I just replaced the batteries on PACO and ROJ’s A1000 RAID arrays.

ROJ’s battery had actually gone bad, and both were beyond the expiration date. Both were covered under our maintenance contract.

To replace the batteries, the unit must be powered off. The replacement is simply sliding out the old canister and sliding in the new one. Once the system has been restarted, the command ‘raidutil -c target -R’ must be executed to reset the battery age counter on the device.

I also removed the two extra 36 GB drives from ROJ that we had gotten for the AMANDA backups. These will be used in EYEWI for addition onto the disk storage unit.

I upgraded the EZproxy software for the library databases to version 2.2e.

This should hopefully address some of the problems that we’ve been having with some of the databases (along with updates to the configuration). In addition, this gets us LDAP authentication and LDAP group membership authorizations.

I created a new packages for the software, using the old package I had as a template. The pkg_update procedure wiped the configuration and HTML files, but these were easily recoverable from both the rcs.mgr archive and the testing instance of EZproxy.

It appears to be running smoothly and quickly now.

The PacketShaper can’t seem to recognize passive FTP any more, so I removed the complicated FTP classifications.

We had 6 FTP classes, corresponding to inbound and outbound clients, servers, and general. The general was not allowed, and the servers were limited to those on a host list and some subnets in CS. However, passive FTP was getting classified under the general class, since it looked like active FTP to an internal server not in the host list. Until the PacketShaper recognizes passive FTP again, we’re simply allowing all FTP and giving it the policy that the client and server FTP classes had.