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The cool thing about this little 1U server is that it has full IPMI
Vastra was an Asterisk phone system that was going to be productized, but it didn't happen.
We ended up building 4 systems, one for a real estate listing service,
one for an office building full of lawyers, one for an Internet service provider,
and this one that later became [[Bellman]].
 
Two are built on this Supermicro platform and two are built on Intel NUC's.
 
Vastra is also the name of a green saurian woman in Doctor Who. This is actually coincidental.
 
== Supermicro Hardware ==
 
One cool thing about this little 1U server is that it has full IPMI
hardware in it, so it can be fully controlled from an ethernet port.
hardware in it, so it can be fully controlled from an ethernet port.
Powered off and on, bios settings adjusted, everything.
Powered off and on, bios settings adjusted, everything.


Also cool that it has 4 1000BT ethernet ports.
Also cool that it has 4 1000BT ethernet ports. I used it as my home gateway / firewall / router for a time.
 
== Hardware ==


* Supermicro 5018-FTN4 1U chassis
* Supermicro 5018-FTN4 1U chassis
* Supermicro A1SAi/A1SRi, BIOS 1.0c 02/27/2014
* Supermicro A1SAi/A1SRi, BIOS 1.0c 02/27/2014
* Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  C2758  @ 2.40GHz (8 cores) 38396.16 BogoMIPS
* Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  C2758  @ 2.40GHz (8 cores) 38396.16 BogoMIPS
* 16 GB RAM
* 32 GB RAM
* 80 GB Samsung SSD
* 750 GB Samsung SSD
* 2 TB Seagate green drive
* 8 TB Seagate archive drive


== History ==
== History ==


2015-12-10 Clean install Debian 8 on SuperMicro hardware (used to be on Intel NUC hardware used to build [[Vorpal]])
* 2015-12-10 Clean install Debian 8 on SuperMicro hardware (used to be on Intel NUC hardware.
2015-06 Updated to Debian 8
* 2015-06 Updated to Debian 8
2012-12 Set up with Debian 7
* 2012-12 Set up with Debian 7
 
== Network ports ==
 
IPMI management console: http://192.168.2.240/
 
eth0 10.0.0.202
eth1 unused
eth2 unused
eth3 unused
 
== Debian Jessie (8.) ==
 
FYI when I upgraded the Intel NUC remotely from 7 to 8 I was locked out. BB fixed it, I never found out what went wrong.
 
=== Packages ===
 
apt-get -y install emacs rsync sudo
# Not sure if this is needed.
apt-get -y install  erlang-esdl-dev
 
apt-get -y install dovecot-imapd dovecot-mysql squirrelmail libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules
apt-get -y install postfix postfix-mysql mysql-server mysql-client
apt-get -y install festival festival-dev libsdl-dev
apt-get -u purge exim4
apt-get -y install fail2ban
 
See also the packages listed in [[Building Asterisk 13]]
 
=== For cool web stuff ===
 
apt-get -y postfixadmin phpmyadmin
apt-get -y install mediawiki
apt-get -y install libapache2-mod-wsgi
 
Remote access for mediawiki, see also [[OpenVPN]] to set it up.
apt-get -y install dnsmasq
 
=== Network monitoring and debugging ===
 
apt-get -y install tcpdump
apt-get -y install cacti squid


== Postfix and IMAP and MySQL?? ==
I purged the rest of this page.


Even if I don't use a Vastra server to host email, IMAP is still a great way to store and manage voicemail messages.
I have private notes still on building Vastra but when it started to turn into a commercial project
If you CAN set up an email client to read the messages (leaving them on the server) then when you have read all of them
I stopped updating this page. Now that the project is dead I should move my notes in here.
via email the server will turn off your MWI lights everywhere.  


[[Postfix + Dovecot + Asterisk]]
I learned how to use Ansible and I can build a Vastra system from bare hardware to up and running in about 10 minutes.
I got that far, then we deep sixed the startup. Oh well. For a short time I had killer ansible knowledge.


[[Category: Don't Panic!]]
[[Category: Telephones]]
[[Category: VOIP]]
[[Category: System Administration]]
[[Category: System Administration]]

Latest revision as of 15:55, 31 August 2022

Vastra was an Asterisk phone system that was going to be productized, but it didn't happen. We ended up building 4 systems, one for a real estate listing service, one for an office building full of lawyers, one for an Internet service provider, and this one that later became Bellman.

Two are built on this Supermicro platform and two are built on Intel NUC's.

Vastra is also the name of a green saurian woman in Doctor Who. This is actually coincidental.

Supermicro Hardware

One cool thing about this little 1U server is that it has full IPMI hardware in it, so it can be fully controlled from an ethernet port. Powered off and on, bios settings adjusted, everything.

Also cool that it has 4 1000BT ethernet ports. I used it as my home gateway / firewall / router for a time.

  • Supermicro 5018-FTN4 1U chassis
  • Supermicro A1SAi/A1SRi, BIOS 1.0c 02/27/2014
  • Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz (8 cores) 38396.16 BogoMIPS
  • 32 GB RAM
  • 750 GB Samsung SSD
  • 8 TB Seagate archive drive

History

  • 2015-12-10 Clean install Debian 8 on SuperMicro hardware (used to be on Intel NUC hardware.
  • 2015-06 Updated to Debian 8
  • 2012-12 Set up with Debian 7

I purged the rest of this page.

I have private notes still on building Vastra but when it started to turn into a commercial project I stopped updating this page. Now that the project is dead I should move my notes in here.

I learned how to use Ansible and I can build a Vastra system from bare hardware to up and running in about 10 minutes. I got that far, then we deep sixed the startup. Oh well. For a short time I had killer ansible knowledge.

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