ssh -D $port $host

configure browser to use SOCKS $host:$port.

But i’ve got one problem, and i’m not able to resolve this for a few weeks now..;)
Maybe you can help
In your template you use this trigger name like this:
Disk 4 ({Windows Disk usage:disk_4_desc.last(0)}) usage = {ITEM.VALUE}%

But the description;the item value of disk_4_desc.last won’t be shown in the Dashboard or trigger page.
Zabbix only shows this as plain text. It would be really nice, if zabbix would show which disk has a problem.
Do you know how i can fix this?

Tweeks

Tweeks

On the subject of disk prices, EMC, 3Par, IBM etc are all much the same – i.e. don’t expect to be comparing cheap SATA disks from your local internet retailer, or you’re only going to get annoyed! Yes, they’re the same disks. Yes, the markup us pretty fierce. Be aware that (at least for us) there’s a bucket load of support built in there as well, so if that “cheap” disk dies, you’ll have a new one on your desk in 4 hours, day or night. That level of service doesn’t come cheap and has to be factored into the disk price.

Our environment is an Exchange 2003-2010 Hybrid – our students are still on 2003, everyone else has been migrated to 2010. We had some major power issues and basically the whole of exchange went belly up over the Christmas break.

Today, everyone that had autoreplies set over the break had turned them off in their outlook clients (all 2010) or expected them to auto shut off, and they were still active.

The fix, nonintuitive as it seems was this:

Go into the Automatic Replies section. File > Info > Automatic Replies.
Turn “Send automatic replies” back on, and click OK.
Open Automatic Replies back up again and set it to “Do not send automatic replies”, and click OK.

This has worked for us, and is persistent across restarts of the outlook clients.

Hope it helps.

There are a variety of end of life topics as part of your latest post. Our supplier of disk enclosures, Xyratex, issued an end of life for the parts many, many months ago. We ordered extra to extend supply. There are truly no more enclosures available. I don’t where the communication broke down that you only recently received this information.

As another checkpoint, the other major suppliers in the midrange enterprise market (NTAP FAS3000 and EMC VNX) have also moved away from SATA. It’s not a Dell Compellent move, rather a complete industry shift in the enterprise market.

Any chance we could schedule a call to discuss in more depth? I can be reached at bob_fine@dell.com.

As far as a watch list, I doubt that there is one. Dell doesn’t have that kind of time. You would have to be really doing some damage.

And don’t count on saving enclosures … I was forced into a full fork lift which lead me to another company.

And think of it this way … Do you want to stay with a company / product that drops the bomb on you that you got. Like no longer selling or supporting product .

I really like compellent before the buy out.
And I am serious on the watch list I will not go into it here but will email you..

I would suggest looking at others as the future is full of surprises as you have already seen

Now let’s see how long till we have another post from dell. You have touched on a sore subject.

But also note the response was with full disclousre and from marketing… Same people that told you that you would not have this problem I bet when you bought on years ago.

Best of luck

-sent via mobile so pardon any errors in type/spell but not in facts

I guess part of my problem again stems from not being used to how “enterprise” products are priced. In the past I’ve been shocked at the “enterprise” cost of SATA drives, up to 10x retail, with the stated reason being that they’re tested, etc, and I just have a hard time swallowing that. Everybody I’ve spoken with says “that’s just how enterprise storage works” and apparently Compellent is better than most, so I should be happy about that. But if the value proposition is “leveraging commodity hardware” then I assumed that implied commodity hardware pricing. I didn’t expect the kind of markup we see, which seems to negate a lot of the the pricing benefit of commodity hardware, at least on our end. PCIe vs PCIX seems to be a similar situation since there are PCIx SAS cards but they aren’t supported.

Additionally, nobody ever warned us that we wouldn’t be able to purchase SATA any more, even when we expanded our system with another 16 SATA drives in August of last year. The first we heard about SATA being discontinued was on the sales call this week. That was kind of a shock, especially since I think they said the EOL for SATA was in April 2011, so I assume it must have at least been discussed internally around August. I guess “the industry” is moving away from SATA to SAS, and I’m sure there are plenty of benefits in the move, but as an outsider looking in I don’t see SATA going anywhere. I mean, laptops and desktops are still going to have SATA drives for at least several more years, so they do exist. I am aware of the supply problems in Thailand, but that really just seems like a convenient excuse to me. I’m sure there are plenty of reasons why Compellent stopped selling SATA, but I have a hard time believing that “we can’t get them” is one of them. And like I said, even if the “industry” is moving to SAS, if the value proposition was commodity off-the-shelf hardware, that doesn’t seem to make sense.

I know I’m out of my element here, and I was really just ranting (I thought to the ether). Since Compellent is the only SAN I’ve ever worked with, I’m sure I don’t know how good I’ve got it – I’ve heard some horror stories. But I mean, I still have a hard time accepting that we need to buy our disks from Compellent when we could just order them from Newegg. Maybe I’m just not an enterprisey guy. But like I’ve said before, I actually love the product. It’s been fantastic. But it’s hard for me to swallow the notion that we can’t just buy another Xyratex enclosure and throw some Seagate drives in it and add it to our existing system, since that was essentially part of the original sales pitch.

As I said, I’m sure we’ll eventually end up doing the controller upgrade (since we really have no choice), but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.