| When raised |
Who |
What |
Comments |
| 28/09/2016 |
Gordon |
MacOS Sierra |
Only remaining issue is lack of TiBS support |
| 09/12/15 |
George |
"external connectivity" computing.help page |
It's here. Suggestions for improvement welcome! |
| 23/08/17 |
Stephen / Graham |
/home and exam lockdown |
|
| 22/02/17 |
George |
/netmask versions of subnets header files |
live/subnets_nm.h (see the inf-unit report) |
| 12/11/14 |
RAT |
Look into producing seminar specific email lists for staff/students/etc |
tracked in TRAC |
| 25/04/18 |
All |
Machines in rack 2 |
managers of these machine liaise with each other to spread the load across both banks. |
| 09/01/19 |
ALL |
Pandemic Planning |
We Name The Guilty!!!!!! - now completed! (22/01/20) |
| 23/08/17 |
Alastair |
Add "migrate to https" to Computing Plan |
|
| 24/10/18 |
MPU |
Add banners to XRDP hosts if possible |
| 09/07/14 |
Services-unit |
Add bonding issues to BondingProblems |
MPU to investigate. See also this week's inf-unit report |
| 2015-09-23 |
MPU |
Add encryption of tmp and swap to <develop> |
Done (in stable of 11/11/15) |
| fail2ban meeting |
Services |
Add fail2ban to git and gerrit |
|
| 28/09/2016 |
MPU |
Add investigation of SL7 multi-homed issue to to-do list |
RT#79713 |
| 2015-10-28 |
George |
Add iptables to SL7 desktop project |
Done, with a mid-December deadline |
| 08/02/17 |
ALL |
Add new and past console funnies to the wiki page |
CrazyConsoleAKABrownEffect |
| 24/02/10 |
mp-unit |
add profile resources for machine criticality |
On mp-unit's list |
| 27/02/2019 |
Chris |
Add reference to Overleaf to computing.help |
computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/overleaf |
| 24/06/09 |
Toby |
Add to the AFS FAQ details on how to use kerberised ssh on supported OSs |
Done |
| 26/07/17 |
MPU |
Adjust quotas for package volumes |
|
| 12/11/08 |
Toby |
Advance warning of loss of staffmail accounts, possibly via IDMS feed? |
Done |
| 13/08/14 |
AT dwellers |
Agree room occupation for level 8 |
Done |
| 11/11/15 |
Neil |
Agreed suitable mail log retention period with RAT and update wiki retention page with same |
Done, and updated http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/DP-statement-managed-systems |
| 27/08/14 |
All Units |
all servers to be running SL6.5 by end October |
Nearly there! |
| 09/08/17 |
All |
All SL7.2 servers to be upgraded to SL7.3 |
|
| 11/05/2016 |
RAT |
All Support team members should have access to Visitor tab in Theon |
Done. |
| 25/10/17 |
Carol |
Amend decommissioning procedures to add removal and storage of disk brackets. |
There is now a large purple tub in B.03 labelled "Disk caddies for servers" |
| 22/10/08 |
ascobie |
Approach School re contribution to Christmas lunch |
Done |
| 22/10/08 |
squinney |
Arrange Christmas lunch |
Done |
| 30/09/20 |
Inf Unit |
Arrange for lab.inf and remote.inf mappings to be regenerated daily |
|
| 14/12/16 |
Services Unit |
Arrange for removal of tape library from KB server room |
Removed! |
| 11/11/15 |
Alastair |
Arrange groups for and set date for security review |
Now next year |
| 12/11/08 |
inf-unit |
Arrange tools for server rooms |
Done |
| 11/09/19 |
Neil |
Ask Dave H. to look into sound deadening screens for AT-7.07 |
Ticket in forum issues RT 97845 |
| 11/02/10 |
Alastair |
Ask Dave Robertson and Gordon about Building Committee minutes |
Apparently not published (yet??) |
| 26/06/19 |
Alastair |
Ask IS how they manage server room incidents |
The University's out-of-hours policy is here See minutes |
| 13/11/13 |
Inf |
ask IS what actions they are proposing to take re signing ed and its subdomains |
See inf-unit report. Expected in F/Y 2015-16 |
| 23/11/16 |
Alison |
Ask Mohammed to mention mac-user mailing list when new kit goes out |
Done |
| 27/04/2016 |
