Server Names
boxen -- vmware & web services
- sage -- Sage development
- mod -- number theory
- geom -- geometry, etc
- disk -- storage
New server todo list
- [wstein] BACKUPS, part -1: buy some disks for, e.g., boothby's office
- [boothby] cron usync, force users to update passwords
- [boothby] BACKUPS, part 0: Create an automated scripted rsync backup of /home/ disk to a disk boothby's office.
- [boothby] make a trac server for this list and put everything in this list in that trac server.
- (done) On the original boxen.math, do "apt-get install ntp"
- (done) Get the servers into the Math department's DNS: boxen, sage, mod, and geom. (request made 2008-12-30)
- [wontfix] Get disk.math.washington.edu into math department's dns
- (done) canonicalize ilom logins as agreed in secret meeting.
- (done) Network weirdness: ssh from geom to boxen is strangely broken. No idea why yet.
- (done) Intall ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS server x86_64 (good to April 2013) on all four compute nodes.
- (done) Install standard packages on compute nodes
sudo apt-get install g++ m4 make gfortran subversion git screen octave firefox automake autoconf emacs-snapshot flex bison libreadline-dev gdb ruby clisp gcl eclipse gimp gnupg imagemagick dvipng texlive tetex-base tetex-extra tetex-bin texmacs valgrind latex-beamer gv mencoder mercurial mplayer openoffice.org scilab sqlite sqlite-doc swig tk-dev wordnet axiom git-core zip unzip finger irssi libstdc++5 libxp-dev libreadline-dev libkpathsea-dev libpango10-dev libpango1.0-dev libperl-dev cvs libtool zsh xorg-dev mesa-common-dev mesa-utils libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-swx11-dev libglu1-mesa-dev python-mode pyrex-mode emacs-goodies-el ecb mmm-mode python-docutils libgtk2.0-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev python-wxgtk2.8 ntp vim-nox libxtst-dev manpages-dev
Note: One machine will have apache, but not all need have apache. Also, upgrade:sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Don't run the postgresql and mysql servers though, by default, since they are a security risk:wstein@dhcp160196:/etc/rc2.d$ rm *mysql* *postgres*
- (done) Install mathematica, maple, and matlab on each of geom, mod, sage, and boxen. (No magma unless somebody buys it with their grant.)
- Note: The mathematica and matlab installs use a network license server, so they are easiest. Both are out of date versions, but the Ma*'s have hardly improved in the last year, so it doesn't much matter.
- (done) [wstein] Setup vmware server on one of the boxes, and setup the following virtual machines:
- (done) 64-bit ubuntu 8.04LTS webserver TEMPLATE
- (done, nfs) 32-bit ubuntu 8.10
- (done, nfs) 64-bit ubuntu 8.10
- (done, nfs) 32-bit debian
- (done, nfs) 64-bit debian
- (done, nfs) 32-bit Mandriva
- (done, nfs) 64-bit Mandriva
- (done, nfs) 32-bit openSUSE
- (done, nfs) 64-bit openSUSE
- (done, nfs) 32-bit CentOS
- (done, nfs) 64-bit CentOS
- (done, nfs) 32-bit FreeBSD
- (done, nfs) 64-bit FreeBSD
- (done, nfs) 32-bit Fedora 10
- (done, nfs) 64-bit Fedora 10 [install seems to hang forever; maybe server is down]
(done) OpenSolaris (x86_64)
- (done) Solaris 10 (x86_64)
- Windows Vista with SUA and *remote login* via ssh -- this will be done by somebody other than William Stein.
- notebook server (sagenb.org -- already made and sitting on bsd)
- 64-bit ubuntu 8.04LTS server: web server (www.sagemath.org -- sage project)
- 64-bit ubuntu 8.04LTS server: web server (www.modform.org -- modular forms and L-functions project)
- 64-bit ubuntu 8.04LTS server: web server (wstein.org -- william stein's personal webspace)
- [wstein] For all virtual machines, create an "upgrade" command that applies all security, etc., updates. Then use some distributed shell thing, so I can run that command as root on all machiens. That way I can upgrade everybody with one command without having to login to each.
- [wstein] For all virtual machines, setup NTP (network time protocol) if it isn't already setup. Otherwise machine clocks get to be a total mess over time.
- (done) Export /home/ via NFS.
- (wontfix) [wstein] Create an NIS server that is appropriately locked down. This might just be:
- One NIS server for the VMWARE devel cluster on sage.math that is locked down to only that private subnet.
- (done) [wstein/boothby] A simple replication script for accounts on the other machines
- (DONE) Configure the remote management cards
[boothby] Configure http://groups.google.com/group/sage-comp with up-to-date information and remove old stale users. Start using the list (it has never been used before).
- (DONE) Add the grant numbers (SCREMS + FRG) that bought this hardware to *all* /etc/motd's.
- (DONE) Figure out how to make Ubuntu's /etc/motd survive a reboot (probably really easy)? ANSWER: Edit /etd/motd.last
(done-ish: delete part not done) [boothby] Setup automatic rolling snapshots of /disk/home via ZFS and explain how users can access them. This page has tons of good links to info about snapshoting, backing up, etc. ZFS data: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#ZFS_NFS_Server_Practices
(Done) Install OpenSolaris on disk.math.washington.edu.
- (done) Configure some sort of RAID and disk layout on disk.math:
- a 2 terabyte /home partition that is shared on the whole cluster and is very well backed up in numerous ways, including to offsite USB disks, maybe the department tape, etc.,
- the other 20 TB or so will be a single large partition. It will contain:
- /scratch -- all users have access to this and are encouraged to put large stuff here; not backed up.
- /db -- for large user databases that will be mainly served via the web and "computed on"; backed up on a case-by-case basis by the custodian of the data
- [wstein] Move each web service over from sagemath.org to virtual server(s) running on boxen. All wiki's must be upgraded to the latest moinmoin, to avoid crappy spam. This means we *need* to upgraded moinmoin in sage. More of the following are listed in /home2/wiki/start on sagemathorg/.
(mostly done) http://sagemath.org
- the msri wiki (possibly can migrate to a static website using wget or something)? This was used once for a summer workshop in 2006, and not again.
- wiki.sagemath.org
- wiki.cython.org
- trac.sagemath.org
- Arizona winter school wiki ("scag")
- wiki.wstein.org
- wiki.modform.org
- wiki.mpir.org
- trac.mpir.org
- Arizona winter school application form.
- (wontfix -- instead fix raid array config) ?? tune NFS speed:
- This page has a lot of info about their setup of a machine just like disk.math: