SGI legacy equipment needed - Origin/Onyx 3000-class XBRICKs

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By Greg Whynott -

do they want an Indy still sealed in its original box?  I hook them up for good price!    8) 

-g

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Shelly Zavoral <zavoral@sgi.com> wrote:

Hello Studio Systems Admins group!

SGI Remarketed Products (RPG) is urgently looking for the following material to support a customer request for shipment by May. We are looking for Origin/Onyx 3000-class XBRICKs. Specifically the following part numbers:

013-3328-002

013-3328-003

013-3328-004

013-3328-005

The system level marketing codes would have been:

XBRICK

XBRICKR

XBRICK-SU

XBRICKR-SU

Please contact Alma Jones at 715-726-2916 or alma@sgi.com if you have or know where we can get any of this material.

If you are unsure what configuration you have, please send us the serial number to verify.

Please pass this on to people in your network who may have some of this gear for SGI to buy back.

Thank you for your time and help in searching for us. 

Alma Jones
Sr.  Buyer Planner
sgi
46600 Landing Parkway, Fremont, CA.  94538

 

Shelly Zavoral

SGI Federal Sales

651-683-3016

 

 

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By Rory Falloon -

Who are people in Toronto using these days for running some fibre (lc to lc) between floors?

Thanks

Rory Falloon
Snr. Systems Administrator
Mr. X Inc.
T:  (416) 595-6222, x 290

APC 1/2 height rack

March 8, 2013, 1:45 pm

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By Brian Krusic - Allo,

Any one selling in the LA area?

We'll pick it up?

- Brian

Subordinate Monkey

BU / archive

March 9, 2013, 7:40 am

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By Ariel Oclarino - Gents

I have atempo and scalar i500 and guess what I want to dump first ? ?Looking for what you guys use for archiving. ?

Thanks in advance. ?

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Regards,

Ariel Oclarino
(818) 305-4861

SGI legacy equipment needed - Origin/Onyx 3000-class XBRICKs

March 9, 2013, 4:30 pm

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By Bill Heiden - >From: Chris Hyman [mailto:chris@cyberdyne-services.com] > Remember next time you get on the plane to fly somewhere your pilot may have just past his > exam and has never left the ground before! Doesn't work that way. To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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March 11, 2013, 6:15 am

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By Peter Smith - Hi We're looking at the possibility of transferring HD-SDI over IP - moving most of the hardware for our Flame/Flare/Smoke suite into our MCR. It seems products exist for this capability. What are you fine people using? Any gotchas? What would you recommend? TIA. -- Pete Smith DevOp/System Administrator Realise Studio 12/13 Poland Street, London W1F 8QB T. +44 (0)20 7165 9644 realisestudio.com To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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March 11, 2013, 8:35 am

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By Quinn Richardson -

Running into a little issue with using Wacom 5's over think logical KVM.

More specifics:

Running multiple systems (mac and linux) over thinklogical velocitykvm-4's 

Wacom 4 works and on the mac the control panel sees the tablet.

As soon as you plug in a wacom 5 the control panel will tell you that no supported tablet is connected.

Linux side not really giving us any feedback.

Anyone else run into this or have a solution?

Thanks.

Quinn Richardson | Autodesk Inc.

Technical Specialist | Media & Entertainment

301.467.1846

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March 11, 2013, 10:15 am

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By Rob LaRose -

Howdy!

Just getting started using Isilon's "smart connect" (load-balancing) feature.  Looks to me like all we're doing is making the isilon its own subdomain, with its own NS, answering lookups as configured by policy.

My question -- is anyone using a CNAME with theirs?  Example:

Isilon SmartConnect hostname is SC-ISILONROB.domain.com

AD DNS subdomain ISILONROB.domain.com, with NS record SC-ISILONROB.domain.com

AD DNS CNAME GOHERE.domain.com--> ISILONROB.domain.com

I send my users to //GOHERE/share1/

Any red flags with this configuration?

--Rob

rob larose | engineer | rock paper scissors | 212-255-6446 | www.rockpaperscissors.com

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March 11, 2013, 2:20 pm

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March 11, 2013, 3:00 pm

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By Shawn Wallbridge - Anyone know where to get cable tray in LA? I called PacRad, they didn't know what I was talking about. I sent her a link and she said she doesn't carry it. I am looking at the Cooper FlexTray, but I am.... flexible ;) shawn To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

Big Storage" StudioSysAdmins Meeting at RFX on Thursday, March 21st

March 11, 2013, 6:05 pm

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By Anthony Lopez - Please join us at RFX for our Pre-NAB StudioSysAdmins Meeting to discuss the future of big storage!

Representatives from Isilon/EMC, BluArc/Hitachi, Avere, Red Hat, and more will be on hand for technical discussions about the future of large-scale storage solutions.

Topics will include mass storage hardware, front-end management, and cloud storage technology.

The presentations will be followed by an open forum to discuss pipelines and technical issues common to the StudioSysAdmin group.

Food & Drinks will be provided.

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Mark the date, register below, and check back here soon for more details


DATE & TIME:
Thursday, March 21st 2013
Meet & Greet: 6:30 - 7:30
Presentations: 7:30 - 9:30


LOCATION:
RFX Inc
748 Seward St.
Hollywood, CA 90038
323-962-7400


REGISTRATION:

http://rfx.com/events/78

HP DreamColor inspection/repair

March 12, 2013, 2:45 pm

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By Wayne Chang - hi, does anyone have a contact for inspecting and possi-probably repairing a DreamColor LP2480zx that refuses to acknowledge its usb connection, despite the keyboard and mouse being plugged into said usb connection? somewhat related, does anyone near mid-wilshire have either a sledgehammer or a big-bore shotgun i could borrow for a moment? w To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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March 12, 2013, 3:15 pm

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By Joe Frost - Anyone know where I can buy some? I need to ship 20-30 4U supermicro boxes and would love to ship them in the actual box that I've since long tossed. Joe To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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March 12, 2013, 4:15 pm

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By Brian Krusic - Got 2 of em if any one is interested.

$800 OBO each.

- Brian

"All have their worth

and each contributes to the worth of the others."

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HDD cloning for distribution of DCPs

March 13, 2013, 5:30 am

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By Gareth Havard - Hi All,

I've been searching for a solution for industrious cloning of encrypted distribution master HDDs.

We are being contracted to create and manage DCP distribution, which will initially be a run of 30 USB HDDs.
The drives will be EXT3 formatted, so a Linux solution is preferable.

As a 2D feature is only about 1GB per min, there's nothing stopping me assigning an operator/engineer to copy the DCP folder and paste into each HDD, mounting and copying 1 at a time (no real time pressure for these).
That should be manageable, however I'm looking for something a little more automated with confirmation of integrity etc.

I'd be interested how the big boys do this? working with Technicolor (as a client) in the UK I noticed HDDs moving around by the pallet load!

Cheers!

Gareth Havard
Engineering Manager
Collective Dream Studios, Cape Town.

converting MA file to FBX

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By Greg Whynott -

Is anyone aware of any other method to convert a .ma to .fbx aside from the export plugin provided by autodesk?    Attempts at exporting a file results in lots of complaints in the logs.   We can't bake anything as the shop the file is heading to can not handle that.....

here is an example of the errors:

HDS SMU SSL configuration

March 13, 2013, 12:30 pm

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By Mike Owen -

Hi,

Does anyone know the correct commands to install a CA veri-signed cert into the HDS SMU to enable SSL?

I was able to import the *.crt certificate file using:

./cert-importtrustchain.sh -p path to crt file -a unique alias

but the next command just won't work:

./cert-import.sh -p path to my cert file

Error Message:

keytool error: java.lang.Exception: Public keys in reply and keystore don't match

Failed to import the certificate.

The backed up keystore has been restored.

Please try again or use cert-gendefault.sh to restore the default cert.

The manual?doesn't?give much information on how to remove the default certificate/key within the SMU, so I?can?replace it with my own one.

As usual HDS support is slow....(official HDS instructions below...)

I have *.pfx, *.pem, *.crt, *.key files

Mike

Installing certificates

After obtaining the certificate from the certificate authority (CA):

1. Copy the certificate provided by the CA to the SMU (for example, scp to /home/manager/server.cer).

If necessary, provide the certificate authority?s trusted certificate chain as a file (for example, /home/manager/

veritas.pem). The SMU already includes popular certificate authority trust chains, so this step can typically

be skipped. To display these popular certificate authorities, see Sun?s documentation: http://java.sun.com/

j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/solaris/keytool.html#cacerts

Note: The content of the certificate and trust chain files should only start with -----BEGIN and end

with -----END CERTIFICATE-----.

2. Log in to the SMU as user manager.

3. Enter sudu cert-importtrustchain.sh -p path to trust chain file -a unique

alias to import the certificate authority trust certificate chain (optional); this might require multiple files or

chains, so repeat as necessary. When prompted, enter the password for user manager.

Note: Any unique alias may be used. If the alias already exists in the SMU?s keystore, you will be

prompted to replace the old certificate or cancel the import.

An example intermediate certificate authority trust chain may be found at: http://www.verisign.com/support/

install2/intermediate.html

4. Enter sudo cert-import.sh -p path to cert file to import the signed certificate reply.

This replaces the default SMU SSL certificate.

5. Restart the web server when prompted so that it can pick up the new SSL certificate. When prompted to overwrite

the existing certificate, enter y.

6. Close and restart any browsers used to connect to the SMU.

This is required to purge the browser of any previously negotiated SSL session values.

When logging into the SMU Web Manager, the new SSL Certificate is provided.

7. As needed, enter sudo cert-showall.sh to display and verify the contents (SSL certificate and trust chain)

of the keystore.

8. To propagate the new certificate to all managed servers, navigate to Home > SMU Administration > Managed

Servers, and click details and OK for each server.

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March 13, 2013, 3:25 pm

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By Brian Krusic - ... simply have to share.

An artist (used very loosely) comes to me and asks for more RAM.

I ask why of course and was told that the server gave them a premision denied when trying to save out a file.

I replied "pffft, you need a new light bulb".

I did then explain our job structure with do's and don'ts.

However in my youth which doesn't seem that long ago, never do I recall being so off on cause and effect.

- Brian

"All have their worth

and each contributes to the worth of others."

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By Antti Pennanen - Hey everybody, Our client is running a HP Blade and VmWare based environment. The interconnects between blades are 1gbit (6 interconnects in total). For the network traffic there are 2 switches in an active-active HA configuration. The uplink is 100mbit/s and all the traffic is routed through VRRP to a StoneGate firewall which then does nat or forwards the traffic to the correct VLAN. Today our monitoring noticed that some of the services were down so we started to investigate the problem. We soon noticed that the uplink is basically completely saturated and that is the reason for the weird network behaviour. Later we found out that the root cause was a malware on one of the virtual machines which was sending huge amount of DNS traffic out. (350mbit/s, which obviously couldn't get through) I started thinking that is there any best practises to avoid this kind of situations? So that one VM (or any network client) couldn't completely saturate the uplink. Anyone here experience of this kind of network problems? Flow-Control? QoS? Any ideas are welcome and thanks in advance! Andy To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe