CSM and NIM: day 2
Nov. 12th, 2008 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylSecond day of IBM's course on CSM and NIM, which mostly focused on a recap of yesterday's stuff. The most interesting information came from a read-through of Poughkeepsie's basic instructions on the various steps required to install a Power 6 cluster.
The tedium of the material was releaved at regular intervals comic turns from the network support people. After yesterday's network hub — an ancient thing that burned hotter than the surface of the sun and scorched the varnish on the table — was replaced on health and safety grounds, its replacement failed even to provide basic network services until someone finally noticed that one of the cables had been set up to loop two ports together, presumably as a carrying handle. Only when this was removed, were we able to perform the various lab exercises on the test system.
Still, I shouldn't complain. Back in 2003, it took us two months to trace a fault in one of the Cray FDDI rings back to a single link that hadn't been twisted correctly...
The tedium of the material was releaved at regular intervals comic turns from the network support people. After yesterday's network hub — an ancient thing that burned hotter than the surface of the sun and scorched the varnish on the table — was replaced on health and safety grounds, its replacement failed even to provide basic network services until someone finally noticed that one of the cables had been set up to loop two ports together, presumably as a carrying handle. Only when this was removed, were we able to perform the various lab exercises on the test system.
Still, I shouldn't complain. Back in 2003, it took us two months to trace a fault in one of the Cray FDDI rings back to a single link that hadn't been twisted correctly...
