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The following is a list of items requiring attention, in order of priority:
- Reinstall OS on Pegasus.
- Measure usage on each machine using PBS/Torque accounting tools
- Diagnose Quantum2 nodes with bad HDD drives, order replacements.
- Physically move and connect Pegasus backup machine, currently on top of old Cyrus2. Reinstall OS if needed.
- Deactivate Iapetus cluster in E40 computer room and remove.
- Physically remove old towers on wire shelves in E40 computer room.
- Clean up our junk in NE47-181 and E40-008: throw away boxes, remove wire shelving on wheels, remove old Cyrus2 cluster.
- Find better way to manage user data after they leave the group
Backup services
Backup service for our four clusters is provided by MIT TSM. This comes at a cost of $65 per month per system.
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3. TSM software for linux can be downloaded from the IS&T website. The installation procedure for a new Ubuntu version is described here.
4. The older version of the software is written for RHL5 and is available as an rpm. 4. Install the "ksh" package and the "alien" package. ksh is needed since several of the scripts included with TSM use ksh. More important is "alien" as, this allows users to install RPM packages on Ubuntu or other Debian-based distributions.
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$ sudo apt-get install ksh alien |
5. Use The next step is to use alien to install the appropriate RPMs:
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# nohup /usr/bin/dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 & |
TSM registration information
The four clusters backed up with TSM have the following registration information. The TSM system automatically assigns an initial password (newpass), but according to the registration e-mail, this will be automatically changed to a new, encrypted password, and stored on the machine after the first connection to the TSM servers.
Darius2
Server: oc11-bk-ent-1.mit.edu
Nodename: DARIUS2.CSBI
Schedule: BUS-0700
Darius1
Server: backup-i.mit.edu
Nodename: DARIUS1.CSBI
Schedule: BUS-2400
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