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Add info about management cards
Freedom and Justice are two twin KVM hosts bought by Sugar Labs in 2012.
Freedom and Justice are two twin KVM hosts bought by Sugar Labs in 2012.
Justice is currently our primary VM hosting box, while freedom is a hot-standby with secondary services and backups.
Justice is currently our primary VM hosting box, while freedom is a hot-standby running some secondary services in docker containers and backups.
== Hardware ==
== Hardware ==
* 2U rack-mountable case
* 2U rack-mountable case
* Motherboard ASUS KFSN5-D
* Motherboard Supermicro H8SGL (or maybe H8SGL-F)
* 8-core Opteron 6212 @ 1.4GHz
* 8-core Opteron 6212 @ 1.7GHz
* 64GB RAM
* 64GB RAM
* 2x1TB RAID1
* 2x1TB RAID1
== Management ==
The two servers have awful SMT management cards from Supermicro:
* [http://justice-mng.sugarlabs.org/ justice-mng.sugarlabs.org]
* [http://freedom-mng.sugarlabs.org/ freedom-mng.sugarlas.org]
Full KVM support requires the Java browser plugin (yuck!), so we mostly use them for the big reset button in case a server hangs (it happened about once per year).
Both cards are running firmware version 3.16, which patched a huge backdoor that would trivially reveal all passwords in plaintext. No kidding. There's a [https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/bios_ipmi.php?vendor=2&keywords=H8S newer firmware version], but attempts to update to it failed with both Chrome and Firefox. I suspect a bug in their http POST implementation :-(
== Software ==
== Software ==