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Server rooms

• Server room access arrangements

• Forum server room (IF-B.02, ext 517633):
  • Forum rack population
  • IN THE EVENT OF AIR-CON FAILURE ...
  • Air-con fan speed control
  • Forum server room racking and cabling standards
  • Setting/unsetting the alarm
  • Power connections:
    • Informatics server room IF-B.02 power supply diagram - correct at Jan 2019
    • Informatics Forum self-managed server room IF-B.Z14 power supply diagram - correct at Jan 2019
      Note: the above two diagrams are produced and maintained by the Informatics technicians. For the originals (and any updates), go to /afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/group/admin/techs/Forum/Server-Room/Drawings.
    • Rack PDU numbering for self-managed server rooms: IF-B.Z14, IF-B.01
  • Noise levels:
    • Health & Safety rules, etc.
    • Measurements: Forum server room, Self-managed server rooms: IF-B.Z14, IF-B.01
• AT server room:
  • Main server racks population
  • Floor space usage & power feed usage
  • Forum/AT Fibre Channel
  • Setting/unsetting the alarm
  • Management and access
• KB server room (JCMB-1305):
  • KB rack population
  • KB switch module population
  • KB Fibre Channel
  • Setting/unsetting the alarm
  • Management and access

• Self-managed server rooms:
  • Inventory of self-managed servers

• Infrastructure planning for proposed 200 GPU cluster, 2017/2018

• Infrastructure planning for GPU procurement, 2019

Informatics switch upgrades

• Forum closet 1Gb 2900 edge switches - 2013-14 Upgrade
• Forum server room edge switches - 2015 upgrade
• Forum closet 100Mb 2610 edge switches - 2017/18 Upgrade

• AT-FH and AT-Wilkie Decant, 2015 - Network switches
• AT - New network switches for Levels 3-9, 2017

Bayes Building network

• Bayes building edge switch installation, Summer 2018

Networking

• Miscellaneous network jottings
• EdLAN 2013 Upgrade
• Renumbering the KB switches
• Network documentation for users - what we need?
• 'All Hands Meeting 2008' - Network Planning
  • Informatics Forum - Wired Data Connections
  • AHM2008 - Final report and conclusions
• Network Management Review: Call for input, Interim report
• Setting up a test network

Various

• InfWebSites
• ESSIS Penetration Scanning System
• Infrastructure Unit SL6 Server Upgrade Plans
• InfKit07
• InfKit10
• InfKit11
• Virtualisation: Inf-unit kit, and why it can or can't be virtualised
• Consoles
• SL5 issues: Initial thoughts on the DICE SL5 Server Platform port, Unit server upgrade plans
• Forum planning
• Potential Inf Unit technical talks
• Authentication/Authorization Overview
• List of steps to rekey KDC from triple-DES to AES
• LDAP Overview
• Configure a machine to run (and use) a local LDAP server
• Prometheus Overview
• Roles FAQ
• Roles/entitlements for machine access
• How to fix a machine with a broken LDAP
• How to use rfe to control the APC power distribution bars
• Top-level overview of Cosign and iFriend
• Upgrading a client to Cosign 3.0
• Proposed Nagios Enhancements
• Proposed Nagios Rewrite
• Infrastructure unit plans for power down
• Ethernet Bonding Issues
• Prometheus Meeting 13 July 2010
• Forum<->AT Fibre Patch Panels
• cos chatroom logs
• Possible network machine names
• Possible 'sysadmin' additions to software installed on servers
• Proposals for changes to lcfg-dhcpd
• Reports on 'mock disasters':
  • 2014 - Gas DR test
  • 2016 - 'develop' machines wiped
• Informatics Functional Accounts
• Using lcfg-x509 with letsencrypt
• Let's Encrypt DNS challenge in Informatics- how it works
• Management of Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates
• DICE test accounts
• Load Shedding for UPS replacement works, June-July 2019

Project stuff

(Also see: Project index)

• IPv6 niggles

• Review of User Documentation: Discussion Paper, Report, Discussion at Ops Meeting, 9.12.2009
• Project 118 - Forum Display Screens
  • Touchscreens: DICE Web Kiosk (SL5), DICE Web Kiosk (SL6), DICE Web Kiosk (SL7), Forum touchscreen content guide, Forum touchscreen content updater's guide
  • Large screens: Usage & Requirements; OneLan set-up, configuration and maintenance; Forum Display Screen User Manual (v1.1, Sep 2012) - PDF, DOC
  • 'To Be Done' List
• Wallet Implementation: Evaluation Report - Draft 1, Evaluation Report - Draft 2, Saving/restoring X.509 certificates, Final Report
• Project 173 - Review of AT3/4/5 network: Description of Existing AT3/4/5 Network, Report, Addendum1 (May 2011)
• Project 153 - Implement print quotas via Pcounter: Progress To Date
• Project 181 - OpenLDAP 2.4 Upgrade: Progress To Date
• Project 103 - Scanning for compromised machines: Initial Ideas, Report
• Project 267 - Review of OpenLDAP DICE client configuration: Initial Ideas, Discussion paper: DICE client LDAP configuration, Final Report
• Project 279 - Options for two-factor authentication: Initial call for requirements, Final Report
• Project 260 - EASE Pros and Cons
• Project 312 - Inf Unit Initial SL7 work
• Project 313 - Pilot service for Yubikey two-factor authentication
• Project 399 - Second factor authentication for sysman accounts: Comments, problems, queries and suggestions (restricted to Informatics C(S)Os)

-- IanDurkacz - 09 Aug 2013