Truxton Forensic Rack

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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.

  1. Locate Server Node 1
    1. Install the rails for the server into the rack position
    2. Slide the server onto the rails
  2. Repeat for the remaining servers working your way up the rack
  3. Install rails for KVM
  4. Install KVM
  5. Install rails for Yellowbrick Management Node 1
  6. Install Yellowbrick Management Node 1
  7. Install rails for Yellowbrick Management Node 2
  8. Install Yellowbrick Management Node 2
  9. Install rails for Yellowbrick Server
  10. Install Yellowbrick Server
  11. Populate Yellowbrick Server with 9 blades
  12. Fill the empty spaces in Yellowbrick Server with empty blade enclosures
  13. Install rails for network switches
  14. Install network switches