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Weekly Changes – 10/05/2021

A fairly quiet this week, other than the change to the SL7 PXE this should have little impact for non-DICE sites. Here’s the summary…

SL7 PXE

The SL7 PXE installer has been updated to use a newer kernel- 3.10.0-1160.21.1 – and is now based on the SL7.9 installroot. All sites which host their own PXE install service will need to update after the weekly stable release has been updated.

Hardware Monitoring

The hwmon check script for nagios, which is used to monitor various aspects of server hardware, has been updated to apply a time limit of 60 seconds to IPMI commands. This avoids the check script becoming blocked on a call which will never return. For more details see bug#1277.

MegaRAID support

The LCFG headers for MegaRAID have been tidied up slightly and support has been added for systems running Ubuntu. This provides the megacli utility for all machines and the newer storcli utility for those with the latest SAS drives.

Google Authenticator

There are new lcfg/options/pam_google_authenticator.h and dice/options/pam_google_authenticator.h headers for enabling the Google authenticator PAM module on SL7 and Ubuntu. Currently this only includes the software package and makes the PAM module usable, it does not yet have any support for configuring specific services (e.g. sshd). Several schools are interested in adding second factor authentication to SSH, to allow comparison of features we will be adding support for other alternative modules in the near future.

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