This Week

• Alastair
  • Inventory project
    • continue working through InvProjectWorkFlow
    • Document clientreport (eg how to add modules)
    • Document order sync code
    • Document hpreport processing script
    • Continue work on RESTful API - InvProjectRESTapi
    • Document REST API
    • Write more of the ii commands and document as writing.
    • Start work on final report!
    • How represent VMs
    • Continue with REST API testing framework
    • Consider what else needs done other than docs and tidying and backups
    • Blog something....take dev meeting talks
    • Add a REST API to get entire JSON blob of client report data for a specific host
    • Could query on location match case-insensitively? (this should work)
    • Consider how non Tartarus code will have access to Tartarus tables (eg COs should have read only access to all tables)
  • Deploy encrypted /tmp and swap conversion script
    • Need to warn users that Gnome3 may pop up a window about /tmp being full (when script is run)
    • Now down to 5 desktops, 3 users, 2 COs
  • Schedule MPU meeting to discuss systemd ordering
  • Check sysmans (et al) have 'nograce'.
  • Take a look at RT #78875
  • Look at /etc/hosts - dns issue (IPV6?)
    • work out what we need to fix current problem
  • Circulate info on RH7.3 systemd changes we may wish to consider
  • RT actions (as agreed)
  • Deploy disable-module header on all computing.help servers
    • Added to computing-help-server header, but after 20/9 will need to check config of help servers
  • Implement change to kvmtool to allow KVMs to be marked as disabled
  • Look at Stephen's 'Thoughts on shell components'
  • Look at MPUActivitiesList
  • Start looking at https and computing.help (remove assumption that https means want cosign login)
    • wait on Neil's efforts with EdWeb
  • remove xfree component from stock vbox guest config
  • Chase Alison about LCFG check monitoring ( start doing again )
  • Look at RT
  • Investigate systemd reboot bug on gaivota and add some more debugging (store tree diff somewhere)

• Chris
  • Inventory project
    • Continue work on clientreport modules for replacing firmwarereport
  • Look at MPUActivitiesList
  • Look at RT
  • Start work on SL7 coordinational final project report

• Stephen
  • LCFG client refactor stage 2
    • testing and documentation
  • LCFG server symlink to exam branches - produce reporting script and discuss with Graham
  • submit polkit bug to redhat - with Alastair (still exists under 7.3)
  • Produce some text for systemd mount bug (to submit to RH)
  • Take issue of disable per user journald logs on certain servers to OPS
  • Schedule jubilee downtime to move to SOL
  • Consider PD work for after LCFG client ...
  • Look at MPUActivitiesList
  • On metropolitan, find fast baud rate we can drive the real physical consoles. (This so we can decide whether to use physical consoles for KVM servers).
  • Look at RT
  • Add mouse and keyboard presence checks to tartarus clientreport
  • Start work on LCFG client refactor final report

-- AlastairScobie - 11 Oct 2017