View source for CIDuty/How To/Take actions to RelEng Hardware from TaskCluster UI

===== Info =====
* Taskcluster team have added hardware control actions into taskcluster interface for the releng hardware machines
* They have added options to ping and reboot the machines running on linux, windows and osx.


===== Use case =====
# Check to see what client ID you have (check Manage Credentials page, accessible from the Taskcluster Account menu)
# Activate VPN.
# Read about [https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/RelOps_Hardware_Controller_(Roller) roller] and authorize the self-signed cert (internal only so they don't need certificate for that) using [https://roller1.srv.releng.mdc1.mozilla.com/api/v1/workers/auth-ssl/jobs this]. Accept the security issue/warning and proceed to add an exception for it.
# Go to the hardware you want to take actions.
The page should look like this:

[[File:Taskcluster-action-buttons.png|center|Taskcluster Action Buttons Example]]
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* Alongside the Quarantine button, we have Ping and Reboot buttons. Go ahead and try one of it (ensure that the hardware has all the tasks completed, don’t restart a machine that has running tasks unless that’s the whole point you want to do it).<br />

* If everything is setup correctly, by pressing the ping button, it will ping the machine and after a few seconds you will receive an email with the ping result.<br />
On IRC channel #roller, a message will be sent by a bot, containing the action that has done and the LDAP account of the user who initiated the action. 

* Same goes for the reboot, but takes much more (aprox. 60-80 seconds). <br />
'''Response Example''' <br />
[[File:Taskcluster reboot result example.png|center|taskcluster_reboot_result_example.png]]

===== Known problems =====
* If you try to restart it without being logged on and/or without VPN, an error will appear when you press one of the options.
* The result/notification of that action is send to the person who initiates it, via email and IRC but, it tries to guess your LDAP email and IRC , for example, if our usernames would be for example “test_name”, he would say that on IRC, your username is test_name and LDAP is test_name@mozilla.com.
* On some cases, that is a problem because the LDAP user and IRC name is not the same, therefore you will only get the email notification.