Alastair |
Attendance monitoring - Feed back concerns |
|
| 09/12/2015 |
US |
bioboy |
disks wiped, boxed and put in B.03 |
| 09/12/15 |
Services |
Can users go negative with print credit? |
Yes, due to discrepancy between what software thinks the page count will be, and what actually gets printed by the printer. Workaround in progress. Being tracked in services todo list. |
| 28/01/09 |
mp-unit |
Change DIY DICE root password |
Done; ask Alastair if you need to know it |
| 12/11/14 |
Services Unit |
Change Tape Library power arrangements |
|
| 08/10/14 |
Alastair |
Change title of holidays page |
subsequently done - wiki page created |
| 13/08/08 |
support |
Chase down "temporary dhcp" usage |
Done; RT:37705 |
| 22/01/2020 |
MPU |
Chase kernel upgrades |
|
| 2015-07-22 |
Alastair |
Chase up Campus agreement |
|
| 11/09/19 |
Inf Unit |
Chase up problems with AT server room alarm keypad |
|
| 24/06/09 |
Simon |
Chase up production of documentation on how to install jabber clients on supported OSs |
Done |
| 01/07/20 |
Alastair |
Chase whether Fortinet VPN bug has been fixed |
|
| 28/09/2016 |
Neil |
Check and mail out details of disk install issue |
Done - post to cos - basically how do you make sure which disk a machine installs to |
| Structural Review |
ALL |
Check and update telephone contact list |
Done |
| 14/10/09 |
Alison |
Check both invquery and minv provide accurate info. |
They don't but will be fixed as part of inventory project |
| 22/07/09 |
All |
Check cron logs. Checksum problem with hostname has caused lcfg-cron configure failure in some instances |
No longer necessary |
| 2015-06-10 |
MPU/RAT |
Check current rootmail situation |
Neil's figures are here. |
| 09/12/15 |
RAT |
Check dufferin's root mail |
Done |
| 01/07/20 |
Carol |
Check new Uni VPN issues |
See email of 1st July. Suggests someone else should try. Carol has offered |
| 03/03/21 |
Iain |
Check out Forum rack 1 power arrangements |
|
| 10/10/2018 |
Craig |
Check password portal wording |
|
| 13/12/17 |
US-Unit |
Check self-managed status of CDT machines |
Checked. 7 DICE, 10 Linux. No-one is dual booting. |
| 2015-09-09 |
Gordon |
Check SL7 printing to IS "charged" queues |
Done. |
| 25/02/15 |
Alastair |
Check status of SL7 partition layout |
|
| 11/03/15 |
Chris |
Check the toohot component on Dell 730s |
Done |
| 25/01/17 |
Craig |
Check whether Tibs 3 client works with TiBS 2 server and whether this would fix sierra issue |
It doesn't. There's a project to cover the TiBS3 upgrade |
| 10/01/18 |
All units |
Check whether web sites under their control are still using Allow/Deny configuration directives |
Switch was made, not much seems to have broken |
| 27/03/19 |
All Units |
Check which services depend on the Staff role and Linux group |
Services - Now all done |
| 27/01/2016 |
ALL |
Check/label kit in B.03 |
Anything not claimed by end-February will be assumed to be no longer required. |
| 10/09/08 |
Convener |
Check/Redo Operational meeting room bookings |
Done until end of year |
| 2015-09-23 |
ALL/Neil/Alison |
Christmas lunch suggestions |
discussed 14/10/15 - Neil sent out doodle poll |
| 2015-06-10 |
Stephen |
Circulate dmesg proposal |
On the MPU list |
| 28/04/10 |
Alastair |
circulate grade 8 competency framework |
|
| 08/10/14 |
Support |
Clarify COs entitlement to Dreamspark agreement |
Entitlement confirmed but will write up - see DreamSpark |
| 11/03/09 |
Tim and Alison |
Clarify exam procedures with the ITO |
Action adopted by CEG |
| 27/04/2016 |
ALL |
Clear out old SL6 profiles |
Stephen has nagged about sl6 profiles SL6OfficeMachines. Support will investigate non-CO machines |
| 13/01/2106 |
All Units |
Clear out unwanted machines from racks in IF, AT, KB |
|
| 14/04/10 |
Ian |
Clear shelf space in Forum server room |
|
