[tech] Tech/Wheel Meeting 2021-09-05 14:00 - One hour reminder

Sun Sep 5 13:16:30 AWST 2021

Hi all,Unfortunately, this month's meeting conflicts with my softball final today, so I won't be able to attend.Cheers, James [MPT]
-------- Original message --------From: root <root at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Date: 5/9/21  13:00  (GMT+08:00) To: tech at ucc.asn.au Subject: [tech] Tech/Wheel Meeting 2021-09-05 14:00 - One hour reminder Tech/Wheel Meeting Agenda - Sunday 2021-09-05 14:00===================================================- VENUE: UCC Clubroom  - and online at https://meetings.ucc.asn.au/b/bob-yrk-uy6*Meeting opened hh:mm*## Attendance- Present- Apologies  - [NTU]- Absent## Next meeting- Schedule next meeting  - *day 2021-MM-ddThh:mm    - not too soon, let's have more doing than talking?  - ACTION: [???] Set and verify reminders of next meeting: `motsugo# crontab -e`    - Promptly update agenda.next with the TIME/DATE/VENUE    - Update the crontab: `motsugo# crontab -e`      - skip the `4day` , unless there's issues at `1week`    - Check at T-7days that the notice really went out, fix for T-4days if needed- Everyone, pre-meeting: Curate agenda.next## Optional items - choose at the start of the meeting- Ethical guidelines- Monitoring- Backups- Password rotations- New members- Quick check of ChangeLog- Lessons learnt## Known Broken Stuff- IPv6 inbound  - ACTION: [TEC] to email UWA IT- lard  - Still needs a spare PSU OR replacement with something less... fatty.  - ACTION: [???] to send email out requesting a 1U Cisco switch to replace Lard- samson the https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/ActiveDirectory server has no freshly built DC friends  - this is risky, a single-point-of-failure, which in turn depends on the running VM cluster  - something to do with the current configuration is probably why mussel    and mooneye still have auth problems    - can we upgrade or rebuild or document our way out of this?  - ...so making a quick clone and calling it "done" really isn't enough, continuous integration is called for?  - vucc testbed in https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/NewActiveDirectory## Matters arising previously## Extra items (rename/refile as appropriate)- Monitoring  - Drive health    - Uncorrectable errors, reallocated sectors, TBW on SSDs    - ACTION: [NTU] and [MTL] to work together on how best to start drive monitoring, and make it standard/SOE config via ansible- [MTL] continues looking at DNS  - Not much progress  - Have played with coredns for a resolving server    - Need to do some more testing of resolving internal UWA things (to check behaviours)  - Working on ansible to set up a primary DNS server  - Done a little bit of playing with Gitlab CI  - Need to finalise working out the best way to do this securely    - split out ucc.machines from zonemake.py code- Group Policy and Ansible on Windows machines  - ACTION: [333] to figure out most supported way to install official SSHD build on Windows  - ACTION: [MTL] promises to look at this in more detail once back in the clubroom, including WinRM  - Best host to run playbooks from for the Windows machines?- Post-O-Day account locking  - cleanup accounts e.g. `getent passwd|grep zv`, primary group memberships  - ACTION: [TEC] and [MPT] still need to get this sorted    - Specifically, the Comite™ get a list of people who haven't paid and send to Wheel, so we can do the locking, if James and Tim don't do the locking themselves- Staging storage server:  - [TEC] Old DELL R710 server[s] from dadams  - Store images or less selective backups onsite, for rapid recovery or offsite replication    - zfs send? btrfs send? borgbackup? expose to https://pbs.proxmox.com/ appliance?  - ACTION: [NTU] followup the previously budgetted 3.5" bulk backup drive purchase    - Done, drives bought      - https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/2021-March/005446.html      - https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/2021-August/005474.html    - Would like some extra caddies: 3.5" slots, 3.5" + 2.5" SATA drives      - https://discord.com/channels/264401248676085760/264401248676085760/878831917133353031      - https://discord.com/channels/264401248676085760/264401248676085760/879354657976229958      - 3D print? does [DBA] or anyone else at UWA Makers have the model?      - or ebay?- [MPT] Began (unofficial) discussions with [DBA] and CS faculty about making GPU compute accessible to students  - Potential for funding? No assurances yet  - What else would UCC need to buy/build to make it happen in our MR?  - Plan on 2021-07-18.txt to get moving on `loveday` upgrades - wait for this instead?    - or test with existing hardware?- ...so if `loveday` doesn't have upgrade quotes yet, how about `medico` -> `machops`?  - https://discord.com/channels/264401248676085760/264411219627212801/883522265466146869  - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mbszgk9T7FU0jGXrdTKXXLzW62vuOvqG3xZ-x9CpALE/edit?usp=sharing- Build and break a PC 2021-04-20, followup  - Brand new motherboard missing audio capacitor, but [DBA] will resolder it    - ACTION: [DBA] to resolder audio capacitor on new motherboard- ACTION: [MTL] to update Ansible scripts for mail*  - In response to spam campaign- Rebuild rather than upgrade `discord-irc` ?  - ansible driven install    - config files:      - `~discord/discord-irc-config.json`      - `/etc/systemd/system/discord-irc.service`    - this machine is a non-complicated test case?  - https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc    - requires Debian 11 "bullseye", DebianPkg:nodejs 12.x  - occasionally dies, config tweaks could help?    - https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc/issues/594    - `journalctl -xe -u discord-irc.service````Aug 31 17:45:40 discord-irc discord-irc[45040]: TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSONAug 31 17:45:40 discord-irc systemd[1]: discord-irc.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILUREAug 31 17:45:40 discord-irc systemd[1]: discord-irc.service: Start request repeated too quickly.```*Meeting closed hh:mm*----```# https://demo.hedgedoc.org/Hlsapf47RsqpgIjqLVfMUwcd /home/wheel/docs/meetingsHEDGEDOC_SERVER=https://demo.hedgedoc.org /home/wheel/bin/hedgedoc export --md Hlsapf47RsqpgIjqLVfMUw ./$(date +%Y-%m-%d).txtgit commit -am "Tech meeting minutes $(date +%Y-%m-%d)"```<!-- vim: tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab--><!-- Local Variables: --><!-- tab-width: 2 --><!-- End: -->_______________________________________________List Archives: http://lists.ucc.asn.au/pipermail/techUnsubscribe here: https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/tech/jimbo%40ucc.asn.au
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