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<center>''It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.'' - Meyer's Law</center>
 
<center>''It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.'' - Meyer's Law</center>
  
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This is the central hub for BX system user documentation.
  
This is the central hub for BX system user documentation.
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[http://wiki.bx.psu.edu/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&from=&namespace=100 All Pages] in the BX namespace.
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= Help / General Info =
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Email '''admin-at-bx.psu.edu''' for support.
  
Help / General Info:
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* [[bx:Wartik|Wartik Lab]]
 
* [[bx:New User Info|New User Info]]
 
* [[bx:New User Info|New User Info]]
* [[bx:mail|BX email]]
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* [[bx:mail|Email]]
* [[bx:cacert certificate|Installing CACert Root Certificate]]
 
 
* [[bx:AFS|AFS]]
 
* [[bx:AFS|AFS]]
* [[bx:Network Connections|Network Connections]]
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* [[bx:Network|Network Connections]]
* [[bx:Accounts|BX Accounts]]
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* [[bx:Accounts|Accounts]]
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* [[bx:Accounts:Passwords|Accounts and Passwords]]
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* [[bx:Printing|Printing]]
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* [[bx:Slurm Cluster|The New Genomics Cluster]]
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* [[bx:SGE|Sun Grid Engine Usage]]
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* [[bx:SSH|SSH]]
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* [[bx:Resources|Computing Resources]]
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= Forms / Requests =
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* Accounts: [http://admin.bx.psu.edu/requests/account/ Online] | [http://wiki.bx.psu.edu/images/7/74/BXAccountRequestForm.pdf PDF]
  
Tools:
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= Tools =
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* [http://ganglia.bx.psu.edu Ganglia distributed HPC Monitoring]
 
* [http://kaylee.bx.psu.edu/nagios/ Current System Status] (login: guest/guest)
 
* [http://kaylee.bx.psu.edu/nagios/ Current System Status] (login: guest/guest)
* [http://kaylee.bx.psu.edu/nlg/ Nagios Looking Glass] (same as above, but different)
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* [http://qstat.bx.psu.edu BX SGE Grid Status]
* [https://cacti.bx.psu.edu Network and System graphs] (weblogin)
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* [http://cacti.bx.psu.edu Network graphs]
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* [http://cacti.bx.psu.edu/plugins/weathermap/weathermap-cacti-plugin.php Network Weathermap]
 
* [https://webalizer.bx.psu.edu Webalizer Website Statistics] (weblogin)
 
* [https://webalizer.bx.psu.edu Webalizer Website Statistics] (weblogin)
 
* [http://webmail.bx.psu.edu BX Webmail] (weblogin)
 
* [http://webmail.bx.psu.edu BX Webmail] (weblogin)
 
* [http://admin.bx.psu.edu/password BX Password Change] (weblogin)
 
* [http://admin.bx.psu.edu/password BX Password Change] (weblogin)
* [https://admin.bx.psu.edu/afs/homedir.pl AFS Home Directory Info] (weblogin)]
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* [https://admin.bx.psu.edu/afs/homedir AFS Home Directory Info] (weblogin)]
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* [http://admin.bx.psu.edu/afs/diskusage AFS Server Disk Usage]
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* [https://admin.bx.psu.edu/account/mailforward.php Mail Forward Tool] (weblogin)
  
== Recent System News ==
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= Recent System News =
==== Mon, Mar 8, 2010 ====
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== Mon, Mar 8, 2010 ==
 
* The new Solaris+ZFS+AFS home directory storage has been brought fully online and all home directories migrated back to the 3 new virtualized machines, afs-fs4, afs-fs5, afs-fs6. The new filesystem allocation uses ZFS, with compression turned on, resulting in 1.75 to 1 compression on average for home directories.
 
* The new Solaris+ZFS+AFS home directory storage has been brought fully online and all home directories migrated back to the 3 new virtualized machines, afs-fs4, afs-fs5, afs-fs6. The new filesystem allocation uses ZFS, with compression turned on, resulting in 1.75 to 1 compression on average for home directories.
 
* The machine previously known as coltrane has been re-purposed as a VMware ESXi machine, running the 3 new Solaris AFS fileservers. The machine currently known as coltrane is now a virtualized CentOS 5.4 machine.
 
* The machine previously known as coltrane has been re-purposed as a VMware ESXi machine, running the 3 new Solaris AFS fileservers. The machine currently known as coltrane is now a virtualized CentOS 5.4 machine.
  
==== Sun, Feb 21 2010 ====
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== Sun, Feb 21 2010 ==
 
* mail.bx.psu.edu has been decomissioned as per the announcements to all@bx ([http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/all/2009-December/000977.html 1], [http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/all/2010-February/000996.html 2]). Please see [[BX:Mail]] for the canonical instructions for configuring your mail client.
 
* mail.bx.psu.edu has been decomissioned as per the announcements to all@bx ([http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/all/2009-December/000977.html 1], [http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/all/2010-February/000996.html 2]). Please see [[BX:Mail]] for the canonical instructions for configuring your mail client.
  
== Upcoming Changes/Outages ==
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= Upcoming Changes/Outages =
 
* '''Thursday, March 18, 2010''' OPP has requested a whole-building power outage for Wartik Lab from 4AM to 7AM. Equipment on backup power will not be effected. We are currently unsure if we will be able to move the server equipment onto the new backup power in time.
 
* '''Thursday, March 18, 2010''' OPP has requested a whole-building power outage for Wartik Lab from 4AM to 7AM. Equipment on backup power will not be effected. We are currently unsure if we will be able to move the server equipment onto the new backup power in time.

Revision as of 15:18, 22 December 2015

4200.jpg
It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple. - Meyer's Law

This is the central hub for BX system user documentation.

All Pages in the BX namespace.

Help / General Info

Email admin-at-bx.psu.edu for support.

Forms / Requests

Tools

Recent System News

Mon, Mar 8, 2010

  • The new Solaris+ZFS+AFS home directory storage has been brought fully online and all home directories migrated back to the 3 new virtualized machines, afs-fs4, afs-fs5, afs-fs6. The new filesystem allocation uses ZFS, with compression turned on, resulting in 1.75 to 1 compression on average for home directories.
  • The machine previously known as coltrane has been re-purposed as a VMware ESXi machine, running the 3 new Solaris AFS fileservers. The machine currently known as coltrane is now a virtualized CentOS 5.4 machine.

Sun, Feb 21 2010

  • mail.bx.psu.edu has been decomissioned as per the announcements to all@bx (1, 2). Please see BX:Mail for the canonical instructions for configuring your mail client.

Upcoming Changes/Outages

  • Thursday, March 18, 2010 OPP has requested a whole-building power outage for Wartik Lab from 4AM to 7AM. Equipment on backup power will not be effected. We are currently unsure if we will be able to move the server equipment onto the new backup power in time.