DYNES-Deployments

[Jason Bothe <>]

Ty,

Can you confirm whether or not you guys were successfully able to upgrade the 
firmware?

Thanks,

Jason


On 15, Jul 2013, at 3:31 PM, Jason Bothe 
<>
 wrote:

> Ty
> 
> Can you try now?  I reset the switch and the optic seems to be up. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jason
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jul 15, 2013, at 14:19, Ty Bell 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hi William,
>> 
>> Would it be possible to get Te0/0 on the Rice switch connected so we can 
>> try some circuits to LEARN?
>> 
>> --Ty
>> 
>> On Jul 8, 2013, at 1:19 PM, William Deigaard 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Ty,
>>> 
>>> Yes, this is the correct list.  Couple of clarifications:
>>> 
>>> 1) the DYNES interface is fixed now using the "reboot without optic 
>>> inserted workaround," so it should show up now).
>>> 2) the UTHSC link is down and not connected at this point.  We may 
>>> re-introduce that soon.
>>> 3) The "Local Use 10G" link is not connected currently, but will be once 
>>> circuit creating works for us.
>>> 
>>> So, please proceed at your leisure with upgrading.  Thanks.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> William Deigaard  ^-^
>>> ()
>>>  (O O)
>>> Go Owls!         ( v )
>>> ------------------m-m--Director,
>>> 713-348-5262 (o.)       Networking, Telecommunications & Data Centers
>>> 713-487-7423 (gv)       Rice University
>>> 
>>> On Jul 5, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Ty Bell 
>>> <>
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> William,
>>>> 
>>>> Looking at the list of interfaces connected to the Rice S4810, it looks 
>>>> like the only ones that are up and connected are to the FDT and IDC. I 
>>>> wanted to check on this before upgrading the the switch since I'll need 
>>>> to reload it a couple times. Am I clear to upgrade?
>>>> 
>>>> sw-rice>show interfaces description
>>>> Interface                OK  Status     Protocol    Description
>>>> TenGigabitEthernet 0/0   NO  up         down        'DYNES ION/WAN'
>>>> TenGigabitEthernet 0/18  NO  up         down        '10GE interface 
>>>> (local use)'
>>>> TenGigabitEthernet 0/19  YES up         up          'fdt-rice 10GE eth0 
>>>> interface'
>>>> TenGigabitEthernet 0/20  YES up         up          'fdt-rice 1GE eth2 
>>>> interface'
>>>> TenGigabitEthernet 0/22  YES up         up          'fdt-rice 1GE eth3 
>>>> interface'
>>>> TenGigabitEthernet 0/24  YES up         up          'idc-rice 1GE 
>>>> connection (eth1) for control-plane'
>>>> TenGigabitEthernet 0/36  NO  up         down        'UTHSC 10GE link via 
>>>> Travis St. Fiber'
>>>> ManagementEthernet 0/0   YES up         up          Switch Management
>>>> 
>>>> --Ty
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 3, 2013, at 3:56 PM, William Deigaard 
>>>> <>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Brian,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sounds good.  The console line is in place, and the switch password is 
>>>>> still the default.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> William Deigaard  ^-^
>>>>> ()
>>>>>  (O O)
>>>>> Go Owls!         ( v )
>>>>> ------------------m-m--Director,
>>>>> 713-348-5262 (o.)       Networking, Telecommunications & Data Centers
>>>>> 713-487-7423 (gv)       Rice University
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Brian Cashman 
>>>>> <>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> William,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I think we can upgrade the firmware if we have console access. It
>>>>>> appears that you have the switch console connected the IDC. I think 
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> as long as we have the enable password for the switch, we're good. Ty
>>>>>> can say for sure.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Brian
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 7/3/13 12:50 PM, William Deigaard wrote:
>>>>>>> Brian,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The IP you listed is correct for the Rice IDC.  The vm running on it 
>>>>>>> is at 168.7.170.200.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I continued to work on the issue after we sent the email below.  I 
>>>>>>> believe most of that was caused by poor formulation of the src and 
>>>>>>> dst sites in the OSCARS web interface.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> When using the FDTAgent, I found that the most telling error was 
>>>>>>> found in the /var/log/oscars/api.out file on the IDC VM:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ERROR ts=2013-07-02T10:43:38.794000Z 
>>>>>>> event=OSCARSInternal-API.SubscribeManager05.getSubscription.end 
>>>>>>> guid=dynes.rice.edu-V05-a15b14d6-4bae-42f2-9734-1456633934c1 
>>>>>>> gri=dynes.rice.edu-319 errSeverity=MAJOR status=-1 msg="Problem 
>>>>>>> writing SAAJ model to stream" 
>>>>>>> url=https://learn-idc2.tx-learn.net:8443/axis2/services/OSCARSNotify 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I was planning on talking with the LEARN folks about the health and 
>>>>>>> happiness of their IDC, but if we're planning on going to OESS sooner 
>>>>>>> rather than later, I'll hold off on that.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And lastly, the Dell representative is willing to come to Rice to do 
>>>>>>> the same firmware upgrade (to get to Openflow) that was already done 
>>>>>>> at UofH.  Should we arrange for that for you, or do you want to do it?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>> 
>>