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# Introduction
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This is the organisation wiki for the **openQA Project**.
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The source code is hosted in the [os-autoinst github project](http://github.com/os-autoinst/), especially [openQA itself](http://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA) and the main backend [os-autoinst](http://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst)
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If you are interested in the tests for SUSE/openSUSE products take a look into the [openqatests](https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqatests) project.
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If you are looking for entry level issues to contribute to please look into the section [[Wiki#Where-to-contribute|Where to contribute]]
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{{toc}}
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# Organisational
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## ticket workflow
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The following ticket statuses are used together and their meaning is explained:
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* *New*: No one has worked on the ticket (e.g. the ticket has not been properly refined) or no one is feeling responsible for the work on this ticket.
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* *Workable*: The ticket has been refined and is ready to be picked.
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* *In Progress*: Assignee is actively working on the ticket.
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* *Resolved*: The complete work on this issue is done and the according issue is supposed to be fixed as observed (Should be updated together with a link to a merged pull request or also a link to an production openQA showing the effect)
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* *Feedback*: Further work on the ticket needs clarification of open points within the ticket or is awaiting feedback from others or other systems (e.g. automated tests) to proceed. Sometimes also used to ask Assignee about progress on inactivity.
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* *Blocked*: Further work on the ticket is blocked by some external dependency (e.g. bugs, not implemented features). There should be a link to another ticket, bug, trello card, etc. where it can be seen what the ticket is blocked by.
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* *Rejected*: The issue is considered invalid, should not be done, is considered out of scope.
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* *Closed*: As this can be set only by administrators it is suggested to not use this status.
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It is good practice to update the status together with a comment about it, e.g. a link to a pull request or a reason for reject.
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## ticket categories
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* *Regressions/Crashes*: Regressions, crashes, error messages
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* *Feature requests*: Ideas or wishes for extension, enhancement, improvement
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* *Organisational*: Organisational tasks within the project(s), not directly code related
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* *Support*: Support of users, usage problems, questions
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Please avoid the use of other, deprecated categories
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Suggestion by *okurz*: I recommend to avoid the word "bug" in our categories because of the usual "is it a bug or a feature" struggle. Instead I suggest to strictly define "Regressions & Crashes" to clearly separate "it used to work in before" from "this was never part of requirements" for Features. Any ticket of this category also means that our project processes missed something so we have points for improvements, e.g. extend things to look out for in code review.
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## Epics and Sagas
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[epic]s and [saga]s belong to the "coordination" tracker, project contributors are not required to follow this convention but the tracker may be changed automagically in the future: http://mailman.suse.de/mailman/private/qa-sle/2020-October/002722.html 
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## ticket templates
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You can use these templates to fill in tickets and further improve them with more detail over time. Copy the code block, paste it into a new issue, replace every block marked with "<…>" with your content or delete if not appropriate.
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### Defects
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Subject: `<Short description, example: "openQA dies when triggering any Windows ME tests">`
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## Observation
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<description of what can be observed and what the symptoms are, provide links to failing test results and/or put short blocks from the log output here to visualize what is happening>
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## Steps to reproduce
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* <do this>
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* <do that>
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* <observe result>
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## Impact
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## Problem
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<problem investigation, can also include different hypotheses, should be labeled as "H1" for first hypothesis, etc.>
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## Suggestions
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* <what to do as a first step>
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* <Fix the actual problem>
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* <Consider fixing the design>
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* <Consider fixing the team's process>
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* <Consider to explore further>
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## Workaround
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<example: retrigger job>
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example ticket: #10526
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For tickets referencing "auto_review" see
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https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/blob/master/README.md#auto-review---automatically-detect-known-issues-in-openqa-jobs-label-openqa-jobs-with-ticket-references-and-optionally-retrigger
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for a suggested template snippet.
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### Feature requests
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Subject: `<Short description, example: "grub3 btrfs support" (feature)>`
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## User story
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<As a <role>, I want to <do an action>, to <achieve which goal> >
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## Acceptance criteria
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* <**AC1:** the first acceptance criterion that needs to be fulfilled to do this, example: Clicking "restart button" causes restart of the job>
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* <**AC2:** also think about the "not-actions", example: other jobs are not affected>
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## Suggestions
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* <first task to do as an easy starting point>
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* <what do do next, all tasks optionally with an effort estimation in hours, e.g. "(0.5-2h)">
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* <optional: mark "optional" tasks>
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## Further details
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<everything that does not fit into above sections>
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Other often used sections that can be considered
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## Motivation
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<Where this idea/request comes from, what is the context, etc.; Could be alternatively used to the user story section>
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## Acceptance tests
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* <**AT1-1:** the first acceptance test for AC1 (see "Acceptance criteria" above), example: "Go to https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests and confirm that the requested new button is visible">
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* <**AT1-2:** the second acceptance test for AC1 (see "Acceptance criteria" above), often the counter-test, example: "Go to https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests and confirm that the requested new button is *not* visible if do_not_show_button=True is set in the server config">
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## Rollback steps
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* <What was implemented as workaround or temporary measure and needs to be undone before the ticket is resolved. Often added retroactively>
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## Out-of-scope
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* <What is explicitly decided to be *not* covered within this ticket. Often used to limit the effort on work and preventing conflicts by relating to other tickets covering those aspects>
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## Further decision steps working on test issues
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Test issues could be one of the following sources. Feel free to use the following template in tickets as well
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## Problem
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* **H1** The product has changed
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 * **H1.1** product changed slightly but in an acceptable way without the need for communication with DEV+RM --> adapt test
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 * **H1.2** product changed slightly but in an acceptable way found after feedback from RM --> adapt test
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 * **H1.3** product changed significantly --> after approval by RM adapt test
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* **H2** Fails because of changes in test setup
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 * **H2.1** Our test hardware equipment behaves different
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 * **H2.2** The network behaves different
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* **H3** Fails because of changes in test infrastructure software, e.g. os-autoinst, openQA
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* **H4** Fails because of changes in test management configuration, e.g. openQA database settings
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* **H5** Fails because of changes in the test software itself (the test plan in source code as well as needles)
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* **H6** Sporadic issue, i.e. the root problem is already hidden in the system for a long time but does not show symptoms every time
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This is following the [scientific method](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method), Also read http://yellerapp.com/posts/2014-08-11-scientific-debugging.html and http://web.mit.edu/6.031/www/fa17/classes/13-debugging/. It is suggested to use the characters *H* (hypothesis), *E* (experiment), *O* (observation), e.g. like this
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* **H3** Fails because of changes in test infrastructure software, e.g. os-autoinst, openQA
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## Additional details needed for non-qemu issues
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As the automatic integration tests of os-autoinst and openQA are based on qemu virtualization, for any non-qemu related requests please provide detailed manual reproduction steps, otherwise it is unlikely that any issue or feature request can be implemented.
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## pull request handling on github
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As a reviewer of pull requests on github for all related repositories, e.g. https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse/pulls, apply labels in case PRs are open for a longer time and can not be merged so that we keep our backlog clean and know why PRs are blocked.
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* **notready**: Triaged as not ready yet for merging, no (immediate) reaction by the reviewee, e.g. when tests are missing, other scenarios break, only tested for one of SLE/TW
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## Where to contribute?
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If you want to help openQA development you can take a look into the existing [issues](https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/issues).
