Purpose
This page contains the list of equipment in the CAcert rack in the BIT-2 hosting centre in Ede, The Netherlands. It is managed by the CAcert critical system administrators except where noted.
Equipment
Servers
Nickname |
Description |
Brand/Type |
Serial |
Remarks |
signing server |
Dell R300 |
73BC24J |
Quad Core Intel Xeon X3323 2.5 GHz, 2 GB, 2 x 160 GB |
|
old infrastructure server |
Sun X4100 |
0651AN1165 |
4 x 2.4 GHz AMD Opteron, 4 GB, 2 x 74 GB (powered off) |
|
web/database server |
Sun X4100 |
0651AN1154 |
4 x 2.4 GHz AMD Opteron, 4 GB, 2 x 146 GB |
|
critical systems support server |
Sun X2100 |
0649QBL02C |
2 x 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron, 2 GB, 2 x 250 GB |
|
critical systems support server |
Sun X2100 |
0649QBL027 |
2 x 2.2 GHz AMD Opteron, 2 GB, 2 x 250 GB (powered off) |
|
infrastructure server |
Thomas-Krenn |
|
Quad Core Intel Xeon E3-1240V2 3.4 GHz, 16 GB, 2 x 1 TB, 1 x 240 GB SSD |
Network Equipment
Nickname |
Description |
Brand/Type |
Serial |
Remarks |
fw01 |
main firewall |
PC Engines alix2d1 |
|
OpenBSD + pf, at left side of cabinet |
fw02 |
backup firewall |
PC Engines alix2d1 |
|
OpenBSD + pf, at right side of cabinet |
cisco1 |
network switch |
Cisco 2960-48 |
E068384 |
48 ports 10/100 Mbit/s + 2 uplink 1000 Mbit/s |
cisco2 |
spare network switch |
Cisco 2960-48 |
E068350 |
48 ports 10/100 Mbit/s + 2 uplink 1000 Mbit/s |
Miscellaneous Equipment
Nickname |
Description |
Brand/Type |
Serial |
Remarks |
infra02 backup |
external backup disk |
Western Digital Elements |
WMAZA1886433 |
connected to infra02 via USB2.0, 2 TB, 7200 rpm |
Backup Equipment
Note: the backup equipment is normally stored at a secured secure-u location; it is only brought into the CAcert rack at BIT in Ede for taking full backups, and put back into storage immediately afterwards.
Nickname |
Brand/Type |
Serial |
Remarks |
backup disk 1 (webdb) |
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 |
Y61V6P3E |
200 GB ATA/133 |
backup disk 2 (signer) |
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 |
5LJ0Y8SPD |
200 GB ATA/100 |
backup disk 3 |
WD Elements |
8E5123A9UW300136 |
500 GB USB2 |
backup disk 4 |
WD Elements |
8E5123A9UW300130 |
500 GB USB2 |
Comments
Maintenance
Changes in equipment should be noted in this page, and logged to the cacert-systemlog mailing list.
16.12.2011 Broken Linksys switches replaced by Cisco 2960-48 switch (1 live + 1 cold spare)
16.12.2011 Document the "extern" switch managed by BIT at the bottom of the cabinet
20.04.2012 Function change for sun2; disks upgraded to 2 x 146 GB
03.04.2013 OLD webdb taken out of service, sun2 takes over its tasks
13.05.2013 cisco2 switch has been taken offsite temporarily for reconfiguration
14.11.2013 cisco2 switch has been brought back in production
14.11.2013 cisco1 switch has been taken offsite temporarily for reconfiguration
14.11.2013 cisco switch taken offsite to secure-u storage, removed from this page
14.11.2013 extern switch taken offsite for return to BIT (it was on loan since 2007), removed from this page
12.12.2013 equipment move to new half-height rack
12.12.2013 OLD webdb and OLD signer taken offsite and out of service forever, removed from this page
12.12.2013 new infra02 infrastructure server from Thomas Krenn installed
12.12.2013 gate & mirror firewall boxes from Tunix taken offsite for return to Tunix, removed from this page
12.12.2013 new fw01 & fw02 1U firewall engine installed as new external firewall
12.12.2013 cisco1 network switch brought back into production, cisco2 is cold spare
12.12.2013 KVM switch taken offsite and out of service forever, removed from this page
06.05.2014 USB backup disk moved to infra02, position of fw01 and fw02 clarified, infra01 demoted
04.05.2020 broken signer machine replaced by spare one using the old harddrives