My PLC installation for Orbit
Relevant Infomation
Installation documented at here.
MyPLC Varibles
| <base_os> | Fedora 12 |
| <myplc_distribution> | planetlab-f12-i386-5.0 |
| <myplc_baseurl> | http://build.planet-lab.org/planetlab/f12/pl-f12-x86_64-5.0-k32-rc-20/RPMS/ |
| <myplc_root_user> | root |
| PLC_ROOT_USER | root@… |
| PLC_ROOT_PASSWORD | 0r1b1TPLC |
| <myplc_root_password> | 0r1b1TPLC |
| <myplc_support_email> | plc-admin@… |
| <myplc_host> | myplc.orbit-lab.org |
| <myplc_dns1> | 165.230.183.34 |
| <myplc_dns2> | 165.230.172.34 |
| <public_site_name> | myplc.orbit-lab.org |
| <public_site_shortname> | myplc |
| <public_login_base> | orbit |
| <myplc_deployment> | bootstrapfs-planetlab-f12-x86_64.tar.bz2 |
| <site_latitude> | 40.468133,40°28'5.28"N |
| <site_longitude> | -74.445581,74°26'44.09"W |
| <sfa_git_tag> | XXXXX Pls. check what is the latest SFA git tag |
VM information
| VM MAC | 00:11:22:EE:EE:09 |
| VM FQDN | myplc.orbit-lab.org |
| VM IP | 10.50.0.67 |
| Vnc COnsole | External3:9 |
| VM img location | /root/vm_imv/myplc.img |
| VM start up script | /root/start_myplc |
| Host VNC port# | 5900 |
| Host Machine | external3 |
| root pw hint | mob… |
| primary user | native |
| primary userpasswd hint | nat… |
| myplc_root_password | 0r1b1TPLC |
| PLC_DB_PASSWORD | eecea785-291f-4188-96b5-dfbb0e0b0a1b |
In this document we outline the process for installing the Myplc controller on a Fedora 8 VM. I'm essentially following the instructions from: this page.
Step 0
Populate the "varibles" table with values.
Step 1
We install Fedora 8 on a vm by booting the vm with an install iso. The general instructions are detailed here (see the section on building a client). The main diffrence is that we use the Fedora 8 install iso, instead of ubuntu. The commands I ran as root out of the /root directory on external3 were:
wget http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-8-x86_64-DVD.iso ./install_vm ./vm_img/fedora_server.img ./Fedora-8-x86_64-DVD.iso ... ./start_vm ./vm_img/fedora8.img 1
Where … is this process:
- connect to the vnc session on external3:5900 (you will need a vnc client and possibly and ssh tunnel)
- use the fedora to install the
OS mostly this is all defaulted. We even let it do the partitioning, it sets up lvm. The only departures from the defaults were:
- Skipped the CD check (Purely for convenience)
- set the root password to ….
- set the default user to native/….
- Completely disable the firewall (there are notes in the Myplc documentation about enabling specific firewall ports)
- Completely disable SElinux features. (Myplc requires this as a step in the installation process)
- Power down (don't reboot, as we'll want to start the vm back up with out the install iso, the step immediately following this process.)
Once this is done the fedora system should be operational and through the vnc session (now at external3:5901) you should be able to modify settings. I opted to let it preform the 280+ updates, and then edited the sudosers list (by running visudo as root, you will have to su -) to enable the wheel group with out passwords (there was a life for this, I just uncommented it). I then added native to the wheel group, thus giving it sudo privlage. SSHD comes installed by default, so using the native/…. credentials you can ssh into this box. The current Ip given by dhcp was 10.50.250.20. This is useful since you can't copy paste into a vnc window easily. Note - by default kvm's vnc sessions don't require a password to connect, so they only "lock out" of the machine comes in the form of gdm/console login prompts.
Fedora 8 is a desktop distribution. There doesn't seem to be a server (Fedora core?) and the install instructions specify fedora8.
