[Mageia-sysadm] [LONG] new server to name and password handling

Wed Jan 5 18:04:21 CET 2011

Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 17:31 +0100, Raphaël Gertz a écrit :
+> Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 16:45:53, Luca Berra a écrit :
+> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:00:40AM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> > >Online.net, thanks to Raphael Gertz efforts. The specs ( in french, I
+> > >can translate if Babelfish is not enough ) are here :
+> > >http://www.online.net/serveur-dedie/offre-dedibox-pro.xhtml
+> Server will be upgraded tonight (powered off few minutes) with 16GB ram + idrac 
+> entreprise card. (it was planed to be done around 22-23h pm today)
+
+Thanks.
+
+So the idrac card also requires a password :)
+
+> The processor support hw virtualisation if you want with 8 physical core.
+
+Yup, but at this stage, we do not requires any server, but that could
+indeed help.
+
+> > >Why raid 0 ( or 1+0 ) ? The server main use will be iso creation ( for
+> > 
+> > the dell R210 in the specs only has space for two SATA drives (uning the
+> > integrated Perc Raid Controller)
+> > so it will probably be configurd as a HW mirror, and that's it.
+> 
+> It is configured ad RAID1 by default, you see only one big hard disk.
+
+of 2 To ?
+
+
+> You have 2 way to achive what you want :
+> - setup with web access a mdv2010.1 without lvm on the hw card
+> - re-setup completely the raid from bios, then install with a live-cd through 
+> network using the kvm+virtual media. (you need to do a dummy install first + 
+> wait tomorow for that)
+
+Well, setting what we want is less a issue that knowing what we want
+first..
+
+If we can have raid 0+1 on hardware, that would be the best I guess.
+
+
+> > So we need to :
+> > - define the list of login/password/url to store there. On top of my
+> > head, I would say :
+> >   - web interface for online.net ( anne and I )
+> >   - impi interface password ( not set yet )
+> Ipmi isn't accessible publicly (reboot feature and virtual kvm is avaible in 
+> online web interface).
+
+Oki, so one less to manage, but still the other to do :)
+
+> >   - bios password, if any, ( I think we didn't set them )
+> Plz don't set bios password.
+
+I am speaking of the server at LO datacenter
+
+> > - dns domain at gandi.net, ( romain should have it )
+> If you transfer it on online account i can flag the domain(s) as gift (plz just 
+> wait wednesday for the xfer).
+
+How would that solve the issue of keeping the password ?
+( I see this could save us 12 euros per year, but that's enough to pay
+us 1/3 beer per sysadm in Paris, that's not much )
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+