Host Missing from vCloud Interface

We’re currently running a little in house beta at the office of vCloud 1.5.0. The testing has been going on for a while and recently I had to do something I didn’t want to do, but had a nice learning experience for me so I thought I would share.

We have two UCS blades running in our vCloud environment giving us a nice healthy test bed to play in. For another maintenance in our VMware environment, I had to steal one of these blades to be used in another cluster to add some resources temporarily. So into the vCloud interface I go to disable the host, unprepared the host and finally remove it from the interface. No problems, everything went as expected and I could move the host into the other cluster for the maintenance.

Keeping a package up to date with puppet

Today I came into work with the following messages in my logwatch emails:

Last Status:
   WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
   WARNING: Local version: 0.97.4 Recommended version: 0.97.5
   DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
   main.cvd is up to date (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60, builder: sven)
   daily.cld is up to date (version: 15042, sigs: 218148, f-level: 63, builder: mcichosz)
   bytecode.cld is up to date (version: 185, sigs: 39, f-level: 63, builder: neo)

Ah crap, time to touch all the boxes and make sure that the package is up to date right? Nope, not when you manage your boxes with puppet.

Dam to Dam 5K

My 2nd 5K of the year is in the bag with the completion of the Dam to Dam 5K. The race this year took a different route and had a much better result for me. I’ve been running a lot more and it definitely showed.

At the end of the day, I got 8th in my age group and 100th overall with a time of 23:04. I tied the 7th place guy in my age group but he had 2 seconds on me in gun time. You’re going down next time Doug Grunst.

Upgrading a Mid-2010 mac mini with a SSD

I was fortunate enough recently to get a fancy pants amazon gift card for some hard work put in the off hours at work. Mainly, 5 tests earning myself 2 certifications and several “specialist” designations over the past 6 months. What did I do with this new gift card, of coarse spend it as soon as I could on something totally geeky.

And here it is, a new OCZ 120GB Solid State drive for the mac mini which is my home dev machine.

[Puppet] Error 400 on SERVER: No support for http method POST

I’ve been helping a buddy get his puppet master server setup and he recently ran into a rather interesting error. He had his master server setup and had added a few recent server builds to the mix all from the EPEL repository which installed the 2.6.x version of the client.

When adding an older server, he got the following error message showing up in his logs:

Error 400 on SERVER: No support for http method POST

Doing a little googling, it turns out, this is not all that uncommon.