4/24/2012
Switching to fedora 12. Os tweaks before we start the install.
- added native to wheel group
usermod -a -G wheel native
- edited sudoers to allow wheel sudo access with no password.
- droped udev 70.persisent.net rules so that udev would have to remake because we move the vm after installin.
- disabled firewall by running
system-config-firewall
Then choosing diable. - Edit /etc/selinux/config (as root) to set SELINUX=disabled.
Step 2
Based on the variables from Step 0 I've modified the the repo creation rules to:
[native@localhost ~] sudo sh -c 'echo "[myplc]" > /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo' [native@localhost ~] sudo sh -c 'echo "name= MyPLC" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo' [native@localhost ~] sudo sh -c 'echo "baseurl=http://build.planet-lab.org/planetlab/f8/pl-f8-i386-5.0-k32-rc-20/RPMS/" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo' [native@localhost ~] sudo sh -c 'echo "enabled=1" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo' [native@localhost ~] sudo sh -c 'echo "gpgcheck=0" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo'
Running the update gets us.
[native@localhost ~]$ sudo yum update fedora-release myplc | 1.1 kB 00:00 myplc/primary | 178 kB 00:00 myplc 101/101 Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update
Finally the results of installing Myplc is a lot of screen dump and a question about if you are sure you want to install. The end results looks like:
[native@localhost ~] sudo yum install myplc ... Installed: myplc.noarch 0:5.0-15.planetlab Dependency Installed: OpenIPMI-tools.x86_64 0:2.0.11-3.fc8 PLCAPI.i386 0:5.0-28.planetlab PyXML.x86_64 0:0.8.4-8.fc8 SOAPpy.noarch 0:0.11.6-7.fc8 apr-devel.x86_64 0:1.2.11-2 apr-util-devel.x86_64 0:1.2.10-2.fc8 bootcd-initscripts.noarch 0:5.0-8.2011.02.17 bootcd-planetlab-f8-i386.noarch 0:5.0-8.2011.02.17 bootmanager.noarch 0:5.0-16.planetlab bootstrapfs-planetlab-f8-i386.noarch 0:2.0-9.2011.02.17 createrepo.noarch 0:0.4.11-2.fc8 cyrus-sasl-devel.x86_64 0:2.1.22-8.fc8 db4-cxx.x86_64 0:4.6.21-3.fc8 db4-devel.x86_64 0:4.6.21-3.fc8 distcache.x86_64 0:1.4.5-15 drupal.noarch 0:4.7-14.planetlab expat-devel.x86_64 0:2.0.1-2 expect.x86_64 0:5.43.0-9.fc8 httpd-devel.x86_64 0:2.2.9-1.fc8 memcached.x86_64 0:1.2.4-2.fc8 mod_python.x86_64 0:3.3.1-5 mod_ssl.x86_64 1:2.2.9-1.fc8 mod_wsgi.x86_64 0:1.3-2.fc8 monitor-runlevelagent.i386 0:3.0-35.planetlab mtools.x86_64 0:3.9.11-2.fc8 