you’re interested.

The first step ist easy: connect the console port to the switch and proceed as follows:

 

<HP>system-view

[HP-Vlan-interface1]ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

[HP-Vlan-interface1]quit

<HP>ftp 192.168.1.2

Press CTRL+C to abort.

Connected to 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2).

220 Welcome to Quick ’n Easy FTP Server

User (192.168.1.2:(none)): admin

331 Password required for admin

Password:

230 User successfully logged in.

Remote system type is UNIX

ftp> binary

200 Type set to BINARY

ftp> get 5130EI-CMW710-R3207.ipe

227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,2,4,0)

150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for file transfer.

226 Transfer complete

65836032 bytes received in 432.492 seconds (148.66 Kbytes/s)

ftp> bye

221 Bye

<HP>boot-loader file flash:/5130EI-CMW710-R3207.ipe slot 1 main

Verifying the IPE file and the images…….Done.

HP 5130-24G-PoE+-4SFP+ (370W) EI Switch images in IPE:

5130ei-cmw710-boot-r3207.bin

5130ei-cmw710-system-r3207.bin

This command will set the main startup software images. Continue? [Y/N]:Y

Do you want to overwrite files without prompt? [Y/N]:Y

Add images to slot 1.

Decompressing file 5130ei-cmw710-boot-r3207.bin to flash:/5130ei-cmw710-boot-r3207.bin…..Done.

Decompressing file 5130ei-cmw710-system-r3207.bin to flash:/5130ei-cmw710-system-r3207.bin……………………………………….Done.

The images that have passed all examinations will be used as the main startup software images at the next reboot on slot 1.

 

After the upgrade Robin took some of his time to configure the switch with me. We configured all security related options and prepared the switch to test it. The goal is to get the old blade system from the administration building to our location (the IT building). For this we had the SFP connections.

Here is the configuration of the 10Gbit/s ports:

interface Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/25

description *** Uplink to core sw1 port ## ***

port link-type trunk

undo port trunk permit vlan 1

port trunk permit vlan 2 700 999

#

 

And here the configuration of the normal Gigibit ports:

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/17

port link-type hybrid

undo port hybrid vlan 1

port hybrid vlan 2 untagged

port hybrid pvid vlan 2

poe enable

#

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3D nameshields

Sine the last few days wasn’t much going on, I decided to create some 3D logos. First I designed my Nytron logo in 3D and then I printed it. My boss Robin directly searched for the logo of the National Museum Northern Ireland; NMNI because he said my logo looks really good. I customized the logo with Adobe Illustrator, designed it in 3D and finally printed it. Along with Konrad I tried to paint it with sponges and spray cans. The result isn’t perfect but it’s okay.

Oh, and I made a time lapse video while it printed the Nytron logo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YrtotoxAWs&feature=youtu.be

Because everybody liked the logos I began to create nameplates for Robin and our colleague Gareth. Also these were a success! The next day Gareth showed us his nameplate because his girlfriend painted it colorful. Not bad!

The next few days I spent creating some models. For example: Dog tags.

Apart from that I installed and encoded a laptop and changed some cables. On my virtual Windows servers I changed the network cards from 1Gbit to 10Gbit because my storage is faster than 125MB/s.

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Printing and explorering

Today, on friday we hadn’t much to do except for the 3D printer. This time I printed a mobile phone holder for my OnePlusTwo. After the printing that lasted five hours I painted the whole holder silver except for the logo. This I painted green and black. The result isn’t what I excpected but it’s ok.

After break we went off with our boss Robin and our colleague Gareth, to find the blacksmith on our property. This was also the first time for our colleagues to explore the plot. We past some old barns and huts and even some cows, goats, sheeps, donkeys and other animals. Altough the property is darn big, we found the house from the blacksmith. Unfortunately, he wasn’t there so we looked couriously through the windows and saw some swords. Very beautiful!

And this was all for the day. Later I’m going to sleep early because tomorrow me and some other member from my educational year will drive to Dublin.

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More rain than anywhere else

So, today is Friday. Overall a day to be happy about, because the weekend just started. And still it’s something that keeps bothering me. Oh, I know, it’s the RAIN!!

I don’t think I will ever get used to the amounts of rain here. But well, gonna have to live with it. We’re still not doing much, besides the usual unlocking of accounts or setting up a PC.

But there was one thing that made this day stand out in comparison to the others. On last Saturdays hill-climb I got to know a blacksmith who works in the museum. I had a little talk with him back then and told him that I also wanted to try out forging. So he told me to drop by on his forge the other day. And that was what we did in the later afternoon.

We only had a map of our area and our instincts to guide us. What else do I need to say… we went straight across the areas not knowing where we were.

But after about 15 minutes we found our destination, just about to see that it was closed just recently … sigh

Well, nothing to do about that, but at least I now know where it is, maybe I will give it another try next week.

A short update

Well, I am thinking hard about what to write, but there is not much to write about. The last few days were very quiet and we hadn’t much to do. I wish I could write some more interesting things, but sadly it’s rather silent here.

But the good thing is we planned a tour to Dublin in the coming days, so that will definitely be another adventure.I’m really looking forward to it.

In the meantime we are still testing our 3d printer to its limits. Also, we plan on moving it to our office, because the way it is now, the airflow of the open door could let the print cool down to fast creating a wrapped up surface and damaging the whole print.

So yeah, that’s basically it. Let’s see what the future has to offer.

Hill Climb

Today was the Hill Climb event and of course I won’t miss it, so Konrad and I went to nine o‘ clock on work. There we met with our colleagues at the Menor. (The Menor is a Villa on the property of the museum) Audi had exhibited five cars and some other people exhibited there oldtimer. At first we helped our colleague to lay a network cable outside. We crimped it three times but it never worked and suddenly I had a idea: maybe the distance is to long? Long story short, we attached a little switch and it worked! For the rest of the day we had nothing to do anymore, except to fill the generator two times with petrol. Sadly I couldn’t enjoy the whole day because I had some problems with my pollen allergy.

All in all, the motor race went well except two cars had a small accident. Before I write more about the cars it’s better I show you some pictures because: one picture is worth a thousand words.

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Wlan for the Ulster Museum

Since wednesday a employee of HP is on our work, to help our boss Robin setting up a new wlan network. Unfortunately, I could’nt help them but it was interesting two watch what both were doing. At first they set up a Aruba 7010 controller by updating the firmware on it. After that they created some SSID’s for the network.

On thursday (the 2th) we didn’t drove to our normal workplace in cultra but right into the Ulster museum. In the server room Robin and the HP employee worked on the configuration of the controller and even drafted a virtual one. Because it took longer then expected, I think they had some difficulties.

Meanwhile i spend most of the time saving user datas from a computer to transfer them to another system. The day before i pre-installed a new SSD hard drive on the computer, so my only task is to copy the user files but this took the half of the day.

In the break we went to a sandwich shop near the museum and because I love the sandwiches, I ordered two of them.

Today on friday preperations were made for the upcoming Hill climb event. I prepared a computer, so a user will be automatically logged in with the help of „Autologon“. Furthermore I disabled the standby mode, so the computer won’t turn off.

Otherwise there was not much going on and I went to bed early.

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