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12 years, 10 months
AUTO: Danny Brennan is out of the office (returning 07/11/2011)
by Danny Brennan
I am out of the office until 07/11/2011.
I am on vacation. Please send email as I will be checking email
sporadically. If an emergency, please contact Richard Dobrzanski, IBM UNIX
ADM who is my backup for AIX issues or Alan J Meuse or Alexander Dewolf who
are my backups for Linux issues. Lisa Brosseau is my Manager and can also
be contacted for any issues regarding AIX or Linux management escalations.
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*Tomorrow* 2011-06-23 at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting" sent on 6/23/11
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12 years, 10 months
puppet01 to lockbox01 migration
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
I've installed a new instance (lockbox01, which might be an amusing
joke to folks who have been around for a while) to replace out puppet01
instance.
I'd like to look at migrating early next week sometime if possible.
Here's a tenative checklist:
1. Get new machine as ready as possible
rsync over:
/home/
/srv (excluding netapp mount points)
/git
/var/www
/var/lib/puppet
/var/lib/func
/var/lib/certmaster
2. add to nagios
3. add to backups
4. Swap IP's with puppet01
5. rsync the data one more time.
6. run puppet against old puppet01 to pick up changes.
7. reboot.
8. test:
make sure mounts come up.
make sure it's reachable from the outside.
make sure machines can see it via puppet
make sure func can talk to all machines
make sure infrastructure httpd works.
Can folks think of other places on puppet01 that have data we need to
preserve? Can you think of any other services it provides that we need
to setup on the new machine?
I'm going to try and get 1, 2, 3 done this week. Then monday or tuesday
look at doing the switchover.
Thoughts? questions? ideas?
kevin
12 years, 10 months
New RFR -- Zanata instance
by Ruediger Landmann
Hi all;
Zanata[1] is a web-based translation interface that I would like to test
on Fedora infrastructure over the next six months. You can see a running
instance at https://translate.jboss.org
I have filed an RFR[2] and would appreciate your feedback -- or better
still, your support! I feel confident that I will be able to get a
Zanata instance up and running, and that I will be able to recruit the
necessary project maintainers and translators necessary to test the
software.
If successful, Zanata could offer Fedora an opportunity to once again
host its own translation infrastructure.
Cheers
Rudi
[1] http://zanata.org/
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2834
12 years, 10 months
rsyslog/epylog reporting
by Seth Vidal
Hi folks,
On friday, due to personal irritation, I went ahead and fixed our
rsyslog config and setup epylog on our central loghost.
epylog: http://fedorahosted.org/epylog/
sample output: http://fedorapeople.org/~icon/epylog/sample-report.html
I setup a merged-log location in /var/log/merged on log02. I also setup
a logrotate job which will rotate those files once a day and only keep
one additional day's worth of those logs. These are just a duplicate
output of the logging we have in the per-host directories currently, so
there is no need to keep them for any amount of time.
Right now epylog runs once a day but that may change to a couple of
times a day or more, just until we get a handle on what cruft needs to
be removed.
I merged all logs from all hosts into one merged log file, however, I
think it might be worthwhile to consider breaking these out a bit more
into sets of hosts. Suggestions on this are welcome.
If you're not familiar with epylog, it takes a set of logs and parses
them and collates results across multiple hosts to present a smaller set
of output of important events and remove all the noise and cruft. Then
it also includes a set of items which were not ignored and were not in
the parsed set. Right now, we still have a lot of crap in the unparsed
logs section but we've been working diligently on reducing that noise.
In the future we'll be working on some additional epylog modules to
clean up more of our noise and provide better results. Items that need
some more love:
- the mail/postfix module in epylog needs some more cleanup -
alternatively we could not do mail log parsing and let pflogsumm handle
it.
- an rsync module I wrote years ago would be useful for our epylog
instance
- a sudo-watching module to dump out in a nice layout all sudo commands
run anywhere
- updating spamd module to get the newer spamassassin outputs
- fixing the login/sshd module to see pam_unix(sshd:*) properly
- nagios overview-module:
X alerts today
X failures today, etc, etc
other ideas?
-sv
12 years, 10 months
Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Luciano Facchinelli
by Luciano Facchinelli
Hi everyone!
I'm new in this mailing list so i'll do a little FAQ about myself so you
can know me better
Whats your name?
My name is Luciano Andres Facchinelli De Leon , but you can just call me
Luciano.
Where are you from?
Montevideo, Uruguay (GMT-3)
And you work at?
I'm part of Unix/Linux sysadmin Team of an American company.
Administrating Fedora/Red Hat/Suse/AIX Servers.
Why are you joining this team?
I'm here to learn, and help this project.
Why i'm saying that? because i'm completely sure that i'll learn A LOT,
and obviously i'll help as much as i can!
IRC Nickname?
Virusuy@Freenode
in fact, i'm at #fedora-admin channel right now
How many time can you spend in this team?
Around 20 hrs per week
So, guys, it's a honor be here.
Hope to find some mentor to guide me through the process of beign a
ifrastructure's team member.
