Project:Infrastructure/Developer Machines/ia64

ia64 Admin Notes
These are various notes mainly targeted at people administrating Gentoo dev machines, although most things are probably generally useful. These are not general "how do I administrate a Gentoo box" notes.

dolphin
Host: dolphin.ia64.dev.gentoo.org

HP RX2600, CD writer. Donated by HP in 2003. This machine is powered off since two years ago to save power/cooling resources.

ILO is accessible using port 1 of console2. I used to access it using  but console2 doesn't seem to answer now.

ttyS0 is accessible using port 2 of console2,

This machine had 4GB of RAM, 2x900MHz processors, 1x36GB HDD SCSI 80pin, 2x72GB HDD SCSI 80pin. No RAID.

This machine should still be in gentoo's rack in OSL, on top of bender. It does not have rails.

beluga
HP RX2620, CD/DVD reader only. Donated by HP in 2012, previously it used to be in HP's datacenter. It's stored in OSL but not in Gentoo's rack. It was sent as-is from HP, so iLO is configured with wrong parameters, probably. Also it will have static IP in the OS, wrongly configured too. I think it had a RAID5 by HW using 72GB HDDs. Cannot remember how many, probably 4 or 5. It had 2x 1.6GHz processors and 12GB of RAM.

It was stored in case guppy failed in the future and we had no other option.

guppy
HP RX3600. DVD/CD writer IIRC. Used to be in HP's DC but was sent to OSL when HP pulled the plug in DC. iLO is accessible from port 5 in console2. Once logged in you can access the remote console too.

Hostnames
These are the current systems we have available. See machine specific notes at bottom for more details.

Console Access
iLO2 is accessible over telnet as SSH (some legacy ciphers) from dev.gentoo.org box. Ask infra@ for credentials and IP address.

You can use this to:
 * Interact with the early firmware (e.g. to select recovery kernel, boot from plugged Gentoo DVD, change boot order)
 * Log in directly over ttyS1 to recover
 * Reboot machine

Common iLO commands

 * Get remote console output (ttyS1):
 * Get interactive console (to login and recover system on ttyS1):
 * Reboot main machine:
 * Manage iLO users:
 * Get builting help:

Kernel Management
ia64 systems are EFI systems. guppy uses elilo tool from package. Things to remember:


 * Make updates to.
 * command copies kernels and config from to.
 * Run  whenever  is changed or kernels referred to by the config file are updated (failure to do so could break booting).

/etc/elilo.conf
boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 install=/usr/lib/elilo/elilo.efi delay=50 timeout=80 default=gentoo prompt

image=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.72-gentoo label=gentoo root=/dev/cciss!c0d0p3 read-only append="console=ttyS1,115200n8"

image=/boot/kernel-3.14.14-gentoo label=gentoo-3.14.14 root=/dev/cciss!c0d0p3 read-only append="console=ttyS1,115200n8"