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Status

SL7, CentOS7 installable, the rest is more or less unknown to me.

Target systems are:

  • Servers
  • WGS
  • Farm nodes
  • NO desktops

AFS client is optional.

Completed

  • AFS client works
  • sue/CfEngine works
  • VAMOS client works
  • ssh GSSAPI authentication works
  • UGE batch nodes basically work
    • including a native systemd unit file for sge_execd
  • UGE batch system client on WGS nodes
  • arcx client
  • Heimdal packages (currently only installed on test batch farm nodes via dependency)
  • Ganglia monitoring (gmond) works (with EPEL packages)
  • CVMFS client works (active on sl7-wgs-def, sl7-farm-def)
  • PNFS client (incl. GSSAPI authentication) works
    • configuration mostly handled by rpm DL_nfs-client
  • Lustre client (version 2.7.0) works
    • mainly untested, though
  • Nagios monitoring works
  • KVM Host works
    • but there's a strong suspicion that shutting down the host will not properly shutdown the guests

Next Steps

  • provide a public "SL7 preview" system
    • test wgs with cname sl7 exists but not announced, yet

Known issues

  • DELL firmware updates basically work
    • BIOS updates are still broken!
    • Update March 2016: latest BIOS updates seem to work on EL7, finally!

Open Questions

  • Finally remove ini before going public?

    • most existing targets are nonsense anyway
  • Really keep the symlink /etc/yum.conf -> yum.conf.user?

    • no. done.
  • Make aaru.yum.create.v2 default?
    • sw: no
  • Default to install Registry accounts on non-AFS nodes? They won't have $HOME directory anyway.
  • Deinstall tuned?
  • Keep on Heimdal as default Kerberos5 client software?
    • Automatically creating/renewing AFS tokens still only works with Heimdal without additional modifications
    • Use Heimdal EPEL packages?
  • Make /etc/sudoers modular (/etc/sudoers.d/...)?
  • How to deal with IPv6 - it does not seem to be completely disabled:
    [wgs1d] /root # netstat -ltnp | grep :::
    tcp6       0      0 :::111                  :::*                    LISTEN      5221/rpcbind        
    tcp6       0      0 :::53239                :::*                    LISTEN      5903/rpc.statd      
    • This is expected, normal and harmless. IPv6 is disabled to the extent possible.

yumsel configuration

file

installed on

comment

default.ys

all nodes

interactive.ys

all nodes with user access (farm nodes, wgs)

please keep it clean from graphics applications that not needed on farm nodes - put these into graphical.ys

development.ys

(probably) all nodes with user access (farm nodes, wgs)

might be merged with interactive.ys but let's keep the development stuff separately for now

graphical.ys

all nodes providing "real" user logins (wgs)

desktop.ys

desktops only (if they ever exist ...)

desktops will install everything from interactive.ys, development.ys & graphical.ys, additionally

SUE feature status

Feature

finished?

comment

aaru

(./)

afs_client

(./)

arcx

(./)

cfengine

(./)

cups

(./)

group

(./)

hosts

(./)

iptables

(./)

kerberos

(./)

kernel

(./)

klogin

(./)

linux

(./)

motd

(./)

nagios

(./)

name_srv

(./)

client only, currently

netgroup

(./)

nsswitch

(./)

pam

(./)

passwd_prog

(./)

Packaged into rpm, rest to go soon

passwd

(./)

scout

{X}

obsolete?

security

(./)

ssh

(./)

sudo

{X}

Make /etc/sudoers less monolithic (/etc/sudoers.d)? Only install configuration needed on this host?

sue

{X}

Obsolete this feature completely and put everything into the DL_sue rpm?

syslog

(./)

tcp_wrapper

(./)

tidy_up

(./)

vamos

{X}

xntp

(./)

SL7 comes with chrony

zzz

(./)

Suggested Reading

SL7 Development (last edited 2016-12-19 16:34:54 by StephanWiesand)