setup.txt

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##### Setting up the Utah Network Testbed software on a boss node
##### Tested on FreeBSD 4.9
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##### Important notes

In order to be able to help you debug any problems you run into or answer
certain questions, we'll need have accounts, preferably with root access if
allowed by your institution's AUP, on your boss and ops nodes, and will need to
be able to access the webserver on boss.
This is crucial during testbed installation and bringup; after that it's not
so important, except when you are upgrading to a new version of our software.


Supported environment:
This software does make some assumptions about the environment in which it is
run. Some of the most basic ones are listed below. In general, we don't have
the resources to adapt it to every possible environment. So, you will need to
either work out a way to match the environment outlined below, or be willing to
invest some work in adapting the software.

(1) You will need at least two network interfaces on each node - one for the
control network, and one for the experimental network. The experimental network
needs to be one on which we can make VLANs with SNMP. Currently, we support
Cisco 6500 and 4000 series switches (though not all switches in these lines
have been tested). The control net must have full multicast support, including
IGMP snooping. Nodes' control network interfaces must support PXE.

(2) We highly, highly recommend that boss, ops, and all the nodes be in
publicly routed IP space. If this is not possible, then boss and ops should be
given two interfaces: One in the nodes' control network, and one in public IP
space. If you must use private IP space for the nodes' control net, we suggest
using the 192.168/16 subnet, which leaves the larger 10/8 subnet available for
the experimental network.

(3) If you have a firewall, you will need to be able to get certain standard
ports through to boss and ops, such as the ports for http, https, ssh, named
(domain), and smtp. Any other strange network setup (such as NAT) between the
boss/ops and the outside world will cause really big headaches.

(4) The whole testbed should be in a domain or subdomain for which boss can be
the name server.

(5) The nodes must be able to reach boss with DHCP requests on the control
network - this means either being in the same broadcast domain (ie. LAN), or,
if there is a router in between, the router must be capable of forwarding
DHCP/BOOTP packets. Since the nodes will DHCP from boss, it is important that
there not be another DHCP server (ie. one for another part of your lab)
answering their requests.

(6) Boss and ops should have their own local disk space - in particular, the
/usr/testbed directory cannot be shared between them. It may be possible to
use an external machines (other than ops) as a fileserver - talk to Utah abut
this if you'd like to try.

##### Other docs:
Useful summary info and diagrams can be found in "build-operate.ppt" and
"security-all.ppt" in http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/testbed-docs/internals/

##### Step -1 - Set up "ops"

Follow the instructions in the setup-ops.txt file before the ones in this file!

##### Step 0 - OS installation and setup

Install FreeBSD on the machine you'll be using for your boss node, using the
standard FreeBSD installation process.  When asked by the installer, it's best
to choose the 'Developer' distribution set - this gets you full sources. The
'X-Developer' distribution set would be fine too, if you want to be able to run
X clients from the boss node.  When it asks if you want to install the ports
collection, answer yes.  You don't need to worry about which packages to
install (of course, grab your favorite editors, etc.) - the ones our software
needs will be installed automatically later.  You, will, however, have to make
sure that you create a partition large enough to hold /usr/testbed - in
addition to the testbed software, this is where many disk images will get
stored. The /var partition will need to be large enough to hold the database -
100MB extra for the database should be sufficient. Also, since we'll be building
and installing a lot of software from the ports tree, you'll want to make sure
that /usr is at least 2 GB.

If you want, you can go ahead and create an account for yourself on boss. For
now, just stick the home directory somewhere local, and move it to /users/ once
you've got it mounted from ops (the boss-install script will set this up). In
general, it's probably simpler to just use 'root' for now.

We occasionally run into problems with certain FreeBSD ports. Also, you're going
to want the latest security updates. So, you should at the very least bring
your ports collection up to date using:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

It is also a good idea to bring your base system up to date with the -STABLE
branch.  Instructions for doing this can be found at:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html

##### Step 1 - Create a defs file

The defs file will describe some of your setup, such as the hostnames of your
boss and ops nodes, and email addresses that certain types of mail will be sent
to.

Use the 'defs-example' file in the root of our source distribution as a
template. It contains comments explaining the important variables to set.

##### Step 2 -  Unpacking and running configure

This works the same as it did on ops:
cd ~/tbobj
~/testbed/configure --with-TBDEFS=/users/ricci/testbed/defs-ricci

##### Step 3 - Running the boss installation script

Again, this works the same as it did on ops, except that you run
install/boss-install in the object tree, instead of ops-install.

Part way through, this script will bail out and prompt you to install some
ports. This can take a long time (hours), and you want to be able to see what's
going on, right?

So, just cd to /usr/ports/misc/emulab-boss/ and run (as root) a 'make install'.
When you're done, re-run the boss-install script.

Like the ops-install script, boss-install sets up paswordless sudo for anyone
in the wheel group.

##### Step 4 - Installing from source.

In your object directory, do a 'gmake && gmake boss-install'. Then, as root, do
a 'gmake post-install'. The post-install target needs to run as root, so that
it can make certain scripts setuid, etc.

