All RHEL servers will be upgraded to RHEL5. This page will list the upgrade plan.

Server

Upgrade step

Owner

Services

label

1 DONE

jdub

containing moinmoin (wiki sites like live.gnome.org)

button

2 DONE

bkor

containing MySQL and mango

window

3

bkor

containing loads of websites (www.gnome.org, developer.gnome.org)

box

4

bkor

containing bugzilla.gnome.org and LDAP (hosts our accounts)

container

4

?

our NFS server, serving files for the other RHEL servers

menubar

5

jdub

our mail and DNS server

The owner is the only one who can agree to upgrade the server to RHEL5.

Upgrade plan

Note: still to be described:

  • container: NFS should be temp. moved to window/button. label is too small, box is not RAID1
  • menubar: Should we move this?

Server

Service

Who?

Task

box

moinmoin

jdub

Move wikis from label to box

label

moinmoin

jdub

Stop wikis

label

network

jdub

Stop external network

box

network

jdub

Takeover IP address label

box

moinmoin

jdub

Start wikis

-

label

OS

rh

Install RHEL5

label

OS

?

Do GNOME specific checks + configuration

-

box

Bugzilla

bkor

disable Bugzilla

button

MySQL

bkor

stop MySQL

label

moinmoin

jdub

Move wikis from box to label

label

Bugzilla

bkor

Move Bugzilla from box to label

label

LDAP

fatalerror

Move LDAP from box to label

label

MySQL

bkor

Dump and load MySQL databases from button to label

-

box

network

?

Stop external network

button

network

?

Stop external network

-

box

OS

rh

Install RHEL5

box

OS

?

Do GNOME specific checks + configuration

button

OS

rh

Install RHEL5

button

OS

?

Do GNOME specific checks + configuration

-

button

LDAP

fatalerror

Move LDAP from label to button

label

network

?

Stop takeover IP address button

button

network

?

Setup external IP address

-

button

DNS

bkor

Move DNS from menubar to button

button

Mail

jdub

Move mail (postfix, amavis, mailman) from menubar to button

-

box

websites

bkor

Move websites from window to box

window

network

?

Stop external network

box

network

?

Takeover IP address window

-

window

OS

rh

Install RHEL5

window

OS

?

Do GNOME specific checks + configuration

-

window

websites

bkor

Check websites are working

box

network

bkor

Stop takeover IP address window

window

network

bkor

Setup external IP address

-

window

ALL DONE

-

Installation list

Every machine should have:

  • Apache
  • svn client
  • Postfix
  • gcc, rpm-build (to create rpm packages)

GNOME configuration:

box

  • MySQL
  • gnome-doc-utils

button

  • MySQL
  • Likely need to rebuild some dag.wieers.com packages for match RHEL5

Service specific notes

Bugzilla

See http://live.gnome.org/BugzillaServerMove

Attic/Infrastructure/RHEL5 (last edited 2013-12-04 21:02:16 by WilliamJonMcCann)