N ATIONAL E NERGY R ESEARCH S CIENTIFIC C OMPUTING C ENTER 1 PDSF Host Database HEPiX Fall 2002 Cary Whitney

N ATIONAL E NERGY R ESEARCH S CIENTIFIC C OMPUTING C ENTER 1 Objectives Maintain total inventory Consolidate all information about nodes Track − Hardware problems and repairs − Routine processes (cfengine) − Financial aspects

N ATIONAL E NERGY R ESEARCH S CIENTIFIC C OMPUTING C ENTER 1 Web Interface Initially written in Zope − Good Fairly fast prototyping Zope has some features that dramatically simplify others − Bad Zope has odd quirks that complicate some simple tasks Few users are familiar with Zope Rewrite in PHP − Popular − Good database hooks

N ATIONAL E NERGY R ESEARCH S CIENTIFIC C OMPUTING C ENTER 1 Web Interface

N ATIONAL E NERGY R ESEARCH S CIENTIFIC C OMPUTING C ENTER 1 CLI Interface Update commands − updateSystemBasics - Updates memory, OS, CPU count, etc − updateDiskDb - Updates and adds disks (capacity, serial #) − updateNicDb - Updates and add NICs (MAC, IP, driver) − systemLogger - syslog type logger for database Query/Update tool − pdsfDbUtil - update and query most values in main table Commands can be run out of cron

N ATIONAL E NERGY R ESEARCH S CIENTIFIC C OMPUTING C ENTER 1 TODO Add table for chassis configuration − Include photos − Include labeled diagrams of switches and connectors Add table for motherboard info − Include chipset info − Include lm_sensors info − BIOS levels Improve map and rack diagram Port to PHP

N ATIONAL E NERGY R ESEARCH S CIENTIFIC C OMPUTING C ENTER 1 Conclusion Basic functionality already there Already proving useful for tracking hardware issues Needs some changes to make it more portable and attractive to non-NERSC sites