Weekly Changes – 11/09/2023
This week we continue to focus mainly on porting services to Ubuntu but there is also an important improvement for the apt component. Here are the details of the notable changes…
apt component
The Systemd service file for the LCFG apt component has been modified to specify network-online.target
as a Requisite
. This means that if the networking fails to start then the component will not be started. This is a much safer mode of operation that should reduce the chance of packages being removed when replacements are not available.
LCFG server
All remaining references to the old lcfg defaults package lists have been removed from the standard configuration for an LCFG server.
Hardware Monitoring
The support for checking RAID controllers with the LCFG hwmon component has been improved so that it reports on SMART alerts for disks (those predicted to fail soon).
Nagios
More work has been done on porting the LCFG nagios infrastructure to Ubuntu. There is a new schema (version 2) for Ubuntu, quite a few resources are now marked as boolean to improve server-side validation, a few other new resources have been added which were previously hardwired in the templates for the configuration files.
Some of the non-standard plugins (afs, rsync and krb5) have been removed from the lcfg-level to give a simpler default configuration, they are still included in the dice headers for Informatics.
PkgForge
Support has been added to the LCFG header for the PkgForge client for submitting Redhat source RPMs from Ubuntu, it can be enabled by defining the PKGFORGE_REDHAT_SUPPORT
macro.
Software
The LCFG_OPTIONS_NAGIOS
option has been extended to include more monitoring plugins. There is also a new LCFG_OPTIONS_PYNAG
option for the Python command line interface for nagios.
On Ubuntu Jammy there are new LCFG_OPTIONS_GAZEBO
and LCFG_OPTIONS_GAZEBO_DEV
package options for the Open Source Robotics Simulator software.
Changes to headers and package lists
Members of the Informatics Computing team can browse all the changes to the headers and package lists.
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