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You can start with
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* [entrance level issues](https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/search?q=entrance+level+issue&open_issues=1)
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* issues tagged as [easy](https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&set_filter=1&sort=id%3Adesc&f%5B%5D=status_id&op%5Bstatus_id%5D=o&f%5B%5D=issue_tags&op%5Bissue_tags%5D=%3D&v%5Bissue_tags%5D%5B%5D=easy&f%5B%5D=&c%5B%5D=subject&c%5B%5D=project&c%5B%5D=status&c%5B%5D=assigned_to&c%5B%5D=fixed_version&c%5B%5D=is_private&c%5B%5D=due_date&c%5B%5D=relations&group_by=&t%5B%5D=)
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* issues tagged as [beginner](https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&set_filter=1&sort=id%3Adesc&f%5B%5D=status_id&op%5Bstatus_id%5D=o&f%5B%5D=issue_tags&op%5Bissue_tags%5D=%3D&v%5Bissue_tags%5D%5B%5D=beginner&f%5B%5D=&c%5B%5D=subject&c%5B%5D=project&c%5B%5D=status&c%5B%5D=assigned_to&c%5B%5D=fixed_version&c%5B%5D=is_private&c%5B%5D=due_date&c%5B%5D=relations&group_by=&t%5B%5D=) - not necessarily "easy" but more suitable for someone coming to a project with little or no domain specific knowledge
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* ideas from #65271
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 * *suggestions*: check current coverage in each individual project (os-autoinst/openQA/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse) and add tests as necessary
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# Use cases
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The following use cases 1-6 have been defined within a SUSE workshop (others have been defined later) to clarify how different actors work with openQA. Some of them are covered already within openQA quite well, some others are stated as motivation for further feature development.
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## Use case 1
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**User:** QA-Project Managment
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**primary actor:** QA Project Manager, QA Team Leads
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**trigger:** product milestones, providing a daily status
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**user story:** „As a QA project manager I want to check on a daily basis the „openQA Dashboard“ to get a summary/an overall status of the „reviewers results“ in order to take the right actions and prioritize tasks in QA accordingly.“
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## Use case 2
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**User:** openQA-Admin
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**stakeholder:** Qa-Prjmgr, QA-TL, openQA Tech-Lead
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**trigger:** Bugs, features, new testcases
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**user story:** „As an openQA admin I constantly check in the web-UI the system health and I manage its configuration to ensure smooth operation of the tool.“
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## Use case 3
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**user story:** „As an openQA-Reviewer at any point in time I review on the webpage of openQA the overall status of a build in order to track and find bugs, because I want to find bugs as early as possible and report them.“
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## Use case 4
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**User:** Testcase-Contributor
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**primary actor:** All development teams, Maintenance QA
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**trigger:** features, new functionality, bugs, new product/package
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**user story:** „As developer when there are new features, new functionality, bugs, new product/package in git I contribute my testcases because I want to ensure good quality submissions and smooth product integration.“
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## Use case 5
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**stakeholder:** Directors, VP, PM, TAMs, Partners
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**user story:** „As a Release-Manager on a daily basis I check on a dashboard for the product health/build status in order to act early in case of failures and have concrete and current reports.“
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## Use case 6
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**user story:** „As a Staging-Manager I review the build status of packages with every staged submission to the „staging projects“ in the „staging dashboard“ and the test-status of the pre-integrated fixes, because I want to identify major breakage before integration to the products and provide fast feedback back to the development.“
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**user story:** „As a developer that has been assigned a bug which has been observed in openQA I can review referenced tests, find a newer and the most recent job in the same scenario, understand what changed since the last successful job, what other jobs show same symptoms to investigate the root cause fast and use openQA for verification of a bug fix.“
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# Thoughts about categorizing test results, issues, states within openQA
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## Nomenclature
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### Test status categories
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A common definition about the status of a test regarding the product it tests: "false|true positive|negative" as described on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positives_and_false_negatives. "positive|negative" describes the outcome of a test ("positive": test signals presence of issue; "negative": no signal) whereas "false|true" describes the conclusion of the test regarding the presence of issues in the SUT or product in our case ("true": correct reporting; "false": incorrect reporting), e.g. "true negative", test successful, no issues detected and there are no issues, product is working as expected by customer. Another example: Think of testing as of a fire alarm. An alarm (event detector) should only go off (be "positive") *if* there is a fire (event to detect) --> "true positive" whereas *if* there is *no* fire there should be *no* alarm --> "true negative".
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If in doubt declare a test as "broken". We should review the test and examine if it is behaving as expected.
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Be careful about "positive/negative" as some might also use "positive" to incorrectly denote a passing test (and "negative" for failing test) as an indicator of "working product" not an indicator about "issue present". If you argue what is "used in common speech" think about how "false positive" is used as in "false alarm" --> "positive" == "alarm raised", also see https://narainko.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/understanding-false-positive-and-false-negative/
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### Priorization of work regarding categories
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In this sense development+QA want to accomplish a "true negative" state whenever possible (no issues present, therefore none detected). As QA and test developers we want to prevent "false positives" ("false alarms" declaring a product as broken when it is not but the test failed for other reasons), also known as "type I error" and "false negatives" (a product issue is not catched by tests and might "slip through" QA and at worst is only found by an external outside customer) also known as "type II error". Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors. In the context of openQA and system testing paired with screen matching a "false positive" is much more likely as the tests are very susceptible to subtle variations and changes even if they should be accepted. So when in doubt, create an issue in progress, look at it again, and find that it was a false alarm, rather than wasting more peoples time with INVALID bug reports by believing the product to be broken when it isn't. To quote Richard Brown: "I […] believe this is the route to ongoing improvement - if we have tests which produce such false alarms, then that is a clear indicator that the test needs to be reworked to be less ambiguous, and that IS our job as openQA developers to deal with".
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## Further categorization of statuses, issues and such in testing, especially automatic tests
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To keep it simple I will try to go in steps of deciding if a potential issue is of one of two categories in every step (maybe three) and go further down from there. The degree of further detailing is not limited, i.e. it can be further extended. Naming scheme should follow arabic number (for two levels just 1 and 2) counting schemes added from the right for every additional level of decision step and detail without any separation between the digits, e.g. "1111" for the first type in every level of detail up to level four. Also, I am thinking of giving the fully written form phonetic name to unambiguously identify each on every level as long as not more individual levels are necessary. The alphabet should be reserved for higher levels and higher priority types.
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Priority from high to low: INDIA->OSCAR->HOTEL->JULIETT->…
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# Important ticket queries
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* All auto-review tickets: https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/issues?query_id=697 , see https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/blob/master/README.md#auto-review---automatically-detect-known-issues-in-openqa-jobs-label-openqa-jobs-with-ticket-references-and-optionally-retrigger for further information regarding auto-review
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# Proposals for uses of labels
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With [Show bug or label icon on overview if labeled (gh#550)](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/550) it is possible to add custom labels just by writing them. Nevertheless, a convention should be found for a common benefit. <del>Beware that labels are also automatically carried over with (Carry over labels from previous jobs in same scenario if still failing [gh#564])(https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/564) which might make consistent test failures less visible when reviewers only look for test results without labels or bugrefs.</del> Labels are not anymore automatically carried over ([gh#1071](https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/1071)).
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* ***`fixed_<build_ref>`***: If a test failure is already fixed in a more recent build and no bug reference is known, use this label together with a reference to a more recent passed test run in the same scenario. Useful for reviewing older builds. Example (https://openqa.suse.de/tests/382518#comments):
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# s390x Test Organisation
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See the following picture for a graphical overview of the current s390x test infrastructure at SUSE:
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![SUSE s390x test infrastructure](qa_sle_openqa_s390x_test_infrastructure.jpg)
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## Upgrades
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This scheme ensures that all actual Upgrade jobs are finding the prepared system and are able to upgrade it
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No special requirements anymore, see details in #18016
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## Automated z/VM LPAR installation with openQA using qnipl
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There is an ongoing effort to automate the LPAR creation and installation on z/VM. A first idea resulted in the creation of [qnipl](https://github.com/openSUSE/dracut-qnipl). `qnipl` enables one to boot a very slim initramfs from a shared medium (e.g. shared SCSI-disks) and supply it with the needed parameters to chainload a "normal SLES installation" using kexec.
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This method is required for z/VM because snipl (Simple network initial program loader) can only load/boot LPARs from specific disks, not network resources.
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### Setup
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  * A simple and sufficient config can be found in [poo#33682](https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/33682)
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1. clone [`qnipl`](https://github.com/nicksinger/dracut-qnipl) to your dracut modules (e.g. /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/95qnipl)
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  * example: `snipl -f ./snipl.conf -s P0069A27-LP3 -A fa00 --wwpn_scsiload 500507630713d3b3 --lun_scsiload 4001401100000000 --ossparms_scsiload "install=http://openqa.suse.de/assets/repo/SLE-15-Installer-DVD-s390x-Build533.2-Media1 hostip=10.0.0.1/20 gateway=10.0.0.254 Nameserver=10.0.0.1 Domain=suse.de ssh=1"`
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  * `--ossparms_scsiload` is then evaluated and used by `qnipl` to kexec into the installer with the (for the installer) needed parameters
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### Further details
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Further details can also be found in the [github repo](https://github.com/openSUSE/dracut-qnipl/blob/master/README.md). Pull requests, questions and ideas always welcome!
