UCC Machines

The UCC runs a variety of different hardware. Not just your old Windows machines, or even the increasingly common GNU/Linux or Mac OS X machines. The UCC likes to run lots of other operating systems and architectures, which are sometimes uncommon or extinct out there in the Real World.

The list of machines is currently up to date in the list below.

If you want to know about our old machines, see the section Past Machines. To find out how we name our machines, see Nomenclature.

In the clubroom

See: ClubroomDesktops A recently-updated (not guaranteed) table of all clubroom machines.

Linux

Catfish, Clownfish, Pinball, Porcupine

Windows

Christmas, Cobra

Dualboots (Win/Linux)

Carpsucker, Piranha, Corvo

Macintosh

Napoli, Venice

Oligoboots

Combto (projects bench computer)

Services

User Shell Servers

Motsugo (Debian, and the preferred user server), Titan (Debian ARM), Mussel, Meersau, Musdea (FreeBSD), Maaxen (Windows), Gothamburg (Macintosh XServe)

Dispense Server

Merlo

Dispense Clients

Motsugo, Mussel,

DNS

Monnik

Files

Motsugo (secure /home), Molmol (/away, /space, /services, /mp3s and /vmstore)

Flame

Maculatus

FTP

Mussel

LDAP

Mussel (master)

Active Directory

Samson

Mail

Mailfish (mailhost - mail and list server), Motsugo (back-end IMAP and POP server), Mailauesi (haproxy: front-end load balancer for IMAP, POP, SMTP submission - clients connect here for mail services)

Routing

Murasoi

Switching

Walnut core; Kerosene, Coconut, Curviceps, Lard, Palm

Web

Mussel (core pages, planet, wiki, webcams)

Webcams

Mussel

Logging

Murasoi

Printers

Blacklight served up by CUPS on Midshipman, Hologram (3D Printer)

Samba

Molmol

VM Hosts (Proxmox/KVM)

Loveday, Machop, Magikarp, Maltair, Medico, Mudkip

Games

Heathred

Cooling

Kalimari (was Antarctica)

Display

Cerberus

Member management

UCCPortal (runs https://portal.ucc.asn.au)

Unifi Controller

Salmon (not to be confused with the old machine, Salmon)

Version Control

GitlabHost (boring name, IKR)

Monitoring

Myxine (ocsinventory), LibreNMS (seems defunct), UCCMonitor (runs prometheus/grafana)

Video Conferencing

BBB2021 (taking over from BBBHost)

Boiling water

Fukushima

Irradiating food

THERAC-25, V. I. Lenin NPP

Constructing Machines

Dell R710 (top) Dell R710 (bottom) IBM BladeCentre H Series

Also read about our online Coke machine, online snack machine and online door sensors. Also check out the exciting services these, and our other machines, provide.

For the curious, here is a photo of our (ex) world class cooling system.

Server boot order

From time to time, the servers in the machine room go down and need to be restarted - to do so, there's a particular order that needs to be followed so things bounce back correctly.

  1. Murasoi - Core routing / firewall - bring up first if networking is required

  2. Molmol - NFS including nas-vmstore, needed for some VMs to boot

  3. Motsugo - NFS including the user network home directories - needs to come up early as other things (eg. Mail) depend on it

  4. Proxmox VM hosts, above - many virtual machines including Mussel and Samson

  5. Monnik - Internal UCC DNS and resolver

  6. Mailfish - mailfish must come up last - it relies on a number of other services (user home directories, routing etc.) Try and minimise the amount of time it's down - due to the UCC network design, it's the only MX for UCC. Most mailservers will requeue emails if they can't contact DNS (monnik or murasoi), but some will bounce after as little as a day.

  7. All the other servers including Merlo