Al

• Been messing about with installing Arch Linux and Debian Server.
• Debian Release Names
• cheat sheet from jerry about yum and apt-get
• The guide Al followed to install arch
• Seting up network cards in systemd

Jerry

• Has Put some code on Git Hub
• Icinga 2 –  talk by a developer
• Host Git Repository onsite with Git lab

Linux Config management & code control

Puppet

• Needs an agent installed
  • Uses SSL self-signed certs
  • “Declarative state”

Ansible

• No agent needed
• Uses SSH
• Procedural (stepwise)

Version control in this context

• git
  • branching – develop code in a branch
  • hooks – automatically do things when certain events happen
  • Omnibus package

Oggcamp

The dates have been realised and we will be there. It being held in Liverpool, Oct 30th – Nov 1st 2015!

Before:

Job 2

Jerry

Al

Misc, and recommendations:

This week, Jerry is back from the dead, we discuss Andy’s upcoming mega site visit and talk AD & Lync.

Jerry back from the dead

• Icinga – open source monitoring system
• PPTP setup on Linux
• Ansible – Configuration management
• Outgoing brute force attacks

Andy’s audacious intervention

Before:

The plan:

• Sort the network out
• Set up users on the new NAS box
• Set up different share on the NAS box for different purposes (effectively different partitions)

RAID levels

• RAID0 – striping across drives
• RAID1 – Mirror across drives
• RAID5 – Distributed parity
• JBOD – Just a Bunch of Disks
• RAID10/RAID50 – Striping and Mirroring

RAID is not backup

What happens when you RAID 24 SSD drives?

Backups

• Offsite – in case the office burns down
• Synology Sync
• Crashplan

Careful with that ACT database, Andy!

Remote access

Al’s discoveries

• Lync
• Domain Name Best Practice for AD
• After November 1, 2015 Certificates for Internal Names Will No Longer Be Trusted
• Exchange 2013 namespace (unbound and bound)
• Windows+I,(Windows+d)+(Alt-F4)
• Trello

Miscellaneous discussion

• HA/Quorum
• TTLs
• STONITH

We are Now on twitter:

@admadmpodcast