infrastructure June 2011

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AUTO: Danny Brennan is out of the office (returning 07/11/2011)
by Danny Brennan 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

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. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Re: Meeting *Tomorrow* 2011-06-23 at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting" sent on 6/23/11 8:48:43. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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AUTO: Danny Brennan is out of the office (returning 07/11/2011)
by Danny Brennan 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

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. Note: This is an automated response to your message "RE: Meeting *Tomorrow* 2011-06-23 at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting" sent on 6/23/11 7:01:10. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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RE: Meeting *Tomorrow* 2011-06-23 at 19:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting
by Gareth Marchant 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

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puppet01 to lockbox01 migration
by Kevin Fenzi 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

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

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New RFR -- Zanata instance
by Ruediger Landmann 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

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

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rsyslog/epylog reporting
by Seth Vidal 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

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

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Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Luciano Facchinelli
by Luciano Facchinelli 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

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

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Hello, and Introductions
by Jayson Rowe 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

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)

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Meeting *TODAY* 2011-06-16 at 1900 UTC in #fedora-meeting
by Kevin Fenzi 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow 2011-06-16 at 1900 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network. Suggested topics (suggested by whom): * New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks * Upcoming Tasks/Items (nirik) * Post release housecleaning tasks https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure_post_release_housekeeping * Upcoming on-site phx * FPCA deadline * Meeting tagged tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/query?status=new&status=assi… Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a note replying to this thread. More info here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings Thanks

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Upcoming onsite at phx2 tasks
by Kevin Fenzi 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

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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