##### Step 5 - Setting up root ssh from boss to ops

This step is now done as part of boss-install/ops-install. To confirm
this, make sure this works:

	boss> sudo ssh ops ls /

If this *FAILS*, you will need to do this by hand, typing a password:

	scp /root/.ssh/identity.pub ops:/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
	
##### Step 6 - Setting up named

The testbed software manipulates DNS zone files for two reasons. First, it
adds your nodes to them so that you don't have to. Second, it creates CNAMEs
for all the nodes in every experiment. (so that you can use, for example,
'nodeA.myexp.myproj.emulab.net' to refer to your node regardless of which
physical node it got mapped to.)

The named_setup script does this by generating zone files - in general, it
concatenates a '.head' file, written by you, with it's own generated entries.
The main zone file is /etc/namedb/OURDOMAIN.db, where OURDOMAIN is from your
defs file. (OURDOMAIN, unless explicitly specified, is taken to be the domain
portion of BOSSNODE). We also generate reverse zone files (for inverse
lookups, ie. turning IP addresses back into names) in
/etc/named/reverse/SUBNET.db, where SUBNET is the the class-C subnet in which
the addresses reside (ie. 10.0.0.db). This value is defined in the defs
file created above, as TESTBED_NETWORK.

boss-install makes a reasonable attempt to create a set of named config
files for your, placing them in /etc/named. If your testbed consists of
a single class-C network, then these files will most likely be correct,
although you want to look at them to make sure. Look at these files to make
sure:

	/etc/named/OURDOMAIN.db.head
	/etc/named/reverse/SUBNET.db.head
	/etc/named/named.conf

If you have more than one class-C subnet for your testbed, you'll need a
copy of the reverse zone file for each one. You want to out boss, ops, and
any 'infrastructure' equipment (such as routers and switches) into the zone
files.  These zone files do not need to include the nodes - the nodes will
be added to them automatically. Be sure to edit /etc/named/named.conf if
you add any reverse map files (follow the format for the existing entry).

Once you think you've got things set up, run /usr/testbed/sbin/named_setup,
and make sure that it doesn't give you any error messages. It will generate
the following files:

	/etc/namedb/OURDOMAIN.db
	/etc/namedb/reverse/SUBNET.db

##### If you are using unroutable private IP addresses for part of the
      testbed:

In order to handle this situation, we'll need to use a feature of bind called
`views` so that the private addresses are only exposed to clients within the
testbed. See the bind documentation for more details on this feature. Note
that you'll want to make sure that loopback queries from boss itself see the
internal view - you want boss to resolve its own hostname to its private
address, not its public one.

In order to use multiple views, we generate multiple zone files.  In addition
to OURDOMAIN.db, which will be used for the 'external' view, we create
OURDOMAIN.internal.db for use with the 'internal' view. So, you'll also need
to create OURDOMAIN.internal.db.head .  When we generate the zone files, only
publicly-routable addresses are put into OURDOMAIN.db .
OURDOMAIN.internal.db contains all addresses, both public and private.  So,
basically, you'll want to put the public addresses for boss, ops, etc.  into
OURDOMAIN.db.head, and their private addresses into
OURDOMAIN.internal.db.head . 

##### Step 7 - Other miscellaneous things to set up

There are a few things we haven't been able to completely automate just yet,
though we hope to soon. 

hosts file - You want to put boss/ops name/IP addresses in /etc/hosts on
both boss and ops to avoid boottime circular dependencies (cause of NFS
cross mounts). This is done for you in ops-install and boss-install, but
you might want to confirm it was done properly. If you change the IP
addresses of boss/ops later, you will want to be sure to update /etc/hosts
on both machines.

SSL certificates - Our apache config file expects to find SSL certificates
in: 
	/usr/local/etc/apache/ssl.crt/www.<sitename>.crt
	/usr/local/etc/apache/ssl.key/www.<sitename>.key
	
(where <sitename> is OURDOMAIN from the configure defs file, which defaults
to boss's domain name).

boss-install already generated a temporary no-passhrase certificate for you
and placed them in the locations specified above. However, we recommend
that you get a "real" certificate from Verisign (or one of the others). 

tftpboot - There are a few bootloaders, mini-kernels, and MFSes that are used
to boot, reload, etc. testbed machines, which live in /tftpboot . For the time
being, these are not distributed with our source, and require some site
customizations, so ask Utah for the boot loaders, etc.

disk images - You'll also, of course, need disk images to go on your nodes.
Right now, we have no automatic way of generating these, so you'll have to ask
Utah for some.

locate database - It can be useful to update the 'locate' database to help you
find files as you're learning the system. This normally happends nightly, but
you can force it to happen now by running 'locate.updatedb' as root. This will
take several minutes. You can then find foo.conf by running 'locate foo.conf'.

##### Step 8 - Reboot boss

Okay, go ahead and reboot boss now, and make sure it comes up okay.

##### Step 9 - Filling the database

See the file setup-db.txt in this directory for instructions on getting the
proper information about your site and nodes into the database.