Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart Kyle Fenton Johnny Healey Brian Pitts MetaArchive Project Emory University Atlanta, Georgia June 5, 2007 Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Session Learning Objectives Installing LOCKSS on RPM-based Linux distributions. Develop a kickstart for easy deployment of LOCKSS nodes. Allocate storage space and configure LOCKSS. Create a secure plugin repository for LOCKSS. Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Installing LOCKSS Prerequisite is JRE 1.5 from Sun. LOCKSS is available in RPM format from the LOCKSS team Install on Red Hat with rpm -ivh filename.rpm Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Kickstart for LOCKSS Kickstart automates installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux Plain text file that can be edited by hand or with the Kickstart Configurator Documented at redhat.com and in our sample file Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Invoking Kickstart Kickstart file can be placed on the network or a diskette Boot from your installation media and invoke kickstart appropriately linux ks=floppy linux ks=nfs:example.com:/path/ks.cfg linux ks=http://example.com/path/ks.cfg Use ksdevice=¡device¿ if you need to specify a network interface eg eth1 Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Sample Kickstart Emory has a sample kickstart that may help you design your own Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories LOCKSS and Linux Kickstarts When adapting a kickstart for a Private LOCKSS Network, there are a few additional things that will need to be considered. Allocating storage space for LOCKSS Configuring LOCKSS Creating a plugin repository (optional) Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Allocating Storage Space Before you can configure and run LOCKSS, you’ll need to allocate storage space. A repository, at its most fundamental level, is little more than a directory on a UNIX filesystem. Depending on the uniformity of your hardware, you may wish to incorporate this process into your kickstart. Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Allocating Storage Space The Easy Way If Linux is installed on the same disk partition that LOCKSS is going to use as a repository, then allocating the storage space is a simple as making a directory for LOCKSS to store the content. mkdir /locksscache Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Allocating Storage Space The Slightly Less Easy Way It’s entirely likely you’ll wish to use a separate partition (or even physical disk) as your LOCKSS repository. This can be as simple as formatting the disk and mounting it. mkdir /locksscache mke2fs -j /dev/sdXY echo "/dev/sdXY /locksscache ext3 defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab mount /locksscache Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Allocating Storage Space Other Options to Consider If you’re creating a collaborative repository with multiple providers, it can be advantageous to create several repositories. Whichever method you choose, it can be easily adapted. mkdir /locksscache mkdir /locksscache/site1 mkdir /locksscache/site2 mkdir /locksscache/site3 Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Allocating Storage Space Other Options to Consider For an even more flexible solution, Logical Volume Management(LVM) can be used. This allows you to create and extend logical partitions as they are needed. Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Configuring LOCKSS LOCKSS is configured by the /etc/lockss/hostconfig script. It will require you to enter the following information: Domain Name: locksscache.example.org IP Address: www.xxx.yyy.zzz Administrative Subnet: www.xxx.yyy.* LCAP V3 Port: 9729 Mail Relay: mail.example.org Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Configuring LOCKSS Administrator’s E-mail address: admin@example.org Path to Java: /usr/java/jre1.5.0 11/bin/java Java Switches: You can leave this blank Configuration URL: The URL of the title database Preservation Group: Group ID in title database Cache Storage Directories: /locksscache;/locksscache/site1;/locksscache/site2 Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Starting LOCKSS Once it’s configured, LOCKSS can be started with the command: /etc/init.d/lockss start When you’ve started it and confirmed that the configuration is correct, this line can be added to /etc/rc.local Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Creating a Plugin Repository A plugin repository is simply a web-accessible directory that contains a manifest page and list of the plugins stored. For simplicity, the MetaArchive project stores our plugin repositories on our LOCKSS nodes. Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
Kickstart Allocating Storage Space Configuring LOCKSS Plugin Repositories Plugin Repository Configuration <VirtualHost *:80> <Directory "/var/www/html/plugins"> AllowOverride all ReadmeName README.html Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.1 www.xxx.yyy.zzz </Directory> </VirtualHost> Kyle Fenton, Johnny Healey, Brian Pitts LOCKSS Installation and Kickstart
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