Here I am keeping trace of the work I am doing on the cluster, for everybody to track progress.

The logs can be read top to bottom from the most recent change to the newest.

— Florido Paganelli 2014/06/12 19:19

• shared each node's tmp folder in /nodestmp/<nodename> documentation about it needs to be written

— Florido Paganelli 2014/06/02 17:40

• updated and rebooted nptest and pptest
• installed quantum espresso and RTE
• updated salt configuration:
  • software needed by Nuclear Physics
  • module configuration for custom modulefiles
  • motd and banner
• gitted and backed up salt config

— Florido Paganelli 2014/04/28 19:33

• updated arc interface grid certificate
• joined NorduGrid Sweden indexes
• configured syslog installation. Needs tweaking of hostname on nodes with multiple interfaces. These nodes do not have special configuration in salt yet.

— Florido Paganelli 2014/03/21 21:00

• made so many changes that I couldn't keep track of. Now testing nodes are fully accessible from the internet.
• rewrote documentation for the cluster.

— Florido Paganelli 2014/03/17 20:39

• added network configuration for n1 (nptest-iridium) and n2 (pptest-iridium)
• rebooted nodes, now accessible from the internet. eth0 shut down awaiting for iptables config
• todo: block access to other nodes, only allow course users, disable slurm, configure iptables

— Florido Paganelli 2014/03/14 18:00

• added sshd configuration for n1 and n2, only me and maintenance user can access
• added envvars for umask
• changed motd

— Florido Paganelli 2014/03/10 17:19

• updated salt-master on service-iridium due to incompatibilities with newer minions
• created two simple queues in slurm
• reconfigured all slurm nodes
• reconfigured arc frontend

— Florido Paganelli 2014/03/07 17:23

• installed terena certificate on frontend.
• configured nordugrid VOMS server

— Florido Paganelli 2014/02/21 10:26

• installed and configured arc. Job sumbission with emi-es a failure, but maybe ARC 4.1 will solve all.
• configured arc with slurm and cache; however would be better to have two grid users (one for each division) and two queues.

— Florido Paganelli 2014/02/18 13:55

• installed salt on arc-iridium
• installed other trustanchors on arc-iridium
• configured firewall (still needs cleanup)
• installed and configured munge, slurm, autofs, nfs

— Florido Paganelli 2014/02/17 19:07

• installed NG repos on arc-iridium and trustanchors
• configured a-rex using instantca
• initiated process of requesting host cert
• asked Lunarc to open ports for ARC services

— Florido Paganelli 2014/02/11 18:29

• updated hep-srv reboot didn't work, help request submitted to Lunarc.
• installed epel on arc-iridium
• installed ARC on arc-iridium
• installed munge on arc-iridium

— Florido Paganelli 2014/02/07 18:31

• rebooted service-iridium
• updated and rebooted ssh gateway
• updated and configured arc-iridium

— Florido Paganelli 2014/02/04 18:31

• rebooted kvm-iridium
• created arc-iridium machine
• updated kvm-iridium to Centos6.5
• cloning disk for arc-iridium
• started service-iridium update

— Florido Paganelli 2014/01/31 16:02

• finalized slurm installation
• fixed several iptables and munge issues
• rebooted all nodes

— Florido Paganelli 2014/01/30 17:45

• finished configuring SLURM, tests started
• copied ssh keys
• updated git
• updated iptables configuration for all nodes
• changed anaconda scripts (to be tested!) to include ssh key retrieval

— Florido Paganelli 2014/01/29 16:55

• installed 'SLURM' from FGI repositories maintained by Tiggi. This slurm is built withouth MPI support and with mysql and lua support
• updated roadmap

— Florido Paganelli 2014/01/28 17:28

• added 'MUNGE' to all nodes incl. 'service-iridium'. Not clear where the frontend should run, but I would say on the same machine that runs ARC. that means it has to share the secret key.
• generated the secret key on 'service-iridium'.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/11/07 14:03

• applied package adds to all nodes
• updated software package for HEP in salt/common
• updated salt config to create directories in /nfs, applied to all nodes
• restarted salt-minion on all nodes

— Florido Paganelli 2013/11/06 17:42

• updated roadmap
• added few packages to service-iridium /srv/salt/common/init.sls

— Florido Paganelli 2013/09/20 18:12

• CPUs shipped by SouthPole have been replaced by Compliq on the frontend. Cluster Up and Running again.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/09/20 15:19

