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<blockquote>Holly prides himself on the fact he had an IQ of 6,000 (apparently the same IQ as 6,000 PE teachers or 12,000 car park attendants), but after three million years by himself, he had become computer senile, or as Holly put it, "a bit peculiar".</blockquote>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_%28Red_Dwarf%29 Holly on Wikipedia]
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<blockquote>''Holly prides himself on the fact he had an IQ of 6,000 (apparently the same IQ as 6,000 PE teachers or 12,000 car park attendants), but after three million years by himself, he had become computer senile, or as Holly put it, "a bit peculiar".'' - [[wikipedia:Holly_%28Red_Dwarf%29|Holly]]</blockquote>
  
Our first server is past the days of being called fast or prim hardware, it can take a while to boot/respond. However its likely to be our only workhorse for a little while so please don't ridicule Holly on his senility!
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The main purpose of '''Holly''' is to run the [[HackSpace Instrumentation]] projects, the most important of which being [[Gatekeeper]].
  
Fanless Via Epia Mini-ITX 533MHz  
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==History==
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Holly was Nottinghacks first server, originally set up at [[Hackspace_1.0]], and was a fanless Via Epia Mini-ITX 533MHz, with this specification:
 
* 512mb RAM
 
* 512mb RAM
* <s>1 20GB HDD (/, /var, /var/log, /tmp, swap, /usr)</s> dead disc
 
* <s>1 13GB HDD (/home)</s> dead disc
 
 
* 1 80GB HDD (/, /home, ~40GB each)
 
* 1 80GB HDD (/, /home, ~40GB each)
 
* Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server [https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/index.html Server Guide]
 
* Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server [https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/index.html Server Guide]
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* Has parallel port!
 
* Has parallel port!
 
* Has serial port!
 
* Has serial port!
* General usage account is 'nottinghack' pass on request to all members
 
* Members can have personal accounts on request (512meg soft limit?)
 
* Static IP 10.0.0.2 (but assigned using DHCP)
 
* Defaut LAMP servers are installed
 
* [[Network#Kryten|Kryten]] is forwarding port 1921 to 22(sshd)
 
** SSH password login is enabled from local network but disabled form the internet. To access ssh from the outside world use key authentication by placing your pub key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
 
  
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Since Holly has become very much mission critical for the hackspace, it is not feasible to let members have free access to it, but now that Holly is a VM running on [[Collective]] we can easily have other VMs for testing and running a few other services.
  
* Used for [[HackSpace Instrumentation]]
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==Current configuration==
** "instrumentation" account on holly (uid=1005)
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Nowadays, holly only exists as a [[wikipedia:Virtual Machine|virtual machine]] on the [[Collective]] server.
** [http://mosquitto.org Mosquitto] is running on Holly as our MQTT Broker for the [[HackSpace Instrumentation]] Project
 
** Our MQTT IRC bot [[nh-holly]] runs from holly
 
** [http://www.cacti.net/ Cacti] to be used for graphing of instrumention data access via http://cacti.nottinghack.org.uk
 
*** Needs vhost setting up  and cati installing --[[User:Lwk|Lwk]] 02:11, 22 May 2011 (BST)
 
** [[http://twitter.com/#!/holly533mhz @Holly533MHz]] is holly's twitter account used for instrumentation updates, this is a members only feed!
 
  
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* [[Network#Kryten|Kryten]] is forwarding port 1921 to 22 for remote SSH access.
  
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* SSH password login is enabled from local network but disabled from the internet. To access SSH from the outside world use key authentication by placing your pub key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
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== Uses ==
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* Running the server side part of hackspace [[HackSpace_Instrumentation|Instrumentation]] projects, including [[Gatekeeper]], the IRC bot [[nh-holly]] and the twitter bot [[nh-twitter]] ([http://twitter.com/#!/holly533mhz @Holly533MHz])
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* Hosting [[HMS]]
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* [[Cacti]] for [http://cacti.nottinghack.org.uk/graph_view.php temperature graphs].
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[[Category:Instrumentation]]
 
[[Category:Network]]
 
[[Category:Network]]
 
[[Category:Website]]
 
[[Category:Website]]

Latest revision as of 20:43, 16 March 2019

Holly prides himself on the fact he had an IQ of 6,000 (apparently the same IQ as 6,000 PE teachers or 12,000 car park attendants), but after three million years by himself, he had become computer senile, or as Holly put it, "a bit peculiar". - Holly

The main purpose of Holly is to run the HackSpace Instrumentation projects, the most important of which being Gatekeeper.

History

Holly was Nottinghacks first server, originally set up at Hackspace_1.0, and was a fanless Via Epia Mini-ITX 533MHz, with this specification:

  • 512mb RAM
  • 1 80GB HDD (/, /home, ~40GB each)
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Server Guide
  • Low power so fine for always-on.
  • Has parallel port!
  • Has serial port!

Since Holly has become very much mission critical for the hackspace, it is not feasible to let members have free access to it, but now that Holly is a VM running on Collective we can easily have other VMs for testing and running a few other services.

Current configuration

Nowadays, holly only exists as a virtual machine on the Collective server.

  • Kryten is forwarding port 1921 to 22 for remote SSH access.
  • SSH password login is enabled from local network but disabled from the internet. To access SSH from the outside world use key authentication by placing your pub key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Uses