Admin Area
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.
Contents
To be an admin
Sections you should read if you are interested in being an admin.
Admins: it is recommended that you watch the changes RSS feed 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 everyone gets notified about what is going on. Alternatively, you can create a wiki account and subscribe to the page regex .* (all pages).
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.See DaemonDocumentation for links to the official documentation for the softare powering our core infrastructure.
Code - Details of HCoop-specific code kept in git.hcoop.net
Planning and Records
ToDo: Both short term and longer term meta-planning.
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
Specific Machines
This documents machine-specific (hardware) things, or specific configuration necessary for that machine.
InstallationProcedure: how to install a machine that adheres to our policies
SetupNewMachines: The old guide to installing 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.
DebianArchive: Our local debian mirror for distributing custom packages
ConfigurationManagement: How we manage system wide configuration
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.
AddingNewAdmins: Documented procedures for adding new admin accounts
ChangingAdminPassword: How admins can change their UNIX passwords.
Specific Services
We've recorded some special instructions, hints, etc., for daemons with non-standard configuration.
- AFS / Kerberos
SetupNewAfsServer: How to set up a new AFS server.
PrincipalsForNonHumans talks about kerberos for automated tasks.
- Mail
MailMan contains no information...
- Web
CertificateAuthority: How to sign user SSL certificates and the like.
WebServicesAdmin: How to administer hcoop provided web services
- DNS
ZoneTransfers is also mostly blank.
- Databases
- Backups
- wiki.hcoop.net
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)
Migration2009 (never happened, staying at Peer1 was a better choice after all)