Next firmware has been tested and is slated for release on 6/5/14, It will contain a few updates including the DALA # 5 & New XLR Update.
Will give more details as we get the release notes.
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Next firmware has been tested and is slated for release on 6/5/14, It will contain a few updates including the DALA # 5 & New XLR Update.
Will give more details as we get the release notes.
its nice to see a supplier give actual release dates and info about what the update is for.
Awesome! Thanks again for all of the work being put in
ALP Update website still seems to be down... :(
Yes, As soon as it comes back online everyone will be able to download the updates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Qui-Gon
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Any news ?
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Sorry, The ALP Update Site has nothing to do with me. I am waiting along with the rest of you guys. When its back online you will be able to download the latest update.Quote:
Originally Posted by TOMMYJR9
Thanks for the update :) I don't think we're personally blaming you for it being down, we're just looking forward to the new firmware.Quote:
Originally Posted by BestRadarDetectors
Is it being attacked?
LOL silly
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I honestly dont know what happened. When I asked what happened I was told the server that ran the update site went down and had to be replaced. What happened to the server I dont know. I am still hoping the new server will be up later today. If it was as simple as emailing everyone an update I would but the site actually issues software specific updates specific to each users serial numbers. I am waiting with the rest of you guys to update my other 2 ALP units I run.Quote:
Originally Posted by RigToFly01
I need my fix ?
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may be they have invented a cloaking device, :highly_amused: at least we still have a good working system until they uncloak ;)
They don't have a backup server?
Server is still down :(
The Dragon did some voodoo on the server
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To be fair, the main web server appears to be up (it's still serving static PDF's like the ALP Connect manual correctly). I presume it's whatever they use to run the web app that generates firmware files mated to your controller and whatnot that's actually down. I've seen plenty of bigger organizations with worse single points of failure in their cloud/web infrastructure.Quote:
Originally Posted by radargeek
Server got served.
Do you mean operational ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Won Hunglo
At http://www.alpupdate.com/
I still get ''we will be back soon''
Not that i complain because i understand ultra-sophisticated systems can be very hard to fix .
still down for me--looks like it will have to happen tomorrow!
Why u no cluster server or use backup like rsync to backup server....
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I don't think it's as trivial as that to set up additional instances of their web app that generates setup.alp files or produces firmware tailored to your CPU. We have no knowledge about what part of their infrastructure went down. As I said, the static files on alpupdate.com are still up. It's something in the backend that failed. And HA clustering is not trivial to integrate with your apps, and nor is rsync a valid or coherent way to back up a web app atomically to an alternate server, nor is it always a simple job to restore from such an archive of a working website.Quote:
Originally Posted by beingaware
Note that I'm not really defending the downtime either. It's horribly disruptive to ALP customers. We now can't change any nontrivial on our ALP setup because they decided the most logical way to generate config files is via a website that's now down. However, it is one of my pet peeves in the tech world that internet commenters tend to overly trivialize running infrastructure and believe they know how to run it better than others.
Not really.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdong
I have Exchange, AD, FS, SQL, TMG all cluster on VMware ESX across two datacentres.
It can even blow out core switches and keep on trucking.
The staff don't even notice as its seemless.
Web is much easier to sync and sql is pretty easy compared to other services :).
Using VSS and then pushing those up with something like EMC is very easily doable for having quick turn around on backup of a failed box.
Blow up a new vm, hell have a hot stand by image.
Drop the last snapshot onto it, and bang, you are back online in less then 15 minutes.
my biggest pet peev is companies that fail to invest even a few thousand on HA and then either;
A, whinge they had a failure, then press on the helpdesk guys to hurry us Admins up.
B, take forever to come back online if out sourced
or
C, affecting customer bases. (again out sourced).
Kind regards,
Beingaware,
CCNP R&S, Voice, Datacentre, ASA
VCP5-DCV
RHCSA
MCITP 2008/2012
ITILv3
B.Sc
We done with our pissing match?
No pissing match going on here. I'm sure this is a very affordable setup for a company that sells a handful of laser jammers to enthusiasts that they work on. This may shock you but not everyone working on LIDAR jamming is a cloud/virtualization/web guru or decides that it's worth their money to hire one.Quote:
Originally Posted by beingaware
I do agree with you that they should have done a better job at keeping their site up. But we still have no clue what exactly broke in their setup, so this is all speculation.
jdong,
Software/firmware/kernel engineer who spends all day working with people who are not software inclined but think that they are, whose EE and mathematics intellect fly way over my head so I can't claim I can do their job either....
Haha, you must work with engineers :).Quote:
Originally Posted by jdong
And AL is pretty large in Europe and over here in Australia, I am sure they could afford the configuration.
If some of my SMB clients can, I am sure AL can.
I am indeed. And an engineer who does some infrastructure stuff in his spare time, who knows all and well that it's not my strong suit and I'd never trust something I'm put in charge of maintaining. But it seems like more and more businesses "trying out" the whole web infrastructure thing see that their (other types of) engineers are able to seemingly produce a functioning web server. They just declare "mission accomplished" there, and engineers gravitate back to doing their own favorite form of engineering and the infrastructure suffers until something goes horribly wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by beingaware
Oh well, I think I'm preaching to the choir now. People like you let people like me get along with our day to day work :)
Indeed, I have 5 developers in my team who cry anything skips a beat haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdong
The company I work for does a mostly HA network deployments along with 2 factor auth/proper security implementations etc for SMB, and gov (mostly airlines, mining, and gov).
I was given my own budget to go nuts with out own Internal network and our own MPLS for our customers, so I did. :).
Since the new system went in place, we have had not one outage :).
Hardware has failed/servers have had hiccups, but the end users are none the wiser...
geeez you guys got me well and truly lost :adoration:, but good reading while we wait, think it makes it worse lack of info,
Well it's back but doesn't look like the update is available yet.
just say's back soon for me, big white page
just refreshed page cleared cache yep ur correct dragons :)
New server has been brought online.
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Yeah we already established that :PQuote:
Originally Posted by BestRadarDetectors
Now where's our update? **Stomps foot**
Update is online.... Just because they did not update the text does not mean its not online. Download and update and install... You will get 4.3.6Quote:
Originally Posted by dragons
Sweet!
This will not happen again. Backup plan is being implemented. Its the first time we were late on an update and it was only 4 hours late but still upsetting that we missed the promised date. Stuff happens that is out of your control and you learn from it, make the needed changes and keep moving forward. In any case the update is online so download it, install it and have the most protection available from any laser defense company.Quote:
Originally Posted by beingaware
Downloaded and updated but 4.3.5 still comes up on stats
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Same here.
Are you sure you installed the correct file? If you already had a download on your computer it would have renamed it SerialNumber(1) or something similar. You need to rename it to SerialNumber.BinQuote:
Originally Posted by 64pvolvo1800
Attachment 2085
Yes. I rename it each time. I tried to save to USB and it fails too.
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