[tech] Tech/Wheel Meeting 2021-09-05 14:00 - 24 hour reminder

Fri Sep 10 03:05:45 AWST 2021

My apologies all.
I missed this email.
I however would not have been able to make it due to covid restrictions.

[*OX]

On Sun, Sep 5, 2021, 7:09 AM Dylan H <dylanh333 at ucc.asn.au> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> My apologies, but it completely slipped my mind that we had a wheel
> meeting set for today, and I've had a pretty busy weekend, so I'll probably
> have to pass on this one, sorry!
>
> Thanks, and kind regards,
> Dylan Hicks [333]
>
> On 4 Sep 2021 2:00 pm, root <root at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Tech/Wheel Meeting Agenda - Sunday 2021-09-05 14:00
> ===================================================
> - VENUE: UCC Clubroom
>   - and online at https://meetings.ucc.asn.au/b/bob-yrk-uy6
>
> *Meeting opened hh:mm*
>
> ## Attendance
> - Present
> - Apologies
>   - [NTU]
> - Absent
>
> ## Next meeting
> - Schedule next meeting
>   - *day 2021-MM-ddThh:mm
>     - not too soon, let's have more doing than talking?
>   - ACTION: [???] Set and verify reminders of next meeting: `motsugo#
> crontab -e`
>     - Promptly update agenda.next with the TIME/DATE/VENUE
>     - Update the crontab: `motsugo# crontab -e`
>       - skip the `4day` , unless there's issues at `1week`
>     - Check at T-7days that the notice really went out, fix for T-4days if
> needed
> - Everyone, pre-meeting: Curate agenda.next
>
> ## Optional items - choose at the start of the meeting
> - Ethical guidelines
> - Monitoring
> - Backups
> - Password rotations
> - New members
> - Quick check of ChangeLog
> - Lessons learnt
>
> ## Known Broken Stuff
> - IPv6 inbound
>   - ACTION: [TEC] to email UWA IT
> - lard
>   - Still needs a spare PSU OR replacement with something less... fatty.
>   - ACTION: [???] to send email out requesting a 1U Cisco switch to
> replace Lard
> - samson the https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/ActiveDirectory server has no
> freshly built DC friends
>   - this is risky, a single-point-of-failure, which in turn depends on the
> running VM cluster
>   - something to do with the current configuration is probably why mussel
>     and mooneye still have auth problems
>     - can we upgrade or rebuild or document our way out of this?
>   - ...so making a quick clone and calling it "done" really isn't enough,
> continuous integration is called for?
>   - vucc testbed in https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/NewActiveDirectory
>
> ## Matters arising previously
>
> ## Extra items (rename/refile as appropriate)
> - Monitoring
>   - Drive health
>     - Uncorrectable errors, reallocated sectors, TBW on SSDs
>     - ACTION: [NTU] and [MTL] to work together on how best to start drive
> monitoring, and make it standard/SOE config via ansible
>
> - [MTL] continues looking at DNS
>   - Not much progress
>   - Have played with coredns for a resolving server
>     - Need to do some more testing of resolving internal UWA things (to
> check behaviours)
>   - Working on ansible to set up a primary DNS server
>   - Done a little bit of playing with Gitlab CI
>   - Need to finalise working out the best way to do this securely
>     - split out ucc.machines from zonemake.py code
>
> - Group Policy and Ansible on Windows machines
>   - ACTION: [333] to figure out most supported way to install official
> SSHD build on Windows
>   - ACTION: [MTL] promises to look at this in more detail once back in the
> clubroom, including WinRM
>   - Best host to run playbooks from for the Windows machines?
>
> - Post-O-Day account locking
>   - cleanup accounts e.g. `getent passwd|grep zv`, primary group
> memberships
>   - ACTION: [TEC] and [MPT] still need to get this sorted
>     - Specifically, the Comite™ get a list of people who haven't paid and
> send to Wheel, so we can do the locking, if James and Tim don't do the
> locking themselves
>
> - Staging storage server:
>   - [TEC] Old DELL R710 server[s] from dadams
>   - Store images or less selective backups onsite, for rapid recovery or
> offsite replication
>     - zfs send? btrfs send? borgbackup? expose to https://pbs.proxmox.com/
> appliance?
>   - ACTION: [NTU] followup the previously budgetted 3.5" bulk backup drive
> purchase
>     - Done, drives bought
>       -
> https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/2021-March/005446.html
>       -
> https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/2021-August/005474.html
>     - Would like some extra caddies: 3.5" slots, 3.5" + 2.5" SATA drives
>       -
> https://discord.com/channels/264401248676085760/264401248676085760/878831917133353031
>       -
> https://discord.com/channels/264401248676085760/264401248676085760/879354657976229958
>       - 3D print? does [DBA] or anyone else at UWA Makers have the model?
>       - or ebay?
>
> - [MPT] Began (unofficial) discussions with [DBA] and CS faculty about
> making GPU compute accessible to students
>   - Potential for funding? No assurances yet
>   - What else would UCC need to buy/build to make it happen in our MR?
>
> - ACTION: [MTL] to update Ansible scripts for mail*
>   - In response to spam campaign
>
> - Build and break a PC
>   - Brand new motherboard missing audio capacitor, but [DBA] will resolder
> it
>     - ACTION: [DBA] to resolder audio capacitor on new motherboard
>
> - Rebuild rather than upgrade `discord-irc` ?
>   - ansible driven install
>     - config files:
>       - `~discord/discord-irc-config.json`
>       - `/etc/systemd/system/discord-irc.service`
>     - this machine is a non-complicated test case?
>   - https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc
>     - requires Debian 11 "bullseye", DebianPkg:nodejs 12.x
>   - occasionally dies, config tweaks could help?
>     - https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc/issues/594
>     - `journalctl -xe -u discord-irc.service`
> ```
> Aug 31 17:45:40 discord-irc discord-irc[45040]: TypeError: Converting
> circular structure to JSON
> Aug 31 17:45:40 discord-irc systemd[1]: discord-irc.service: Main process
> exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Aug 31 17:45:40 discord-irc systemd[1]: discord-irc.service: Start request
> repeated too quickly.
> ```
>
> *Meeting closed hh:mm*
>
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> ```
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