openSUSE admin - Database monitoring
While we monitor basic functionality of our MariaDB (running as Galera-Cluster) and PostgreSQL databases since years, we missed a way to get an easy overview of what's really happening within our...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Introducing debuginfod service for Tumbleweed
We are happy to pre-announce a new service entering the openSUSE world: https://debuginfod.opensuse.orgdebuginfod is an HTTP file server that serves debugging resources to debugger-like tools.Instead...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Upgraded Redmine on progress.opensuse.org
Hi openSUSE Community,We have been using Redmine as a ticketing system for a very long time. The previous server had Redmine 2.4.5 from 2014 installed on an old SLE 11 SP4 server.And finally we have...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - IP renumbering in Provo 2020-06-05
SUSE is getting a new ISP in Provo - and a new set of external IP addresses. This switch affects also some openSUSE servers that are currently running in the Provo datacenter. Mainly the Provo mirror...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Post-Mortem: download.opensuse.org outage
Summary¶As the current storage used on download.opensuse.org is running out of service, we started to move to a new storage via pvmove command. The first 12TB were transferred without any problem and...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Short network timeouts expected during the weekend
The SUSE office in Nuremberg will get disconnected from any former Microfocus network over the upcoming weekend (2020-06-20/21). Most of the changes should go unnoticed. But SUSE-IT needs to replace...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Upgraded matomo
As usual, we keep our infrastructure up-to-date. While this is easy for the base system ('zypper patch', you know? ;-) most of the applications need special handling. Normally, we package them as well...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Playing with Etherpad-lite
When updating to the latest etherpad-lite version 1.8.7 (including quite some bug fixes), we also revisuted the currently installed plugins and updated them to their latest version as well, as usual.To...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - IPv6 support for machines in US region
Today we reached a new milestone: all openSUSE services around the world now support IPv6 natively. The last set of machines in Provo are equipped with IPv6 addresses since today. IPv6 was missing for...
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openSUSE admin - Playing along with NFTables
By default, openSUSE Leap 15.x is using the firewalld firewall implementation (and the firewalld backend is using iptables under the hood).But since a while, openSUSE also has nftables support...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Upgrading to the next PostgreSQL version
Time passes by so quickly: we installed our PostgreSQL cluster around 2008. At least, this was the time of the first public MirrorBrain release 2.2, which was the reason to run a PostgreSQL...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Thank you, SonarSource
There are times, when keeping your system up-to date does not help you against vulnerabilities. During these times, you want to have your servers and applications hardened as good as possible -...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Thank you, SUSE QE
Some here might not know it, but some teams from the 'SUSE Quality Engineering Linux Systems Group' use the Redmine installation here at https://progress.opensuse.org/ to track the results of the test...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Network outage next Thursday, April 21st
SUSE-IT plans a replacement of some network equipment in the Nuremberg Datacenter next Thursday (2022-04-21), between 4PM to 5PM CEST. Actual downtime is planned to be up to 15 minutes.Affected...
View ArticleopenSUSE admin - Fixed security issue that affected tsp.opensuse.org
Hi,We were contacted by Lukas Euler from Positive Security, to inform us that Travel Support Program (TSP), the application we use to reimburse the costs of traveling to events where you can promote or...
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