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About GigaTux

• Companies
• Service Overview
• Servers and Outstanding tasks to do on reboot
• IP Ranges
• People
• Rack and network setup in Coventry

New customers

• Sale without payment
• Verifying and charging payment
• Creating the customer account
• Creating the VPS - N.B. Do this after creating the customer account
• Testing and Confirming the VPS
• Windows VPS

Common problems

• Generic How To Handle Issues Page

Administration

• Abuse Reports and Policies
• Predefined Replies - Preset email replies to common issues

Physical Servers

• RAID Fail Events
• ATA Errors

VPS

• Users cannot start/stop a VPS - (inc. SSL/Curl errors in DTC)
• OS images become unavailable
• Physical console
• Packet loss
• High disk load
• User cannot connect to VNC
• Resetting WHM Root Password
• IP address is not routed correctly
• Reset Windows password
• Common distribution networking setup
• IPv6 configuration
• IPv6 ranges in use
• Additional IP addresses on OpenNebula

cPanel

• cPanel backups
• Webhosting page flushing does not work
• High MySQL load
• PHP 5.3 is required
• User attacking sites outbound
• Mail being held
• Master Reseller settings
• HANG notifications
• 503 errors

Miscellaneous

• High Load on Cassandra
• Lost TTY on long running process
• Mail blacklists

Major issues

• Server is not responding - a general guide for how to handle this
• Cassandra (domU) is not responding as expected
• Non-IPMI nodes are not responding as expected
• IPMI commands
• Bandwidth Spikes

Free custom configuration for customers

• Installation of a VNC server
• Change of domU kernel
• Install of 32-bit CentOS
• Installation of cPanel
• Reverse DNS
• Backups
• Custom Partitioning
• Multiple Subnets
• Adding, removing or changing IP addresses
• Arch Linux network configuration
• KBX & Asterix

Common questions customers have

• yum attempts to install 64-bit software in a 32-bit userspace
• cPanel SSH access

Miscellaneous

• Backfw
• Blocking SMTP connections
• DNS servers
• Configuring a new NFS server
• GigaTux Debian repository
• Home network
• IPMI commands
• IPv6 Settings
• Known IP blacklistings
• Live help system
• Policy on Illegal Content
• Resetting a non-IPMI physical server
• Suspending a VPS
• SSD caching
• SSL certificate expiries

New server setup

• Shared storage
• OpenNebula
• Virtual media via IPMI
• Wiping a terminated server

Marc's to do list

• node00004 to do

Useful links

• List of customers for each DTC node Username: gigatux, Password: o7jJtiRQ

Twofo

• Updating twofo b2evolution
• Restoring the theme after a b2evolution update