Infrastructure Services

This page includes CSCF developer's notes, references and links on the School's IT provided services

Accounts/Authentication Management

• Accounts
• Xhier accounts
• TwoFactor
• CSCFActiveDirectory - Notes and documentation concerning the CSCF AD Forest
• Open Directory
• LDAP

Backup and Restore

• LegatoNetworker - used to backup most of our systems
• BackUps - various notes on how backups work in CS in the general and teaching environment

Configuration Management

• SaltStack - more recent configuration management tool (2015)
• XHier - the original MFCF-created software and configuration management tool

DHCP

• DHCPInCS - how DHCP is set up, quirks, related documentation
• DhcpDebug - DHCP Debugging tools
• DHCPHelperTool

Email Setup

• Email

File Services

• NetApp
• ZFS
• NextCloud - replacement for OwnCloud
• Vault - our new high-availability DropBox-like service built using NextCloud

File Systems

Topics concern anything to do with file systems. Of particular interest are network distributed filesystems like NFS, CIFS (samba), etc. Further consideration is given to authentication, authorization issues.

• Samba - CIFS support for non-windows platforms
• NFS - Network File Server as introduced to the world by Sun and available on Unix, Windows, MacOSX.
• SshFs - allows one to mount file using ssh protocol to a server that requires no additional configuration beyond having an ssh server running.
• LtspFS - an experimental file system developed by the Linux terminal server project, sound intriguing.
• DfsC - Ceph distributed filesystem and object storage

Imaging Systems for Fast Installation

• Grad Workstation Schedule
• Creating the Grad workstation image
• Deploying Grad image
• Notes on particular Grad images, problems and wish list
• ImagesByMotherboard - Images referenced by make/model/motherboard

• Old ways of dealing with the Grad image.
  • ImageDeployment
  • SystemImager - primarily for Linux only
  • CreatingImage
  • CscfImagingWorkstation (current in the private twiki, should it be moved the public?)
• CSApplicationServer - various howto documents

Internal Tools and Services

• HardwareCensus - Tools for gathering and storing information about deployed hardware

Lab and Machine Room infrastructure and security

• HardwareLab-DC2560G - organization and use of the Hardware Lab
• MachineRoom - machine Room notes
• PhysicalSecurity
• MachineRoomRacks
• KVMs
• UPS
• EnvironmentalMonitoring
• CycladesUsage - Links to Console server usage for MFCF and CSCF
• CycladesConfigurationProject - notes and documentation on CSCF core project
• CycladesUpgrade140dash3 - upgrading a Cyclades TS2000 from 1.3.4 to 1.4.0-3
• StarTechKVM - Notes on using StarTech KVMs (eg. kvm3.cscf.cs)
• ThinClients - Basic Terminals for Remote Access of CSCF Systems
• NetTop - notes on configuring and using the NetTop

Meetings (Group)

• July 2012 Infrastructure Group Meeting

Networks and Firewalls

• Networking
• NetworkLoadBalancing

Operating Systems (generic notes universal to all environments)

• FreeBSD
• Irix
• Linux
• UbuntuLTSP
• Macintosh
• Solaris
• Windows
• OpenBSD

Printing and Scanning

• Printing
• Scanning
• PrintingQueues - setting up printing on Unix and Linux
• RicohAficio1022OnDebian - the RSG have a Ricoh Aficio 1022 printer/copier, here's how we made it work
• RicohAficio1022OnWindows - here is how to add the printer in the new CSCF printer room

Resource and Service Monitoring (ie. Cacti, Nagios)

• OpenManageSNMP - Configuring a Dell PowerEdge to be monitored via Nagios.cscf using SNMP
• HPHealthSNMP - Configuring an HP Proliant server to be monitored via Nagios.cscf using SNMP
• Cacti
• CactiMonitoring
• NagiosMonitoring

Software

• LicenseKeys - information on license keys in CS
• MicrosoftOfficeLicenseKey

Surplussing Old Equipment

• SurplusEquipment - Notes on surplussing old equipment

Virtual Machines

• VirtualMachines - a collection page for information on various virtual machine technologies
  • VMWare
  • VirtualBox - Sun/Oracle's open source version

Web Hosting Services

• How to set up a virtual host on the cs.uwaterloo.ca cluster SCSVirtualWebConfig

Macintosh

• DeployStudio - notes on using and configuring deploystudio

Yet-to-be-categorized Notes

• KioskSetup - notes on setting up the graphical CS Kiosk layout
• MirrorDotCS - notes on mirror.cs
• RequestTrackingSuggestions - things we'd like to see fixed/added/changed in ST itself
• Stratum1NTPRpi - documentation on our Raspberry Pi based Stratum 1 NTP servers