Admin TODO

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))
  • 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 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

• 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