• checked serial number on frontend.
• Waiting for compliq to substitute faulty CPUs; the frontend has been shut down.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/22 12:40

• created users home folders on storage-iridium
• reconfigured storage-iridium NIS
• changed tjatte setup
• updated testing phase purposes on howtos_users
• sent update emails

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/21 21:48

• configured gateway restricted shell
• added new users to the cluster
• solved issue with password change. Passwords cannot be changed by users now, :TODO: solve this security issue using PAM on all machines.
• added missing users to tjatte for testing round
• written documentation on howtos_users

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/20 17:48

• morning meeting with Pico to sort out some technicalities. Decisions: change the way direct login is done. Have a limited shell gateway.
• Afternoon meeting with e-Science group: set new roadmap
• Redesigned cluster web pages

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/19 21:14

• got answer from Lunarc. New plan will come after tomorrow's internal meeting with the Lund e-Science group.
• started writing information on how to use testing nodes in howtos_users

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/16 18:58

• configured clusterip mode for load balancing between testing nodes n1 and n2
• added SALT configuration for clusterip (needs more work, awaiting for Luis)
• changed atlas.sh
• configured kvm-iridium to forward to CLUSTERIP
• automated salt-call execution at boot time for each node. Node configures itself and reboots at installation time.
• tested cvmfs on Centos6, seems to work
• reinstalled n1 with cvmfs
• run some tests with cvmfs runKV for missing libraries etc. on n1. Dump is in pflorido user folder.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/14 20:23

• finalized cvmfs configuration for sl6. needs to be tested on centos6
• added profile.d scripts for atlas environment initialization

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/13 18:41

• nfs configuration changed to nfs4 for SALT keys distribution
• sl6 installation automation script set up.
• decisions on how to move Nuclear Physics data into the cluster have been taken: access to a single node of the cluster enabled to allow Luis to start tests. Open access to other researchers requires Lunarc intervention.
• checked some items in Fixmes

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/12 18:27

• finalized nfs4 configuration on storage.
• created autofs salt configuration.
• created NIS salt configuration
• versioned salt folder with git.
• started cvmfs salt automatic configuration
• changed partitioning scheme on sl6 nodes to accomodate cvmfs. This triggered creation of a sl6 kickstart file.
• testing sl6 kickstart file

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/09 18:00

• reconfiguring NFS shares to be compliant with nfs4.
• meeting w Luis on SALT operations
• preliminary discussion on dataset and software deployment.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/07 17:31

• added SALT iptables configuration on service-iridium
• created auto.master and auto.home NIS maps for automatic configuration of mounts. This is probably better done with salt with proper auto.home configuration on each node.
• changed auto.master to include NIS auto.home to n2 for automatic configuration of mounts.
• added information on how to install autofs and cernvmfs on the wantedpackagesonnodes page
• writing documentation on how to add new users. Discovered an issue with autofs setup.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/06 18:45

• better NFS configuration on storage-iridium.
• meeting with Luis on ssh host key sharing
• configuration of storage-iridium and NFS for secure key sharing

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/05 19:10

• installed Frontier-Squid on storage-iridium.
  • the setup needed special SELinux configuration along the lines of what is explained here: http://grokbase.com/t/centos/centos/111zyzd2n0/squid-and-selinux
  • changed firewall to enable squid proxy access
  • created atlas.sh script on n2 to enable atlas environment.
  • configured NIS, nfs, ntpd, on n2 and reported what to configure in the wanted packages page
  • enabled reverse DNS zone on service-iridium in order for anaconda installed to setup node hostnames.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/02 18:20

• cloned sdb1 and sdb3 from kvm-iridium virtimages pool with dd to storage-iridium /export/backupimages/. Attempt to use 'virsh vol-download' failed: it took one day to transfer 2GB. Let's not do that anymore
• removed sdb4 partition on kvm-iridium virtimages(can't remember why was there)
• restarted sshgateway(iridium) and service-iridium
• configured kickstart to install SL6
• installed SL6 on n2
• set up a specific partition for cernvmfs
• installed cernvmfs
  • squid proxy needed for operations.
• fixed an issue with service-iridium hosts file, had wrong IP address

— Florido Paganelli 2013/08/01 15:16

• enabled Luis on hep-monitor
• issues with virtualization layer, storage management. Hypervisor machine updated and restarted.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/31 16:30

