MPU Meeting Tuesday 27th March 2012
LCFG Server Refactoring
No activity.
Simple KVM Service
The
rvirsh
script will be in this week's stable release.
A number of people at last week's UKUUG conference were able to
confirm that the theory of insufficient entropy in VMs was
false. There is a very small risk, perhaps enough to militate against
the use of VMs for KDCs, but for all other purposes the problem can be
ignored.
SL6 Server Upgrades
OpenAFS 1.6.1 has been tagged in the repository so will be released
any day now. This should make possible a functional perl-AFS module
for sl6_64.
Almost all defaults packages are now on sl6_64.
Server Hardware
Chris has started the project and started investigations.
Dell's OMSA
(OpenManage Server Administrator) software seems to have improved a
great deal - instead of being packaged in a single blob which
takes liberties with the machine's config on being installed, it's now in several dozen
discrete RPM packages which so far seem well behaved.
However the capability to perform firmware updates has been moved to a
separate product.
HP has something similar, the ProLiant Support Pack for Linux, or
PSP, which includes the
HP Smart Update Manager (HP SUM).
Miscellaneous Development
- lcfg-sleep : The sleep component in this week's stable release fixes a number of things:
- It adds sleep support for the new HP 8200.
- Some machines (e.g. 745s) didn't respond to wake.inf.ed.ac.uk but now will.
- A key press sometimes failed to wake a machine, for example where a kvm switch was in use.
- SL 6.2 : Stephen has started work on this.
- He's completed much of the
lcfg
layer and has now started work on the dice
layer.
- The
installroot
and the installbase
profiles for the two architectures have each been merged into a single cross-architecture profile.
Operational
- SL6 Login Screen : The SL6 login screen will at last have a distinct picture of its own as of next week's stable release. The following week's release will bring "64 bit" or "32 bit" comments to the login screen.
- figgy is now at KB. Alastair has tested it with the KB FibreChannel ATA-free test setup and found no problems. The intention is now to connect northern to FC at KB and use FC space to store northern's more important VMs; then move the last VMs off piccadilly and convert that.
This Week
- Alastair
-
Fix figgy nagios
-
Respond to Neil and move data to new volume
-
RT ticket 57249 re second monitor
- Inventory project
-
Boot Component - eradicate xxd xxp from our headers
- Chris
-
Merge MPUInternalProcedures with top level MPU page
-
Raise web throttling at ops meeting (discussion topic)
-
SL6 defaults list
- PD - local url shortener implementation (for not-a-service)
- Server h/w project
- Stephen
-
Roll out afs 1.6.1 and then perl-AFS module
- Start Security project at Dev meeting
-
Add SL6 epel to sauce
- Theon
-
PXE installroot - check documentation about moving link when building pxe root
-
LCFG server project finish off
-
SL 6.2
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AlastairScobie - 27 Mar 2012