Yearly Archives: 2013

CloudStack: SecondaryStorage alarms on dashboard

This bug has been around since the early days of CloudStack. Best I can tell the secondary storage state isn’t actually monitored so it will always stay in this annoying Alert state. Here’s the bug report https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-66 It’s not an

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Flash NIC LED

Sometimes you might need to physically identify which NIC is which, or just flash the NIC LED for a laugh. Give this a whirl

 

Posted in Linux bits

Force fsck

You could try force an fsck on your mounted partition and risk certain death or you could just schedule on the next boot.

In this example the root filesystem will be checked on next boot. You could just as

Posted in Linux bits