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# Infrastructure setup for o3 (openqa.opensuse.org) and osd (openqa.suse.de)
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Both o3 and osd are hosted in SUSE data centers, mostly Nuremberg, Germany, and Prague, Czech Republic.
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## o3 (openqa.opensuse.org)
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o3 consists of a VM running the web UI and physical worker machines. The VM for o3 has netapp backed storage on rotating disk so less performant than SSD but cheaper. So eventually we might have the possibility to use SSD based storage. Currently there are four virtual storage devices provided to o3 totalling to more than 10 TB.
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The o3 infrastructure is in detail described on https://github.com/os-autoinst/sync-and-trigger/blob/main/openqa-opensuse.md
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### Temporary things regarding the move to PRG2
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### Accessing the o3 infrastructure
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~~The o3 webui host as well the workers within the o3 infrastructure can be accessed over ssh by using `ssh -p 2214 gate.opensuse.org` (and `ssh -p 2213 gate.opensuse.org` for old-ariel).~~
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Ask one of the existing admins within https://app.element.io/#/room/#openqa:opensuse.org or irc://irc.libera.chat/opensuse-factory (so that I know you can be reached over those channels when people have questions to you what you did with the ssh access) to put your ssh key on the o3 webui host to be able to login. 
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To give access for a new user an existing admin can do the following:
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#### SSH configuration
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To easily access all hosts behind the jump host you can use the following config for your ssh client (`~/.ssh/config`):
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```
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Host ariel
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  HostName ariel.dmz-prg2.suse.org
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# Connection closed by UNKNOWN port 65535`
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**A word of warning:** be aware that this enables agent-forwarding to at least the jumphost. Please read up for yourself if and how bad you consider the security implications of doing so.
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The workers can only be accessed from "ariel", not directly. One can use password authentication on the workers using the root account. Ask existing admins for the root password. It is suggested that you use key-based authentication. For this put your ssh keys on all the workers, e.g. using the above configuration and `ssh-copy-id`.
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**Notice:** Some machines are connected to the o3 openQA host from other networks and might need different ways of access, at time of writing:
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 * siodtw01 (for tests on Raspberry Pi 2,3,4)
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* Frankencampus (SUSE internal):
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### Manual command execution on o3 workers
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To execute commands manually on all workers within the o3 infrastructure one can do for example the following:
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```
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hosts="openqaworker20 openqaworker21 openqaworker22 openqaworker23 openqaworker24 openqaworker25 openqaworker26 openqaworker27 openqaworker28 openqaworker-arm21 openqaworker-arm22 qa-power8-3"
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for i in $hosts; do echo $i && ssh root@$i "zypper -n dup && reboot" ; done
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```
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```
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for i in $hosts; do echo $i && ssh root@$i " echo 'ssh-rsa … …' >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys " ; done
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```
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mind the correct list of machines.
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Formerly for true transactional servers we used:
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```
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for i in $hosts; do echo $i && ssh root@$i "(transactional-update -n dup || zypper -n dup) && reboot" ; done
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```
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```
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### Automatic update of o3
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o3 is continuously deployed, that includes both the webUI host as well as the workers.
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#### Automatic update of o3 webUI host
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openqa.opensuse.org applies continuous updates of openQA related packages, conducts nightly updates of system packages and reboots automatically as required, see
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#### Recurring automatic update of openQA workers
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Same as the o3 webUI all o3 workers all apply continuous updates of openQA related packages. Additionally most apply a daily automatic system update and are "Transactional Servers" running openSUSE Leap. power8 is non-transactional with a weekly update of the system every Sunday.
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This was for a number of reasons including:
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* Getting all the machines consistent after a few years of drift
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* Making it easier to keep them consistent by leveraging a read only root filesystem
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* Guaranteeing rollbackability by using transactional updates
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This was done by rbrown also to fulfill the prerequisite to getting them viable for multi-machine testing
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These systems currently patch themselves and reboot automatically in the default maintenance window of 0330-0500 CET/CEST.
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On problems this could be changed in the following way:
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* Edit the maintenance window in /etc/rebootmgr.conf
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* Disable the automatic reboot by "systemctl disable rebootmgr.service"
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EDIT: 2022-07-11: All o3 machines are effectively not "transactional-workers" anymore as openqa-continuous-update.service is doing a complete `zypper dup` every couple of minutes. With `rebootmgr` triggered for reboot still automatic nightly reboots happen as necessary. See #111989 for details
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SUSE employees have access to the bootmenu for the openQA worker machines, e.g. openqaworker21 and so on. "snapper rollback" can be executed from a booted, functionally operative machine which one can ssh into.
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#### Rollback of updates
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Updates on workers can be rolled back using `transactional-update` affecting the transactional workers (others are likely not updated that often):
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```
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for i in $hosts; do echo $i && ssh root@$i "transactional-update rollback last && reboot"; done
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Updates on the central webUI host openqa.opensuse.org can be rolled back by using either older variants of packages that receive maintenance updates or using the locally cached packages in e.g. /var/cache/zypp/packages/devel_openQA/noarch using `zypper in --oldpackage`, similar to https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/blob/master/script/openqa-rollback#L39
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#### Debugging qemu SUTs in openqa.opensuse.org
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os-autoinst starts qemu with network type that doesn't allow access from the outside, so ssh is not possible. But, qemu is started with a VNC channel available from the host (the openQA-worker).
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Running vncviewer inside a headless server is useless, but it is possible to use ariel as a jump host and SSH port forwarding to start vncviewer client from your desktop environment and connect to the VNC channel of the qemu SUT.
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```
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ssh -L LOCAL_PORT:WORKER_HOSTNAME:QEMU_VNC_PORT ariel
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* on laptop shell 1: ssh -L 43043:openqaworker7:6001 ariel
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* Keep shell open to keep the tunnel open and the port forwarding
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##### 2. Open vncviewer
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* `-shared` is needed to not kick the VNC connection of os-autoinst. If it is kicked, the job will terminate and the qemu process will be killed.
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### AArch64 specific configurations on o3
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On o3, the aarch64 workers need additional configuration.
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#### Setup HugePages
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You need to setup HugePages support to improve performances with qemu VM and to match current aarch64 `MACHINE` configuration.
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### o3 s390 and other (e.g. bare-metal) workers
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`workers.ini`
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Allow containers to access cache service (`systemctl edit openqa-worker-cacheservice.service`):
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```
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The s390 and ipmi workers for openQA are running within podman containers on openqaworker23.
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The containers are started using systemd but the unit files are specific to the containers and will end up in a restart-loop if this fact is ignored. Whenever the containers are recreated, the systemd files have to be recreated.
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```
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podman run --pull=newer -d -h openqaworker23_container --name openqaworker23_container_$i -p $(python3 -c"p=${i}*10+20003;print(f'{p}:{p}')") -e OPENQA_WORKER_INSTANCE=$i -v /opt/s390x_opensuse:/etc/openqa -v /var/lib/openqa/share:/var/lib/openqa/share -v /var/lib/openqa/cache:/var/lib/openqa/cache registry.opensuse.org/devel/openqa/containers15.5/openqa_worker_os_autoinst_distri_opensuse:latest
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systemctl daemon-reload
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systemctl enable container-openqaworker23_container_$i
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```
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To restart and permanently enable all workers at once:
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for i in {101..104} ; do systemctl stop container-openqaworker23_container_$i ; done
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podman rm -f openqaworker23_container_{101..104}
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for i in {101..104} ; do podman run --pull=newer -d -h openqaworker23_container --name openqaworker23_container_$i -p $(python3 -c"p=${i}*10+20003;print(f'{p}:{p}')") -e OPENQA_WORKER_INSTANCE=$i -v /opt/s390x_opensuse:/etc/openqa -v /var/lib/openqa/share:/var/lib/openqa/share -v /var/lib/openqa/cache:/var/lib/openqa/cache registry.opensuse.org/devel/openqa/containers15.5/openqa_worker_os_autoinst_distri_opensuse:latest ; done
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systemctl daemon-reload
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podman rm -f openqaworker1_container_{101..104}
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for i in {101..104} ; do systemctl reenable container-openqaworker23_container_$i && systemctl restart container-openqaworker23_container_$i ; done
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```
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Initial ticket when the setup was created: https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/97751
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As addition with https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/153706 we implemented IPMI workers in a similar manner starting with worker-slot 201. Its configuration can be found on worker23 in `/opt/ipmi_opensuse`.
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As alternative s390x workers can run on the host "rebel" as well. Be aware that openQA workers accessing the same s390x instances must not run in parallel so only enable one worker instance per s390x instance at a time (See https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/97658 for details).
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### Monitoring
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openqa.opensuse.org is monitored by SUSE over https://zabbix.suse.de/. There is a user group "Owners/O3" to which SUSE employees can be added. Alert notification is configured via trigger action in a special Infra-owned RO bot account. E-mail notification is in place for average problems and higher.
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It's also possible to view the munin page via an ssh tunnel:
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ssh  -L 8080:127.0.0.1:80 o3
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Configuration of alerts is done in `/etc/munin/munin.conf`
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## Hotfixing
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Applying hotfixes, e.g. patches from an os-autoinst pull requests to O3 workers can be applied like this for a pull request <pr_id>:
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```
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for i in $hosts; do echo $i && ssh root@$i "(transactional-update run /bin/sh -c \"curl -sS https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/pull/${pr_id}.patch | patch -p1 --directory=/usr/lib/os-autoinst\" && reboot) || curl -sS https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/pull/${pr_id}.patch | patch -p1 --directory=/usr/lib/os-autoinst" ; done
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```
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## Mitigation of boot failure or disk issues
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### Worker stuck in recovery
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```
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## PPC specific configurations
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In one case it was necessary to disable snapshots for petitboot with `nvram -p default --update-config "petitboot,snapshots?=false"` to prevent a race condition between dm_raid and btrfs trying to discover bootable devices (#68053#note-25). In another case https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174166 caused the boot entries to be not properly discovered and it was necessary to prevent grub from trying to update the according sections (#68053#note-31).
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## Moving worker from osd to o3
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* Ensure system management, e.g. over IPMI works. This is untouched by the following steps and can be used during the process for recovery and setup
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* Instruct SUSE-IT to change VLAN for machine from oqa.suse.de VLAN to 662 (example: https://sd.suse.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/SD-124055, ~~https://infra.nue.suse.com/SelfService/Display.html?id=16458 (not available anymore)~~)
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* Remove from osd:
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```
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salt-key -y -d worker7.oqa.suse.de
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```
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* On the worker * Change root password to o3 one
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* Add entry on o3 to `/etc/dnsmasq.d/openqa.conf` with MAC address, e.g.
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```
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```
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* Reload dnsmasq with `systemctl restart dnsmasq`
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* Adapt NFS mount point on the worker
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```
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sed -i '/openqa\.suse\.de/d' /etc/fstab && echo 'openqa1-opensuse:/ /var/lib/openqa/share nfs4 noauto,nofail,retry=30,ro,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10m,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30m 0 0' >> /etc/fstab
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```
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* Restart network on machine (over IMPI) using `systemctl restart network` and monitor in o3:`journalctl -f -u dnsmasq` until address is assigned, e.g.:
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```
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Feb 29 10:48:30 ariel dnsmasq[28105]: read /etc/hosts - 30 addresses
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Feb 29 10:48:54 ariel dnsmasq-dhcp[28105]: DHCPREQUEST(eth1) 10.160.1.101 54:ab:3a:24:34:b8
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Feb 29 10:48:54 ariel dnsmasq-dhcp[28105]: DHCPNAK(eth1) 10.160.1.101 54:ab:3a:24:34:b8 wrong network
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Feb 29 10:49:10 ariel dnsmasq-dhcp[28105]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth1) 54:ab:3a:24:34:b8
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Feb 29 10:49:10 ariel dnsmasq-dhcp[28105]: DHCPOFFER(eth1) 192.168.112.12 54:ab:3a:24:34:b8
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Feb 29 10:49:10 ariel dnsmasq-dhcp[28105]: DHCPREQUEST(eth1) 192.168.112.12 54:ab:3a:24:34:b8
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Feb 29 10:49:10 ariel dnsmasq-dhcp[28105]: DHCPACK(eth1) 192.168.112.12 54:ab:3a:24:34:b8 openqaworker7
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```
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* Ensure all mountpoints up
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```
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mount -a
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```
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* Update /etc/openqa/client.conf with the same key as used on other workers for "openqa1-opensuse"
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* Update /etc/openqa/workers.ini with similar config as used on other workers, e.g. based on openqaworker4, example:
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```
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# diff -Naur /etc/openqa/workers.ini{.osd,}
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--- /etc/openqa/workers.ini.osd 2020-02-29 15:21:47.737998821 +0100
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+++ /etc/openqa/workers.ini     2020-02-29 15:22:53.334464958 +0100
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@@ -1,17 +1,10 @@
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-# This file is generated by salt - don't touch
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-# Hosted on https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-pillars-openqa
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-# numofworkers: 10
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-
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 [global]
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-HOST=openqa.suse.de
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-CACHEDIRECTORY=/var/lib/openqa/cache
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-LOG_LEVEL=debug
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-WORKER_CLASS=qemu_x86_64,qemu_x86_64_staging,tap,openqaworker7
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-WORKER_HOSTNAME=10.X.X.101
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-
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-[1]
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-WORKER_CLASS=qemu_x86_64,qemu_x86_64_staging,tap,qemu_x86_64_ibft,openqaworker7
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+HOST=http://openqa1-opensuse
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+WORKER_HOSTNAME=192.168.112.12
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+CACHEDIRECTORY = /var/lib/openqa/cache
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+CACHELIMIT = 50
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+WORKER_CLASS = openqaworker7,qemu_x86_64
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-[openqa.suse.de]
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-TESTPOOLSERVER = rsync://openqa.suse.de/tests
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+[http://openqa1-opensuse]
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+TESTPOOLSERVER = rsync://openqa1-opensuse/tests
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```
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* Remove OSD specifics
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```
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systemctl disable --now auto-update.timer salt-minion telegraf
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for i in  NPI SUSE_CA telegraf-monitoring; do zypper rr $i; done
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zypper -n dup --force-resolution --allow-vendor-change
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```
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* If the machine is not a transactional-server one has the following options: Keep as is and handle like power8 (also not transactional), enable transactional updates w/o root being r/o, change to root being r/o on-the-fly, reinstall as transactional. At least option 2 is suggested, enable transactional updates:
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```
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zypper -n in transactional-update
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systemctl enable --now transactional-update.timer rebootmgr
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```
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* Enable apparmor
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```
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zypper -n in apparmor-utils
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systemctl unmask apparmor
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systemctl enable --now apparmor
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```
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* Switch firewall from SuSEfirewall2 to firewalld
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```
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zypper -n in firewalld && zypper -n rm SuSEfirewall2
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systemctl enable --now firewalld
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firewall-cmd --zone=trusted --add-interface=br1
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firewall-cmd --set-default-zone trusted
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firewall-cmd --zone=trusted --add-masquerade
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```
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* Copy over special openSUSE UEFI staging images, see #63382
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* For multi-machine configured workers make sure to have updated IPv4 entries in /etc/wicked/scripts/gre_tunnel_preup.sh
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* Check operation with a single openQA worker instance:
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```
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systemctl enable --now openqa-worker.target openqa-worker@1
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```
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* Test with an openQA job cloned from a production job, e.g. for openqaworker7
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```
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openqa-clone-job --within-instance https://openqa.opensuse.org/t${id} WORKER_CLASS=openqaworker7
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```
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* After the latest openQA job could successfully finish enable more worker instances
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```
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systemctl unmask openqa-worker@{2..14} && systemctl enable --now openqa-worker@{2..14}
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```
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* Monitor if nightly update works, e.g. look for journal entry:
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```
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Mar 01 00:08:26 openqaworker7 transactional-update[10933]: Calling zypper up
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Mar 01 00:08:51 openqaworker7 transactional-update[10933]: transactional-update finished - informed rebootmgr
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Mar 01 00:08:51 openqaworker7 systemd[1]: Started Update the system.
