Sunday, February 15, 2009

A little outage in APRS data collection

While I was at the hosting site adding memory to the second aprs.fi frontend today, I also did maintenance on the Sun Enterprise 4500 server which hosts finland.aprs2.net (the Tier 2 APRS-IS server which aprs.fi uses as the data source) and the aprs.fi backup database. So I configured the primary aprs.fi server to connect to another APRS-IS server while finland.aprs2.net was down, but made a mistake in the configuration, so the APRS-IS data collection broke. I didn't notice the alarms which it triggered, because I was working hard with the memory upgrade and the Sun reboot.

As a result, aprs.fi didn't collect APRS data between 11:35:43 UTC and 14:21:13 UTC. Sorry about that, I'll try to be more careful next time.

The memory upgrade itself went fine. The server should perform quite well for a while now.

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM

    Hi

    Noticed that there have been no comment so far...Do not think that it is because we do not appreciate what you you are doing! WE DO! :-)
    (the reason I have not left any comments earlier, is that I have no idea what you are doing ;-), but it seems to work!

    73
    LA9ULA

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  2. Erwin (ON8AR)February 18, 2009 at 12:47 AM

    You 're doing a great job.
    Sometimes it happens that things don't go as planned.
    It's a hobby for al of us, and no one's life depends on it :)
    I know, I'm a Sytem admin also :)

    Keep up the good work !

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  3. AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 7:29 PM

    aprs.fi seems to be very intermittent today, other tracker sites seem to work still.
    Hopefully it's not some variant of the conflicker virus.....
    Jim W5AOX (really addicted to aprs.fi)

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