19 Čec
2016
19 Čec
'16
17:53
Dear users of the FRED,
I am a technical writer of the CZ.NIC and I'm currently working on a new
administration manual for the FRED.
I think you are of those who would appreciate this new piece of
documentation and therefore, I would like to ask you about your opinions
on what topics this manual should comprise, which questions it should
answer and what else you would expect from it.
I've attached my first (though only very rough) draft of the contents of
this manual for inspiration and/or comments. (Please, ignore the order
of the topics for now, that will be dealt with later.)
Your insight would be very helpful. Thanks for your time!
Best regards,
Lena
Technical Writer @ CZ.NIC
19 Čec
19 Čec
18:12
On 19/07/16 17:53, Zuzana Lena Ansorgova wrote:
Dear users of the FRED,
I am a technical writer of the CZ.NIC and I'm currently working on a new
administration manual for
the FRED.
I think you are of those who would appreciate this new piece of documentation and
therefore, I would
like to ask you about your opinions on what topics this manual should comprise, which
questions it
should answer and what else you would expect from it.
I've attached my first (though only very rough) draft of the contents of this manual
for inspiration
and/or comments. (Please, ignore the order of the topics for now, that will be dealt with
later.)
Your insight would be very helpful. Thanks for your time!
Best regards,
Lena
Technical Writer @ CZ.NIC
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Hello Zuzana
Would it be possible for you to take a somewhat different approach?
What I have in mind is creating a document in a more collaborative matter than ODT.
Something like
wiki or github? So one could add input directly there and some versioning is also
available?
(Personally I'd opt for git[hub], but for some it could be easier to use a wiki page I
guess.)
Best regards
Piotr
20 Čec
20 Čec
18:59
Additional documentation on FRED would be very helpful.
I would like to recommend that you include material on the following:
1. Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) - registrar connections
2. Digital certiifcates in AAA
3. Logs or logging
4. fred-client
5. EPP and FRED
6. Backup and restore
That would even be moire helpful
Regards,
Paulos
======================
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw
On 19 Jul 2016 at 17:53, Zuzana Lena Ansorgova wrote:
Dear users of the FRED,
I am a technical writer of the CZ.NIC and I'm currently working on a new
administration manual for the FRED.
I think you are of those who would appreciate this new piece of
documentation and therefore, I would like to ask you about your opinions
on what topics this manual should comprise, which questions it should
answer and what else you would expect from it.
I've attached my first (though only very rough) draft of the contents of
this manual for inspiration and/or comments. (Please, ignore the order
of the topics for now, that will be dealt with later.)
Your insight would be very helpful. Thanks for your time!
Best regards,
Lena
Technical Writer @ CZ.NIC
FRED Administration Manual
Structure design
July 2016
Lena
Audience: administrator, customer support
Purpose: make the system work and keep it operational (installation, configuration,
settings,
customization, maintenance), using administrator interface and tools for manual
intervention,
setting automated tasks
Contents/Topics:
System Requirements
Installation / (? Deployment Guide)
Installation from binaries
Installation from source
Configuration and Customization
(?) Overview of executables and the default config.files
Configurable Parameters Reference
Configurable Database Values
Registry Initialization
Setting up a zone, price list, invoicing, logging...
Periodic/Automated Tasks (Cron)
Domain expirations, deactivations, removals
Registrar and Registrant notifications
Payment checks
Zonefile generations
Administration of ... Subsystem ???, e.g.:
Administration of Logging Subsystem
Administration of Notification Subsystem
Administration of Messaging Subsystem
Administration of Mailing Subsystem
Administration of File Managing Subsystem
Administration of Invoicing Subsystem
Administration of Genzone Subsystem
Administration of Tech-Check Subsystem
...
Zone Administration
registrar authorization/accreditation,
operation pricing,
nameserver association
Registrar Administration (CLI/web?)
Domain Administration (the "system registrar")
Billing/Invoicing subsystem
Prepaid/postpaid model - per operation / invoice prefix
Price list - per op per zone
Setting/disabling VAT
Invoice templates and parameters
...