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Mar 01 03:30:00 openqaworker7 rebootmgrd[40760]: rebootmgr: reboot triggered now!
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Mar 01 03:36:32 openqaworker7 systemd[1]: Reached target openQA Worker.
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```
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## Distribution upgrades
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**Note:** Performing the upgrade differs slightly depending on the host setup:
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* On hosts with a writeable `/` you need to enter a root shell i.e. `sudo bash`
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* Transactional hosts require that you use `transactional-update shell` thereby creating a snapshot which is applied after a reboot, optionally using `--continue` if you want to make further changes to an existing snapshot
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* Depending on available space it might be necessary to cleanup space before conducting the upgrade, e.g. use `snapper rm <N..M>` to delete older root btrfs snapshots, cleanup unneeded packages, e.g. with https://github.com/okurz/scripts/blob/master/zypper-rm-orphaned and https://github.com/okurz/scripts/blob/master/zypper-rm-unneeded
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* Upgrades might pull in too many new packages so better crosscheck with `zypper … dup … --no-recommends`
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* Consider using https://github.com/okurz/auto-upgrade/blob/master/auto-upgrade or manual (*Tip**: Run this in `screen -d -r || screen` and use e.g. `sudo bash`):
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```
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new_version=15.5 # Specify the target release
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858 98 livdywan
# Change the release via the special $releasever
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. /etc/os-release
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sed -i -e "s/${VERSION_ID}/\$releasever/g" /etc/zypp/repos.d/*
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zypper --releasever=$new_version --gpg-auto-import-keys ref
862 1 alarrosa
test -f /etc/openqa/openqa.ini && sudo -u geekotest /opt/openqa-scripts/dump-psql
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systemctl stop openqa-continuous-update.timer  # it would interfere, e.g. revert the previous zypper ref call
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zypper -n --releasever=$new_version dup --auto-agree-with-licenses --replacefiles --download-in-advance
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# Check config files for relevant changes
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rpmconfigcheck
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for i in $(cat /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck) ; do vimdiff ${i%.rpm*} $i ; done
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rm $(cat /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck)
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reboot
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systemctl --failed
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```
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* Ensure that the upgrade was really successful, e.g. /etc/os-release should show the new version, the above `zypper dup` command should show no more pending actions
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* Crosscheck for any obvious alerts, pipelines failing, user reports, etc.
877
* On any severe problems consider a complete rollback of the upgrade or also partial downgrade of packages, e.g. force-install older version of packages and zypper locks until an issue is fixed
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* Monitor for successful openQA jobs on the host
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880 109 okurz
## openQA infrastructure needs (o3 + osd)
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882 115 okurz
TL;DR: new OSD ARM workers needed, missing redundancy for o3-ppc, rest is needing replacement as nearly all current hardware is out of vendor provided maintenance (as of 2021-05), SSD storage for o3 would be good
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2020-03: SUSE IT (EngInfra) provided us more space for O3 but we have only slow rotating-disk storage. Performance could be improved by providing SSD storage.
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The most time and effort we currently struggle with storage space for OSD (openqa.suse.de) ~~both OSD (openqa.suse.de) as well as O3 (openqa.opensuse.org) (2020-03: Situation on o3 resolved with more storage provided by SUSE IT)~~. Both instances (OSD + O3) are using precious netapp-storage but there is currently no better approach to use different, external storage. An increase of the available space would be appreciated, ~~o3 being more important right now than osd,~~ see https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/57494 for details. Graphs like 
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https://stats.openqa-monitor.qa.suse.de/d/nRDab3Jiz/openqa-jobs-test?orgId=1&from=1578343509900&to=1578653794173&fullscreen&panelId=12 show how usual test backlogs are worked on within OSD by architecture. It can be seen that both the ppc64le and aarch64 backlogs are reduced fast so we do not need more ppc64le or aarch64 machines. However, we have a stability problem with all three aarch64 workers. Potentially new machine(s) could help, see https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/41882 for details.
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889 125 okurz
With number of workers and parallel processed tests as well as with the increased number of products tested on OSD and users using the system the workload on OSD constantly increases. CPU load alerts had been seen recently in #96713 and the higher load is visible in https://monitor.qa.suse.de/d/WebuiDb/webui-summary?viewPanel=25 . From time to time should increase the number of CPU cores on the OSD VM due to the higher usage.
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891 117 okurz
## Setup guide for new machines
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* Ensure the host has a proper DNS entry
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    * The MAC address of new o3 workers generally needs to be added to `/etc/dnsmasq.d/openqa.conf` and an IP address needs to be configured in `/etc/hosts` (both files are on ariel).
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    * Hosts located at Frankencampus need a DNS entry via the OPS-Service repo, e.g. https://gitlab.suse.de/OPS-Service/salt/-/merge_requests/3687.
895 1 alarrosa
* Change IPMI/BMC passwords to use our common passwords instead of default IPMI
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* OSD: Add to salt using https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa
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    * Make sure to set /etc/salt/minion_id to the FQDN (see #90875#note-2 for reference)
898
    * Checkout the next section for details
899
* o3: Setup the worker manually, see "Manual worker setup" section below
900 1 alarrosa
901 265 okurz
### Network (legacy) boot via PXE and OS/worker setup
902 250 mkittler
One can make use of our existing PXE infrastructure (which only supports legacy boot) following these steps:
903
904
1. Ensure the boot mode allows legacy boot, e.g. select it in the machine's setup menu manually.
905
2. Connect via IPMI and select "Leap -> HTTP -> Console" in our PXE menu, append ` console=ttyS0,115200 autoyast=http://s.qa.suse.de/oqa-ay-lp rootpassword=…` to the command line and wait until the installation has finished.
906 255 mkittler
    * Use https://w3.nue.suse.com/~okurz/ay-openqa-worker-leap.xml if the URL shortener is not available.
907 293 ybonatakis
    * Alternatively, there's also https://raw.githubusercontent.com/os-autoinst/openQA/master/contrib/ay-openqa-worker.xml
908 250 mkittler
    * If nothing shows up in the serial console, try a different console parameter, e.g. `console=ttyS1,115200`.
909
3. Configure repos, e.g. via the line of the scriptlet in http://s.qa.suse.de/oqa-ay-lp.
910
    * The scriptlet cannot be executed in the context of AutoYaST so this is a manual step at this point.
911
4. Enable SSH access via `systemctl enable --now sshd` and continue via SSH.
912 254 mkittler
5. Install some basic software, e.g. `zypper in htop vim systemd-coredump`.
913 253 mkittler
6. For OSD workers, setup `salt-minion` following the [documentation in our Salt states repository](https://github.com/os-autoinst/salt-states-openqa#setup-production-machine); otherwise setup the worker manually as explained in the next section.
914 1 alarrosa
7. Check whether the config looks good on the workers and whether jobs look good on the web UI host.
915 250 mkittler
916
### Manual worker setup
917 258 okurz
You likely want to configure the [openQA development repository](https://open.qa/docs/#_development_version_repository).
