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. 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
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
NetworkManager-dispatcher.service            enabled         enabled
NetworkManager.service                       enabled         enabled
NetworkManager-wait-online.service           enabled         enabled
nstboot.service                              enabled         enabled
nstwui.service                               enabled         disabled
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
switcheroo-control.service                   enabled         enabled
systemd-boot-update.service                  enabled         enabled
systemd-confext.service                      enabled         enabled
systemd-homed-activate.service               enabled         disabled
systemd-homed.service                        enabled         enabled
systemd-networkd-wait-online.service         enabled         enabled
systemd-network-generator.service            enabled         enabled
systemd-pstore.service                       enabled         enabled
systemd-sysext.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.