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Sandbox is a ubuntu machine
Steps on setting up this ubuntu Server are as follows
- Attach a usb cd drive and start the cd install.
- Choose Entire disk with help from installer to do the partitioning of the FS
Choose dhcp for eth0 during setup. - Setup the Network Interfaces
eth0 - Goes into the DMZ network, so please modify the /etc/network/interfaces file to for eth0
the ability to attain an ip address using dhcp.
Please update the dhcpd.conf file with eth0 mac address for console.sbX
eth1 - Is the ConsoleC address for sandbox.
Please update /etc/network/interfaces to
iface eth1 inet static
address 10.1x.0.10 - (x) is the sandbox number
netmask 255.255.0.0
- Please Install libpam-ldap,libnss-ldap,autofs and autofs-ldap packages using apt.
- Please modify /etc/ldap/ldap.conf to the following
BASE dc=orbit-lab,dc=org
URI ldap://ldap.orbit-lab.org
- You can copy /etc/ldap.conf from another sandbox or set the following attributes yourself
host ldap.orbit-lab.org
base dc=orbit-lab,dc=org
ldap_version 3
rootbinddn cn=admin,dc=orbit-lab,dc=org
timelimit 30
bind_timelimit 30
idle_timelimit 360
pam_check_host_attr yes
pam_password crypt
Copy the /etc/ldap.secret file from another sandbox or ask the administrator for the password.
Modify /etc/nsswitch.conf for the users and autofs to use LDAP
- For autofs we need to modify /etc/default/autofs file so that the autofs daemon knows what the master
map is.
LDAPURI="ldap://ldap1.orbit-lab.org/" LDAPBASE="ou=auto.master,dc=orbit-lab,dc=org"
- Copy the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to this new machine from another sandbox or modify the file for your
self to include ldap for login and automount to be done by ldap.
Please ensure that you start autofs
Modify the sudoers file to include sysadmin group with privileges to become root without password or
just
copy the sudoers file from an existing sandbox.
- Install the mail packages , so that the mail can be sent from the sandbox.
apt-get install postfix mailutils
When you begin installing the postfix package configuration it will ask you configuration details, please select to install the package as a Satellite system. After that copy the main.cf file from another sandbox. - Install logwatch, ntp and cfengine2 packages.
- Configure cfengine2 , which should copy the config files for logwatch and ntp.
- OMF Install -To manage your nodes
To install omf packages modify your apt source tree to include mytestbed url and then run update on the apt for it to pull down the package information. The above steps can be done by these steps
echo "deb http://pkg.mytestbed.net/ubuntu karmic/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update
For the console we need to add the following packages
omf-resctl liboml omf-expectl omf-common omf-aggrmgr . Please try and install the latest release
apt-get install liboml omf-expctl-5.2 omf-common-5.2 omf-aggmgr-5.2
- OMF Configuration Copy a working config file for /etc/omf-expctl-5.2/nodehandler.yaml from another sandbox and modify its ip addresses for the Sandbox. The XMPP server is repository2.
- In the inventory52 database , nodes table please make sure that the control ip is set to the ip of the eth1 interface (non dmz) interface.
Once you start the expirement you can go to the following ip and see the serial console 10.1.10x.17 x is the sandbox(x) number , the last 4 hex numbers are used to denote the ip address of each node of sandbox. node2 for sandbox would be 10.1.10x.18
- We still have omf5 as the default so please do the following
Just to add to our notes, we need to make sure machine have fully qualified host name (some services depend on it). So
(in /etc/hostname) console.sb2.orbit-lab.org
(in /etc/hosts) 127.0.0.1 console.sb2.orbit-lab.org console
As for the old omf we need to:
rm /usr/bin/omf #(it is actually a soft link to /etc/alternatives/omf)
scp -r sb1.orbit-lab.org:/opt/nodehandler4-4.4.0 /opt/nodehandler4-4.4.0
scp -r sb1.orbit-lab.org:/etc/nodehandler4 /etc/nodehandler4
scp sb1.orbit-lab.org:/usr/bin/omf /usr/bin/omf
which will set the 4.4 as a default omf.
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