494791 - Grab static image of Mac build machines (1 xserve, 1 mini) for imaging puposes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

In order to close bug 427921, we need an image of one of our build/unittest minis and one of our xserve machines to be copied over to an IT storage location for use in imaging future slaves for the build/unittest pool of slaves.

We would like to use:
bm-xserve22
moz2-darwin9-slave02

These machines are both in use in production and so before the image is grabbed we would want to stop their work briefly and clean any build files off.

I can work with whoever from IT is assigned this bug in order to coordinate this.

Comment 1

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

phong: bm-xserve22 is down and ready for imaging now, please let me know when it's ready to be put back in production.

Comment 2

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

phong: moz2-darwin9-slave02.build.mozilla.org is down and ready for imaging now, please let me know when
it's ready to be put back in production.

Comment 3

[Phong Tran [:phong]]

bm-xserve22 is done.

Comment 4

[Phong Tran [:phong]]

moz2-darwin9-slave02 is also done.

Comment 5

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Where are these stored and what are they called?  That way I can update the docs for future bugs asking to have machines created from these images.

Comment 6

[Phong Tran [:phong]]

They are named after the machine I cloned them from, but I can change them to be called whatever makes the most sense in the future.  It currently lives on an external USB drive that I use for imaging.

Comment 7

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Can we call them:

 macOSX-10.5.2-xserve-ref-image 
 macOSX-10.5.2-mini-ref-image

Comment 8

[Phong Tran [:phong]]

renamed accordingly.

Comment 9

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

We discovered that bm-xserve 22 wasn't completely up to date, so please recreate  macOSX-10.5.2-xserve-ref-image using bm-xserve11. It's idle so you can go ahead at any time that works for you.

Comment 10

[Phong Tran [:phong]]

I'll make a colo trip tomorrow morning and grab the image.

Comment 11

[Phong Tran [:phong]]

just so i'm completely clear, you want the ref image to be created from bm-xserve11.

Comment 12

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

yes - that's correct.

Comment 13

[Phong Tran [:phong]]

I've been running into an error taking an image of bm-xserve11.  It will try to figure out what is wrong.

Comment 14

[Phong Tran [:phong]]

new ref image taken and it's on the XServer IMAGEMASTER external drive.