FreeSide On The Web

As many of you will probably know, the Department and the Robert Blackburn building are undergoing refurbishment, and therefore access is restricted

Some electrical work needed to be done, therefore power was lost to FreeSide on friday afternoon. I was the first avaliable admin to be able to get in today to get it all back online

I was greeted by a pigeon inside today (see pictures), and then a very different looking FreeSide from that of when i last saw it.

Some servers were already online, but the key server for our external access - M25 wasnt (probably a job for later, is to get this to automatically reboot if possible)

Bit of fiddling and poking, and the majority are online again. Notable exceptions are eye and bladeswitch, which had been unplugged and moved. Chances are they’ll get moved again, and being none crucial, i left them.

I couldnt actually find Gaia, it was at the other side of the room, and had been unplugged and moved, meaning our logging server is now offline for a bit. Not to us - MOAR LABELLING. It was one of the old fenner beige boxes, i think i knew which it was, but access to power cables and such, it wouldnt have been easy to get it online again

We’ve got some huge-ass cables not going over a gantry in the roof, and it would seem, some new lighting, which is nice

Get back home again and the website are down. Quick look seems that the webserver twins must’ve booted before mnemosyne had finished and the WWW directories hadnt been mounted. Quick restart, and still no websites. Buggar. Cause was Switchblade - Perlbal wasnt running on it