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They all run ssh and use the ~/.ssh/fish ssh key on netbootyboxxy. | They all run ssh and use the ~/.ssh/fish ssh key on netbootyboxxy. | ||
if they are doing the hardware inventory then they will hit apache to get | if they are doing the hardware inventory then they will hit apache to get their MAC address so you can work out their ip to ssh to (the dhcp or tftp logs work too) | ||
* ssh -i ~/.ssh/fish root@10.192.38.something | * ssh -i ~/.ssh/fish root@10.192.38.something | ||
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the number after the 5 is the port number (p5 etc). | the number after the 5 is the port number (p5 etc). | ||
== hardware info files == | == hardware info files == | ||
Revision as of 19:47, 1 December 2010
pxelinux setup
The pxelinux config is:
/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
(yes, pxelinux.cfg is a directory).
also see /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf for some pxelinux options.
working with the boot image
The booted servers don't have internet access (someone want to setup NAT on netbootyboxxy?), so to install packages on the netboot image:
chroot /exports/roroot /bin/bash
Then run aptitude or whatever it is you want to do.
accessing booted servers
They all run ssh and use the ~/.ssh/fish ssh key on netbootyboxxy.
if they are doing the hardware inventory then they will hit apache to get their MAC address so you can work out their ip to ssh to (the dhcp or tftp logs work too)
- ssh -i ~/.ssh/fish root@10.192.38.something
The tw_cli command line tool can reconfigure the megaraid controllers without having to go into the bios, i'm not sure it's any faster tho (it's in roots home dir on the netboot image).
use:
/c0 show
to see whats going on on the controller
delete units with:
/c0/u2 del
(to delete unit 2)
and then to create JBOD disks:
/c0 add type=JBOD disk=5
the number after the 5 is the port number (p5 etc).
hardware info files
The script is just rc.local
Files dumped under /export/records/mac-address/
| biosdecode | biosdecode output, not very useful |
| dimms | output of the decode-dimms script, relies on the i2c modules working properly, which is quite motherboard specific, useful when it works tho. |
| dmidecode | dmidecode output, should have motherboard model and bios date etc.. |
| dmraid-b | lists block devices that dmraid finds |
| dmraid-r | lists raid devices that dmraid finds, if any. |
| env.txt | dump of the environment, useful for debugging |
| hwinfo | hwinfo dump, includes loads of debugging info, but some useful stuff in there. |
| lshw | human readable lshw output |
| lshw-xml | xml format dump of lshw |
| smartctl-a-:dev:<disk> | smartctl -a for the disk - lots of info |
| smartctl-H-:dev:<disk> | smartctl -H for the disk, smart pass/fail |
TODO
- make the bootimage readonly (I looked at nfsbooted, but wasn't sure it did what we wanted)
- look at adding dwipe (the wipeing component of dban) to the image
- write scripts for report generation of the hardware we have for ebay listing purposes.
- add an seti@home option
- and maybe povray
- workout why smartctl (?) sometime core dumps with -H
- XXX find a way of mapping the current machine catagory/number to the dumped records.
- does pxe tell us if the machine is 64bit capable?
- add a 32bit image.
- add mcelog : http://freshmeat.net/projects/mcelog/
LinkDump
http://lena.franken.de/linux/3ware/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Opteron_microprocessors
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Diskless_Workstation
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Menu
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetworkConsole
