Misc Projects and Todos

From Laen

Linux

• Linux cfengine
• Linux Installation Procedure
• Linux Standards
• Linux sudoers
• Linux directory structures (/etc/local & /local)
• Linux rlogin links
• SuSE 10.1 & 10.2 "smart" (the package tool) configuration
• Linux autofs script in cfengine
• /etc/passwd /etc/shadow (compat) in cfengine.
• auto-collect ssh public keys from Linux boxen
• Sendmail installation
• Linux Xen Environment
• Xombies environment.
• Setup other autoyast profiles
• Linux syslog -> loghost.
• Linux desktop config
  • ..for developers..
  • ..Okay, mostly for SVT

Other

• Convert fileserver to ZFS
• distcc farm
• Trigger script that watches a directory and triggers actions based on what files appear in there.
• Simple Queue Service
• Fix /netprinter
• Add /netprinter to Solaris
• Reclaim "wasp" (blade 100) from trevors (if he doesn't want it anymore)

• Network for the new rack
• Datacenter design (network / SAN plan)

• Subversion server on rootd
  • Store BIND configs in subversion
  • Store NIS maps in subversion

• Migrate from rdist to cfengine
• Write up some tasty systems documentation
• Upgrade ClamAV on fileservers
• Monitor script for ClamAV

• Monitor top procs on all systems
• Automate adding new hosts to Cacti
• Setup log monitoring and alerting
• Remove "loghost" /etc/hosts entries on everything
• Reinstall splunk
• Build new yin and yang
  • Reclaim locutus
  • Default "NIS slave" configuration
  • Setup directory structure for BIND, pri + secondary
  • Setup init scripts
  • Monitoring scripts for NIS and BIND
• On-host monitoring framework (NRPE)?

• Rebuild delphi into Xen farm
• Setup serial consoles for the X4100s

• Setup search engine
• Setup tomcat cluster
• Setup messaging server (Jabber?)
• Mirror apache setup on Lizard
• Patch Management
  • Gather patch reports with pca
  • Schedule downtimes
  • Apply and reboot

• Replace "tips" with something better (why?)

• AMGH on Sunrays
• /apps caching on Solaris

• Mail environment hacking
  • Replace pogo
  • Separate mailscanner/clamav to new hardware
  • Separate majordomo to new hardware
  • Replace the IMAPd with dovecot

• IPFilters for Solaris 10 environment
• Apache cleanup
  • Add UserInfo.php auth
  • Instatiation script for new installs
    • init script
    • log rotator
    • monitoring script
• Write provisioning script for MySQL

• Install FreeRADIUS (why?)
• Setup tripwire/samhain/BSM to monitor file changes.
• Linux install procedure
• Conserver
  • Feed console logs into log monitoring system
• Convert Synchronize to iCal

• flexlm
  • init script (start them up individually)
  • status/monitoring script (which are running, how many licenses are checked out)

• HostDB
  • Configuration directory of all hosts
  • Tagging system.

• Automatically track changes to /etc and /etc/local into an RCS
• Build a host and service dependency tree
• Built monitoring and auditing into every critical script.

• autoconf config.site file

• Documentation
  • Nagios
  • Cfengine
  • Solaris 10

• Test Scripts
  • How do we know that a

ZFS Migration

The problem:

Useful Storage Metrics:

• How many IOPS per volume?
• How many IOPS per disk array?