Countervandalism Network/Infrastructure

WMFLabs

Managed by: Krinkle.

Our environment at Wikimedia Labs is becoming our primary cluster from which our wiki, tools and bots will be run.

These servers have a shared data storage (/data/project/cvn) where we have our applications, management software and important logs.

Bots (applications) on these servers are automatically kept running via stillalive. A periodic cron run of stillalive on each server ensures all bots pooled on that server are still running.

• Overview (Admin log, Server information)
• Status: Ganglia
• Status: Nagios

Primary bots

• CVN-ClerkBot
• KrinkleBot2
• KrinkleBot4
• KrinkleBot5
• KrinkleBot7

Servers

cvn-apache2

A small server. Should only serve web pages.

• Web portal
• Application logs

cvn-app1

Our primary app server.

Set up a new bot

• Build
• Install

cd /data/project/cvn/externals/CVNBot/src
xbuild CVNBot/CVNBot.csproj
mv CVNBot/bin/Debug /data/project/cvn/app/NewBotName
cp CVNBot.exe.config /data/project/cvn/app/NewBotName/CVNBot.exe.config
cp CVNBot-sample.ini /data/project/cvn/app/NewBotName/CVNBot.ini
cd /data/project/cvn/app/NewBotName
chmod 664 *; chmod 775 CVNBot.exe; chmod 660 CVNBot.ini

• Edit CVNBot.ini with the correct configuration for the bot.
• Add to localSettings-cvn.json
  (git-clone the repository if you haven't already, make the change, do a dry run locally to verify, commit it, git-push to github)
• Deploy it to the app server

ssh -A cvn-app1.pmpta.wmflabs # the "-A" enables local ssh key resolution, you'll be authenticating with github
cd /data/project/cvn/external/stillalive
git pull

• That's it. Next run of stillalive will start this server. Don't go away, be sure that it starts properly and works as expected. Then start populating the bot with wikis etc.

countervandalism.net

Managed by: Cbrown1023, Az1568.

srv2

This host is no longer used.

srv4

This host is no longer used.

The bots are managed through a web interface (Webmin), to which all all staffers have access.

Primary bots

• Cubbie
• CVNBot*
• SWBot*
• wbbot
• WikiaRC

Toolserver

Managed by: Krinkle.

willow

Our account at the Toolserver runs a few primary bots and back-up bots. The bots are operated through a web interface (CVNControlPanel), to which all all staffers have access.

Primary bots

• CVNBot14
• KrinkleBot8
• WikiaRC2
• Cluekie
• SentryBot

Backup bots

• KrinkleBot2
• KrinkleBot4
• KrinkleBot5
• KrinkleBot7
• rcbot

Web tools

• MegaTable
• CVN API (details)