Project Development Meeting (IF-4.31 10:00 - 12:00) - Minutes 2011-08-01

Present: Chris, Roger, Graham, Iain, Toby, Craig, Stephen, George, Ian, Gordon, Alastair

1. Minutes of last meeting

Accepted.

2. Matters arising

Update on actions from last meeting.

• Virtualised DICE
  • Awaiting discussion with Stuart for a possible project to cover FreeNX . [Action Alastair/Iain]
• Prometheus: enable account lifecycle
  • Chase. Alastair chased without response. Will take the more general issue of University owned data being held solely on personal machines to CSG. [Action Alastair]
• Account reconciliation
  • Activity report to include a countdown on remaining to go. Needs end date Prometheus views. Done.
• Web search front end to package repository
  • Check ok with Perdita. [Action Roger]
• The following projects were signed-off: Move www.inf to new technology, Deployment of TiBS to self managed machines. Take to CEG for ratification. Done.
• Evaluating UniDesk
  • Write final report. Done.
  • Link report into computing plan as evidence for decision to not migrate. Done. Publish evaluation report to CCPAG. [Action Alastair]

New actions from this meeting.

• Implement print quotas via Pcounter
  • Add "lpq" like facility to web interface. [Action Craig]
• Redevelop User Documentation
  • Need a way to hold "secured access" files within @ed. [Action Alison]

3. Approved Projects

See Activity with annotated comments from meeting.

4. Project Status Changes

None.

5. New Proposed Projects

None.

6. System Blog Articles

• Prometheus - Toby
• TiBS - Done.

7. AOB

Discussion on SSH login server security incident had the following reccommendations:

• Need earlier 'log' alerts
• Have a procedure to follow for post-crash investigation
• Weblogin should have a 'last logins from' type of report, as in banks
• Stephen to do tech talk on auditd
• auditd logs should go off host so accessable when host is down

None.

-- TimColles - 03 Sep 2012