FreeNAS

FreeNAS and Realtek RTL8168C/RTL8111DP/RTL8111E network card

54
1 year ago
by Kristijan in

Quick links to compiled v1.80 drivers
Ethernet Driver for Intel
Ethernet Driver for AMD64 (Thanks to Ruslan)

As I mentioned in a previous post, I built myself a NAS based on FreeNAS. It’s been rock solid for about 3 weeks now, no hiccups. One initial issue I did have was getting the RTL8168C/RTL8111DP/RTL8111E network card chipset to work. There is no FreeNAS out of the box support for this chipset, so I had to compile my own from source found on the Realtek website which you can find here. If you have issues downloading or compiling it, I’ve compiled version 1.80 which you can download from the top of this page. Ruslan has kindly compiled an AMD64 version as well.

First and foremost, verify that the module actually works and you can bring up your network card and get some activity over it. I’m going to assume at this point that you have no way of copying something onto your FreeNAS other than USB, so copy if_re.ko to a USB stick and plug it into your NAS.
(more…)

Apple

Automount AFP shares in OSX

0
1 year ago
by Kristijan in

So I’ve finally got around to building my NAS. It’s a pretty 12TB FreeNAS using RAIDZ…she runs very nicely :) At first, I was using SMB, but found the performance from AFP better, that’s for another post though. For the life of me, I couldn’t find the “Mac” way of auto mounting an AFP share. So being the sysadmin ninja that I am, I just went along and did it my own way.

Luckily for us, the pretty OSX frontend sits on top of a UNIX backend. In short, I ended up using autofs, and it works rather well. Below is how to get it working.
(more…)

Tivoli

Keeping an eye on TSM volumes

1
1 year ago
by Kristijan in

I wrote a quick script which tells me when volumes in TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) have access and/or media issues and shoots me off an email. The script does two things:

1) Checks for volumes which are NOT in the states READWRITE or OFFSITE.
2) Checks for volumes which have a read/write error count >0.

I’m sure that most people running TSM in their environment have some sort of daily reporting that gets sent out. If that’s the case, you can simply extract the SQL from the script and use it in your own reporting tools.
(more…)

AIX

Calculate total usage in AIX volume group

2
2 years ago
by Kristijan in

When looking at the output of the “lsvg” command in AIX, you’ll see a whole bunch of information regarding the volume group. The PP size, how many PPs are in the volume group, stale PVs, quorum, so on and so on. What I’m normally looking for when running the “lsvg” command is:

1. How much storage (PPs) do I have free.
2.How much storage (PPs) is in use.
3.How much storage (PPs) is actually being used.

I can get the first two questions answered looking at the output of “lsvg”, but the last one I cannot.
(more…)

AIX

Maintain wtmp on AIX

3
2 years ago
by Kristijan in

/var/adm/wtmp on AIX maintains a list of past user sessions and information about the restart/shutdown of that particular system. While this file is normally very small in terms of file size, on an active box, this can grow if not properly maintained. You can use the “last” command to read wtmp, or export it to a text file for further processing with “fwtmp”. While you can simply redirect nothing into wtmp to empty it out “>/var/adm/wtmp”, it’s always a good idea to keep this file (or at least a backup) for security/auditing reasons.
(more…)

Go to Top