Project Development Meeting (IF-4.31 10:00 - 12:00) - Minutes 2011-09-05

Present: Toby, Chris, Neil, Iain, Gordon, Alastair, George, Craig, Stephen, Alison, Ian, Tim (convener and minutes)

1. Minutes of last meeting

Accepted.

2. Matters arising

Update on actions from last meeting.

• Virtualised DICE
  • Project assigned to 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]
• Web search front end to package repository
  • Check ok with Perdita. Comments from Alastair. [Action Roger]
• Evaluating UniDesk
  • Link report into computing plan as evidence for decision to not migrate. Done. Publish evaluation report to CCPAG. Already published enough, drop.
  • Need a way to hold "secured access" files within @ed. [Action Alison]
• Implement print quotas via Pcounter
  • Add "lpq" like facility to web interface. Done.

New actions from this meeting.

• Inventory Improvement
  • All units to provide feedback. [Action ALL]
  • Add link to report from devproj entry. [Action Alastair]
• Documentation update - managed platform unit
  • Need more information on DIY DICE. [Action Alastair]

3. Approved Projects

See Activity with annotated comments from meeting.

4. Project Status Changes

• password strength checks - Unstalled
• Simple KVM Service - Signed off

5. New Proposed Projects

• Scanning for compromised machines - Evaluation
  • To produce a report
  • Access to syslog logs for self managed machines
  • Keep eye on VPN traffic
  • Ask IS why they gave up
  • What do other Schools do
  • Scan for OS and Version and report to users
  • Solicit further ideas

6. System Blog Articles

• Prometheus - Done

7. AOB

None recorded.

-- TimColles - 03 Oct 2012