ClusterSysadminClass

Cluster System Administrator Class

Meeting: Tuesdays, starting January 24th until March 7th, from 7:00pm to 9:30pm

• Syllabus
• RHEL 6 documentation
• RHEL Installation Guide

March 7th

• Setup TORQUE
• TORQUE rpms
• Lecture Notes for TORQUE

February 21st and 28th, 2017

• Setup iptables
• Setup NTP server
• Setup LDAP server (SLAPD)
• Setup NFS
• SSH security
• Re-configure kickstart
• Re-install nodes
• Set nodes to boot off local disk
• Lecture Notes
• Config Files

February 7th and 14th, 2017

• Disable iptables/selinux
• Finish setting up DNS
• Setup DHCP
• Configure mgmt node's wired network port to use new DNS server
• Setup httpd
  • Copy CentOS 6 installation files (CentOS/6.8/x86_64)
• Configure yum to use local repo
• Setup PXE server
• Modify DHCP to PXE boot
• Configure Kickstart config file
• Lecture Notes
• Config Files

January 31st, 2017

• Reinstall mgmt nodes with more full featured install
• Setup wireless networking on mgmt node
• Networking
  • Lecture notes
  • OSI Model
  • IP Subnet Calculator
• Lecture Notes
• Config Files
  • #Errata: In dhcpd.conf, change the domain-name-server on line 30 to be 192.168.2.30
    • This is fixed in current version of the tarball

January 24th, 2017

• Setup hardware