[Server-devel] [XSCE] ansible

[tkkang at nurturingasia.com]

Managed to install it. Nice ansible and all the goodies for server management

How stable is the system? I am able to load the IIAB demo files (on a USB stick). It will work for a while and then crash... 

Keep up the great work!

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anna [mailto:aschoolf at gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 08:20 AM
>To: 'xsce-devel'
>Cc: 'Server Devel'
>Subject: Re: [XSCE] ansible
>
>Couple of postinstall notes:
>
>xs-authserver has some sort of conflict with the library versions that IIAB
>installs.  This gets xs-authserver working (don't worry, it doesn't break
>IIAB):
>pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall Werkzeug Flask
>systemctl restart xs-authserver
>
>OLPC Backup needs a permissions fix in /etc/rssh.conf, so uncomment:
>allowrsync
>allowsftp
>
>Here's my testing checklist.  Thought I'd paste this in so y'all can see
>how similar to XSCE DXS is, and also how to access DXS specific things like
>Munin, Ajenti, and xs-authserver.
>
> Item Access from Note     dhcpd Client Client gets an IP address in the
>172.18.x.x range   dhcpd Server Check /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases for
>client leases   idmgr Client Registration - Register the XO    idmgr
>Server Check
>/library/users for the XO's Serial Number dir   ejabberd Client 2
>registered clients can see each other   ejabberd Server `ejabberdctl
>connected_users` reports the 2 registered clients  ejabberd Clients Share
>the chat activity and communicate   httpd Client http://schoolserver and
>http://schoolserver.local resolves to Apache test page  Moodle Client
>http://schoolserver.local/moodle autologs in   Authserver Client
>http://schoolserver.local:5000 greets with the XO buddy name  Squid
>Server Check
>/library/cache size, load webpage on client, verify size has increased
>Dansguardian Client Try to look at porn? No way!    IIAB Client
>http://schoolserver/iiab resolves    OLPC-Backup Server du -sk
>/library/users/* indicates backups   Stats Server A client's rrds are in
>/library/sugar-stats/rrd/   Monit Server Halt services and see if they
>restart    Munin Client http://schoolserver/munin user:admin pass:munindxs
>Ajenti Client http://schoolserver:9990 user:root pass:admin   Ajenti
>Wondershaper Client Verify bandwidth edits via online speedtest such as
>speakeasy.net/speedtest  Upload Activity N/A /var/www/html/upload_activity.php
>is currently not present - WIP
>
>
>On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com>wrote:
>
>> Documented in the githup repo here:
>>
>> https://github.com/activitycentral/dxs/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.rst
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Some quick instructions for installing the DXS.  I've only tested on a XO
>>> 1.75 as the target so far.
>>>
>>> On your target machine:
>>> Flash 13.2.0-13
>>> Turn off power management
>>> Connect to internet
>>> Get a root terminal
>>>
>>> Install from git source:
>>>
>>> wget
>>> http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xs-extra/noarch/ansible-1.3.1-0.git201309161027.fc18.noarch.rpm
>>> yum -y localinstall ansible*
>>> yum -y install git
>>> git clone https://github.com/activitycentral/dxs.git dxs-master
>>> cd dxs-master
>>> git fetch -u --all
>>> git checkout master
>>> git pull
>>> [plug in all your dongles]
>>> ./runansible xo
>>> reboot
>>> cd dxs-master
>>> ./runansible
>>> reboot
>>>
>>> Default is hostname = schoolserver.local and a one dongle install (WAN =
>>> "ears" and LAN = usb ethernet dongle to AP).
>>> To change that, edit dxs-master/vars/default_vars.yml accordingly before
>>> doing ./runansible xo:
>>>
>>> #Domain name
>>> xsce_hostname : schoolserver
>>> xsce_domain: local
>>>
>>> #Network
>>> xsce_networks:
>>>     wan:
>>>       iface: eth0
>>>       ip: dhcp
>>>     lan:
>>>       iface: eth1
>>>       ip: 172.18.96.1
>>>       network: 172.18.96.0
>>>       netmask: 255.255.224.0
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Anna, you mentioned instructions for doing an ansible install.  can
>>>> you point me to them?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>