Managed Platform Unit projects: Current Pending Completed
| Current Projects | |
|---|---|
| Redevelop School Equipment inventory | show, home-page,blog |
| Procedures for physical security | show home-page brain dump |
| Consider User Security Training Materials | show home |
| Virtual Desktop Service | show, home, blog, final report |
| Review Security of LCFG Profile Access | show, home, blog |
| Investigate alternative DICE desktop platform | show, home, blog |
| Pending Projects | Project | Why | Devproj entry | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merge fstab and lvm components | internal - lvm use increasing | 407 | |||
| Evaluate non RHEL based Linux distributions | user visible, reluctance to branch from rest of CSE, but should keep aware? postpone until a distro with inbuilt config technology appears | 53 | |||
| Consider alternative configuration management technologies | internal - postpone until a distro with inbuilt config technology appears | ||||
| LCFG documentation technology | internal and other Ed schools | 55 | |||
| Design new LCFG package specification | Depends on the LCFG core refactoring project | 63 | |||
| LCFG component test framework | primarily internal (after client refactor) | 105 | |||
| Latest Fedora port to inf layer | Keep up-to-date with technology updates (eg systemd) + possibly end-user | 143 | |||
| Add a "beginners guide" to the LCFG website | external to School | 141 | |||
| Automated upstream package repository mirroring | internal (efficiency) | 140 | |||
| Allow users to config software for desktops | users | 236 | |||
| Remote hardware management for desktops | internal | 156 | |||
| PkgForge enhancements (incl package signing) | internal | 245 | |||
| Updaterpms validate signed packages | security | 237 | |||
| Rewrite LCFG file component | internal | 238 | |||
| Improve KVM guest migration using centralised storage (eg ceph) | internal | 275 | |||
| Evaluate move of LCFG configuration from svn to git | internal + other schools | 289 | |||
| Write a systemd-networkd component | existing network component unlikely to be sufficient for EL7 servers | 319 | |||
| Rewrite of LCFG network component | 390 | ||||
| Investigate options for replacing Nagios | Nagios is becoming ever more closed-source - we need a replacement | 315 | |||
| LCFG monitoring translator | Once we have completed #315 we will need to able to translate LCFG profiles into the necessary monitoring configuration | 316 | |||
| Log Cabin enhancements | alternate web views, ability to hide unimportant entries, ability to flag trusted hosts, user notifications by email/sms | 317 | |||
| Minimal LCFG support for Python | add ability to query LCFG resources from python scripts | 318 | |||
| Try other sleep states | 326 | ||||
| Sleeping servers | Extend sleeping to servers | 327 | |||
| KVM service enhancements | mainly related to making migration easier | XXXXXX | |||
| Allow users to choose software for desktops | |||||
| Completed projects | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Release management for configurations | 10 | ||
| 02/07 - 06/07 | Inf FC6 platform | 62 | |
| 08/06 - 03/07 | 64-bit DICE | 5 | |
| 11/06 - 10/07 | Improved LCFG web site | 7 | |
| 09/06 - 11/07 | Enhancing the Solaris LCFG platform | 9 | |
| 07/07 - 10/07 | LCFG SL5 port | 74 | |
| 11/07 - 04/08 | Investigate power management options for DICE desktops/servers | 34 | |
| 01/08 - 12/08 | LCFG buildtools rewrite | 54 | |
| 10/08 - 04/09 | DICE under emulators | 50 Final Report | |
| 11/08 - 03/09 | Simple server virtualisation | possible financial savings (power, capital, space) | 61 Final report |
| 04/08 - 11/09 | Power Management for DICE Desktops | 94 Final report | |
| 01/07 - 10/09 | Improved package submission system | 13 Final report | |
| 06/09 - 01/09 | TiBS component | on behalf of Services unit | 122 Final report |
| 05/09 - 02/09 | AFS component | on behalf of Services unit | 2 |
| 02/10 - 04/10 | Fedora 12 @ inf level LCFG port | end user | 132 history milestones final report |
| 01/10 - 04/10 | Improve server/hardware interaction - firmware upgrades, RAID firmware upgrades, RAID controller monitoring, OMSA, etc. | internal (reliability) | 134 history milestones final report |
| 01/10 - 09/10 | LCFG Linux install redevelopment | internal, causing increasing problems | 68 history milestones final report |
| 05/10 - 10/10 | Fedora 13 LCFG port | end user | 160 Final report |
| 10/10 - 12/10 | Replacement for VMware Server (evaluation) | internal (urgent as VMware server moribund) | 154 Home Proposal |
| 08/10 - 04/11 | Software Build Farm | internal (manageability) | 115 history milestones final report |
| 04/11 - 07/11 | LCFG port to SL6 | external | 131 history milestones final report |
| 2011 | Install scripts for self-managed machines | 161 history milestones final report | |
| 2011 | Wake On LAN | 213 history milestones final report | |
| 2011 | AFS automation | Services Unit | 135 history milestones final report |
| 09/09 - 04/12 | LCFG Server Refactoring | Internal | 78 history milestones final report |
| 2011/2012 | Simple KVM based virtualisation service | Internal | 202 history milestones final report |
| 2012 | Improve server/hardware interaction (phase 2) | Internal | 171 final report |
| ? | Upgrade MPU servers to SL6 | Internal | 203, finalreport |
| 2013 | Increasing Energy Savings from DICE Desktops | implement | 234 |
| 2012/2013 | System Security Enhancements | internal | 224 final report |
| 2012/2013 | User accessible reports of where they have logged in from (ideally including logins via weblogin) | end-users, security | 254 final report |
| 2013 | LCFG client code cleanup | child of 139 | 225 final report |
| 2013/2014 | Virtualised DICE image - trial | students | 239 final report, blog capture |
| 2013-2018 | Remove obsolete deps for LCFG client | LCFG | 274 final report |
| 2014/2015 | LCFG systemd component | LCFG | 297 final report, blog capture |
| 2014/2015 | LCFG SL7 port (inf level) | LCFG | 296, final report, blog capture |
| 2015/2016 | LCFG SL7 server base port | LCFG | 356 final report blog capture |
| 2015/2016 | LCFG apacheconf improvement | LCFG | 371 final report blog capture |
| 2015-2017 | SL7 server upgrade project - Managed Platform Unit | 357 final report | |
| 2017 | Return to AT - MPU | 427 final report | |
| 2018 | UEFI Support in LCFG | LCFG | 410 final report |
| 2018 | Update LCFG platform to SL7.5 | LCFG | 458 final report |
| 2015-2018 | DTI building design | 334 final report | |
| 2019 | UEFI support in LCFG | 410 final report | |
| 2019 | Upgrade to SL7.6 | 471 final report | |
Topic revision: r146 - 18 Nov 2019 - 14:39:30 - AlastairScobie
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