DYNES-Deployments

["Dale W. Carder" <>]

Hi Jim,

You can find a lot of documentation here:
http://www.internet2.edu/ion/dynes.html  (scroll down)
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/dynesdoc/Home
http://www.internet2.edu/ion/docs/FDTAgent_Usage_Dynes_v03.pdf

In a nutshell, the boxes are more or less yours to maintain.  See the
FAQ for more details / caveats.

In the documentation for the FDT there is a "dynes ping" sort of command
you can use in addition to file transfer tools.  

For local passwords, this would have been chosen as part of the
provisioning for your site.  The dynes admins can probably use their
backdoor and reset it for you.  Then you can log in as root on console 
and set up local user accounts (and corresponding ssh keys) or do
whatever it is that your site does.

Dale

Thus spake Barr, James 
()
 on Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:56:20PM +0000:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> More practically, I have questions about DYNES as a service that don't seem 
> to have an answer from any of our folks internally:
> 
> 1) How does one obtain an account on the DYNES server and begin using Dynes?
> 2) Will the  accounts be LDAP enabled or is it a local account that must be 
> setup on the server?
> 
> Forgive me, the individual who was lead on this left back in February and 
> this project got passed to my department (enterprise infrastructure).
> Our network team was instrumental in getting the DYNES equipment on line, 
> but they would not be the ones who will administrate the system and assist 
> with user logins, file transfers, general questions, etc.
> 
> Is there a step by step admin guide we can use (as in, step 1, login to the 
> VM on the DYNES physical host, setup a user, test functionality, confirm 
> data transfer is working, etc)?
> This would provide the best way for us to wrap a service around the product 
> and create and modify internal docs that any of my admins can use.
> 
> Some of the links in the DYNES documentation wiki are dead, or lead to 
> other projects (OSCARS, for example) which are used, but not specific to 
> DYNES.
> 
> Any help you can provide would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Barr
> Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure
> Tufts University
> 617-627-0657
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> 
>  
> [mailto:]
>  On Behalf Of Brian Cashman
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:09 AM
> To: Gray, Charles
> Cc: 
> 
> Subject: Re: [dynes-deployments] Administrator Configuration Checklist
> 
> Charles,
> 
> No one here knows of a specific checklist. Is there any more detail you can 
> provide?
> 
> Thanks,
>       Brian Cashman
>       Internet2
> 
> On 4/16/13 4:09 PM, 
> 
>  wrote:
> > Someone here at Tufts has asked "Has the administrator configuration 
> > check list already been done for our site?"
> >
> > Could you please refer me specifically to that document?  There's much 
> > documentation to wade through and wiki search isn't fruitful on the 
> > terms "configuration checklist"
> >
> > Regards,
> > Charles Gray
> > Senior Systems Administrator
> > Tufts Technology Services (TTS)
> > 169 Holland Street
> > Somerville, MA 02144
> > (617) 627-5327 (w)
> > (617) 627-3307 (f)
> > it.tufts.edu
> >
> 
>