<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi all,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Unfortunately, this month's meeting conflicts with my softball final today, so I won't be able to attend.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers, </div><div dir="auto">James [MPT]</div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: root <root@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> </div><div>Date: 5/9/21 13:00 (GMT+08:00) </div><div>To: tech@ucc.asn.au </div><div>Subject: [tech] Tech/Wheel Meeting 2021-09-05 14:00 - One hour reminder </div><div><br></div></div>Tech/Wheel Meeting Agenda - Sunday 2021-09-05 14:00<br>===================================================<br>- VENUE: UCC Clubroom<br> - and online at https://meetings.ucc.asn.au/b/bob-yrk-uy6<br><br>*Meeting opened hh:mm*<br><br>## Attendance<br>- Present<br>- Apologies<br> - [NTU]<br>- Absent<br><br>## Next meeting<br>- Schedule next meeting<br> - *day 2021-MM-ddThh:mm<br> - not too soon, let's have more doing than talking?<br> - ACTION: [???] Set and verify reminders of next meeting: `motsugo# crontab -e`<br> - Promptly update agenda.next with the TIME/DATE/VENUE<br> - Update the crontab: `motsugo# crontab -e`<br> - skip the `4day` , unless there's issues at `1week`<br> - Check at T-7days that the notice really went out, fix for T-4days if needed<br>- Everyone, pre-meeting: Curate agenda.next<br><br>## Optional items - choose at the start of the meeting<br>- Ethical guidelines<br>- Monitoring<br>- Backups<br>- Password rotations<br>- New members<br>- Quick check of ChangeLog<br>- Lessons learnt<br><br>## Known Broken Stuff<br>- IPv6 inbound<br> - ACTION: [TEC] to email UWA IT<br>- lard<br> - Still needs a spare PSU OR replacement with something less... fatty.<br> - ACTION: [???] to send email out requesting a 1U Cisco switch to replace Lard<br>- samson the https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/ActiveDirectory server has no freshly built DC friends<br> - this is risky, a single-point-of-failure, which in turn depends on the running VM cluster<br> - something to do with the current configuration is probably why mussel<br> and mooneye still have auth problems<br> - can we upgrade or rebuild or document our way out of this?<br> - ...so making a quick clone and calling it "done" really isn't enough, continuous integration is called for?<br> - vucc testbed in https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/NewActiveDirectory<br><br>## Matters arising previously<br><br>## Extra items (rename/refile as appropriate)<br>- Monitoring<br> - Drive health<br> - Uncorrectable errors, reallocated sectors, TBW on SSDs<br> - ACTION: [NTU] and [MTL] to work together on how best to start drive monitoring, and make it standard/SOE config via ansible<br><br>- [MTL] continues looking at DNS<br> - Not much progress<br> - Have played with coredns for a resolving server<br> - Need to do some more testing of resolving internal UWA things (to check behaviours)<br> - Working on ansible to set up a primary DNS server<br> - Done a little bit of playing with Gitlab CI<br> - Need to finalise working out the best way to do this securely<br> - split out ucc.machines from zonemake.py code<br><br>- Group Policy and Ansible on Windows machines<br> - ACTION: [333] to figure out most supported way to install official SSHD build on Windows<br> - ACTION: [MTL] promises to look at this in more detail once back in the clubroom, including WinRM<br> - Best host to run playbooks from for the Windows machines?<br><br>- Post-O-Day account locking<br> - cleanup accounts e.g. `getent passwd|grep zv`, primary group memberships<br> - ACTION: [TEC] and [MPT] still need to get this sorted<br> - 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<br><br>- Staging storage server:<br> - [TEC] Old DELL R710 server[s] from dadams<br> - Store images or less selective backups onsite, for rapid recovery or offsite replication<br> - zfs send? btrfs send? borgbackup? expose to https://pbs.proxmox.com/ appliance?<br> - ACTION: [NTU] followup the previously budgetted 3.5" bulk backup drive purchase<br> - Done, drives bought<br> - https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/2021-March/005446.html<br> - https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/2021-August/005474.html<br> - Would like some extra caddies: 3.5" slots, 3.5" + 2.5" SATA drives<br> - https://discord.com/channels/264401248676085760/264401248676085760/878831917133353031<br> - https://discord.com/channels/264401248676085760/264401248676085760/879354657976229958<br> - 3D print? does [DBA] or anyone else at UWA Makers have the model?<br> - or ebay?<br><br>- [MPT] Began (unofficial) discussions with [DBA] and CS faculty about making GPU compute accessible to students<br> - Potential for funding? No assurances yet<br> - What else would UCC need to buy/build to make it happen in our MR?<br> - Plan on 2021-07-18.txt to get moving on `loveday` upgrades - wait for this instead?<br> - or test with existing hardware?<br><br>- ...so if `loveday` doesn't have upgrade quotes yet, how about `medico` -> `machops`?<br> - https://discord.com/channels/264401248676085760/264411219627212801/883522265466146869<br> - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mbszgk9T7FU0jGXrdTKXXLzW62vuOvqG3xZ-x9CpALE/edit?usp=sharing<br><br>- Build and break a PC 2021-04-20, followup<br> - Brand new motherboard missing audio capacitor, but [DBA] will resolder it<br> - ACTION: [DBA] to resolder audio capacitor on new motherboard<br><br>- ACTION: [MTL] to update Ansible scripts for mail*<br> - In response to spam campaign<br><br>- Rebuild rather than upgrade `discord-irc` ?<br> - ansible driven install<br> - config files:<br> - `~discord/discord-irc-config.json`<br> - `/etc/systemd/system/discord-irc.service`<br> - this machine is a non-complicated test case?<br> - https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc<br> - requires Debian 11 "bullseye", DebianPkg:nodejs 12.x<br> - occasionally dies, config tweaks could help?<br> - https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc/issues/594<br> - `journalctl -xe -u discord-irc.service`<br>```<br>Aug 31 17:45:40 discord-irc discord-irc[45040]: TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON<br>Aug 31 17:45:40 discord-irc systemd[1]: discord-irc.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE<br>Aug 31 17:45:40 discord-irc systemd[1]: discord-irc.service: Start request repeated too quickly.<br>```<br><br>*Meeting closed hh:mm*<br><br>----<br><br>```<br># https://demo.hedgedoc.org/Hlsapf47RsqpgIjqLVfMUw<br>cd /home/wheel/docs/meetings<br>HEDGEDOC_SERVER=https://demo.hedgedoc.org /home/wheel/bin/hedgedoc export --md Hlsapf47RsqpgIjqLVfMUw ./$(date +%Y-%m-%d).txt<br>git commit -am "Tech meeting minutes $(date +%Y-%m-%d)"<br>```<br><br><!-- vim: tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab<br>--><br><!-- Local Variables: --><br><!-- tab-width: 2 --><br><!-- End: --><br>_______________________________________________<br>List Archives: http://lists.ucc.asn.au/pipermail/tech<br><br>Unsubscribe here: https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/mailman/options/tech/jimbo%40ucc.asn.au<br></body></html>