Today's tasks were to get the monitoring we do to that server set up correctly, and fix niggling things. The monitoring was actually pretty fast. I had done my homework on that one, and getting the new configs in was pretty trouble free.
One of the bigger niggling things was LDAP. This is more of a left-over of the meltdown we had this May. The servers that drive the single-signon for most of campus objected to the certificate that Hera was presenting. That got routed around, but it got a couple of us into the thick of things. Getting nldap on linux to present a new certificate isn't quite a simple as it is on NetWare. It isn't easy either place, but it took more... whacking to get the change to truly take on Linux.
Also, all of the replicas have been put back onto Hera. And weirdly, our total CPU usage is higher than it was before the change. WHA? The inverse of that was the goal of the whole change in the first place. We'll see how thing go once we get some normal usage under our belts. All the poking I'm doing on the server is taking cycles, and importing whole replicas is CPU intensive as it is.
Happily, I created an 'installation server' local to that machine so I don't have to feed CD's if I need to install something or other. I haven't decided if I'll make this network-accessible or not, as we have exactly zero further OES-Linux servers in the pipeline. But still. It'll save time.
Tags: novell, oes
One of the bigger niggling things was LDAP. This is more of a left-over of the meltdown we had this May. The servers that drive the single-signon for most of campus objected to the certificate that Hera was presenting. That got routed around, but it got a couple of us into the thick of things. Getting nldap on linux to present a new certificate isn't quite a simple as it is on NetWare. It isn't easy either place, but it took more... whacking to get the change to truly take on Linux.
Also, all of the replicas have been put back onto Hera. And weirdly, our total CPU usage is higher than it was before the change. WHA? The inverse of that was the goal of the whole change in the first place. We'll see how thing go once we get some normal usage under our belts. All the poking I'm doing on the server is taking cycles, and importing whole replicas is CPU intensive as it is.
Happily, I created an 'installation server' local to that machine so I don't have to feed CD's if I need to install something or other. I haven't decided if I'll make this network-accessible or not, as we have exactly zero further OES-Linux servers in the pipeline. But still. It'll save time.
Tags: novell, oes