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.

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 When there are too many subpages, I've found that some will be updated, and some will fall out of date.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.)

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).

To be an admin

Sections you should read if you are interested in being an admin.

• TipsAndTricks

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.

• AddingNewAdmins: Documented procedures for adding new admin accounts

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.

• SystemArchitecture

• DaemonFileSecurity

• DomTool

• AuthenticationScheme

• OpenLDAP

• MitKerberos

• AndrewFileSystem

• EtcKeeper

• 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

Views

• Fritz.hcoop.net - Munin reports

Specific Machines

This documents machine-specific (hardware) things, or specific configuration necessary for that machine.

• Hardware

• 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

  • HopperServiceProcessor

• fritz

  • FritzInfo

• outpost

  • OutpostInfo

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

• ResourceLimits

• 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

• AFS / Kerberos

  • SetupNewAfsServer: How to set up a new AFS server.

  • PrincipalsForNonHumans talks about kerberos for automated tasks.

• Mail

  • MailMan contains no information...

  • SpamAssassinAdmin

• DomTool

• Web

  • CertificateAuthority: How to sign user SSL certificates and the like.

• DNS

  • ZoneTransfers is also mostly blank.

• Databases
• Backups

• VersionControlAdmin

• wiki.hcoop.net

• JabberAdmin

• BugZilla

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)

  • Migration2009/SoftwareSetup

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