Vastra

The 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.

Hardware

• 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
• 16 GB RAM
• 80 GB Samsung SSD
• 2 TB Seagate green drive

History

2015-12-10 Clean install Debian 8 on SuperMicro hardware (used to be on Intel NUC hardware used to build Vorpal) 2015-06 Updated to Debian 8 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
apt-get -y install python-cherrypy

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??

Even if I don't use a Vastra server to host email, IMAP is still a great way to store and manage voicemail messages. 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 via email the server will turn off your MWI lights everywhere.

Postfix + Dovecot + Asterisk