Truxton Forensic Rack
The Truxton Forensic Rack is a 7 foot tall rack populated with hardware dedicated to forensic processing. It has a Yellowbrick database appliance, seven dedicated loader/exploitation machines and 1PB of usable depot storage. With everything separated, it gives us many knobs to turn for loading.
Hardware
Here's how the hardware is stacked:
| U42 | Network Switch |
| U27 | Yellowbrick |
| U26 | Yellowbrick Manager 0 |
| U25 | Yellowbrick Manager 1 |
| U23 | KVM Server |
| U22 | Keyboard and Monitor |
| U13 | Loader Node 7 |
| U11 | Loader Node 6 |
| U09 | Loader Node 5 |
| U07 | Loader Node 4 |
| U05 | Loader Node 3 |
| U03 | Loader Node 2 |
| U01 | Loader Node 1 |
Installing Hardware
Normally you won't have to do this but should you want to move the hardware out of the existing rack an into a different one, populate the new rack from the bottom up.
- Locate Server Node 1
- Install the rails for the server into the rack position
- Slide the server onto the rails
- Repeat for the remaining servers working your way up the rack
- Install rails for KVM
- Install KVM
- Install rails for Yellowbrick Management Node 1
- Install Yellowbrick Management Node 1
- Install rails for Yellowbrick Management Node 2
- Install Yellowbrick Management Node 2
- Install rails for Yellowbrick Server
- Install Yellowbrick Server
- Populate Yellowbrick Server with 9 blades
- Fill the empty spaces in Yellowbrick Server with empty blade enclosures
- Install rails for network switches
- Install network switches