Helena

History

2014 Jun 19 -- installed icinga and started configuration 2014 Jun 06 -- built from scrap parts. Mostly from the AccessPort Mt St Helena router.

Hardware

• 4U rack case
• Intel desktop Micro-ATX motherboard
• Core 2 Duo processor 2.2 GHz
• 1GB PC5300 DDR2/667 RAM
• Samsung 1GB SATA II drive
• DVD
• Intel Pro/100 NIC on motherboard
• Two additional 4 port NICs with DEC de21040 "Tulip" chips

Software

Debian 7 aka "Squeeze"

LVM on hard drive

static IP 192.168.2.205

Extra packages

ssh binutils
postgresql
emacs
icinga
postfix
apache2 tomcat7 tomcat7-admin
sudo gksu
wine
iceweasel xterm
dnsmasq
samba
mediawiki mediawiki-extensions mediawiki-extensions-openid mediawiki-extensions-graphviz

Weird configuration issues

Problem: console screen goes black (and stays that way) during boot.

Fix: blacklist the i915 driver, which you can do like this

# cd /etc/modprobe.d
# echo "blacklist i915" > i915-blacklist.conf
# reboot

Network monitoring

Icinga

Successor to Nagios: I have started a separate page, see Icinga

Running "The Dude"

Dude is running on Jon's W7 box. The W7 box lives on the Skiles network but has a public IP address for outside access.

I use the copy on Helena as a client so I can access a Dude server from my Macintosh. Convoluted but works for me. I just need to install a Windows VM on my Mac and should be able to run it there just as easily.

Running mapping software

Tomcat7 and Geoserver

http://192.168.2.205:8080/manager/

Log in with bwilson and the Bedazzled password.

Running Geoserver on this machine is probably a bad idea, it uses a lot of memory. So I am leaving it off for now. Same thing for Tomcat, since I only need it to run Geoserver.