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


* upgrade Albiero and sirius to Lenny
* upgrade Albiero and Sirius to Lenny
**Imply a reboot to change kernel => beware of eth0 vanishing
**Imply a reboot to change kernel => beware of eth0 vanishing
**physical access ?
**physical access ?
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**optimize pg request
**optimize pg request
**make sure the web work even if the databases are down
**make sure the web work even if the databases are down
***important for fastcgi (maybe tweack various timeout)
***important for fastcgi (maybe tweak various time-out)
***avoid ugly error on apache
***avoid ugly error on apache
**mirroring/reverse-proxying/round-robining
**mirroring/reverse-proxying/round-robining
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*** need to create dns entries for {www,images,download}{1,2,3,..} and matching vhost
*** need to create dns entries for {www,images,download}{1,2,3,..} and matching vhost
**for when sh**t happens:
**for when sh**t happens:
***prepare "maintenace" pages for www, trac, wiki, forum  
***prepare "maintenance" pages for www, trac, wiki, forum  
***prepare simplified pages with only a few links
***prepare simplified pages with only a few links


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**create an admin ml
**create an admin ml
** make sure the cron send to admin@ if and only if something bad happened
** 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

Revision as of 23:56, 25 March 2009

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

  • upgrade Albiero and Sirius to Lenny
    • Imply a reboot to change kernel => beware of eth0 vanishing
    • 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
    • move them all to pg 8.3 (requires lenny)
    • 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 files
      • 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
    • 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