How wonderful to have you! Welcome. Gaylen Brown wrote:

Matt,

Thanks for the gracious introduction. I'm looking forward to helping as much as possible. Initial focus / action item(s):

* Find a 1u co-location / static ip location for dev.mickaboo.org http://dev.mickaboo.org

* Procure a 1u server for the task.

* Install a mirrored debian OS build (we can pull a package list from the current server) and mirror the same packages (stable release I'm guessing?)

Once we get to this point, we can really get rolling!

I already put my feelers out there for the 1U location. I'll let everyone know how things are progressing.

-Gaylen

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM, AMuse mailto:amuse@foofus.com> wrote:

Hi all! I would like to introduce you to Gaylen, who is now a member of the tech list.

He's going to volunteer with us and try to help with the growing list of 'back burnered' stuff, such as getting a development server put together and integrating all our tools into unified username/password schemes.

He's got a ton of sysadmin-y experience so I'm very excited to have him on board!

Awesome, Gaylen! Is the Sun system a Sparc or x86 based system? If Sparc, we will have to search for a debian that runs on sparc or perhaps handroll our apache and such. Asuming we save compile notes that may be fine with me. Very cool on the hosting and DMZ situation too! For the dev server we don't need that much data transfer, we can just install skeleton binaries for our services and load them with a bit of test data, don't need too much to test the integration at first. Our main datasources are: Animal Shelter Manager 2.3.X (we hand compiled and did some source modification). I can get you access to the subversion. The data is stored in a MySQL 5 database that I also compiled myself. (Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.37, for pc-linux-gnu (i686)) OTRS (Open Ticket Request System) 2.2.4 backended against the same MySQL DB as above Confluence Wiki 2.7.x (but I'd like to migrate to the 2.10 series, so we can do that on dev) Apache 2.2.x (rolls all of the above together via ReverseProxy directives) Mailman mailing list manager (if we could LDAP THAT too it would be heaven but I doubt that's going to be workable). Gaylen Brown wrote:

Quck update:

-I've gotten my hands on a 1U sun system with 10k drives. It should be in my hands by Friday of this week. 2/6/09 - Found a resource to help with the single authentication idea to integrate the various auth db's on the system (Currently 4 seperate). (dependancy on dev system up). - I have a possible 1u rack space, but it's not available right now. They need to setup a real DMZ before we can get that space. But we can get it eventually (free).

Next steps:

- Get server in hand, and get a basic build up. And if we really want to get moving, I can just have it up on my home network. 2/28 - Game plan for data transfer. Maybe using sneaker net would be best? 100+gigs over a slow upload capacity on a cable modem. (I'll discuss with Matt). - Need some definitions on the CRM platform being used, version, etc. (2/6/09) - mysql details, size, number of logins, version - wiki details, what wiki are you using(sorry Matt, I forgot what you told me)?, version, number of logins - any other application details to help scope the project. - number of local PAM logins?

Possible solutions, depending on logins: ldap or pam?

Let me know if you guys have any questions.

-Gaylen

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Chloe Redon mailto:marat@burble.org> wrote:

How wonderful to have you! Welcome.

Gaylen Brown wrote: > Matt, > > Thanks for the gracious introduction. I'm looking forward to helping as > much as possible. Initial focus / action item(s): > > * Find a 1u co-location / static ip location for dev.mickaboo.org http://dev.mickaboo.org > http://dev.mickaboo.org > > * Procure a 1u server for the task. > > * Install a mirrored debian OS build (we can pull a package list from > the current server) and mirror the same packages (stable release I'm > guessing?) > > Once we get to this point, we can really get rolling! > > I already put my feelers out there for the 1U location. I'll let > everyone know how things are progressing. > > -Gaylen > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM, AMuse mailto:amuse@foofus.com > mailto:amuse@foofus.com>> wrote: > > > Hi all! I would like to introduce you to Gaylen, who is now a member of > the tech list. > > He's going to volunteer with us and try to help with the growing list of > 'back burnered' stuff, such as getting a development server put together > and integrating all our tools into unified username/password schemes. > > He's got a ton of sysadmin-y experience so I'm very excited to have him > on board! _______________________________________________ Techlist mailing list Techlist@mickaboo.org mailto:Techlist@mickaboo.org https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/techlist

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Gaylen: That's excellent! Here's some more info that may help. Note that we're running the SMP kernel. rufus:~# cat /etc/debian_version 4.0 rufus:~# uname -a Linux rufus.mickaboo.org 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 24 18:32:57 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Also attached is the text output of dpkg --list (should tell you all the packages we've got installed). If you do a base debian install with no frills, you can then go back in and loop through the file doing apt-get on the package names. Give it an hour or so and you should have a pretty close duplicate of our system, minus the stuff we'll need to rsync due to hand-compiling (OTRS, ASM, MySQL, Apache). Feel free to drag me into any of the necessary technical discussions if it'll help, either here, via IM, Facebook chat, etc. Gaylen Brown wrote:

Matt,

It's an x86 based SUN system, so we should be in good shape. Once I get my hands on it (possibly tomorrow), I'll ping you and we can just go from there. I don't mind working on it at home and we can get it up to speed. And since we can use skeleton binaries and some sample data sets, should be fairly easy to get things up and running. Also, thanks for the datasource information, I was trying to have a technical discussion with one of my collegues that will be helping with the integration tasks, and I realized I didn't have the data to take it any deeper.

