Atomic Veterans

A friend at work mentioned that his father had "claimed" to have take part in atomic bomb tests in the 1950's , where unprotected soldiers were exposed to radiation. He wasn't sure he believed the story. I found this video on YouTube of the mission: Operation Buster-Jangle.

Yep, it was true. Not real smart, but true.

(Unfortunately, They won't let this one be embedded.)

Cloud Storage Connect

This script will allow cluster nodes to connect to each other's ISCSI shares to create a cloud storage platform. I assume a high level of experience going into this. Maybe a howto should follow.

Carve out free space as a partition on each system. Define the partition as a Physical Volume in the Volume Group cloud. Share the partition via ISCSI (tgtd service), and start the service on all nodes. Execute the following on each node:

#!/bin/sh
#
# join nodes of a GFS cluster via iSCSI
#

if [ "$1" == "join" ]; then
  ACT="login"
elif [ "$1" == "leave" ]; then
  ACT="logout"
else
  echo "Usage: iscsi-cloud join|leave"
  echo "GPL 2009, dougbunger"
  exit 99
fi

grep "clusternode.*name" /etc/cluster/cluster.conf > /tmp/iscsi-nodes
sed -i "s/nodeid=.[0-9]*//" /tmp/iscsi-nodes
sed -i "s/votes=.[0-9]*//" /tmp/iscsi-nodes
sed -i "s/sed -i "s/[ \"=<>\t]//g" /tmp/iscsi-nodes

  ME=`hostname | cut -d\. -f1`
  for J in `grep -v $ME /tmp/iscsi-nodes`; do echo "$ACT node $J:"
    # discover
    L=`iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p $J 2> /dev/null`
    T=`echo $L | cut -d\ -f2`
    echo "...$T"
    if [ "$T" != "" ]; then
      P=`echo $L | cut -d, -f1`
      echo "...$P"
      # bind
      iscsiadm -m node -T $T -p $P --$ACT
    fi
  done
vgscan
lvscan

exit

Restart the clvmd and lvm2-monitor service on all nodes. From any node, execute:

vgdisplay cloud

This will show the total space available across the cloud. Turns our system-config-lvm is cloud aware, and will keep all nodes in sync when creating or adjusting LVs.

Physical Layer Monitor

Here's a little script I whipped up to solve an argument as to whether the server was going to sleep or no packets were being routed into the box. The echo line could be tee'd for historical reference:

#/bin/sh
TRUE=1

while [ $TRUE = 1 ]; do
  killall tcpdump 2> /dev/null
  mv /dev/shm/netwatch.txt /dev/shm/netwatch-b.txt
    tcpdump > /dev/shm/netwatch.txt 2> /dev/null &
    IP=`grep -c " IP " /dev/shm/netwatch-b.txt`
    ARP=`grep -c " arp " /dev/shm/netwatch-b.txt`
    echo "`date +%T` packets=$IP arps=$ARP"
  sleep 10
done