Do a Sanity Check

Prior to creating a release, one should perform the following sanity checks.

Note: In order to perform all of the sanity checks, you will need BOTH your NST development system and a running NST probe.

Commit

You should do a commit to ensure that you do not have any outstanding modifications.

svn commit

Build Yum Repository

Run the following from the top level directory to make certain that you can build and update all the RPM files that make up the NST repository.

sudo dnf clean all
make repo-build

Check Enabled Services

Make sure you boot a recent ISO image and verify that the expected services are enabled at boot time. Be aware that the sshd and httpd services will not be enabled or running until the nstpasswd command is run.

[root@localhost ~]# chkconfig --list | grep 3:on

Note: This output shows SysV services only and does not include native
      systemd services. SysV configuration data might be overridden by native
      systemd configuration.

      If you want to list systemd services use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.
      To see services enabled on particular target use
      'systemctl list-dependencies [target]'.

livesys        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
livesys-late   	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
[root@localhost ~]# 

As noted in the output, the above doesn't show information about native systemd services. To view those services as well, run the following command and review the output produced. NOTE: The output shown below was produced after booting the NST ISO in VirtualBox and selecting the Console target and running nstpasswd.

[root@probe ~]# systemctl list-unit-files | grep "enabled " | grep service | sort
#UNIT FILE                                 STATE           VENDOR PRESET
abrt-journal-core.service                  enabled         enabled
abrt-oops.service                          enabled         enabled
abrt-vmcore.service                        enabled         enabled
abrt-xorg.service                          enabled         enabled
accounts-daemon.service                    enabled         enabled
dbus-daemon.service                        enabled         enabled
dkms.service                               enabled         enabled
getty@.service                             enabled         enabled
import-state.service                       enabled         enabled
irqbalance.service                         enabled         enabled
lightdm.service                            enabled         enabled
lvm2-monitor.service                       enabled         enabled
mcelog.service                             enabled         enabled
ModemManager.service                       enabled         enabled
multipathd.service                         enabled         enabled
NetworkManager-dispatcher.service          enabled         enabled
NetworkManager.service                     enabled         enabled
NetworkManager-wait-online.service         enabled         enabled
nstboot.service                            enabled         enabled
nstwui.service                             enabled         disabled
ostree-remount.service                     enabled         enabled
pmcd.service                               enabled         enabled
pmie.service                               enabled         enabled
pmlogger.service                           enabled         enabled
rsyslog.service                            enabled         enabled
rtkit-daemon.service                       enabled         enabled
selinux-autorelabel-mark.service           enabled         enabled
smartd.service                             enabled         enabled
sshd.service                               enabled         disabled
sssd.service                               enabled         enabled
systemd-homed-activate.service             enabled         disabled
systemd-homed.service                      enabled         enabled
udisks2.service                            enabled         enabled
upower.service                             enabled         enabled
vboxservice.service                        enabled         enabled
vgauthd.service                            enabled         disabled
vmtoolsd.service                           enabled         enabled
[root@probe ~]# 

You might only see the vboxservice.service entry if you are running under VirtualBox.

Verify That Documentation Builds

Make sure the docs directory builds. This is required to update the on-line version of the man pages for the release:

[root@dev repo]# cd docs
[root@dev docs]# make

Run Automated Tests

Run the following from the top level to perform numerous checks on the running NST probe with the IP address specified.

make probe-check HOST=IP

There will be a LOT of output produced. A copy of the output will be saved to the file: "probe-check.log" which may be viewed using the command: "less -R probe-check.log". Make sure the file looks clean (or like you would expect). Make sure you aren't tempted to skip this step. We thought we were OK and skipped this step during the 1.8.1 release and ended up delivering a ISO image with a broken sym-link.