918 250 mkittler
Then setup the worker like this:
919
920 249 mkittler
```
921
echo "requires:openQA-worker" > /etc/zypp/systemCheck.d/openqa.check
922 259 okurz
zypper -n in openQA-worker openQA-auto-update openQA-continuous-update os-autoinst-distri-opensuse-deps swtpm # openQA worker services plus dependencies for openSUSE distri or development repo if added previously
923 258 okurz
zypper -n in ffmpeg-4  # for using external video encoder as it is already configured on some machines like ow19, ow20 and power8
924 249 mkittler
zypper -n in nfs-client  # For /var/lib/openqa/share
925 259 okurz
zypper -n in bash-completion vim htop strace systemd-coredump iputils tcpdump bind-utils  # for general tinkering
926 249 mkittler
927
echo "openqa1-opensuse:/ /var/lib/openqa/share nfs4 noauto,nofail,retry=30,ro,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10m,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30m 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
928
sed -i 's/\(solver.dupAllowVendorChange = \)false/\1true/' /etc/zypp/zypp.conf
929 1 alarrosa
930
# configure /etc/openqa/client.conf and /etc/openqa/workers.ini, then enable the desired number of worker slots, e.g.:
931 286 favogt
systemctl enable --now openqa-worker-auto-restart@{1..30}.service openqa-reload-worker-auto-restart@{1..30}.path openqa-auto-update.timer openqa-continuous-update.timer openqa-worker-cacheservice.service openqa-worker-cacheservice-minion.service rebootmgr.service
932 1 alarrosa
```
933
934
Also copy the OVMF images for staging tests (`/usr/share/qemu/*staging*`) from other workers. Those files are from the `devel` flavor of the OVMF package built in stagings and rings, e.g. https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory:Rings:1-MinimalX/ovmf, just renamed.
935 258 okurz
936
#### Optional: Transactional-server
937
You may chose the transaction server role but a normal server will do as well:
938
939
```
940
sed -i 's@/ btrfs ro@/ btrfs rw@' /etc/fstab
941
mount -o rw,remount /
942
btrfs property set -ts / ro false
943
```
944 249 mkittler
945
### UEFI boot via iPXE
946 273 dheidler
947 250 mkittler
The following steps are for the o3 environment but can likely also be adapted for setting up OSD workers. This section skips the setup of the OS as it doesn't differ when using UEFI/iPXE. Checkout the previous sections for the OS/worker setup.
948 273 dheidler
949
Find the iPXE and dnsmasq network boot config at: https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/tree/master/ipxe
950
The `boot.ipxe` file contains instructions on how to build the required ipxe binaries for x86_64-BIOS, x86_64-UEFI and aarch64-UEFI that
951
embed the boot.ipxe script, which will load the menu.ipxe via TFTP or HTTP from the $next-server.
952 202 mkittler
953
---
954
955
There's a PXE setup as part of `dnsmasq.service` running on ariel. It is currently configured to serve a legacy-only boot menu utilized by some tests. After following these steps, please restore this setup so tests can continue to use it.
956
957
First, make a file that contains the iPXE commands to boot available via some HTTP server. Here's how the file could look like for installing Leap 15.4 with AutoYaST:
958
```
959
#!ipxe
960 204 mkittler
kernel http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.4/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/loader/linux initrd=initrd console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200 install=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.4/repo/oss/ autoyast=http://martchus.no-ip.biz/ipxe/ay-openqa-worker.xml rootpassword=…
961 202 mkittler
initrd http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.4/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd
962
boot
963
```
964
965
Then, setup the build of an iPXE UEFI image like explained on https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:IPXE_booting#Setup:
966
```
967
git clone https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe.git
968
cd ipxe
969
echo "#!ipxe
970
dhcp
971
chain http://martchus.no-ip.biz/ipxe/leap-15.4" > myscript.ipxe
972
```
973
974
As you can see, this build script contains the URL to the previously setup file. Of course commands could be built directly into the image but then you'd need to rebuild/redeploy the image all the time you want to make a change (instead of just editing a file on your HTTP server).
975
976
To conduct the build of the image, run:
977
```
978
cd src
979
make EMBED=../myscript.ipxe NO_WERROR=1 bin/ipxe.lkrn bin/ipxe.pxe bin-i386-efi/ipxe.efi bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi
980
```
981
982
Note that these build options are taken from https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/ipxe/trunk/PKGBUILD#L58 because when attempting to build on Tumbleweed I've otherwise ran into build errors.
983
984
Then you can copy the files to ariel and move them to a location somewhere under `/srv/tftpboot`:
985
```
986
# on build host
987
rsync bin-x86_64-efi/ipxe.efi openqa.opensuse.org:/home/martchus/ipxe.efi
988
# on ariel
989
sudo cp /home/martchus/ipxe.efi /srv/tftpboot/ipxe-own-build/ipxe.efi
990
```
991
992
Then configure the use of the image in `/etc/dnsmasq.d/pxeboot.conf` on ariel. Temporarily comment-out possibly disturbing lines and make sure the following lines are present:
993
```
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enable-tftp
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tftp-root=/srv/tftpboot
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pxe-prompt="Press F8 for menu. foobar", 10
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dhcp-match=set:efi-x86_64,option:client-arch,7
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dhcp-match=set:efi-x86_64,option:client-arch,9
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dhcp-match=set:efi-x86,option:client-arch,6
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dhcp-match=set:bios,option:client-arch,0
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dhcp-boot=tag:efi-x86_64,ipxe-own-build/ipxe.efi
1002
```
1003
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Then run `systemctl restart dnsmasq.service` to apply and `journalctl -fu dnsmasq.service` to see what's going on.
1005 215 okurz
1006
### Installation of machines being able to run kexec
1007
1008
If it is possible to directly execute "kexec" on a machine, e.g. on ppc64le machines running petitboot, it is possible to start a remote network installation following https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Network_installation#Start_the_Installation . See #119008#note-6 for an example.
1009 232 okurz
1010 231 okurz
### Linux Endpoint Protection Agent
1011 215 okurz
Ensure any non-test OS installations have the Linux Endpoint Protection Agent deployed, see https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/123094 and https://confluence.suse.com/display/CS/Sensor+-+Linux+Endpoint+Protection+Agent for details
1012 120 okurz
1013 277 okurz
### s390 LPAR setup
1014
1015
Originally from #51836-15. To be able to use s390x LPARs for use as KVM hypervisor hosts we followed those steps:
1016
* Packages that need to be present:
1017
 * multipath-tools
1018
 * libvirt
1019
* directories
1020
 * /var/lib/openqa/share/factory
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 * /var/lib/libvirt/images
1022
* services
1023
 * libvirtd
1024
 * multipathd
1025
* ZFCP disk for storing images
1026
 * cio_ignore -r [fc00,fa00] to whitelist the channels
1027
 * zfcp_host_configure [fa00,fc00] 1 to permanently enable the fcp devices
1028
 * multipath -ll to check what devices are there
1029
 * /usr/bin/rescan-iscsi-bus.sh to discover newly add ed zfcp disks
1030
 * fdisk to create new partition
1031
 * mkfs.ext4 to create file system
1032
* /etc/fstab entries
1033
 * NFS openQA: `openqa.suse.de:/var/lib/openqa/share/factory /var/lib/openqa/share/factory nfs ro 0 0`
1034
 * ZFCP disk: `/dev/mapper/$ID /var/lib/libvirt/images ext4 nobarrier,data=writeback 1`
1035
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Additionally execute `echo 'roles: libvirt' >> /etc/salt/grains` and apply the state from https://github.com/os-autoinst/salt-states-openqa/tree/master/libvirt
1037
1038 120 okurz
## Take machines out of salt-controlled production
1039
1040 118 okurz
E.g. for investigation or development or manual maintenance work
1041
1042
```
1043 179 nicksinger
ssh osd "sudo salt-key -y -d $hostname"
1044 272 okurz
ssh $hostname "sudo systemctl disable --now telegraf $(systemctl list-units | grep openqa-worker-auto-restart | cut -d . -f 1 | xargs)"
1045 118 okurz
```
1046 174 mkittler
1047 290 nicksinger
If you also want to remove all alerts related to that machine, consider to execute https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/blob/master/monitoring/grafana/cleanup_stale_alerts.sh on monitor.qa.suse.de like so (adjust the parameters at the end with appropriately privileged account credentials):
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**Caution**: This will remove all alerts currently present in Grafana but not provisioned (e.g. manually created ones)
1050
1051
```
1052
ssh -t root@monitor.qa.suse.de "curl https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/raw/master/monitoring/grafana/cleanup_stale_alerts.sh | bash -s -- USERNAME PASSWORD"
1053
```
1054
1055
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Checkout [salt-states-openqa's examples](https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/blob/master/README.md#examples) for systemd commands to start and stop workers.
