Some of the setups on here are amazing - well done guys
I present to you, my mess:
In this picture:
- Dell PowerEdge SC420 which is my main server, fitted with a 1Tb HD for backups/downloads. Runs quiet which is the main thing
- DHCP/DNS: DNS uses views, so serves internal and external DNS (though have switched back to external DNS whilst I mess about with settings). Acts as DHCP primary server.
- E-mail: Exim4, Cyrus, ClamAV, GreyListd, Spam Assassin, RoundCube
- Backup server: essential client PC data is backed up nightly to a Samba share, and along with essential server data (logs, config dirs etc) is sent to tape (DDS4) every night using a custom backup script.
- SABNzbd Server: used in conjunction with the excellent nzbdstatus on all the client PC's Firefox's to enable easy upload of NZBs to server, and managed downloads from Usenet. Samba share then gives client PCs access to data.
- Apache2 web server hosting my geeky blog
- Tripwire and Portsentry installed
- SubSonic (though that's currently offline whilst I rejig my external HDs)
- Subversion
- OpenVPN: Provides me with client access, and works as a site-site with a colleague.
- Underneath the SC420 is an NEC slimline desktop machine, which acts as failover secondary DNS and DHCP for the network should I need to restart the SC420 (00:30:31 up 10 days
)
- To the left of the SC420 is my Linux desktop which uses the right hand side Samsung (only one mouse and keyboard for the main desktops, shared using a superb app called Synergy)
- To the immediate right of the SC420 is the 8-port Netgear Gigabit switch (times are hard )
- Furthest to the right is my Windows 7 desktop machine, which powers the 24" Samsung (middle display)
- Underneath the white box on the desk (left) is an old (P4) Dell laptop which hosts my Asterisk PBX (still waiting on a Cisco IP Phone from ebay) that also connects with the Asterisk box in work via OpenVPN.
- PowerEdge 2600 (Dual 2.8GHz Xeons; 4GB FB ECC RAM; 5 x 75GB SCSI): My ESXi box - the Xeons aren't 64bit though which is a real shame
Only gets turned on when I'm mucking about with certain projects (RedHat clustering etc) and makes one hell of a racket.
- 3Com Superstack Layer 3 Switch: 24 10/100, 2 x 10/100/1000 Trunks
- HP JetDirect 100X (?): older than me I think Serves the ageing 6MP LaserJet behind it (via CUPS on the SC420)
- Big white aerials belong to an Edimax 802.11n AP (and not to the Netgear PS101 as the pic would have you believe
)
- Middle HP box is soon to be my Win7/Mythbox (undecided as of yet) media centre once a replacement HDMI capable card has come back from OcUK RMA.
- Underneath the desk: the silver case houses approx 10 old IDE drives of various capacity, and acts as an archive. Anything that's so old that I'll probably never remember it exists gets moved from active storage onto there, and then the unit is powered down afterwards. The other two cases are old/redundant systems
Ideally, I'd like to replace every case you can see with the P182, as it's quite simply amazing. However, present funds don't allow for it
Oh, and out of shot is a WRT54GL with DD-WRT installed (knockd installed with stealth activation ports, activated by an iPhone app) being served by a hacked-into-bridged-mode O2 Wireless Box II (22mbps/1.3mbps).
I think that's about it minus a couple of laptops.
Oh, there is my latest project that is worth a quick mention (in my opinion anyway!): a recently gifted ancient Sony VAIO (P300MMX, 64MB RAM, 10GB HD) running Lenny that is serving as my portable console when at work, and soon to be my 'status box' which will sit under my TV and have a Perl script running that checks the status of all services. Sad I know, but all helps with the learning process
Here's a pic to get an idea of how small it is (notice the funky X-Jack RJ45 connector - never seen anything like that before):
And here's where it will sit once I've coded the status script, outputting to the TV via VGA:
Who needs these expensive netbooks
Time to have a tidy up looking at those pictures!
@PhillyDee: Love those IcyBoxes - would be ideal for the archive unit. As you say, shame OcUK don't sell them anymore.
@the_chicco: You still run your website? The links gone out of your sig
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