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  • From: Ian G <iang AT cacert.org>
  • To: CAcert System Administrators <cacert-sysadm AT lists.cacert.org>
  • Subject: vienna #1 progress
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:25:26 +0100
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I got a progress report from the sonance team last night on the Vienna1 machine for infrastructure VMs. Written up here:
https://wiki.cacert.org/Technology/Laboratory/Hardware/InfrastructureHost/Vienna1

Availability looks like end-Jan. Below are more live minutes from the Sonance meeting, for gossip value.

iang





Machine is running!
   * How much did we spend: euros 267 for 2 x hard drives 750G + 8G RAM
   * donated mobo
   * 4 x net card NIC has to be purchased?  will look.  7 euros each
* Resolved, (Sonance) to pay up to 300 euros to Matthias Gassner for the above costs. All Aye.
   * 80 hours invested so far by MG.
   * (Oliver starts when the apps software is installed.)

new host is christened "muppet".
   * Host is installed: debian, latest stable release 64bit.
   * (VMs can be 32 bit or 64 bit).
   * intended to set up puppet.
      - has a markup language to control and install tools and services.
   * 3 VMs installed with CentOS.
   * CentOS is a RedHat Clone
      - has the web management panel we need to replace ISPman,
      - (ISPman is the older management of services tool for Sonance)
   * management tool
      - is multi-user / multi-server
- all new to us ... was a commercial project. company crashed with a security hole ... they lost 10k customers ... when 10k customers lost their data. And an exec died in a suspicious car accident !!
      - has strange name, not rememberable
      - Last november, company (shell) decided to go open source.
      - this is all gossip!?
   * management software has 2 bugs known,
(1) security advice from company; old Apache or lite http, config blows up.
      (2) some little bugs in interface.

Tasks:
   * all servers currently have same IP# + dns,
   * on the bench at MatthiasOliverHauptBahnHof.
   * have put in users through this management interface.
     - (manages SSH access, etc)
   * next: put in domains, lists, etc through management interface
     - (all this is sonance stuff)
   * once the Sonance parts are built out, we'll pull bonanza
     - (Bonanaza is the A machine, Muppet is the B machine.)
   * rebuild bonanza ... same plan, debian / centos layering.
   * then replicate the VMs over glusterFS over 1Tb partitions on both.

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