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1058
## How to use samba shares to mount ISOs as virtual CD drives with SuperMicro server/mainboards
1059
1060
SuperMicro based servers have the capabilities to mount smb shares containing ISOs as virtual CD drives to e.g. boot from them.
1061
Install the samba package on any machine you control. This also works from your personal workstation if the server can access it (e.g. over VPN) and create the following `/etc/samba/smb.conf`:
1062
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~~~ text
1064
[global]
1065
   workgroup = MYGROUP
1066
   server string = Samba Server
1067
   log level = 3
1068
   client min protocol = core
1069
   server min protocol = core
1070
   guest ok = yes
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1072
## "Staging" test instances
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SUSE internally we have two virtual machines that can be used for testing, developing, showcasing, reachable under convenient URLs:
1075
* https://openqa-staging-1.qe.nue2.suse.org
1076
* https://openqa-staging-2.qe.nue2.suse.org
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You can use those machines and apply changes as desired over ssh.
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1080
#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
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[recovery]
1082
	comment = recovery
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	path = /home/you/recovery
1084
	public = yes
1085
~~~
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Now start the samba service. Despite the share being accessible by everyone (be carful about this!), the SuperMicro machines still need a User on the Samba server as they don't support anonymous login. To create a user without requiring a local unix user, you can use the following command:
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```samba-tool domain provision --use-rfc2307 --interactive```
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afterwards create a user in the samba database with:
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```smbpasswd -a smbtest```
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Now it should be possible to access the share. Place an ISO file into your folder configured above and use the following settings in the webui of the SuperMicro server:
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"Password": It's password - don't keep this empty as it will not work otherwise
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After clicking on "mount" you should now see a connection to your samba server. The machine will try to mount the ISO and if everything goes well, will report "There is an iso file mounted." in the "Health Status" of the Devices.
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## Bring back machines into salt-controlled production
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```
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ssh osd "sudo salt-key -a $hostname && sudo salt --state-output=changes $hostname state.apply"
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Depending on your actions further manual cleanup might be necessary, e.g. `ssh $hostname "sudo systemctl unmask telegraf salt-minion"`
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## Access the BMC of machines in the SUSE network zones
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One can use ssh portforwarding to access the services of a BMC (e.g. web interface) for a machine in the "oqa" network security zone. The host "oqa-jumpy" can be used for that like this:
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~~~
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ssh -t jumpy@oqa-jumpy.dmz-prg2.suse.org -L 8443:openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur:443 -L 8080:openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur:80
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~~~
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while the ssh-session is running you can then use your local browser to access the remote host by e.g. "http://localhost:8080" or "https://localhost:8443".
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## Using the build-in java tools of BMCs to access machines in the security zone
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*1.* Follow [Access the BMC of machines in the new security zone](#Access-the-BMC-of-machines-in-the-new-security-zone) to download the build-in java webstart file of the machine you want to control
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*2.* Use nmap on oqa-jumpy to scan for all ports of a machines BMC. Example:
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~~~
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jumpy@oqa-jumpy:~> nmap openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur -p-
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Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-01-17 12:23 UTC
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Nmap scan report for openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur (…)
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Host is up (0.0056s latency).
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22/tcp   open  ssh
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5122/tcp open  unknown
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5123/tcp open  unknown
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7578/tcp open  unknown
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~~~
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*3.* Forward all ports relevant for the java applet to your local machine:
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~~~
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sudo ssh -i /home/nicksinger/.ssh/id_rsa.SUSE -4 jumpy@oqa-jumpy.suse.de -L 443:openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur:443 -L 623:openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur:623 -L 5120:openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur:5120 -L 5122:openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur:5122 -L 5123:openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur:5123 -L 7578:openqaworker21.oqa-ipmi-ur:7578
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~~~
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**Note 1:** You have to use the exact same ports as shown by the port scan because you cannot instruct the applet to use different ports
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**Note 2:** You have to execute your ssh client with root privileges for it to be able to bind to ports below 1024. These forwardings need to be present for the applet being able to download additional files from the BMC
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**Note 3:** Make sure to point to your right keyfile by using the -i parameter as ssh will scan different directories if run as root
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*4.* Execute the previously downloaded applet. I use the following command to make it work with wayland:
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LANG=C _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 javaws -nosecurity -jnlp jviewer\ \(1\).jnlp
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*5.* You should now be able to control the machine/BMC with all its features (e.g. mounting ISO images as virtual CD)
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## Use a production host for testing backend changes locally, e.g. svirt, powerVM, IPMI bare-metal, s390x, etc.
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0. Find out which type of worker slot you need for the specific job you want to run, e.g. by checking which worker slots were used for previous runs of the job on OSD or by looking for the job's worker class in the [workers table](https://openqa.suse.de/admin/workers).
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1. Configure an additional worker slot in your local `workers.ini` using worker settings from the corresponding production worker. The production worker config can be found in [workerconf.sls](https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-pillars-openqa/-/blob/master/openqa/workerconf.sls) or on the hosts themselves.
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2. Take out the corresponding worker slot from production using the systemd commands mentioned in [salt-states-openqa's examples](https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/blob/master/README.md#examples). This is important to prevent multiple jobs from using the same svirt host.
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3. Start the locally configured worker slot and clone/run some jobs.
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4. When you're done, bring back the production worker slots using the systemd commands mentioned in [salt-states-openqa's examples](https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/blob/master/README.md#examples).
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### Alternatives
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It is also possible to test svirt backend changes fully locally, at least when running tests via KVM is sufficient. Checkout [os-autoinst's documentation](https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/blob/master/doc/backends.md#svirt=) for further details.
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## Dealing with PowerEdge SAP servers from Dell
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### Acessing the management interface via SSH
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It is possible to access the management interface via SSH as well (using the same user name and password as for the web interface). Checkout further Wiki sections for useful commands or the [manual](https://dl.dell.com/content/manual65464730-integrated-dell-remote-access-controller-9-racadm-cli-guide.pdf?language=en-us) which is also availabe as [web page](https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/de-de/integrated-dell-remote-access-cntrllr-8-with-lifecycle-controller-v2.00.00.00/racadm_idrac_pub-v1/racadm-subcommand-details?guid=guid-cd4e81e6-818c-44fb-9e7a-82950425fbbb&lang=en-us).
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One very useful pair of commands are `racadm get` and `… set` which allow reading and writing configuration values, e.g. `racadm get iDRAC.NIC.DNSRacName` and `racadm set iDRAC.NIC.DNSRacName somevalue`.
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### Restoring access to the iDRAC web interface
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If iDRAC returns a 400 error it might be due to a wrong DNS setting. This is especially likely if you have just changed the DNS entry. Try to access iDRAC via its IP which should still work. Then goto iDRAC settings -> Network -> General settings and update the DNS iDRAC name to match the *not* fully qualified domain (e.g. `qesapworker-prg4-mgmt` for https://qesapworker-prg4-mgmt.qa.suse.cz).
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You may also change this setting by accessing the management interface via SSH. The command would be `racadm set iDRAC.NIC.DNSRacName qesapworker-prg4-mgmt` in this case. You may also use `racadm set idrac.webserver.HostHeaderCheck 0` to get rid of this entire check completely. This is especially useful if you cannot conveniently put in a matching name, e.g. when accessing the web UI via SSH forwarding.
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### Recovering BIOS
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If the BIOS appears completely broken (e.g. after a firmware update) you may try to invoke `racadm systemerase bios` after accessing the management interface via SSH. This will take a while and afterwards you'll have to redo settings (e.g. the bootmode).
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### Cancel/delete stuck iDRAC jobs
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### Check status of BOSS-S2 NVMe disks
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Use the "MVCLI BOSS-S2" utility from Dell which you can download from their servers (see https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/de-de/poweredge-r6525/boss-s2_ug/run-boss-s2-cli-commands-on-poweredge-servers-running-the-linux-operating-system?guid=guid-c0f3bd0d-4725-4fed-8bc2-4aa872f3627f&lang=en-us).