Administration via the CLI
Command Index/Reference (? generated from program help)
Administration via a web interface (Daphne):
WebAdmin User Manual (separately from the FRED Admin.Manual)
Search
Registrar Administration
Domain (De)Activation
Contact Validation
Access Control (users and permissions)
...
+ WebAdmin Feature Document (separately from the main FRED Feature Document)
Extensions
MojeID
Domain Browser
21 Čec
21 Čec
15:20
Dear Dr Paulos
What issues do you have with backup and restore of PostgreSQL?
IMHO this should not be a part of the FRED documentation (beside some references or links,
of
course), because there are many tutorials about making snapshots or replication of
PostgreSQL databases.
This is not strictly a FRED issue and moreover, it's transparent to FRED.
Best regards
Piotr
On 20/07/16 18:59, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda wrote:
Additional documentation on FRED would be very helpful.
I would like to recommend that you include material on the following:
1. Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) - registrar connections
2. Digital certiifcates in AAA
3. Logs or logging
4. fred-client
5. EPP and FRED
6. Backup and restore
That would even be moire helpful
Regards,
Paulos
======================
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw
On 19 Jul 2016 at 17:53, Zuzana Lena Ansorgova wrote:
Dear users of the FRED,
I am a technical writer of the CZ.NIC and I'm currently working on a new
administration manual for the FRED.
I think you are of those who would appreciate this new piece of
documentation and therefore, I would like to ask you about your opinions
on what topics this manual should comprise, which questions it should
answer and what else you would expect from it.
I've attached my first (though only very rough) draft of the contents of
this manual for inspiration and/or comments. (Please, ignore the order
of the topics for now, that will be dealt with later.)
Your insight would be very helpful. Thanks for your time!
Best regards,
Lena
Technical Writer @ CZ.NIC
FRED Administration Manual
Structure design
July 2016
Lena
Audience: administrator, customer support
Purpose: make the system work and keep it operational (installation, configuration,
settings,
customization, maintenance), using administrator interface and tools for manual
intervention,
setting automated tasks
Contents/Topics:
System Requirements
Installation / (? Deployment Guide)
Installation from binaries
Installation from source
Configuration and Customization
(?) Overview of executables and the default config.files
Configurable Parameters Reference
Configurable Database Values
Registry Initialization
Setting up a zone, price list, invoicing, logging...
Periodic/Automated Tasks (Cron)
Domain expirations, deactivations, removals
Registrar and Registrant notifications
Payment checks
Zonefile generations
Administration of … Subsystem ???, e.g.:
Administration of Logging Subsystem
Administration of Notification Subsystem
Administration of Messaging Subsystem
Administration of Mailing Subsystem
Administration of File Managing Subsystem
Administration of Invoicing Subsystem
Administration of Genzone Subsystem
Administration of Tech-Check Subsystem
…
Zone Administration
registrar authorization/accreditation,
operation pricing,
nameserver association
Registrar Administration (CLI/web?)
Domain Administration (the „system registrar“)
Billing/Invoicing subsystem
Prepaid/postpaid model — per operation / invoice prefix
Price list — per op per zone
Setting/disabling VAT
Invoice templates and parameters
…
Administration via the CLI
Command Index/Reference (? generated from program help)
Administration via a web interface (Daphne):
WebAdmin User Manual (separately from the FRED Admin.Manual)
Search
Registrar Administration
Domain (De)Activation
Contact Validation
Access Control (users and permissions)
…
+ WebAdmin Feature Document (separately from the main FRED Feature Document)
Extensions
MojeID
Domain Browser
_______________________________________________
fred-users mailing list
fred-users(a)lists.nic.cz
https://lists.nic.cz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fred-users
22 Čec
22 Čec
11:25
On 21 Jul 2016 at 15:20, Piotr Przybyl wrote:
Dear Dr Paulos
What issues do you have with backup and restore of PostgreSQL?
IMHO this should not be a part of the FRED documentation (beside some references or
links, of
course), because there are many tutorials about making snapshots or replication of
PostgreSQL databases.