mx.x86_64 0:2.0.6-3 myplc-config.noarch 0:5.0-15.planetlab myplc-docs.noarch 0:5.0-15.planetlab myplc-release.noarch 0:5.0-15.planetlab.2011.02.17 nodeconfig.i386 0:5.0-5.planetlab nodeyum.noarch 0:2.0-9.2011.02.17 openldap-devel.x86_64 0:2.3.39-4.fc8 pcucontrol.i386 0:1.0-10.planetlab perl-IO-Socket-SSL.noarch 0:1.18-1.fc8 perl-Net-LibIDN.x86_64 0:0.10-1.fc8 perl-Net-SSLeay.x86_64 0:1.30-5.fc8.1 php.x86_64 0:5.2.6-2.fc8 php-cli.x86_64 0:5.2.6-2.fc8 php-common.x86_64 0:5.2.6-2.fc8 php-gd.x86_64 0:5.2.6-2.fc8 php-mbstring.x86_64 0:5.2.6-2.fc8 php-pdo.x86_64 0:5.2.6-2.fc8 php-pgsql.x86_64 0:5.2.6-2.fc8 plewww.noarch 0:4.3-59 plewww-plekit.noarch 0:4.3-59 postgresql.x86_64 0:8.2.11-1.fc8 postgresql-libs.x86_64 0:8.2.11-1.fc8 postgresql-python.x86_64 0:8.2.11-1.fc8 postgresql-server.x86_64 0:8.2.11-1.fc8 pyOpenSSL.x86_64 0:0.6-1.p24.9 pyaspects.i386 0:0.4.1-1.planetlab pypcilib.i386 0:0.2-9.planetlab pyplnet.noarch 0:4.3-9.planetlab python-devel.x86_64 0:2.5.1-26.fc8.2 python-fpconst.noarch 0:0.7.3-3.fc8.1 python-ldap.x86_64 0:2.3.1-1.fc8 python-memcached.noarch 0:1.39-1.fc8 python-psycopg2.x86_64 0:2.0.7-1.fc8 python-pycurl.x86_64 0:7.16.4-1.fc8 python-simplejson.x86_64 0:1.9.1-1.fc8 python-twisted-core.x86_64 0:2.5.0-2.fc8 python-twisted-web.x86_64 0:0.7.0-1.fc8 python-twisted-words.x86_64 0:0.5.0-1.fc8 python-zope-interface.x86_64 0:3.0.1-8.fc8 sendmail-cf.x86_64 0:8.14.2-1.fc8 sharutils.x86_64 0:4.6.3-1.fc7 syslinux.x86_64 0:3.36-7.fc8 tcl.x86_64 1:8.4.17-1.fc8 www-register-wizard.noarch 0:4.3-5.planetlab xmlsec1.x86_64 0:1.2.9-8.1 xmlsec1-openssl.x86_64 0:1.2.9-8.1 Complete!
4/24/2012
For Fedora 12 x86_64: Repo commands were changed to:
[native@localhost ~]$ sudo sh -c 'echo "[myplc]" > /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo' [native@localhost ~]$ sudo sh -c 'echo "name= MyPLC" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo' [native@localhost ~]$ sudo sh -c 'echo "baseurl=http://build.planet-lab.org/planetlab/f12/pl-f12-x86_64-5.0-k32-rc-20/RPMS/" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo' [native@localhost ~]$ sudo sh -c 'echo "enabled=1" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo' [native@localhost ~]$ sudo sh -c 'echo "gpgcheck=0" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/myplc.repo' [native@localhost ~]$ sudo yum update fedora-release ... Complete! [native@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install myplc ... Complete!
