[Acm-announce] SIG SysAdmin Meeting Reminder and Update

[Walter Dworak]

Quick (Late) reminder that there is a meeting today at 5PM in SELE 2262. 
The agenda for today is at the end of this email.

With that out of the way I wanted to send out an update on the direction 
we will be heading with the general meeting topics. I want to make sure 
to note that this does not mean I want people to not work on other 
projects, such as those listed on the wiki page, but to have a common 
goal to work toward that will cover many base topics. So getting to the 
point, I have decided that the main focus will be working on the monitor 
wall cluster. We will start will reinstalling a Linux server OS on the 
cluster's head node and configuring the base services, network included, 
the cluster nodes will need. The plan is to then move towards deploying 
a provisioning tool called Foreman to manage the OS installs on the 
client nodes centrally and then a configuration management tool called 
Puppet. From there we should be able to get the software that combines 
all the displays, Sage, deployed and configured on the nodes using these 
systems. Much of this is going to be a learning experience for all 
involved. More details will make it to the wiki page for the project and 
during meetings.

Now for today's agenda:

  * Installing Ubuntu Server 14.04 on the monitor wall head node
      o Covers basic linux installation and remote access configuration
  * Create a separate workstation image for the ACM LAN Party
      o Covers basic software installation in Arch Linux
      o Configuration of system access
      o Interaction between various software in the Linux GUI Desktop
        environment (LXDE)

-Walter Dworak



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