See you around
12 years, 10 months
Hello, and Introductions
by Jayson Rowe
Good Evening,
I sent an e-mail yesterday after reading an article in the Fedora
Newsletter which made me realize that this may be an area where I can
help the Fedora project and gain some additional experience. At
Kevin's (nirik) invitation, I joined the IRC meeting today. So, here
is a formal introduction e-mail:
Name: Jayson Rowe
IRC Handle: jayson_r
Twitter: jayson_r
Skills: I've been using Linux since Red Hat 6.1. I used Red Hat/Fedora
exclusively until right before FC3 came out, and I got into Slackware,
which I ran until Ubuntu came out (I think I switched around 5.10) - I
ran Kubuntu until KDE 4.0 came out, and I distro-hopped around a bunch
of GNOME distro's (including Fedora and Ubuntu for a while) until I
came back "home" to Fedora starting around Fedora 7 (right before 8
came out). I still use Ubuntu some - have some Ubuntu boxes at work,
but I've come to really prefer the Red Hat way of doing things, and I
definatly prefer having Fedora on my personal workstation. We also
have some CentOS boxes at work as well. I am running Fedora 15 w/
GNOME 3 at the moment.
I am a what my company calls a senior "Netwok Administrator", but in
the rest of the world's terms, I'm really more of a Systems
Administrator, since I mostly take care of our servers. and I'm also
our company's Telecom Admin, managing our Avaya S8730 switch (which
runs a Red Hat kernel, 2.6.18, so based on RHEL5.x), and
administration on our 150 seat Call Center. When I moved up from a PC
Technician, we were a 100% Windows shop, but I have slowly started
running Linux where I can (and where it makes sense). We also use Xen
for virtualization, but we use the "pre-packaged" Citrix XenServer (as
well as other Citrix products such as XenApp and XenDesktop, which
have nothing to do with Xen, other than the App boxes are running on
Xen hosts).
My company is ACS Technologies (http://www.acstechnologies.com) and we
are based in Florence, SC and create software used by Churches,
Schools and other Non-profit organizations. We recently purchased a
new company based out of Seattle called "The City"
(http://www.onthecity.org/) which much to *my* delight is a decidedly
non-MS shop - their stuff is written in Ruby, and runs on Linux
(Ubuntu and CentOS) servers.
The Linux boxes we have at ACS are mostly SVN, Git (since we acquired
The City), Confluence, Jira, Postfix relay servers and DNS servers.
The Citrix XenServer hosts really run CentOS behind the scenes as
well. I know Windows server admin stuff like the back of my hand, and
especially since we acquired The City, I need/want to learn more Linux
server admin skills. Up to this point, besides the servers I
mentioned, most of my Linux skills have centered around running my own
boxes at home. The City has a Linux Git server out in Seattle, which I
inherited, so learning Git admin would be a huge benefit to me, as
well as the Ruby stack, and LAMP stack (their www site is running on
Apache/CentOS). I've always been the "this isn't running Windows, give
it to Jayson" guy at work, so I really want to take this opportunity
to follow my passion at work. I'm also the lone Mac user in my IT
department, having a MacBook on my desk along w/ a desktop running
Fedora (although I have a XenDesktop virtual running Win7 for my
Windows only apps).
I can devote at least a couple of hours in the evening from 9-11
(eastern) most days, and I can do some "side work" for Fedora from my
regular job - my bosses see this as an opportunity to learn and grow,
so I have their blessings, as long as it doesn't get in the way of my
work.
There may be a lot for me to learn, but I'm willing to jump in and
learn, and I'd love being an apprentice with you guys, and hopefully
join the team officially one day. I have bookmarked the Active Tickets
page (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/1) and
will look through and see if there is anything I can help with, and I
look forward to hearing more from you all.
Thanks for the opportunity to learn, and help!
Jayson
(sorry for rambling)
12 years, 10 months
Upcoming onsite at phx2 tasks
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
In early July, Smooge and I will be out in phx2 to do some on-site
tasks.
I've created:
~kevin/2011-07-11-phx2-onsite-tasks on puppet01 to capture the tasks we
are hoping to do while out there. (also added to the end of this
email). I'm open to suggestion on a better place to put this. It
doesn't belong in puppet, the infrastructure repo requires
sysadmin-devel to commit, should it be a wiki page?
Please let me know if you think of other things, or
processes/procedures we can use to make things go smoothly.
kevin
--
Smooge and Kevin will be on site at phx2 2011-07-11 to 2011-07-14.
We would like to prioritize and list all tasks we should get done there
in order to maximize our time there.
See this list as well as:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/report/12
In order of priority/importance:
- Inventory
label machines/connections
check serial/pdu/console connections/labels
pictures front/back at end of trip.
- Specific machines:
Find and turn off db03's hw
Find and turn off xen13's hw (unless it's now virthost13 or whatever)
find bvirthost01's hw and mgmt console's ip b/c it doesn't seem to exist
Find ppc04 and remove it or replace it.
- New backup server and tape drive setup.
Can we keep the old one around for a while?
bacula upgrades for all machines needed.
- Tapes
Pull bad/dead tapes, replace with new.
- Community network setup/QA move.
Tenatively scheduled for 6pm on the 12th.
- Pull powered off machines from rack
ones recent enough, setup in community rack.
others junk pile
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