On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 15:51:44 +0100 Bertrand Jacquin <bertr...@jacquin.bzh> said:

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 09:16:23AM +0100, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 06:45:20 -0500 Stephen Houston <smhousto...@gmail.com>
> > said:
> > 
> > > OSUOSL is great. But it's pointless when none of us can get the access we
> > > need to the server and when the person that has/controls that access takes
> > > forever and a day to communicate and/or wont budge. Help has been offered
> > > in sysadmin for years from multiple devs who are sysadmins by trade and
> > > who could handle the complexity, and there is absolutely no change and it
> > > is not allowed. Further, Stefan is being generous... it has been more
> > > like 10 months, nearly a year since OSUOSL asked us to replace the fan.
> > > This is frankly embarrassing. We cant even get a model number so that one
> > > of us could personally drop ship it to them. That really looks bad on
> > > us... Again that is basically humiliating.  With all of these issues I
> > > think it would be a great improvement to moved to sponsored cloud
> > > hosting. We would actually have access and not have to worry about the
> > > hardware maintenance.
> > 
> > i thought cedric was going to order one from califronia and beber was
> > getting the model from supermicro ... i saw/heard nothing so thought they
> > exchanged the info... seems not.
> > 
> > I'll chase this up. we bought from silicon mechanics. I'll hunt down the
> > original order and ask them if they know what fan model it would be.
> > 
> > But that doesn't change the overall state of the sevrer. IPMI console
> > access is an issue. I tried to gbet it to work for a day or 2 via my osuosl
> > vpn ... i got to a web page for it and password didn't work. i can try
> > again. with an ipmi console the device is maintainable. it can be
> > re=installed if needed, kernel upgraded etc. ...
> 
> IPMI is accessible over OSUOSL OpenVPN. Admin password is stored in in
> our shared passwordstore. Tested 10 minutes ago, credentials are still
> valid

You used the IPMI console web page? Last time I tried this it didn't work.
(that same password I think). My home desktop was configured for the VPN and is
currently not usable for a few more weeks, so I'm waiting for that.

> > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 3:33 AM Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:49:29 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 30/08/2018 18:57, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> > > > > > Hello.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 08/10/2018 08:09 PM, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Q: Where would this be hosted?
> > > > > >> A: The provided link here is a cloud service which will be funded
> > > > > >> for
> > > > the
> > > > > >> foreseeable future.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is a crucial point here. Business decisions change and the
> > > > > > community has no influence on this. With my community hat on I
> > > > > > appreciate that there would be a sponsoring of a cloud service, but
> > > > > > I truly think we should not depend on this mid or long term (having
> > > > > > it
> > > > run
> > > > > > there for a few month of migration would not worry me).
> > > > > > Even if it would be more paperwork having the sponsorship going to
> > > > > > the foundation and the service being paid out from there would be
> > > > > > the right way. We can acknowledge the sponsorship on our sponsors
> > > > > > page.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I tend to agree here, unless we knew we had a simple easy way to
> > > > > migrate it to other hosting at anytime we needed.
> > > >
> > > > My experience leads me to be pretty adamant on not relying on cloud
> > > > services we
> > > > have to pay for eve if someone sponsors and pays for it. We lose control
> > > > and
> > > > reality is that these helping hands come and go. OSUOSL is a university
> > > > and they have been supporting OSS projects for a veeeeeery long time.
> > > > We need to
> > > > get our server into better shape though. Probably simpler shape.
> > > >
> > > > --
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> > > > Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com
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