Sauron

Sauron is a physical machine residing in the CSL Machine room. It currently acts as IPA1, our main FreeIPA server. In this capacity, it is the lab's primary LDAP, Kerberos, and DNS server. In addition, sauron is our primary NTP and DHCP server.

Technical Specifications

Field	Value
Server Type	HP Proliant DL380 G6
CPU	2x Intel Xeon E5540 Hexa-Core @ 2.93 GHz
RAM	74 GB
Hard Disks	2x 146GB 2.5in 15K SAS, RAID 1
OS	AlmaLinux 9
Purchase Date	Unknown

History

Sauron was one of three servers running VMware ESXi used to host JCIRN. It later served as the lab's primary DNS server. Sauron was chosen as the CSL's primary FreeIPA server over Utonium since it seemed more worthwhile to assign Utonium, the newer server, a more resource-heavy role managing VMs.