System Administration Tools for the ARM Build Farm

System Administration Tools for the ARM Build Farm

Project Description

The Fedora ARM Koji Buildsystem or "farm" consists of 23 ARM builder systems which will grow to 38 by the end of this semester. As it grows, the need for efficient system management tools increases. The previous semesters' students started the work of setting up nagios (monitoring) and [func] (group control) tools.

This project involves configuring these tools to work with all of the systems in the ARM build farm, as well as setting up and configuring the puppet (configuration management) tool.

• Maximum number of students: 2
• Skills required: Linux system administration, problem solving, documentation writing
• Resources: wiki notes from previous semesters (e.g., How to Setup and configure Nagios), Fedora ARM Koji Buildsystem,CDOT Development Systems
• Expected result: nagios, func, and puppet working across the entire ARM build farm; documentation on how to use these tools on the farm and how to add additional devices
• Initial contacts: ctyler, PaulW

Project Leader(s)

Not sure who the primary Project Leader(s) are for this project but according to the project description primary contacts are;

• Chris Tyler
  
• Paul W

Students that will be working on this project are listed below;

• Gian-Luca Casella
• Tim Furzer
• Pirathapan Sivalingam

Project Contributor(s)

Only Project Leader(s) should add names here. You should not add your own name to the list of Contributors.

Project Plan

Tracking mechanism (bugzilla, trac, github, ...):

Key contacts:

Goals for each release and plans for reaching those goals:

• 0.1 - Install Nagios, Func, and Puppet on an isolated environment.

• Compile and Build from Source on F14 based on current documentation
• Install Nagios, Func and Puppet
• Configuration
• Test functionality of Nagios, Func and Puppet

• 0.2

• Fully functional working state of Nagios, Func, and Puppet
• Additional scripts for simple testing of all functionality.

• 0.3

• Document, and polish any bugs/issues that arise through the tests.

Communication

Mailing Lists

Fedora Arm Mailing List
Func Mailing List
Nagios Mailing List
Puppet Labs "Google Group" Mailing List

• 1. Puppet on irc.freenode.net

Upsteam Wiki and Web

• fedorahosted.org FUNC
• Setup and Configure Nagios

Blogs

Puppet Labs Blog

Seneca Particpants

• Gian-Luca Casella
• Tim Furzer
• Pirathapan Sivalingam