Obsolete:Categorization

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Wikimedia servers and software make heavy use of clustering to simplify management of similar hosts and services. Currently this is done in a non-standardized, ad-hoc way however, which means that e.g. Ganglia, Nagios, Puppet, dsh etc. all use different category names. Because this will become even more important with the addition of a second primary data center, this page attempts to put some thought into standardizing it all.

Levels

We can distinguish at least the following levels in our infrastructure:

sites: (pmtpa and esams)
physical locations: (pmtpa, sdtpa, esams, knams)
subnets (public subnet, squid-lvs subnet, internal subnet)
host groups: (cache servers, database servers, nameservers)
service groups: (mediawiki application, memcached, squid, mysql)
further subdivisions: (frontend squid)

Levels

See also