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### Firmware updates
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The easiest way is to download the *Windows* installer (a file that ends with `.EXE`) and upload and install that via the iDRAC web interface. This also works for updates of iDRAC but also for BIOS updates and firmware of various components. Uploading the GNU/Linux version (a file that ends with `.BIN`) is *not* possible this way. One can track the progress of those updates via the iDRAC job queue. It is possible to schedule two updates that require a reboot at the same time (e.g. BIOS update and SAS-RAID firmware) and do them this way in one go.
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## Backup
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Both openqa.opensuse.org and openqa.suse.de run on virtual machine clusters that provide redundancy and differential backup using snapshotting of the involved storage. SUSE-IT currently provides backups going back up to 3 days with two daily backups conducted at 23:10Z and 11:00Z. With this it is possible in cases of catastrophic data loss to recover (raise ticket over https://sd.suse.com in that case). Additionally automatic backup for the o3 webui host introduced with https://gitlab.suse.de/okurz/backup-server-salt/tree/master/rsnapshot covering so far /etc and the SQL database dumps. Fixed assets and testresults are backed up on storage.qa.suse.de (see https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/merge_requests/612)
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### openQA database backups
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Database backups of o3+osd are available on backup.qa.suse.de, acessible over ssh, same credentials as for the OSD infrastructure
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### Fallback deployment on AWS
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To get an instance running from a backup in case of a disaster, one can be created on AWS with this configuration:
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#### Launch instance
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##### Web Interface, from scratch (only if necessary, otherwise just use the template below)
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- Ensure your region is **Frankfurt, Germany**
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- Pick a **t3.large** with `openSUSE Leap` on AWS Marketplace
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- Add two disks
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    - 10 GiB for the root filesystem should be sufficient (can be easily extended later if needed)
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    - The OSD database alone needs > 30 GiB and results plus assets will also need a lot (e.g. > 4 GiB for TW snapshot ISO) so take at least 100 GiB for the 2nd drive
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- The security group needs to include ssh and http
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- Add `openqa_created_by`, `openqa_ttl` and `team:qa-tools` tags
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##### Launch from a template
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Note: When you modify the template (creating a new version), be sure to set the new version as the default.
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- Go to the [openQA-webUI-openSUSE-Leap](https://eu-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=eu-central-1#LaunchTemplateDetails:launchTemplateId=lt-002dfbcbd2f818e4c) Template
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- Select "Actions - Launch instance from template"
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- Choose your key pair
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- Click "Launch instance"
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###### Command line
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For configuring aws cli, see [below](https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/wiki/Wiki#Configure-aws-cli)
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[aws run-instances docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-launch-templates.html)
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    aws ec2 run-instances --launch-template LaunchTemplateId=lt-002dfbcbd2f818e4c --key-name <your-keyname>
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    # or
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    aws ec2 run-instances --launch-template LaunchTemplateName=openQA-webUI-openSUSE-Leap --key-name <your-keyname>
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For this you have to create a key pair first, if you haven't done so.
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Save the result and look for the `InstanceId`.
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#### Transfer keys
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Since an instance is always created with a single key, public keys of all users need to be deployed by whoever owns that key.
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**Note**: `osd2` refers to the instance created above. Replace with the instance IP or add an alias to your SSH config.
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    ssh openqa.suse.de "sudo su -c 'cat /home/*/.ssh/authorized_keys'" | ssh ec2-user@osd2 "cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"
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#### Bootstrapping
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```
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ssh osd2
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sudo su
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parted --script /dev/nvme1n1 mklabel gpt && parted --script /dev/nvme1n1 mkpart ext4 4096s 100%
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mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme1n1p1
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vim /etc/fstab # add mount to fstab
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mkdir /space && mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /space
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mkdir -p /space/pgsql/data
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mkdir -p /var/lib/pgsql
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ln -s /space/pgsql/data /var/lib/pgsql/data
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zypper in postgresql-server # needed for user.group
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chown -R postgres.postgres /space/pgsql # without correct group postgresql.service fails
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mkdir -p /space/openqa
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mkdir -p /var/lib/openqa
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mount /space/openqa /var/lib/openqa -o bind # open also requires a lot of space 
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curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/os-autoinst/openQA/master/script/openqa-bootstrap | bash -x
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ssh -A backup.qa.suse.de
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rsync --progress /home/rsnapshot/alpha.0/openqa.suse.de/var/lib/openqa/SQL-DUMPS/2022-02-08.dump ec2-user@osd2:/tmp
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ssh osd2
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sudo -u postgres createdb -O geekotest openqa-osd # create pristine db for OSD import (to avoid conflicts with existing data)
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sudo -u geekotest pg_restore -d openqa-osd /tmp/2022-02-08.dump # import data, will take a while (22m is a realistic time)
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vim /etc/openqa/openqa.ini # change auth from Fake to OpenID
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vim /etc/openqa/database.ini # change database to openqa-osd
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vim /etc/openqa/client.conf # change key and secret to correct one
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systemctl restart openqa-webui
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```
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##### Configure aws cli
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You can use the command
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    aws configure
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but it doesn't actually help you with the possible values, so you can just create the file yourself like this:
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    % cat ~/.aws/config
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    [default]
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    region = eu-central-1
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    output = json
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    % cat ~/.aws/credentials
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    [default]
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    aws_access_key_id = ABCDE
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    aws_secret_access_key = FGHIJ
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## Best practices for infrastructure work
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* Same as in OSD deployment we should look for failed grafana alerts if users report something suspicious
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* Collect all the information between "last good" and "first bad" and then also find the git diff in openqa/salt-states-openqa
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* Apply proper "scientific method" with written down hypotheses, experiments and conclusions in tickets, follow https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/openqav3/wiki#Further-decision-steps-working-on-test-issues
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* Keep salt states to describe what should *not* be there
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* Try out older btrfs snapshots in systems for crosschecking and boot with disabled salt. In the kernel cmdline append `systemd.mask=salt-minion.service`
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* Team should conduct a work backlog check on a daily base, e.g. look for urgent tickets related to infrastructure problems
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* For hardware component replacement, create EngInfra ticket for coordination, order replacement on private expenses and get reimbursed using https://intra.suse.net/company/company-news/department/finance/claim-expenses/claim-expenses/ or have order placed with the help of line managers, let the components be delivered to the according place, e.g. SUSE Nuremberg datacenter and inform EngInfra in ticket to have them conduct the physical component replacement
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* For ordering new machines follow https://mysuse.sharepoint.com/sites/SUSEBusinessCriticalLinux/Shared%20Documents/Hardware%20Order/E&I%20Hardware.pdf (get quotes from vendor, create ticket with procurement, CC osd-admins+mgriessmeier, wait for purchase order (PO) approval, order with vendor and ask them to include PO number in invoice)
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* Prefer `reload` over `restart` where available e.g. `systemctl reload postgres` - in general `systemctl cat postgres` will show available commands for any service
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* Test reboot stability of machines with commands like https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/blob/master/reboot-stability-check
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# Automatic submission of packages
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Every commit to the master branch of the git repositories of https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst and https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA is considered a stable release and triggers package builds within https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/devel:openQA, in particular https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:openQA/os-autoinst and https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:openQA/openQA. http://jenkins.qa.suse.de/job/trigger-openQA_in_openQA-TW/ using https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/blob/master/trigger-openqa_in_openqa is monitoring the download repositories for new versions and triggers openQA-in-openQA tests as visible on https://openqa.opensuse.org/group_overview/24 . http://jenkins.qa.suse.de/job/monitor-openQA_in_openQA-TW/ monitors the test execution using https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/blob/master/monitor-openqa_job and on test success triggers http://jenkins.qa.suse.de/job/submit-openQA-TW-to-oS_Fctry/ periodically (with a build throttle as decided together with openSUSE reviewers) using https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/blob/master/os-autoinst-obs-auto-submit. This step prepares openQA related packages for automatic submission into openSUSE:Factory in https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/devel:openQA:tested, awaits build+check results and then creates automatic submissions to openSUSE:Factory for inclusion of packages into openSUSE Tumbleweed. This approach could also be extended for automatic submission to openSUSE Leap, SLE PackageHub or directly to SLE using maintenance updates based on a configurable schedule with additional check steps as applicable. Given that openQA are developed based on a rolling-release model with no maintenance branches any updates to base products supporting openQA would be new version updates along with dependency package updates as necessary.