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APC Hardware This page will describe maintanence tasks and miscellanous information on the APC hardware used in the MSU server room (PDUs and Rack Air Removal Uni...
Intro A simple example of how to get Condor to run Athena jobs. Submitting a Simple Fastsim Job Transform Make a file called test.cmd. This sets up the basic co...
Common Tasks This page covers the common tasks for the MSU sysadmin and the privilege level required to perform it. Tier 2 root * Rebuild file server nonroo...
Installation of EX9208 Installation steps 1 Lowering of existing junipers At risk, 3 person job 1 Move fiber box 'aside' to the top of the rack, and a...
Hardware Deployment This page will discuss the steps to deploy new hardware in the MSU server room. Preparing for a purchase Determine resource usage * Where...
KVM at MSU While most of the VM infrastructure resides within vSphere, we want to keep a backup windows install with the standalone client to debug problems with ...
These instructions use scripts and files found on senna at /home/koll/ * indicates step contains drill specific instructions Drill Preparation* * Check that ...
Running a single command on condor runcommand.sh is a script for submitting a single line to be executed on the MSU tier 3 without having to mess around with cond...
MSU Tier 2 Administration MSU's computing resources make up approximately half of AGLT2. These machines are jointly administrated by MSU and UM. This page will br...
User Info for MSU Tier3 Regulations Your usage of the cluster must conform with MSU's acceptible use statement http://www.msu.edu/au/ Privacy The cluster is a m...
MSU Tripp Lite UPS The storage racks at MSU have Tripp Lite SU6000RT3UHV UPSs. These are 6KVA models. One of the two PDU (power strips) in the rack is fed from ...
Migrating VMs into ESXI Once VMs are in ESXI, sloshing them between hosts is easy. But moving existing hardware and VMs into ESXI can be a little tricky. VMware p...
Routine Tasks This page will describe the tasks that must be done on a regular basis. Daily * Check email from users / admins / ticketing system / monitoring ...
Startup and Shutdown This page will describe the shutdown and start up procedures for the cluster Unplanned power problems This will be a discussion of how to gr...
Configuring new storage This page describes how to configure newly purchased storage. 1 Start server 1 At BIOS prompt for storage controller setup, press Ct...
0. Useful webpages This webpage is a mix between a tutorial and reference. If you are just interested in a quick overview of useful condor commands, just google "...
Useful Links This page will link to many pages useful for day to day administration Monitoring * Ganglia Monitoring * PerfSonar (latency) (bandwidth) * ...
Intoduction CFEngine controls the configuration of many systems in the aglt2 cluster. The configuration settings are stored in an svn repository to aid in version...
Build/Rebuild a ROCKS Worker Node Recipe for rebuilding a ROCKS worker node. Includes defining the node on frontend using "nodeinfo" setup. ROCKS default way of a...
Dell Management How to update firmware 1 Move all running VMs to the host you are not going to update 1 Click on the datacenter (bps 1221 in MSU's case) an...
ESXi Patches This page describes how to patch the ESXi hosts Installing patches For each host you want to update, do the following steps: 1 Click on the host...
Moving msu vcenter to aglt2.org msu vcenter was initially configured to run on the internal network. After some discussion with Shawn, it was decided that it woul...
vSphere Replication Appliance The vSphere Replication Appliance can be used to maintain a copy of a VM. At AGLT2 we will use it to keep copies of VMs from UM at M...