Roger later decided to give Open Solaris a try so that we could utilize ZFS which looks quite promising for performance and redundancy.
#Install cacti on windows server 2008 install
We later wired the system and began trying to install CentOS on it however, we ran into a few hardware issues with installing CentOS. Earlier in the semester, Brian and I worked on racking the system in the Unisys rack. This semester I've been working with Roger on the new Mirror server.
Our future plans include finding an automated way of staring render jobs and a web submission page for jobs. Currently, we have roughly 20 nodes in the farm which is continuing to grow. After some initial testing, we chose to go with Chris Hawkins' cluster/rendering suite because it made our setup quicker (since we were trying to have it ready in Feb.) and it made adding more notes easier since it uses PXE booting. This semester I continued to work with Roger Ignazio on the Render Farm for the Digital Arts Program. Currently, it doesn't host any databases at the moment but in the future it will host the database need for Laconica and other future projects. The Mysql VM is used to provided MySQL databases in the labs. It currently serves the COSI website, the CS Labs Website, Planet, the RRS website, the Xen website, and misc. Web1 runs CentOS 5, Apache, and utilizes virtual hosts. This semester I set up the Web1 and Mysql VMs, which are both used to provide web services in the labs.
The benefit of this is that NRPE and the Nagios plugins won.t have to be custom compiled on each and every VM. Currently, I'm in the process of converting Nagios to using SNMP to monitor everything instead of using NRPE and other add-ons. As mentioned in my mid-semester summary, I rebuilt the Netstat VM to make the setup/upgrade process simpler.