The default LDAP schema used in 389-ds versions up until 1.3 had been RFC 2307. As a reluctant—and only once every few years—LDAP admin I was mostly ignorant of this fact until a recent upgrade made me pay closer attention. As of version 1.4 it seems the 389-ds project has switched to the RFC 2307bis […]
After wasting several hours over each of the last several days troubleshooting this seemingly obscure TLS encryption issue in SSSD I feel compelled to write down some notes. It all started with a switch upgrade in our rack. Two new servers I had just provisioned were failing to find users in our 389 directory server. […]
AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. It is published by FAO and edited by a community of experts ¹. At the time of this writing AGROVOC consists of over 36,000 concepts and is […]
A few days ago I had to get some basic information from a handful of servers for an inventory report—just basic stuff like hostname, IP address, storage capacity, distro version, etc. I already manage all of my servers with Ansible, and there’s a wealth of information available in Ansible’s setup module, so I knew there […]
Last week I had a massive hardware failure on one of the GlusterFS storage nodes in the ILRI, Kenya Research Computing cluster: two drives failed simultaneously on the underlying RAID5. As RAID5 can only withstand one drive failure, the entire 31TB array was toast. FML. After replacing the failed disks, rebuilding the array, and formatting […]