NDPF

Nikhef Data Processing Facility

NDPF TODO List

pending actions needed on NDPF

Voorbereiding verhuizing

Overzicht van voorbereidingen voor de verhuizing van het data center

Hardware Inventory and Connections

NDPF_Node_Functions

which node does what?? table of IPMI interfaces

NDPF_Standalone_Nodes

list of manually managed hosts

Hardware_Issues

overview of current hardware problems

NetworkDeelConnections

Network Connections in the NDPF (all routers and switches)

NDPF_OPN_Interfaces

Cabling of the OPN switches and routers

NDPF_Disk_Servers

which disk server contains what??

NDPF_DomUlist

domUs on a Dom0

NDPF H139

Layout of the cabinets in the server room

HW_X4500_MAC_20080417

MAC addresses "EasterEgg" Sun X4500 Thumpers

HooiThumpersLocation

Where is my Thumper? Physical locations per serial number

Valentine_memory

Status and information about the dram read errors on the Valentines

Agile_testbed

Management of the agile test for experimentation

OpenVPN

How to use the OpenVPN servers

Operating procedures and manuals

External_Procedures_and_Tools

a collection of links to external documentation on procedures and websites "to get things done"

GridPBX

The Grid Asterisk/Elastix service

DTConsole

The Cantankerous HoD Guide to accessing machine consoles from your Desktop

Shutting_Down_WorkerNodes

How to shutdown the worker nodes, for example when the tempearture in the server room becomes too high

WLCG_Accounting

Guide to assembling the monthly accounting summaries for WLCG

GLite on Nikhef Desktops

Guide to install the glite UI tarball for Nikhef desktop use

User Management

NDPFDirectoryImplementation

Structure of the NDPF Directory and Authorization in the NDPF

Creating_Pool_Accounts_With_LDAP

how to create poolaccounts for a new VO (or extend an existing set), or even recover from an empty gridmapdir

Adding local users

How to create a new user account.

Adding a new VO

How to add a new VO

NDPF_UidsAndGids

Uid and Gid number plan for the NDPF clusters

Grid, Quattor and Yaim

How to work with our Quattor setup

How to work with the template repository, compiling and deploying node templates

Installing updates: OS, CAs Quattor, VL-e

The procedure to download, configure and install updates for the OS via Quattor.

Upgrading Quattor managed glite servers

Information on how to upgrade Quattor managed glite servers.

Upgrading Quattor Components

Information on how to upgrade quattor components using the CVS repository on stal and the local tools for rpm management.

Maintaining_local_Yaim_functions

How to build a release of the local nikhef-yaim-* rpms and include them in the Quattor profiles.

Namespaced Quattor configuration

Documentation on the Quattor setup, including the namespaced templates

AII version 2 and complex block device schemas

How to configure complex block device schemas in Pan with AII version 2

Setting up a gLite WMS

Notes for installing and configuring a gLite WMS

LCAS and LCMAPS installation for gLExec and (GT4) gatekeepers

What to install and what/how to configure the components

Requesting or Renewing Host certificates

Guide on the procedure to request a new host certificate or renew an existing certificate

Security Operations

How to ban users with quattor

Using quattor to ban a user on WMS, CE, DPM nodes.

How to install security updates using quattor

Update single or multiple rpms which are vulnerable on quattor managed hosts.

HowToLimitSSHScans

How to limit ssh scans by blocking probing IPs using standard iptables modules on RL4 and EL5

Misc

Adding a VO to a VOMS server

How to add a new VO to a VOMS-is-evil server

Batch Systems and Scheduling

Adding/removing nodes to PBS

Information on how to add or remove nodes from PBS.

NDPFAccouting

Information on how the accounting chain works from PBS to the local and APEL accounting portals. (historic information is in Accounting).

VoViewGraphing

Creating the voview/grisview graphs on www.nikhef.nl/grid/stats, and the cron jobs that run on naab.

