Management

Cacti: corrupt database

René Jorissen on June 16, 2011 0 Comments • Tags: #auto-repair #be #cacti #crashed #failed #fragment #marked #mysqlcheck #poller_output #repaired #should #sql

After rebooting a Cacti server, the customer complained that no new graphs were drawn by the server. I tried to run the poller.php script with the –-force option and noticed the following output: 06/16/2011 10:34:48 AM – SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SQL Failed! Error:’145′, Message:’Table ‘./cacti/poller_output’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired’, SQL Fragment:’INSERT … Read More

Routing

Another NVRAM broken?

René Jorissen on January 28, 2009 2 Comments • Tags: #sys-4-nv_block_initfail #available #bad #compress-config #failed #file #information #no #number #nvram #open #space #startup-config

On Monday I visited another customer who had problems saving the running configuration of a Cisco devices. The devices involved were a Cisco 2620 and a Cisco 2610XM router. Both routers weren’t able to save their running configuration. Both routers show the following error-message: startup-config file open failed (Bad file number) By both routers I … Read More

Management, Switching

NVRAM corrupt or broken?

René Jorissen on January 24, 2009 0 Comments • Tags: #sys-7-nv_block_init #broken #corrupt #failed #geometry #initialized #nvram #nv_done #open #unable #verification

Today some of my colleagues and I “rebuild” an existing ESX with NetApp network. We change multiple VLAN’s and did a lot of reconfiguring. Unfortunately some other people were working on the power, so sometimes all equipment had to power down. After we did our job, we started testing the environment. All DMZ VM’s weren’t … Read More

Security

Cisco 877W wireless authentication failed

René Jorissen on January 6, 2009 1 Comment • Tags: #dot11-7-cckm_auth_failed #aes #authenticate #broadcast-key #cckm #change #failed #interval

At home I have a Cisco 877W router. I use the wireless functionality to connect the different laptops to the networks. After upgrading the software from the router I have problems with the wireless authentication. The router is working perfectly, but after some time the laptops are able to connect to the wireless network. Vista … Read More

Firewalling

Failed to establish VPN through PIX

René Jorissen on October 17, 2008 5 Comments • Tags: #1723 #305006 #47 #asa #creation #failed #firewall #for #gre #pix #pptp #protocol #regular #stateful #translation #vpn

We migrated our Internet connection lately and reconfigured our PIX firewall. We added some memory to install the latest firmware version (8.0(4)). After putting the PIX firewall in production some of the employees were complaining they couldn’t establish any PPTP VPN Tunnels anymore to customers. Every time when some one called me, I tried it … Read More