7. Introduction
Welcome to the Administrators and Operators handbook of REDAC, the Reconfigurable Discrete Analog Computer. Please ensure you have read the User manual before approaching this part of the system documentation.
Generally, REDAC is a professional high precision computer system intended for industrial settings. The system is of low environmental demand but requires nevertheless some considerations for the Physical Setup. Furthermore, the system generally requires low to no regular maintenance. Depending on your overall computer network, a substantial initial setup phase might be neccessary. The relevant steps are described, amongst others, in the section Internal network.
7.1. Intended Audience
As a systems administrator or operator, you have a decent understanding in common IT networking and Linux server administration. Before reading this, you should know at least how to configure at small and home office (SOHO) level networking equipment.
Warning
You are supposed to read this manual before doing any kind of physical work close to or with REDAC. It contains essential guides how to deal with this kind of novel computing equipment.
7.2. Confidential Credentials given at system handover
At system purchase, you are prodived an access credential card. This card contains sensitive information which you must not share with regular users nor system developers. It contains strong passwords individually assigned to your system. As the system administrator, you are supposed to take over these access credentials and manage them. Consider using a password manager to track them. Furthermore, you are strongly encouraged to change the default passwords. This card should look roughly like the following table.
Subsystem |
Scope |
User |
Password |
|---|---|---|---|
Web GUI |
admin |
provided |
|
Wifi |
SSID provided |
provided |
|
SSH/X11 login |
provided |
provided |
|
IPMI |
povided |
provided |
|
OpenID managament |
provided |
provided |
7.3. Public Information on your REDAC installation
Next to the confidential system access information, you will get a card that contains the following information which help to identify the device(s) you have at hand. They are not secret and can be shared with users and developers, if neccessary:
MAC addresses of the Mikrotik uplink ethernet port and Wifi access point
Serial number(s) of the overall redac device and/or its individual parts
These public data should also be attached on a label on the device itself.