[tech] [wheel] Tech "Fix-Up" - 1-6pm Monday 17th June - Volunteers needed!

[Felix von Perger]

Hi all,

UCC is running a tech "fix-up" on *Monday 17th June 2019*, starting 1pm 
and going until late. *Food will be provided* during the event for all 
participants, and we'll probably aim to go past Chelsea's Pizza in 
Nedlands for dinner around 5:30pm. *No prior experience 
necessary***(although recommended).

Essentially the purpose of the event is to get people together doing 
stuff with UCC's systems, and perform a range of maintenance tasks at 
the same time. I'd like to make the event as much of a learning 
opportunity as possible while still getting things done, so I'd like to 
ask anyone who has technical skills or knowledge relating to any of the 
tasks to consider coming along and sharing.

In terms of the structure of the event, I'd suggest that people pick a 
few tasks to work on in pairs or small groups with not too vastly 
dissimilar levels of skill/experience. I'd also like to give non-wheel 
members an opportunity to deal with the administration side of things, 
which should not be a problem with adequate supervision - as such, *we 
will need as many wheel members as possible* to keep things running 
smoothly, so please come if you are available during the event.

Regarding tasks, these were mostly taken from the last wheel meeting. 
See below for a roughly organised list:

> ### Easy
> - Indexing and verifying Out-Of-Band management logins
> 	- Must be checked/updated in DNS
> 	- Make sure passwords are not default, and properly recorded
> - Produce & print document with startup/shutdown orders
> - Check that NFS mounts remount properly on boot
> 	- merlo, eggman, samson, mooneye
> - Installing updated windows server VM in the cluster
> - Install SSD's in desktops (cichlid, corydoras, corvo)
> - Installing new parts in desktops generally
> - Possibly moving desktops around, locations to be decided
>
> ### Moderate
> - Upgrading firmware on the two working IBM x3550 M4 servers, prior to selling
> - Getting new Cisco server configured as proxmox VM host
> - Installing / configuring the PCIe SSD as ZFS cache drive for molmol
> - Rebuilding mooneye into separate VMs
> 	- Mail server (postfix) / IMAP/POP3 server (dovecot)
> 	- Mailing lists (mailman)
> 	- DNS
> - Uploading etckeeper repositories to central Git server [Optional]
>    (etckeeper keeps track of configuration files on Linux, using Git as a version control backend)
> - Moving patch cables around in the Cameron Hall comms cupboard to use separate cables for the uplink and for other clubs
> - Move webcams to a separate VLAN (so they aren't on the clubroom network)
> - Configuring monitoring software on clubroom machines & servers
> 	- This may be using LibreNMS, or other software depending on what people want to do
> 	- Temperature monitoring in the machine room
>
> ### Hard, definitely requiring technical expertise
> - Upgrading bitumen's chassis (we have two spare units which may be compatible)
> 	- Bitumen is the UCC's core network switch, and taking it out will break the network completely
> - Upgrade FreeBSD on molmol
> 	- This is urgent and will require most UCC services to be shut down
>
> ### Almost impossible / extremely frustrating
> - Consolidating random nested git repositories all over UCC systems [Optional]
> 	- Some of the repositories contain stuff that shouldn't be public (like passwords), but most of them are just in weird places and contain too much junk

Hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Felix von Perger [FVP]
/*UCC President*/

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