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Hi Andre! |
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Well done man! That's certainly a great job you did. |
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Here we also have some automation, but we install everything through a |
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PXE booted Gentoo and we have scripts and, where there isn't a script, |
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we have a documented installation procedure. This happens because I'm |
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also in Brazil and the servers are in The US (14 of them) and in |
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Brazil (4 of them)... |
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But, even after the installation there are a lot of information one |
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would need to troubleshoot a problem or to improve the system. Things |
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like: how are the databases replicated across servers and data |
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centers, how does the e-mail servers interact with each other and with |
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the storage, how the storage replication works, database schemes, how |
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I configured the replicated load-balancers, what is programmed to |
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happen when the system detects one server died, maintenance |
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procedures, how to upgrade all the servers in one shot, things like |
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that. |
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Somebody told-me to take a look at Microsoft Visio, I'll giving a shot |
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at that, but Microsoft Visio is not on-line (nothing is perfect, |
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right?), so if somebody here is on call at his home and something goes |
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wrong he doesn't have access to the necessary data unless I have a |
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terminal server with Visio installed on it... |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Andre Guimarães <ramoni@××××××××××××.br> wrote: |
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> Daniel, |
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> We have 21 gentoo servers here and I have the same problem, I can't trust any |
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> other to do serious configurations on the linux systems because they are |
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> still learning things.... |
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> So, I started making an automated gentoo install system to make easy for them |
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> to deploy the servers and to basic stuff via a perl shell interface, so all |
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> the configurations are made to the right files... |
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> The CD takes 15 minutes to install a complete Gentoo system and I made two |
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> pre-configured servers, for Mail and for Firewall, entirely configurable by |
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> the shell (including generating MRTG, nagios etc automagically). |
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> I made this project available, if one would like to use it. |
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> The site is: |
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> http://www.lseriesos.com |
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> I need to make clear that: |
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> - I made this for my use in my organisation, and made it available to anyone |
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> that who likes it... |
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> - The primary goal is to automate things, so I won't be called when basic |
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> things need to be configured (mails, spam rules, proxy settings), and that's |
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> why I created a perl shell with the most common options to the support people |
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> configure and I won't be afraid they screw the system, because they dont have |
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> access do a root shell prompt. |
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> Also, I'm sorry my english is not so good. |
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> On Friday 07 March 2008 10:12:29 Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote: |
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> > Hello yall! |
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> > |
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> > I tried sending this to the gluster-use ml, but didn't get any |
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> > answer... I wonder why... |
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> > Here at my company we have 18 Gentoo servers spread over 3 data |
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> > centers and our office. We have well defined and time-proven (one of |
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> > the servers was installed in 2004 and it's still the same Gentoo) |
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> > processes on monitoring, backup, applying security fixes, and |
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> > maintenance. We have almost 100% of high availability and some |
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> > services even have high availability across different data centers in |
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> > Florida and California. We are using catalyst with cfengine to save us |
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> > a few hours of work every week and everything is working great. |
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> > I would like to move forward to some other projects but most of the |
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> > knowledge (60%) required to do everything resides on my head alone. |
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> > I'm hit by a car in the streets and something might go bad, like the |
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> > required monthly database partition maintenance. |
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> > I would like to hear from the list what you are using for |
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> > infrastructure, software, processes, hardware documentation. I think I |
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> > need a system with a good user access control, an all-in-one solution |
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> > to document everything. Using Wiki+UML would solve the issue (I have |
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> > 30% already documented in wikis) but (a) none of them were designed |
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> > for this specific task and (b) they don't integrate, people would have |
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> > to use two systems that knows nothing about each other. |
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> > What are you cluster guys doing to be replaceable? |
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> > Thank you very much in advance! |
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> > Best regards, |
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> > Daniel Colchete |
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