Step 3
We are apparently taking Path A. The Answer in step 0 shape our answers to the questions posed by
[native@localhost ~] sudo plc-config-tty
Note:
- Once the variables are set with plc-config-tty, it tells you to run service …, however service isn't installed Not sure if it's supposed to come installed by default, but I just rant /etc/init.d/plc restart
- When they ask for the PLC_DB_PASSWORD, their shell utility requires you to prefix the varialbe name with s to get the variable value
4/24/2012
Changes for fedora 12
Enter command (u for usual changes, w to save, ? for help) u
== PLC_NAME : [PlanetLab Test] myplc.orbit-lab.org
== PLC_SHORTNAME : [Tlab] myplc
== PLC_SLICE_PREFIX : [pl] orbit
== PLC_ROOT_USER : [root@localhost.localdomain] root@myplc.orbit-lab.org
== PLC_ROOT_PASSWORD : [root] 0r1b1TPLC
== PLC_MAIL_ENABLED : [false] true
== PLC_MAIL_SUPPORT_ADDRESS : [root+support@localhost.localdomain] plc-admin@orbit-lab.org
== PLC_DB_HOST : [localhost.localdomain]
== PLC_API_HOST : [localhost.localdomain] myplc.orbit-lab.org
== PLC_WWW_HOST : [localhost.localdomain] myplc.orbit-lab.org
== PLC_BOOT_HOST : [localhost.localdomain] myplc.orbit-lab.org
== PLC_NET_DNS1 : [127.0.0.1] 10.0.0.9
== PLC_NET_DNS2 : [None] 10.0.0.8
Enter command (u for usual changes, w to save, ? for help) w
Wrote /etc/planetlab/configs/site.xml
Merged
/etc/planetlab/default_config.xml
and /etc/planetlab/configs/site.xml
into /etc/planetlab/plc_config.xml
You might want to type 'r' (restart plc), 'R' (reload plc) or 'q' (quit)
Enter command (u for usual changes, w to save, ? for help) r
==================== Stopping plc
PLC: Reverting /etc/resolv.conf: [ OK ]
PLC: Removing /etc/plc_hosts: [ OK ]
PLC: Stopping DNS server: [ OK ]
PLC: Ignoring request to stop myplc databases: [ OK ]
PLC: Stopping PostgreSQL server: [ OK ]
PLC: Stopping web server: [ OK ]
PLC: Stopping mail server: [ OK ]
PLC: Reverting network files: [ OK ]
==================== Starting plc
PLC: Generating network files: [ OK ]
PLC: Starting mail server: [ OK ]
PLC: Generating SSL certificates for: PLC: WWW: PLC: API: P[ OK ]:
PLC: Generating GPG keys: [ OK ]
PLC: Generating SSH keys: [ OK ]
PLC: Starting web server: PLC: Setting PHP timezone to GMT:[ OK ]
PLC: Starting PostgreSQL server: [ OK ]
PLC: Configuring the API: [ OK ]
PLC: Bootstrapping the database: PLC: - 101-up-leases.sql [ OK ]d): PLC: - 102-up-isvalid.sql (dbdumped): PLC: - 103-up-extensions.sql (dbdumped): PLC: - 104-up-noderole.sql (dbdumped):
PLC: Starting DNS server: PLC: Configuring resolv.conf: [ OK ]
PLC: Creating BootCD variants: [ OK ]
PLC: Rebuilding Boot CD: [ OK ]
[ OK ]
PLC: Signing and indexing node packages: [ OK ]
Enter command (u for usual changes, w to save, ? for help) s PLC_DB_PASSWORD
PLC_DB_PASSWORD = eecea785-291f-4188-96b5-dfbb0e0b0a1b
Step 4
Node Variables:
orbitplc1
| <node_fqdn> | orbitplc1.orbit-lab.org |
| <if_dns1> | 128.6.76.134 |
| <if_dns2> | 128.6.76.133 |
| <if_subnet_id> | 128.6.192.128 |
| <if_netmask> | 255.255.255.192 |
| <if_gateway> | 128.6.192.129 |
| <if_ipaddr> | 128.6.192.154 |
| <if_mac> | d8-d3-85-67-06-3d |
| <2nd_if_mac> | d8-d3-85-67-06-3c |
| <ilo_mac> | d8-d3-85-bc-43-ab |
orbitplc2
| <node_fqdn> | orbitplc2.orbit-lab.org |
| <if_dns1> | 128.6.76.134 |
| <if_dns2> | 128.6.76.133 |
| <if_subnet_id> | 128.6.192.128 |
| <if_netmask> | 255.255.255.192 |
| <if_gateway> | 128.6.192.129 |
| <if_ipaddr> | 128.6.192.155 |
- The deployment variable:
[native@localhost ~]$ ls /var/www/html/boot/ | grep bootstrapfs bootstrapfs-planetlab-f12-x86_64.tar.bz2 bootstrapfs-planetlab-f12-x86_64.tar.bz2.sha1sum
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