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* Hydrogen is off line due to performance problems
* Hydrogen is off line due to performance problems
* icinga/monitoring project needs killed
* icinga/monitoring project needs killed
** Landscape - I appreciate NCommanders ability to obtain a product normally sold for free, but if this is not being used it should not be running and using resources. (helium, perhaps others)
* Landscape - I appreciate NCommanders ability to obtain a product normally sold for free, but if this is not being used it should not be running and using resources. (helium, perhaps others)
* Should have some sort of SN password safe
* Should have some sort of SN password safe
* Privilege Duplication - making sure that all services have multiple admins
* Privilege Duplication - making sure that all services have multiple admins
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* Work Coordination, not always good communication when fundamental things change.
* Work Coordination, not always good communication when fundamental things change.
* There is no firewall coding at all. Something I normally set up before even one network cable is plugged in. I understand the desire to have an open system on public interfaces, but I see no reason that systems not publicly accessible such as database backends should not be firewalled off from Chinese and other such hackers. Such as the attempts being made on Helium from 120.192.20.162 120.192.0.0/11 China Mobile communications corporation at the moment I am writing this.
* There is no firewall coding at all. Something I normally set up before even one network cable is plugged in. I understand the desire to have an open system on public interfaces, but I see no reason that systems not publicly accessible such as database backends should not be firewalled off from Chinese and other such hackers. Such as the attempts being made on Helium from 120.192.20.162 120.192.0.0/11 China Mobile communications corporation at the moment I am writing this.


==Work Notes==
==Work Notes==

Revision as of 05:09, 5 April 2015

TeamPages - parent, Development

Welcome

This is a comphensive index dealing with aspects of system administration and management of our clusters, as well as some of the more archine bits of setup required to make it work.

Who we are

Sysop Team Main Page

nick

position

timezone

paulej72 Co-leader UTC-4 (EDT)
mechanicjay Co-leader UTC-4 (EST/EDT)
NCommander Member UTC-9 (AKDT)
Audioguy Member UTC-7 (PST/PDT)


Index of Development Pages and Resources

Servers

List of servers on linode: Category:SystemAdministration/Servers

  • soylent-www - Primary Apache and slash servers for main site.
Hydrogen, Fluorine, Boron
  • soylent-db -- mysql servers, holds the slash database.
Helium, Neon
  • dev -- Development server.
Lithium
  • staff-slash -- Staff only Slash server.
Boron
  • irc -- IRC server and related services.
Beryllium
Oxygen
  • directory services -- LDAP and Kerberos.
Helium, Boron
Beryllium


Stuff That Needs To Be Addressed

  • https is not default everywhere
  • LDAP slave is broken on Boron
  • Hydrogen is off line due to performance problems
  • icinga/monitoring project needs killed
  • Landscape - I appreciate NCommanders ability to obtain a product normally sold for free, but if this is not being used it should not be running and using resources. (helium, perhaps others)
  • Should have some sort of SN password safe
  • Privilege Duplication - making sure that all services have multiple admins
  • Systems Documentation needs to revised and brought up to date.
  • Work Coordination, not always good communication when fundamental things change.
  • There is no firewall coding at all. Something I normally set up before even one network cable is plugged in. I understand the desire to have an open system on public interfaces, but I see no reason that systems not publicly accessible such as database backends should not be firewalled off from Chinese and other such hackers. Such as the attempts being made on Helium from 120.192.20.162 120.192.0.0/11 China Mobile communications corporation at the moment I am writing this.

Work Notes

DNS is completely run and managed by Linode's DNS Manager service. This was an expedient decision when trying to get off bluehost. We may want to investigate putting the master zone file on helium or boron and having external services handle serving out our dns.

Resources