Sysadmin

Machines and Brief Descriptions of Services

CS Machines

HOME (vm0)

Users SSH NFS

NET (vm1)

LDAP server DNS DHCP

WEB (vm2)

Mailman Mail Stack Apache2 PostgresQL MySQL Wiki

TOOLS (vm3)

SageNB Server Jupyterhub Server Software Modules NginX

BABBAGE

Firewall

PROTO

Weather Monitoring GPS/NTP Energy Monitoring

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Cluster Machines

HOPPER

Users SSH NFS Software Modules PostgresQL Wiki Apache2 DNS DHCP

DALI

Gitlab Backups NginX

AL-SALAM

WebMO Software Modules Apache2

LAYOUT

Jupyterhub Server Software Modules NginX Apache2 WebMO

BRONTE

Software Modules

POLLOCK

Software Modules WebMO NginX

Systems Administration Documentation

Most of these things below are OLD

Works in Progress To do before Fall 13 starts Handbook (WIP) Temporary Page for Wiki Adjustment Upgrading FreeBSD Fail2Ban on FreeBSD Running Nessus Things to check when things go down Aaron's How-To Pages Son's "Cook" Pages Setting up Lovelace Lab Machines

Admin Tasks Add a computer NEW Shutdown/Start NEW Nagios Backup (needs to be updated after new setup) Contacting all users Welcoming a new sysadmin to the fold RT Ticketing Add a computer

Services Apache2 Databases DNS and DHCP Email LVM User Management NFS Printers Sage System Imager Trac + svn Virtualization ZFS NEW New Xen Server

Servers Physical Servers Virtual Servers and Jails Service Chart Monitoring Quark Forty-two Lovelace Proto Retired Servers

ACL Workstations ACL Installation procedure ACL Package Information ACL Locations Software for Chemistry ACLs Proposed ACL Update policy NEW Run Command on all ACLS

Networking Network Layout (as of 08/2006) D224 cable plant Fiber plans Switches Rack notes Public Network Old Network Topo Figures Network layout (May 2007) Alt Network path Sysadmin:UPS Setup

Miscellaneous Contact Information Phone Numbers Web Sites Authentication Information Power Failure UPS Generating SSL Certificates Power draws Working with Sun Hardware Sysadmin:Passwords Patching Linux Kernel Patching FreeBSD Kernel Patching Cable Ends NEW Virtualization Comparison

Admins pages

• Vitalli
• James
• Bret
• Eamon
• Wilson

Sysadmin Responsibilities

This is the basic list of tasks that Earlham CS system administrators are in charge of.

Responsibilities	Wilson	Eamon	Vitalii	James	Bret
Install software on Debian (ACL)
Install software on FreeBSD (servers)
Being able to edit wiki
Virtual Machine
Make a CS user account
Change users CS password
Add DNS & DHCP entry
Make a CS wiki account
Add people to different groups (ldap)
Modification and maintenance of Nagios
DD a new ACL image
Set up a new ACL
Shut down / start up of the entire machine room
Creating and configuring mailing lists (electron)
Admin list moderating
Backups and restore (bacula)
Create and configure jails
VMware

Sysadmin basic Training

This is the list of skills that our System Administrators are trained during their orientation.

Training Sections	Wilson	Eamon	Vitalii	James	Bret
Wiki Editing
Installing operating systems (Debian and FreeBSD), including single-user mode
Installing packages
*nix Filesystem layout
Command line tools including I/O redirections and pipes
TCP, UDP and ICMP packets, including 3-way handshake
Ports
DNS
DHCP
Network debugging tools (tcpdump, ping, traceroute, netstat)
Simple shell scripting
Jails

Old Documentation