What Has Peggy Been Up To Lately?

Last updated: Fri Feb 3 14:00:06 CST 2012

Week of July 4, 2011

• Investigate network problems and packet loss on Sun Storage 7410: result: replace gigabit switch, problems resolved
• Install software update on Sun Storage 7410
• Delete some files from storage as requested

Week of July 11, 2011

• Accessioning
• FreeBSD ports upgrades including emacs
• Install rack shelf in A08
• Handles updates as requested
• Schedule reboot for gargantua; completed
• Review what remains on a2 and plan its retirement
• Port mesopotamia logs off of a2; resolve and split them

Week of July 18, 2011

• Upgrade WordPress on dev site, call for testing
• Recompile php5 with pthread enabled
• FreeBSD ports upgrades
• Assist Maura with tape drive replacement

Weeks of July 25 and July 31, 2011

• Vacation, mostly

Week of August 8, 2011

• Ports upgrades for security fixes
• FreeBSD jails ports upgrades
• Begin setup of FreeBSD jail for ILS virtualshelfbrowse app
• Gargantua account creation as requested
• Ports upgrades for security issues

Week of August 15, 2011

• Complete setup of FreeBSD jail for ILS virtualshelfbrowse app
• Ports upgrades
• Install telemeta
• Another attempt to get pam_ldap working on MacOS
• Look at reported lack of logging on tomcat@duodecimo
• Update automail's run-mhonarc to remove reliance upon html.macros which has been deprecated

Week of August 22, 2011

• Ports updates, including PHP (twice)
• Continue port of mesopotamia site from a2 to quarto
• Swap out CPU heat sink assembly with failed cooling fan on old Sun Fire V210
• Updates to systest config for mrbig: it no longer runs SAG processes
• Install some software on duodecimo as requested
• Test and implement use of mac_portacl on FreeBSD
• Reconfigure tomcat to listen on port 80
• Updates to name server config

Week of August 29, 2011

• Ports updates on FreeBSD hosts and jails
• Install and configure two vmware guests
• Install and configure MySQL on ARTFL's guest
• Set up ZFS filesystem for use on garnet; add it to TSM backups
• Upgrade Apache on all hosts

Week of September 5, 2011

• Update ca_root_nss port on all hosts (revoked root cert)
• Install requested software on garnet
• Install some python modules (not in ports) on garnet
• Schedule reboot for duodecimo; perform the reboot
• Set up Apache for ARTFL host
• Configure XTF webapp to follow symlinks (used to point to large data store for image files)
• Report problem with fluctuating temperature in JRL 201

Week of September 12, 2011

• FreeBSD-7.4 under jinn
• With Tod, set up Virtual Shelf Browse load to happen daily via cron; some debugging; productionized
• Complete port of mesopotamia site from a2 to quarto
• Updates to a2's httpd.conf
• Review what's left on a2 in preparation for decommissioning it
• FreeBSD OS upgrades: hogwarts
• Schedule downtime for OS upgrade for grenache/quarto; build updated OS
• Add new user for ILS
• Accessioning for chas
• Port repository.lib (only a redirect) from a3 to duodecimo; stop yaws on a3
• Complete OS upgrades for FreeBSD-7.3 -> FreeBSD-7.4

Week of September 19, 2011

• Complete accessioning from previous week
• Look at creating a test environment for Virtual Shelf Browse app
• Add vhost logeion.uchicago.edu
• Set up jinn database JAIL for FreeBSD jails; add host class JAIL
• Tomcat loses default (ROOT) webapp redirect whenever tomcat is upgraded: automate a fix for this
• Prepare redirects for SCRC web site; arrange to have them go live late Sunday night via cron

Week of September 26, 2011

• Investigate server reported down: crash occurred overnight and left it at "ok" prompt; boot it
• Finalize SCRC redirects in jinn master copy
• Create new mailman list as requested
• Port uncap-test from a2 to quarto
• Cleaned up old/unused DNS names and vhost definitions relating to a2
• FreeBSD security updates: kernel and world
• Investigate Metalib unresponsiveness; review Metalib and Xen documentation
• Begin building vmware guest to replace hogwarts
• Report continued problem with elevated temperature in JRL 201

Week of October 3, 2011

• Install and configure sudo for vshelf users on amethyst
• Fixed some jinn inheritance problems
• Updated logtail to current version in jinn
• Fully jinn hogwarts replacement
• Move hogwarts from its previous hardware to vmware guest
• Continued cleanout of two server rooms
• FreeBSD security updates: kernel

Week of October 10, 2011

• Investigate disk device write errors logged on octavo: run zpool replace utilizing spare disk
• Contact Dell Pro Support re: failed disk
• Replace failed disk on octavo/MD1000
• Attach UPS to III server via USB cable as requested
• Report Metalib down after scheduled maintenance (cron)
• Reassign circsvcs group to new GID due to conflict with pgsql group assigned by FreeBSD ports
• Arrange for installation of a set of redirects to occur by 8:30 am on Oct 12
• Investigate report re: SDSS/DAS server error, traced to library version mismatch after CFITSIO upgrade; recompile drC fixed it
• Install and configure postgresql for ARTFL; set up nightly db backup and vacuum

