CUGNet Upgrade Completed!
November 19, 2008 by Steven McGrath · Leave a Comment
Well, as you have more than likely noticed at this point, we have updated quite a few things tonight. A lot of back-end changes as well as some new pretty ones (that are still under construction). VMWare Server was upgraded to version 2.0 a couple of weeks ago. Once we completed that we started right away at building new VMs of the web and shell servers. These new servers are now 64bit and have been re-designed to support LDAP and our new LDAP-based DNS server out of the box. This will allow us to continue down the path of centrally managing everything for both easing configuration management as well as cleaning up the mess that was inherited from CUG 1.x.
The new website is a breath of fresh air as well. For as much as I loved using Mediawiki as our portal page, the limitations of what we could do were becoming more and more apparent. This new system should allow us to more efficiently tie into our support cycle, as well as (hopefully) creating an avenue to get us lazy admins to update everyone more often with what is going on.
So for those who are curious as to what’s still to do, here is our current list (note we are standardizing our toolset to use python):
- Finish new Website
- Design new CUGNet Logo (to go with website)
- Write user management tool
- Write vhost management tool
- Migrate fractured data-sets to a unified, cohesive structure