Rebuilt cabinet.

Rebuilt cabinet.
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alphapointe @ 28th Mar 04:16AM:
Rebuilt cabinet.

A couple of my sighted friends helped me rebuild my cabinet. I'm not completely pleased with cable management, but I haven't got the chance to reroute the cables yet (especially power).

Bear with me on photo descriptions, I'm working from notes I recorded on my tape recorder as we were taking pictures.

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Front of cabinet

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UPS's & NAS Server

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(From the bottom up)
NAS Server
Web Server
Scanner Server
Weather Radio Server
Asterisk Server
SNPP Paging Server
UPS
3COM Switch

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8 Port KVM
Blank panel
SNPP Modem
LCD Keyboard/Mouse

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2 Intel 510T Switches

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Ethernet Power Controller
Patch Panel

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Back of cabinet

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Power cables (messy)

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KVM cabling to servers

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Power and ethernet cabling to servers

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Avaya SIP phone (piece of junk)

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Brother printer/scanner/copier/fax

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Switches

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Scanner (bottom) and weather radio (top)

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LCD Console

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Also, my workstation...
AMD Athlon 7750 X2 2.7GHz
4GB RAM
200GB SATA HDD
Win XP Pro
JAWS 8.0

All computers run Folding@Home
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robbob340 @ 28th Mar 11:54AM:
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Alpha, good job on the rack. I like the variety of equipment and the fact that it is all being used. The scanner sounds very good and I have added it to my list to listen to.
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alphapointe @ 1st Apr 03:41AM:
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To answer a few questions I've been asked:
The labels and LCD aren't for me. They are for my friends who help me work on this stuff.

As for the bike, I don't ride it on the street (that wouldn't be good), I have a stand that it sits in and I ride it like an exercise bike. (It was cheaper this way)

The fibers aren't as bad as they look. I should have taken the pictures at a better angle.
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Thane_Bitter @ 1st Apr 10:18AM:
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Is this a new rack, I recall you posted some pics awhile ago of a similar rack but it appeared much smaller then this one - nice though. :)
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alphapointe @ 1st Apr 10:23AM:
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Yeah, it's new. The old one was 22U and this one is 42. I bought it from the manager of my apartment building (for $100...:) )
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Thane_Bitter @ 1st Apr 01:03PM:
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Nice, I thought it was new. WOW it seems very deep as well, lots of room at the back behind the equipment. Thanks for sharing it.
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GREMBLING22 @ 2nd Apr 08:00PM:
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Hey man. Not sure if you remember but I sold you the 3 com switch. How has the text to speech been for the 3 com? Just wanted to say the rack looks GREAT! As many have said the bigger the rack the better, I totally agree! Do you have any plans to run ESX or some other variant?
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ffblackie @ 2nd Apr 09:03PM:
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Nice rack!

Have you considered serving your scanner over at »www.scanamerica.us ?
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alphapointe @ 2nd Apr 10:52PM:
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GREMBLING22:
TTS on the web interface works but isn't that great, so I use the telnet interface when I have to get into it. I don't use it very often because it seems to crash under load (even though it's probably something I'm doing wrong). I don't know what ESX is...

ffblackie:
The scanner is already being served at scanamerica.
It's the Fire/EMS scanner at »boone.mo.scanamerica.us/

I love the depth of the rack, I can actually use the rails for the servers. I need a few more sets, but I'll probably have to go with the universal ones from Gruber for the UPS's and the other two servers, since I can't find rails for them.
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GREMBLING22 @ 3rd Apr 08:05AM:
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Damn man im sorry to hear that. What do you mean by crash under load? I have two more of the exact same switch, I would be more then happy to send you another.

By the way, I have the same rackmount case (the one that you have labled freenas). Its an excellent case, the 7 hard drive bays make for a great storage server.
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alphapointe @ 3rd Apr 09:34AM:
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It seems to reboot itself when I put a lot of traffic through it. I lose connectivity for 30 seconds or so, then it's fine until I do it again. Since I can't see the lights, I have no idea what's going on.

I love that Compucase case. I just found out directron.com has the rails for it, so I will be ordering those soon. Right now I have 4 drives in it. 1 OS drive, and 3 500GB drives in RAID 5.
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GREMBLING22 @ 7th Apr 07:48PM:
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Again I'm sorry about the switch, I wish I would have found out sooner. I have two more of these available... would you like me to send it to you?
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