Difference between revisions of "Agile testbed/Cloud/Installation notes"

Revision as of 10:28, 11 February 2010

This page contains notes on the installation of the agile testbed cloud.

Install CentOS 5 bare-bones
Setup LDAP authentication (see this guide)
- add ldap to /etc/nsswitch.conf's passwd, shadow and group entries
- configure /etc/ldap.conf according to this
- make sure the DutchGrid CA certificate is in /etc/openldap/cacerts/16da7552.0 (from rpm or here)
- update /etc/pam.d/system-auth using command authconfig --enableldapauth
- create homedirs for your users as /user/<username> with correct owner
Enable Xen (see also Xen on CentOS 5)
- yum install xen kernel-xen
- make grub boot Xen kernel by default (change default in /boot/grub/menu.lst), add nosmp to kernel cmdline and reboot

Setup dynamic DNS
- install and configure bind
- create OpenNebula hooks with ddns-update script
Setup image repository

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 ** configure <tt>/etc/ldap.conf</tt> according to [[NDPFDirectoryImplementation#Example_configurations|this]]
 ** make sure the DutchGrid CA certificate is in <tt>/etc/openldap/cacerts/16da7552.0</tt> (from rpm or [http://certificate.nikhef.nl/medium/cacert.pem here])
-** add an appropriate <tt>pam_ldap.so</tt> before each <tt>pam_unix</tt> line in <tt>/etc/pam.d/system-auth</tt>
+** update <tt>/etc/pam.d/system-auth</tt> using command <tt>authconfig --enableldapauth</tt>
 ** create homedirs for your users as <tt>/user/<username></tt> with correct owner
 * Enable Xen (see also [[Xen on CentOS 5]])