Other - Knowledge Base Archives - Hivelocity Hosting https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/category/other/ Dedicated Servers, Private Cloud & Colocation Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:22:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6 How to Turn On a Drive Bay’s LED for Identification https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/how-to-turn-on-a-drive-bays-led-for-identification/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:15:33 +0000 https://www.hivelocity.net/?post_type=hv_knowledgebase&p=23272 When work is being performed on your system’s drives, depending on your setup and servers, Hivelocity’s techs may potentially need to identify the correct drive bay before proceeding. Drive bays in your system will have indicator lights to help indicate when data is being read/written on them and when an error might be occurring. Thankfully, …

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When work is being performed on your system’s drives, depending on your setup and servers, Hivelocity’s techs may potentially need to identify the correct drive bay before proceeding. Drive bays in your system will have indicator lights to help indicate when data is being read/written on them and when an error might be occurring. Thankfully, there are multiple ways to determine which is the correct drive bay before pulling it out. In this article, we’ll cover two methods to turn your drive bay’s LED on.

Procedure

The following sections will provide you with the information and commands for two methods of turning on your drive bay’s LED to assist the tech support team with identifying the correct drive bay.

LEDMON – LEDCTL Method

This method involves installing the ledmon package and then using its ledctl utility. *Note: this will only work with functioning storage devices and only momentarily.

  1. Install ledmon package with your package manager (*Note: your package manager will be different here depending on which OS you’re running).
     
    sudo apt-get install ledmon
     
    sudo apt-get install ledmon
     
  2. Next, trigger the LED on the drive bay using the following command: 
     
    sudo ledctl locate=/dev/sda 
     
    *Note: In this instance “/dev/sda” is used, but this will need to be changed to the specific drive you’re turning the LED on for.
     
  3. To trigger multiple bay’s LEDs, use the following command. 
     
    sudo ledctl locate={ /dev/sda /dev/sdb }
     
    *Note: In this instance “/dev/sda” and “/dev/sdb” are used, but this will need to be changed to the specific drives you’re turning the LEDs on for.

DD Method

This method involves using the dd utility’s write capabilities. *Note: this will only work with functioning storage devices. The process involves using dd to create and write an image of a specific drive into /dev/null (which is a file/device that will discard anything that is written to it), essentially transferring data from the drive of choice into a blackhole just to force the LED light to flash.

  1. To start, begin writing data from the drive of choice using the following command:
     
    sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null
     
    *Note: the screen will not display an output but it is working as the command-line will not allow you to interact with it until the process is complete. The process will stop once the copying process is done or when ctrl+C has been pressed to cancel the process as mentioned in the next step.
     
    Screenshot showing the results of the sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null command
     
  2. Once the drive bay has been detected, cancel the operation using ctrl+C before drive removal.

– written by Pascal Suissa

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How to Set Up Monitoring in MyVelocity https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/how-to-set-up-monitoring-in-myvelocity/ Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:48:20 +0000 https://www.hivelocity.net/?post_type=hv_knowledgebase&p=20763 With MyVelocity, you can set up automatic monitoring and notifications to receive email or text alerts about the status of your servers. Read on to learn how to set up monitoring of your services within MyV by following these 5 easy steps. Setting Up Monitoring in MyV To activate monitoring for your serves, you first …

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With MyVelocity, you can set up automatic monitoring and notifications to receive email or text alerts about the status of your servers. Read on to learn how to set up monitoring of your services within MyV by following these 5 easy steps.

Setting Up Monitoring in MyV

  1. To activate monitoring for your serves, you first need to log in to your MyVelocity account using your username and password.

    Screenshot of the MyVelocity login screen

  2. On the left-hand navigation menu, select Devices

    Screenshot of the devices screen within MyVelocity

  3. Select the specific device you would like to set up monitoring on from the list of available devices.
  4. On the Device Details screen, select the option labeled Monitoring.

    Screenshot of the Device Details screen highlighting the option for Monitoring

    Screenshot of the Monitoring interface within MyVelocity

    *Note: from here you have access to set the details for monitoring the various aspects of your server, including:

    1. Protocols:
      1. TCP – select use a monitor script
      2. ICMP – select to use ping or ICMP echo test
      3. DNS – select to use a DNS query/resolution test
      4. SSL – select to use test connections using SSL/TLS
    2. IP Address
    3. Port
    4. Monitor Types:
      1. HTTP
      2. SMTP
      3. POP3
      4. IMAPV4
      5. FTP
  5. When you’ve finished setting up what you would like monitoring on, click the Add Monitor button to finalize your changes.

And there you have it!

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Hotlink protection does not work for .swf files. https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/hotlink-protection-does-not-work-for-swf-files/ https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/hotlink-protection-does-not-work-for-swf-files/#respond Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:26:29 +0000 https://kb.hivelocity.net/?p=1281 SYMPTOMS Hotlink protection is enabled on domain and .swf extension is added to the list of exceptions. However .swf files are not loaded with browser. Disabling “Show friendly HTTP error messages” option in browser allows to see Overlapped I/O operation is in progress error RESOLUTION Please download the following file: https://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Autoupdate/Windows/8.2.0/123026/hotlinkprot.dll and place it to …

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SYMPTOMS
Hotlink protection is enabled on domain and .swf extension is added to the list of exceptions.

However .swf files are not loaded with browser. Disabling “Show friendly HTTP error messages” option in browser allows to see Overlapped I/O operation is in progress error
RESOLUTION
Please download the following file:

https://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Autoupdate/Windows/8.2.0/123026/hotlinkprot.dll

and place it to %plesk_dir%\isapi folder replacing original file.

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