This is not strictly a FRED issue and moreover, it's transparent to FRED.
The issue I raised on backup and restore on FRED is not restricted to PostgreSQL, I am
thinking of the whole FRED system where the PostgreSQL database is only one part.
If you consider the task of building a duplicate or backup server or registry site for the
FRED
registry, there are many more issues that one needs to take care of rather than just the
database. We have done this for the first time last month on the Malawi .mw ccTLD registry
with an experienced FRED registrar and it took more than a few days to get it right.
In this section of the documentation you could also include replication of a FRED registry
instance..
Does this address your query ?
Regards,
Paulos
======================
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw
Best regards
Piotr
On 20/07/16 18:59, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda wrote:
Additional documentation on FRED would be very helpful.
I would like to recommend that you include material on the following:
1. Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) - registrar connections
2. Digital certiifcates in AAA
3. Logs or logging
4. fred-client
5. EPP and FRED
6. Backup and restore
That would even be moire helpful
Regards,
Paulos
======================
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw
On 19 Jul 2016 at 17:53, Zuzana Lena Ansorgova wrote:
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Dear users of the FRED,
I am a technical writer of the CZ.NIC and I'm currently working on a new
administration manual for the FRED.
I think you are of those who would appreciate this new piece of
documentation and therefore, I would like to ask you about your opinions
on what topics this manual should comprise, which questions it should
answer and what else you would expect from it.
I've attached my first (though only very rough) draft of the contents of
this manual for inspiration and/or comments. (Please, ignore the order
of the topics for now, that will be dealt with later.)
Your insight would be very helpful. Thanks for your time!
Best regards,
Lena
Technical Writer @ CZ.NIC
FRED Administration Manual
Structure design
July 2016
Lena
Audience: administrator, customer support
Purpose: make the system work and keep it operational (installation, configuration,
settings,
customization, maintenance), using administrator interface and tools for manual
intervention,
setting automated tasks
Contents/Topics:
System Requirements
Installation / (? Deployment Guide)
Installation from binaries
Installation from source
Configuration and Customization
(?) Overview of executables and the default config.files
Configurable Parameters Reference
Configurable Database Values
Registry Initialization
Setting up a zone, price list, invoicing, logging...
Periodic/Automated Tasks (Cron)
Domain expirations, deactivations, removals
Registrar and Registrant notifications
Payment checks
Zonefile generations
Administration of ... Subsystem ???, e.g.:
Administration of Logging Subsystem
Administration of Notification Subsystem
Administration of Messaging Subsystem
Administration of Mailing Subsystem
Administration of File Managing Subsystem
Administration of Invoicing Subsystem
Administration of Genzone Subsystem
Administration of Tech-Check Subsystem
...
Zone Administration
registrar authorization/accreditation,
operation pricing,
nameserver association
Registrar Administration (CLI/web?)
Domain Administration (the "system registrar")
Billing/Invoicing subsystem
Prepaid/postpaid model - per operation / invoice prefix
Price list - per op per zone
Setting/disabling VAT
Invoice templates and parameters
...
Administration via the CLI
Command Index/Reference (? generated from program help)
Administration via a web interface (Daphne):
WebAdmin User Manual (separately from the FRED Admin.Manual)
Search
Registrar Administration
Domain (De)Activation
Contact Validation
Access Control (users and permissions)
...
+ WebAdmin Feature Document (separately from the main FRED Feature Document)
Extensions
MojeID
Domain Browser
_______________________________________________
fred-users mailing list
fred-users(a)lists.nic.cz
https://lists.nic.cz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fred-users
11:31
On 22/07/16 11:25, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda wrote:
On 21 Jul 2016 at 15:20, Piotr Przybyl wrote:
Hello
I'm just wondering what FRED-specific issues you had to face which are
"non-standard"
sysadmin/devops operations.
I mean that from my perspective FRED doesn't differ that much from other software
which needs to
have it's data repositories backed up, synchronised in optional slaves, etc.
