Admin TODO

This page is obsolete and kept only for historical interest. It may document features that are obsolete, superseded, or irrelevant. Do not rely on the information here being up-to-date.

Various stuff to do on the servers to improve services or reliability

• upgrade Albiero and Sirius to Lenny jb 20:48, 15 May 2009 (CEST)
  • Need a reboot to change kernel => beware of eth0 vanishing
  • Need physical access ?
• Hardware
  • Switch gigabit between the eth1 of ganesh, albiero and sirius
  • way to get albiero and sirius console from ganesh
  • way to have ganesh console on albiero (iLO *does* fail)

• Database
  • move them all to albiero (done for trac-vlc jb 20:48, 15 May 2009 (CEST))jb 13:04, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
  • move them all to pg 8.3 (requires lenny). jb 20:48, 15 May 2009 (CEST)
  • do we need/can have a fall back if albiero is down ?

• Web
  • optimize pg request
  • make sure the web work even if the databases are down
    • important for fastcgi (maybe tweak various time-out)
    • avoid ugly error on apache
  • mirroring/reverse-proxying/round-robining
    • i think sirius is missing some crontab to get the svn and generate certain filesxtophe
    • need to create dns entries for {www,images,download}{1,2,3,..} and matching vhost
  • for when sh**t happens:
    • prepare "maintenance" pages for www, trac, wiki, forum
    • prepare simplified pages with only a few links

• Mail
  • create an admin ml. Done jb
  • make sure the cron send to admin@ if and only if something bad happened

• Trac
  • install openid plugin (if it still allow to use normal auth)
  • send and parse commit log to ganesh
  • reactivate all the trac
  • trac2 on sirius/albiero

• Forum, wiki
  • forum2, wiki2 on ganesh/albiero

• Monitoring
  • Extract health information for disks on ganesh, albiero, skanda, sirius
    • on albiero and sirius it will help when they are in lenny

• Bittorent tracker
• Fix Patchwork
• Update VideoLAN_Servers