Starting out

mon is the name of the monitoring program that we are using to monitor the internet services. To start mon, login on the op machine with:
    login: op
    password: op
it will then start up netscape to the page that shows the mon results.

What to do when something goes red

During working hours, or if something goes really wrong, try to contact me (Martha) at x2554 or 053-565-014 or 02-563-8652, or Boaz at x2581 or 050-652-188.

If a service goes down and stays down, switch to the backup machine.

Switching to a backup

To switch to the backup firewall, simply unplug the ethernet cables from the fw that is currently connected, and switch them to the fw that was not connected.

To switch to the backup for any machine other than the firewall:

  1. unplug the ethernet cable from the machine which is not working.
  2. move the phone line from the machine which is not working to the shadow machine (except in the case of forumowl, which does not have a phone line attached.
  3. boot the shadow machine to the appropriate configuration
When the shadow machine boots, it will print a prompt that says:
     LILO boot:
When you see that prompt, type one of the following, depending on which configuration you want: