Ice Setup

ice details

• Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server
• 8 Dual-Core 2.6GHz Opteron CPU's, 16 CPU Cores in total
• 32GB DDR2 667MHz RAM

Installation

• Service processor MAC Address determined using BIOS (F2 during boot, Advanced->IPMI 2.0 Configuration->Set LAN Configuration->MAC Address)
• grape: Added MAC address to /etc/dhcpd.conf alongside other SP's:

host starspice { hardware ethernet 0:14:4f:39:f1:4f; fixed-address 192.168.1.124; }

• grape: Ran /etc/init.d/dhcpd restart
• Logged into Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager SP Web GUI (https://192.168.1.124/), read md.net0 MAC Address, also added to grape's /etc/dhcpd.conf alongside merlot* hosts:

host ice { hardware ethernet 0:14:4f:45:3b:5a; fixed-address 192.168.1.247; }

• grape: Added lines to /etc/hosts

192.168.1.247 ice
192.168.1.124 starspice

Fedore Core 6

• Basic install, refer to Fedora Core 6 installation

Partitioning

• /boot 200MB (Primary, /dev/sda1)
• / 30000MB (Primary, /dev/sda2)

Time

• NTP: 192.168.0.40

Create User

• NIS: grape-cluster, 192.168.0.40

Firewall

• Enabled:
  • SSH Permitted

First Login (as root)

• /etc/hosts:

192.168.1.247 ice