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Links to detailed policies, procedures and information specific to HCoop. The resources here should allow HCoop admin team members to share information about every part of the complete system, and to allow easier training of future team members. Admins: it is recommended that you create a wiki account and subscribe to the page regex `.*` (all pages) to keep informed of what everyone is up to. Then, please document all of your work on here somewhere - that way we will not only have a record, but get emailed when it is done. will let you know all the relevant subpages. From my experience, I would recommend longer pages, instead of dividing a topic into lots of subpages. When there are too many subpages, I've found that some will be updated, and some will fall out of date. (Of course, use your judgment here.) |
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| = Sysadmin work = Links to detailed policies, procedures and information specific to HCoop. The resources here should allow HCoop admin team members to share information about every part of the complete system, and to allow easier training of future team members. The linked pages are sorted based on relevance in day to day operations. That means the current admins will most often consult pages from the top of the list, while new admins or people wishing to get familiar with the setup will start from the end and move upwards. Admins: it is recommended that you create a wiki account and subscribe to the page regex `.*` (all pages) to keep informed of what everyone is up to. Documenting your work here is recommended. = To be an admin = |
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Admin Area
This contains a list of pages that are of interest to the admins.
Links to detailed policies, procedures and information specific to HCoop. The resources here should allow HCoop admin team members to share information about every part of the complete system, and to allow easier training of future team members.
Admins: it is recommended that you create a wiki account and subscribe to the page regex .* (all pages) to keep informed of what everyone is up to. Then, please document all of your work on here somewhere - that way we will not only have a record, but get emailed when it is done.
will let you know all the relevant subpages. From my experience, I would recommend longer pages, instead of dividing a topic into lots of subpages. When there are too many subpages, I've found that some will be updated, and some will fall out of date. (Of course, use your judgment here.)
Contents
To be an admin
Sections you should read if you are interested in being an admin.
Admins and Admin Responsibilities
TaskDistribution: What each sysadmin is responsible for.
VolunteerResponsePolicy: Guidelines for responding to requests and email.
AdminArea/ListOfVolunteers who can help us do stuff...
AdminGroup: Listing of people who can delete pages and despam pages on the wiki.
Introductory material
Refer to documentation of each of the listed components. The information in our Wiki pages covers only the most basic principles, and quickly focuses on HCoop-specific setup, assuming skillset with the technology.
Planning and Records
RoadMaps: Announcements of future plans and events.
Migration2010Notes: Notes about the new server setup and way to transfer over old data
Technical Records
IpAddresses: Listing of IPs that we use.
Hardware: Information on HCoop hardware.
HcoopAddresses: Physical addresses relevant to us.
OnSiteVisits: Records of visits by HCoop volunteers to our colocation facilities
Views
Fritz.hcoop.net - Munin reports
Specific Machines
This documents machine-specific (hardware) things, or specific configuration necessary for that machine.
SetupNewMachines: How to install a machine that adheres to our policies
KvmAccess: How to use the remove KVM and avoid going on site.
- deleuze
PowerEdge2850 is about deleuze
RebootingDeleuze: Steps to take after rebooting deleuze.
- mire
RebootingMireSp: How to reboot mire using its SP interface.
- hopper
- fritz
- outpost
Services
This documents all software things that are not machine specific.
General Sysadmin
BackupInfo: Information on how to recover deleted files from our off-site backups.
DebianPackaging: How to make custom HCoop Debian packages.
InstalledSoftware lists non-debian installed software.
SystemAuthentication lists authentication
UsingResourceLimits If this is still accurate, we should move it to MemberManual area.
- Member Management
UserManagement only talks about adduser/deluser right now.
MemberFreezing: How to freeze and unfreeze members who get behind on dues
AdminUserSetup lists steps to create (blank), delete, and change passwords of admin users.
ChangingAdminPassword: How admins can change their UNIX passwords.
Specific Services
DaemonAdmin: How to set up various daemons (NOTE: many of the services below are linked from here. We should migrate the contents of this page onto the outline below.).
- AFS / Kerberos
SetupNewAfsServer: How to set up a new AFS server.
PrincipalsForNonHumans talks about kerberos for automated tasks.
- Mail
MailMan contains no information...
- Web
- DNS
ZoneTransfers is also mostly blank.
- Databases
- Backups
- Version Control
- wiki.hcoop.net
- jabber
- Other
CertificateAuthority: How to sign user SSL certificates and the like.
Historical
Pages no longer considered relevant:
SoftwareArchitecturePlans: Plans for software installation.
SystemArchitecturePlans: Plans regarding our hardware.
InstallationLog contains ancient (~2005) records of installation of software and hardware
KrunkInfoz (Krunk is out of service)