Checklist for installing new nodes or updating operating systems on the D0 Farms
  • Networking:
    • assign new IP addresses
  • enstore:
    • needs to put new nodes on the ok list
    • (message to enstore-admin, normally holdup as need
      permission from Amber, Nick or Mike
  • farms-team:
    • install os
    • fbs launchers on all nodes
    • set up accounts
    • set up disk areas /local/stage1, /local/stage2 - give d0farm and sam permission!
    • get the startup stuff like ups ... sam_bootstrap into the system startup sequence.
    • mount home area and pnfs
    • setup keytabs for /var/adm/krb5/sam/sam.keytab
    • inform us of major configuration changes - like products which use rpm's instead of ups/upd ---how do we find out what rpm's are installed?
  • sam admin
    • add nodes to DB
  • d0 farms group
    • add new node_class, processs type , queue to fbs ......
    • add nodes to the batch system
    • add disks to the station
    • add stagers to the stop_start_stagers scripts
    • add nodes to the batch job database
    • create /local/stage2/prd-cache directory from sam account.