Systems Documentation

NDPFAlarmsSystem

handling NL-T1 alarms at Nikhef

Nagios Monitoring Setup

current setup of Nagios monitoring

NDPFSubVersion

NDPF SubVersion Repository set up

NDPFIpmiNikhefNlBindConfig

modifying the ipmi.nikhef.nl domain

NDPF rsync backup

backup of service nodes using rsync and indirect ADSM usage

NDPF MySQL configurations

Configuration and monitoring of the MySQL service on bedstee

BuildingCentOSXfsKernelModules

Building the XFS kernel modules for CentOS (if CentOS plus is late)

CricketGraphing

generating the configuration for network graphs

NDPF Dell switch config

setup and configuration of the dell switches (disabling port-fast) - required for every new installation

Nortel 4548GT switches

Luilak/Bulldozer subcluster switch documentation

Arista 7148S switches

Core switch documentation

Remote usage of the Dell console switches

How to remotely connect to the Dell console switches.

Serial Consoles

how to setup your serial (over LAN) console and IMPI 2.0 SoL stuff, even with Xen, on a PE1950

SettingLcdPanelText

how to set the LCD panel text at runtime on a Dell PowerEdge using IPMI

NDPF_Dell_OpenManage_SA_Installation

use and configuration of the chassis and other controls of the Dell (PE1950) systems

NDPF_Equinox_ELS16

documentation for the Equinox ELS-16 TS

NDPF GS environment

Grid Service (specialties) environment documentation

RAID-1 configuration and management

how to set up RAID-1 and how to manage RAID devices

SunX4500Documentation

some tidbits on the X4500 Thumpers

Increasing Thumper filesystems for DPM

recipe for increasing the logical volume, file system and making it visible to DPM

backup_umts_location

Information about the backup UMTS connection

Remote Location

Information about the remote location

Problem Recovery

Procedures to be followed when recovering from major outages. No extensive descriptions, just a list of what to do, without having to think/know much about the topic.

Restoring Services

order in which to bring services back on-line

Resurrecting kuiken

steps to restart and check the VOMS server kuiken

System Utilities

PBS_Caching_Utilities

The current LCG software can put severe load on a pbs server due to the times it calls qstat (we have seen as many as 25 qstat calls per second). This load can eventually bring the entire system to an halt. In order to reduce the impact of this problem (a full solution requires rewriting part of the grid job manager), Davide wrote a set of utilities that wrap the original pbs commands and provide caching

MoniFarm Utilities

Graphing package for farm utilisation (used to make the production graphs for the NDPF Facilities)

NDPF_VOBOX_Alice_Renewalscript

The proxy renewal wrapper script, enhanced with status info

Virtualization

Xen on CentOS 5

Installation and configuration of XEN Dom0 CentOS 5 x86_64, DomU CentOS 4 i386

Virtualisation Issues

NDPF VMware authentication

controlling and creating VMs on the central VMware server

NDPF VMware tips

tips and tricks for generating vmware images

Xen on CentOS 5 - Notes

Notes for installing and configuring a XEN System on CentOS 5

Xen on CentOS - Automating Installation-Administration

Quattor managed Xen-Dom0 and DomUs

Xen 3.2, CentOS 5.1 and NAT HOWTO

HOWTO document to set up Xen with NAT networking

Performance data and analysis

NDPF Node Performance

performance figures for nodes used for accounting purposes

NDPF Disk Performance

performance figures for disk servers

RunningSPEC

how to run the SPEC2006 and SPEC2000 suites at Nikhef, including using the Intel Compiler Suite and SmartHeap

User Security and eTokens

Using an Aladdin eToken PRO to store grid certificates

Using an Aladdin eToken PRO with grid certificates (including gridproxy generation)

User Tips and Tricks

How to control access rights for LFC/SRM files

How to control access rights to your files stored on the grid in LFC, SRM or both

Checksumming support in SRM implementations

An overview of the support for checksumming in different SRM implementations

Software development tips

How to handle OpenSSL and not get hurt

Intended for developer that use the OpenSSL library. Organized as a (collective) braindump.