Altair

Altair is a physical server residing in the CSL Machine Room. It used to serve KVM Virtual machines but is currently used as a logging/SIEM server.

Technical Specifications

Field	Value
Server Type	Sun Fire X4150
CPU	2x Intel Xeon X5460 Quado-Core @ 3.16 GHz
RAM	24 GB
Hard Disks	2x 73 GB 2.5in 10 SAS, RAID 1
OS	Ubuntu 20.04
Purchase Date	Winter 2008

History

Altair was one of the six X4150s allocated to run Sun Ray (thin client) services for the Sun Rays around the school. Altair was recieved through the 2008 Sun AEG recieved by the TJ CSL. From 2016 to February 2018, it acted at the backup ns1, in case the VM went down.