BigDataTestBedHvATI

For the HvA "Showing Real Big Data" projects an experimental environment has been configured. Within this environment (virtual) machines can be configured to host the various services of an ELK data analytics cluster (ElasticSearch, LogStash, Kibana) by the project team. It also contains a gateway/access system that permits access to the (semi-isolated) network to which the ELK cluster systems are connected. On the systems that will run the ELK cluster, and on any additional machines in the network the project team has full system-level access (root).

++- Constraints

• The team systems run CentOS6 (a rebuild of RedHat Enterprise Linux 6) - update 7.
• Auto-updating is enabled. Team systems should be updated and patched for known security vulnerabilities (also in installed software, like the ELK stack) even though the systems are placed in an isolated network (since in the future this may be a public-facing service)

• team members have root access to the team systems. If you provide your ssh public key in the NikIdM identity service (at https://sso.nikhef.nl/chsh/, the root authorized_keys files will be updated automatically within the hour. Otherwise, login as a mortal user and use the root password to set up sudo(8).