Finalising a Linux installation

Introduction

This procedure is concerned with tidying up the system after the main part of the installation is done. Most of this is done by PCMS, so this procedure should remain short.

Procedure

  1. Add the system to the backups.
  2. If appropriate, add the system to the Check_MK monitor.
  3. If the system is a VM, then make sure its configuration is available on all VM servers.
  4. Add it to the Rocon database.
  5. If appropriate, add it to cert-monitor.
  6. For some KVM- and LXC-based VMs, it makes sense to make quickly-restorable image backups. Since the test virtualisation cluster does not have adequate storage for this, this should almost always be done from the production virtualisation cluster, with something like: 
    ssh root@sugo
ssh testaroli virsh --connect=lxc:///system shutdown arata
ssh -n testaroli dd if=/dev/drbd_arata bs=1M | ssh pici dd of=/scratch/arata-pristine.img bs=1M
ssh testaroli virsh --connect=lxc:///system start arata

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