Last night at 11:30pm one of my contracts went dark. All servers showing offline, and my alarms blaring. First thing this morning as I prepare to take a trip there to see what's up I get a call... we have no internet.
10 minutes later I get another call, the server room got really hot and we pop'd a breaker. Everything seems to be back online now except for Untangle. Untangle is apparently spewing error messages all over the place to the screen. Some of which in classic linux fashion are quite humorous and the client is laughing making a comment on how at least the malfunctioning bit of equipment has some entertainment value.
However, one of the error messages the client is relaying to me indicates the hard drive may have failed in the Untangle server. No problem I have a spare, but with 6 interfaces, 5 virtual racks, and customized stuff everywhere I wasn't about to reconfigure that thing by hand. So I call up Tony at Untangle support and get him to e-mail me last night's configuration backup.
15 minutes later, Tony has identified and fixed a store issue that would have prevented me reinstalling the box, as well as gotten me the backup I need. I'm loaded for bear got a 6.2 disk ready to go reinstall this thing... then my IM chirps.
"ok... so how we have Internet...? wth...?" <-- direct quote from client.
I fire up openvpn sure enough I'm back online, hit the admin console and login, everything is happy. A quick SSH to the unit later reveals the "sda1" error it was whining about was linux's normal "I've been powered down dirty so I'm going to check this hard disk before I boot" error.
So I arrive on site for the PR visit, and make sure everything is good and I found out another tidbit... in an act of impatience they reset the Untangle server mid boot process 3 times. So not only did it die due to no power, but it wasn't allowed to boot 3 times and they finally left it alone for me to get there and it comes up all on it's own.
Who says this thing isn't enterprise ready...
Quad Xeon 2.4ghz server build on an Intel s3000 series mainboard, with 2 onboard gigabit interfaces and a PCI-e quad port gigabit card. 4gb of Ram. 400gb sata hard drive. Unit was installed September of 2008. Still going strong, my oldest installation. Still only using 30gb of the drive.![]()