Week of October 17, 2011

• Set up vhost dvlf.uchicago.edu config for ARTFL
• Delete some files for SpCl
• New samba user set up
• Add octavo's replacement disk to zpools as spare
• FreeBSD ports upgrades inside jails
• Set up new bacula client: garnet
• Install and start up open-vm-tools-nox11 port on hogwarts
• Set up data-archive directory and move some data into it; arrange for it to be backed up

Week of October 24, 2011

• Vacation days: Mon and Tue
• Removed defunct group to clear up problem with a user who was in too many groups
• New Apache vhost rcc.lib.uchicago.edu
• Addition to relay-domains on our mail server
• Removed some old redirects that pointed to servers that had disappeared
• After audible alarm from old XServe-RAID beast, checked up on status with RAID Admin; all seems well, the alarm is likely false
• Investigate report of metalib problem
• Set up FreeBSD jail for XTF port of EOS
• System account maintenance: aliases, groups, users
• Connect EPAC Corpus data disk and copy data: copy failed due to bad disk

Week of October 31, 2011

• Report data copy failure
• Set up FreeBSD jail for testing Omeka and complete setup for Omeka
• Remove a user account; DNS updates
• Updates in preparation for Research Computing site
• Vacation begins Nov 3

Week of November 7, 2011

• Vacation

Week of November 14, 2011

• Test LDAP functions with ldap-dev in preparation for Dec 14 changeover of ldap server
• Set up new LDAP configuration in jinn
• EPAC Corpus replacement disk received: complete data copy, set up web access
• Archive ecuipsearch code; remove cname record for the site
• Ports upgrades on FreeBSD hosts
• Add various redirects to LibGuides as requested
• Updated staffweb documentation for XTF

Week of November 21, 2011

• Ports upgrades inside FreeBSD jails
• Storage
• Thanksgiving holiday

Week of November 28, 2011

• Storage
• Restore data from backup as requested
• Archive colet's data
• Decommission colet and proust: removed from server room, jinn
• Request cname record change for dvlf from NOC
• Set up garnet to use mac_portacl
• Install some ports in campub-xtf jail as requested
• Test Apache mod_ldap with ldap-dev.uchicago.edu
• Fix ports dependency problems on verso that were caused by various font ports changes a couple months ago
• Ports upgrades on FreeBSD hosts

Week of December 5, 2011

• Preparation for retiring samba service merlot
• Storage
• Reboot romulus after crash (perhaps due to faulty memory module)
• Install emacs-nox11 inside jail
• Locate and pass on info re: shibboleth@uchicago
• Set up photoarchive as an alias for archival-photofiles

Week of December 12, 2011

• Minor version upgrade of postgresql
• Disable SMC on legacy Solaris host
• Investigate and fix problems with EFTS redirect(s)
• Install openldap config updates due to uchicago LDAP server upgrade; then back out the updates after upgrade also backed out
• Re-install openldap config updates on Saturday
• Some security auditing on Solaris
• Update inetd.conf on acq

Week of December 19, 2011

• Security updates on III server
• Account maintenance: updated groups, starred out many locally set passwords
• Begin setup of mrbig replacement

Week of December 26, 2011

• FreeBSD security updates
• Install and configure TSM client on Arch Linux host
• WordPress upgrade on development site
• Downgraded subversion from 1.7 to 1.6 due to version incompatibility

Week of January 2, 2012

• Circumvent battling autorepliers involving one of our mail aliases
• Updates to user accounts
• Write script to check up on daily status of III server
• Troubleshoot new TSM installation (mrbig replacement)
• Set up TSM client to start via inittab (after rejecting dsmcad due to its unwanted web interface)
• New Apache vhost: fclsc.lib.uchicago.edu
• Troubleshoot report of new user unable to authenticate via ftp
• Ports upgrades inside FreeBSD jails
• Fix NFS mounting problem on duodecimo/jails (can't mount on top of a symlink)
• Install Ubuntu server LTS for configuration testing
• Wordpress upgrade on production site

Week of January 9, 2012

• Update some users with low UIDs to have higher UIDs: they are conflicting with base OS UIDs
• Set up users with NFS-mounted homedir+CNetID on Ubuntu
• Begin investigating setting up Tomcat with LDAP authentication
• Troubleshoot report of SFX/Ejournals down: passed to Matthew
• SFX/Ejournals down the following day; to Matthew
• Set up send-only email on Ubuntu/hedwig via exim4
• Assist two users with samba problems
• Set up a new FreeBSD jail on duodecimo; begin configuration
• PHP upgraded to latest security release on various servers
• Update some broken links to ITS sites in our documentation
• Create and send CSR for new site
• Install tomcat/XTF inside trustees-xtf jail

Week of January 16, 2012

• Install/configure SSL certificate tomcat/XTF
• Resume looking at storage configurations; get revised quote for octavo storage expansion
• III server upgrade meeting
• Removed Umlaut test setup (never used)
• Begin looking at FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE
• Upgraded openssl port where it was installed (security fix)

Week of January 23, 2012

• Disk failure on octavo: open with Dell support
• Work with Dell re: storage additions
• ...

Week of January 30, 2012

• Upgrade sudo (CVE 2012-0809) on several hosts
• Install emacs in jail topaz for chas
• Begin planning to relocate duodecimo's external storage to octavo
• Install rack rails to relocate mystique
• Updates to Apache config on gargantua to fix problems from porting one of its vhosts from an older server