-Gaylen

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Matt Linton mailto:matt@mickaboo.org> wrote:

Awesome, Gaylen! Is the Sun system a Sparc or x86 based system? If Sparc, we will have to search for a debian that runs on sparc or perhaps handroll our apache and such. Asuming we save compile notes that may be fine with me. Very cool on the hosting and DMZ situation too!

For the dev server we don't need that much data transfer, we can just install skeleton binaries for our services and load them with a bit of test data, don't need too much to test the integration at first.

Our main datasources are:

Animal Shelter Manager 2.3.X (we hand compiled and did some source modification). I can get you access to the subversion. The data is stored in a MySQL 5 database that I also compiled myself. (Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.37, for pc-linux-gnu (i686))

OTRS (Open Ticket Request System) 2.2.4 backended against the same MySQL DB as above

Confluence Wiki 2.7.x (but I'd like to migrate to the 2.10 series, so we can do that on dev)

Apache 2.2.x (rolls all of the above together via ReverseProxy directives)

Mailman mailing list manager (if we could LDAP THAT too it would be heaven but I doubt that's going to be workable).

Gaylen Brown wrote: > Quck update: > > -I've gotten my hands on a 1U sun system with 10k drives. It should be > in my hands by Friday of this week. 2/6/09 > - Found a resource to help with the single authentication idea to > integrate the various auth db's on the system (Currently 4 seperate). > (dependancy on dev system up). > - I have a possible 1u rack space, but it's not available right now. > They need to setup a real DMZ before we can get that space. But we can > get it eventually (free). > > Next steps: > > - Get server in hand, and get a basic build up. And if we really want > to get moving, I can just have it up on my home network. 2/28 > - Game plan for data transfer. Maybe using sneaker net would be best? > 100+gigs over a slow upload capacity on a cable modem. (I'll discuss > with Matt). > - Need some definitions on the CRM platform being used, version, etc. > (2/6/09) > - mysql details, size, number of logins, version > - wiki details, what wiki are you using(sorry Matt, I forgot what you > told me)?, version, number of logins > - any other application details to help scope the project. > - number of local PAM logins? > > Possible solutions, depending on logins: ldap or pam? > > Let me know if you guys have any questions. > > -Gaylen > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Chloe Redon mailto:marat@burble.org > mailto:marat@burble.org>> wrote: > > > How wonderful to have you! > Welcome. > > > Gaylen Brown wrote: > > Matt, > > > > Thanks for the gracious introduction. I'm looking forward to > helping as > > much as possible. Initial focus / action item(s): > > > > * Find a 1u co-location / static ip location for > dev.mickaboo.org http://dev.mickaboo.org http://dev.mickaboo.org > > http://dev.mickaboo.org > > > > * Procure a 1u server for the task. > > > > * Install a mirrored debian OS build (we can pull a package list > from > > the current server) and mirror the same packages (stable release I'm > > guessing?) > > > > Once we get to this point, we can really get rolling! > > > > I already put my feelers out there for the 1U location. I'll let > > everyone know how things are progressing. > > > > -Gaylen > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM, AMuse mailto:amuse@foofus.com > mailto:amuse@foofus.com> > > mailto:amuse@foofus.com mailto:amuse@foofus.com>>> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all! I would like to introduce you to Gaylen, who is now > a member of > > the tech list. > > > > He's going to volunteer with us and try to help with the > growing list of > > 'back burnered' stuff, such as getting a development server > put together > > and integrating all our tools into unified username/password > schemes. > > > > He's got a ton of sysadmin-y experience so I'm very excited > to have him > > on board! > _______________________________________________ > Techlist mailing list > Techlist@mickaboo.org mailto:Techlist@mickaboo.org mailto:Techlist@mickaboo.org> > https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/techlist > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Techlist mailing list > Techlist@mickaboo.org mailto:Techlist@mickaboo.org > https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/techlist > _______________________________________________ Techlist mailing list Techlist@mickaboo.org mailto:Techlist@mickaboo.org https://mickaboo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/techlist

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