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- A test machine, named comet2, was setup in Tom G's office, bldg 48/rm 248, on 7/13/2018. Linux (centos7) was installed over the network. Andrew set up the "old style" kerberos authentication to allow site-wide logins. This is expected to change in the near future to a Windows authentication scheme.
- At this time, comet2 is considered available for reboot with little or no notification as experts continue their development of the deployment software. Rebuilding from scratch becomes increasingly painful as more and more software is installed.
- As of 9/23/2018, a 2nd machine, ppa-pc89438-l, is also running centos7 in Warren Focke's office, bldg 48/rm 249, using Andrew's latest net install.
List of candidate add-on software to be included in CentOS 7 network-install image. (I'm pausing on this wording - the initial network-install might not have all this - but one can add it with post install step(s))
| Package | Status | Date installed | Install Tool | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | required | 7/13/2018 and 8/28/2018 | pxe boot | Basic CLI |
| X11 | required | 7/17/2018 and 9/28/2018 | note 1 below | X11+gnome+gazillion dependencies |
| window manager | required | 7/17/2018 and 9/28/2018 | " | gnome based - working on conf file |
| desktop | required | 7/17/2018 and 9/28/2018 | " | (various convenience apps) |
| chef-client | required | 11/13/2018 | (installed by KSA) | Needed for installing YFS |
| Windows Active Directory | new authentication model (old=kerberos) | |||
| printing | required | [10/4/2018] | sudo system-config-printer | Printing will be via Windows AD IP based printing. In the meantime, configure locally using built-in printing system. Configure B048F2COPIER as a generic postscript printer. |
| YFS | required | 11/14/2018 | chef-client -o slac_yfs-client | Auristor's YFS (AFS) client. Use "kinit [<userID>]" followed by "aklog" to get a token |
| emacs | required | 7/19/2018 and 9/28/2018 | gnome-software | |
chrome | required | 9/28/2018 | d/l + yum install | |
| thunderbird | required | 7/19/2018 and 9/28/2018 | gnome-software | |
| NX | required | 9/28/2018 | d/l + yum install | NoMachine client for use with NERSC |
| citrix client | TESTING INC0211099 not sure if it will work | |||
| fastx | 9/28/2018 | d/l + tar -xvf | https connection fails, but ssh connection works. KSA has opened ticket with vendor | |
| slack | 9/28/2018 | d/l + yum install | ||
| zoom | 9/28/2018 | d/l + yum install | (implies support for microphone, camera and speakers) | |
| LibreOffice | required | 7/19/2018 and 9/28/2018 | gnome-software | calc,writer,base,draw,impress,CAD |
| python v3 | required | 9/28/2018 | yum install | |
| sshfs | yum install fuse-sshfs | |||
| dev tools (gcc) | required | 9/28/2018 | yum install | sudo yum group install 'Development Tools' |
| filezilla | 10/1/2018 | gnome-software | GUI file transfer between comet2 and SLAC servers | |
| Ksnapshot | required | 10/1/2018 | gnome-software | screen shot utility |
| DbVis | needed by Fermi/LSST app developers | |||
| NetBeans | needed by Fermi/LSST app developers | |||
| LSF | 10/25/2018 | requires slac_yfs-client | requires desktop is in the lsf configuration file and allowed to run batch commands, if desktop name is not in LSF configuration, start a service now ticket to request addition Needs YFS to do run command a link for /etc/lsf.conf (likely a cookbook configured setting?) | |
| VPN | required | 11/14/2018 | download | Must download from a current Cisco AnyConnect customer  , e.g., NCSA |
| clamav | not needed | sudo yum install clamav | Anti-virus (needed to access SLAC VPN, but not necessary on machine connected to internal network) | |
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