• enabled a user for Luis on hep-srv and NIS to login to nodes
• meeting with Luis to plan configuration with SALT. Plan rescheduled.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/31 11:35

• reconfigured all machines to use second network card for boot
• started kickstart CentOS6 installation on n2,n3,n4

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/29 16:52

• created a user and a vnc server instance for Luis
• reconfigured hep-srv to be able to resolve internal hostnames
• started experiencing with kickstart

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/26 17:08

• finished configuring named DNS on service-iridium. Now nodes can find other machines.
• issue with hep-srv: probably broken network config. Sent email to Rickard and Robert from Lunarc.
• configured n1 to correctly join the domain
• port-forwarded one of the nodes (n1)

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/25 18:24

• installed centos6 on node 1 (n1). Corrected remote iso issue.
• installed and configured nis and nfs shares on n1. Corrected various dhcp server errors.
• started installing named DNS server on service-iridium. Issues in configuration.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/24 18:29

• installed dhpc server on service-iridium
  • DONE: nodes BIOS setup must be changed, the default ethernet boot is not the configured one.
  • DONE: ethernet addresses needs to be updated in dhcp server.
  • DONE: issues in dispatching dns must be solved. Maybe installing bind or dnsmasq.
• installed PXE booting system on service-iridium
• installed tftp server on service-iridium. Issues with selinux.
• changed storage-iridium iptables to serve nfs folders
• created a directory for boot images on storage-iridium
• successfully booted a node for installation. A mirror of Centos6 is needed to complete the install via nfs

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/23 18:07

• created xfs filesystem on 30TB storage
• created directories to be shared among nodes
• set up quotas as discussed with Luis. A defined description of quotas must be added to the cluster description document.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/22 18:39

• profiling storage usage after meeting w Luis
• understanding xfs features
• understanding logical volume management basics. LVM2 will be used.
• created logical volumes on 30GB storage
• quotas will be managed by xfs on folders. To be done.

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/10 16:39

• understanding Cernvm-fs deployment
• planning storage server space allocation
• updating documents

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/08 16:34

• configured storage server storage-iridium operating system. Storage disks need configuration, will be done once CERNVM is understood. TODO: use of xfs, configuration of 10GB interface
• updated pictures in Tech_documents

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/05 17:53

• configured service machine service-iridium
• configured iptables and NAT routing on sshgateway
• configured NIS server on service-iridium
• configured NIS client on sshgateway
• configured iptables for NIS on service-iridium

— Florido Paganelli 2013/07/02 13:54

• Setup wiki to keep track of progress
• Created a machine sshgateway iridium.lunarc.lu.se to be used as main ssh gateway and to host some of the services.
• Configured frontend kvm-iridium machine networking to be ready for hosting.

I decided to collect s here because it was difficult to track them down when spread across logs.

• autofs is mounting everything as nobody:nobody user as if it was all_squash set. Check how to solve. SOme say is idmap solved by setting NIS domain name to iridium and having storage-iridium joining the NIS domain. I guess nis domain names are forwarded from nfs4 to clients.
• document squid setup better! especially custom selinux modules.
• squid proxy access should be limited to nodes
• Optionally install a second failover squid on service-iridium.
• better iptables configuration on all nodes and servers based on -m state rules. Done on
  • iridium
  • storage-iridium
  • kvm-iridium (complex due to kvm)
  • service-iridium only for tcp connections. Check what to do for udp.
• check xfs selinux rules on storage-iridium, added with chcon might disappear :( probably needs module creation as squid.
• Mixed config for NFS3/NFS4. Would be better to use nfs4 and limit portmapper to NIS.
• needs stronger authorization check on portmap/rpcbind services (i.e. hosts.allow on all machines) to be done in NIS SALT
• update page wantedpackagesonnodes with current salt configuration.
• generation and distribution of host keys on the nodes at deployment time is needed. Might be done as Luis did for SALT.
• change default user groups in the cluster for all users and in documentation
• investigate on-demand vm creation
• change NIS passwd change system. disable yppaswd on all nodes. For the moment being shut down yppasswdd on service.
• salt should check if a group is installed. This will speedup things.
• sort out why dhcp won't renew after trying for long time.
• add CA certificates to all machines. Probably storage server to share certs would do the trick and need only one crl check in place.
• define a proper time when node update
• disable cvmfs autoupdate
• salt-minion do not restart after upgrade. Find means to force it. salt-command might jam if done that way:

  salt -v 'n5.iridium' cmd.run "service salt-minion restart"