Were there any FRED-specific issues you had to address which don't apply to making
backups and
slaves in general?
Best regards
Piotr
Dear Dr Paulos
What issues do you have with backup and restore of PostgreSQL?
IMHO this should not be a part of the FRED documentation (beside some references or
links, of
course), because there are many tutorials about making snapshots or replication of
PostgreSQL databases.
This is not strictly a FRED issue and moreover, it's transparent to FRED.
The issue I raised on backup and restore on FRED is not restricted to PostgreSQL, I am
thinking of the whole FRED system where the PostgreSQL database is only one part.
If you consider the task of building a duplicate or backup server or registry site for
the FRED
registry, there are many more issues that one needs to take care of rather than just the
database. We have done this for the first time last month on the Malawi .mw ccTLD
registry
with an experienced FRED registrar and it took more than a few days to get it right.
In this section of the documentation you could also include replication of a FRED
registry
instance..
Does this address your query ?
Regards,
Paulos
======================
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw
29 Čec
29 Čec
15:56
Hi Paulos,
thanks for your suggestions!
Although some of the points seem indeed out of the scope, I appreciate
you shared your point of view.
Best regards,
Lena
PS: We're still working on establishing the GitHub repository.
On 20.7.2016 18:59, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda wrote:
Additional documentation on FRED would be very helpful.
I would like to recommend that you include material on the following:
1. Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) - registrar
connections
2. Digital certiifcates in AAA
3. Logs or logging
4. fred-client
5. EPP and FRED
6. Backup and restore
That would even be moire helpful
Regards,
Paulos
======================
Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw
On 19 Jul 2016 at 17:53, Zuzana Lena Ansorgova wrote:
--
Lena
Dear users of the FRED,
I am a technical writer of the CZ.NIC and I'm currently working on a new
administration manual for the FRED.
I think you are of those who would appreciate this new piece of
documentation and therefore, I would like to ask you about your opinions
on what topics this manual should comprise, which questions it should
answer and what else you would expect from it.
I've attached my first (though only very rough) draft of the contents of
this manual for inspiration and/or comments. (Please, ignore the order
of the topics for now, that will be dealt with later.)
Your insight would be very helpful. Thanks for your time!
Best regards,
Lena
Technical Writer @ CZ.NIC
FRED Administration Manual
Structure design
July 2016
Lena
Audience: administrator, customer support
Purpose: make the system work and keep it operational (installation,
configuration, settings, customization, maintenance), using
administrator interface and tools for manual intervention, setting
automated tasks
Contents/Topics:
System Requirements
Installation / (? Deployment Guide)
Installation from binaries
Installation from source
Configuration and Customization
(?) Overview of executables and the default config.files
Configurable Parameters Reference
Configurable Database Values
Registry Initialization
Setting up a zone, price list, invoicing, logging...
Periodic/Automated Tasks (Cron)
Domain expirations, deactivations, removals
Registrar and Registrant notifications
Payment checks
Zonefile generations
Administration of … Subsystem ???, e.g.:
Administration of Logging Subsystem
Administration of Notification Subsystem
Administration of Messaging Subsystem
Administration of Mailing Subsystem
Administration of File Managing Subsystem
Administration of Invoicing Subsystem
Administration of Genzone Subsystem
Administration of Tech-Check Subsystem
…
Zone Administration
registrar authorization/accreditation,
operation pricing,
nameserver association
Registrar Administration (CLI/web?)
Domain Administration (the „system registrar“)
Billing/Invoicing subsystem
Prepaid/postpaid model — per operation / invoice prefix
Price list — per op per zone
Setting/disabling VAT
Invoice templates and parameters
…
Administration via the CLI
Command Index/Reference (? generated from program help)
Administration via a web interface (Daphne):
WebAdmin User Manual (separately from the FRED Admin.Manual)
Search
Registrar Administration
Domain (De)Activation
Contact Validation
Access Control (users and permissions)
…
+ WebAdmin Feature Document (separately from the main FRED Feature
Document)
Extensions
MojeID
Domain Browser
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