| 11/09/19 |
Craig |
Clear spurious bookings for AT-7.14 |
Done - we don't appear to have had any other bookings for this room. |
| 11/05/2016 |
Services |
Cloud printing - speak to other Schools about their experiences with Cloud printing |
|
| 13/08/08 |
iainr |
Collate responses re proposed University's Source Repository |
Done, being tracked at CEG |
| 2015-09-23 |
Alastair |
College encryption policy |
|
| 2015-08-12 |
ALL |
Comment on advice on Internet safety |
now published |
| 22/10/14 |
MPU |
Compile notes on dumpdeps |
How to use dumpdeps |
| 22/10/14 |
Inf |
Compile notes on extracting firewall information |
See our "how the network filtering works" document and our 2014-11-12 report |
| 11/11/09 |
All |
Complete pandemic actions |
to be tracked at CEG |
| 26/06/19 |
All Units |
Complete upgrade of multi-user servers to SL7.6 |
|
| 26/06/19 |
All Units |
Complete upgrade of remaining servers to SL7.6 |
Done - Services, US, MPU and Inf have 2 to go |
| 07/10/2020 |
All computing staff |
Computing staff to use Ubuntu by default |
|
| 08/06/2016 |
Services Unit |
Computing.help page for small NAS boxes |
http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/some-advice-buying-nas |
| 14/10/09 |
Tim |
Confirm what data on maelcum needs to be kept |
|
| 08/10/14 |
Neil/Tim |
Consider alternative cgi server |
We did have a chat. Neil will check the current write access to the cgi directory, and Tim will put moving the affected exam mark pages to a dedicated VM |
| 13/12/17 |
Toby |
Consider consequences of making "no-grace" the default |
some thoughts - PrometheusNoGraceDefault, move to CEG |
| 23/06/10 |
ALL |
Consider Craig's suggestion of doing the KB EVO firmware upgrade during the Forum power-down |
Agreed that this is a good plan |
| 2015-0610 |
MPU |
Consider descriptive KVM pool names |
On MPU list |
| Structural Review |
Alastair |
Consider devolved budgets for units |
|
| Structural Review |
Alastair |
Consider devolved budgets for units |
Budget of £500/Unit agreed |
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
removed from Action list until further notice (22/01/20) |
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
|
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
|
| 14/09/2016 |
All |
Consider importance of static IPv6 addresses |
|
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider innovative learning week |
There seems to be some doubt about when this is (and what it's called now) |
| 11/03/15 |
MPU, RAT |
Consider likely FibreChannel requirements |
Services unlikely to expand. 8Gbps would be good to have. 6 per fabric. |
| 23/09/09 |
All |
Consider Neil's discussion point about exporting group data |
|
| 27/01/10 |
MPU |
Consider periodic file reconfiguration (om file configure) issues |
On mp-unit's list |
| 22/07/09 |
All |
Consider plans for moving kit from FH |
Wiki page available |
| 2015-08-26 |
CEG |
Consider reallocation of older kit |
|
| 24/06/09 |
All |
Consider whether it will be practicable for us to turn off AMD on servers once the AFS based RPM service is available |
Merge with other AMD action |
| 27/03/19 |
ALL |
Consider which further entitlements should be removed from the staff role |
|
| 11/03/09 |
inf-unit |
console server provision in self-managed server room |
Done |
| 25/02/15 |
Neil/Alastair |
consult records management about archived home directory |
RM responded. |
| 08/10/14 |
Support |
contact Records Management regarding the reconciliation of accounts. |
Discuss at meeting on 2nd December |
| 10/09/08 |
inf-unit |
Coordinate forum server room rack rotation and floor grill replacements |
Done |
| 13/09/17 |
Neil |
Coordinate our thoughts on the "open area" furniture |
|
| 26/10/16 |
George |
Core switch firmware |
See the inf-unit report |
| 08/10/14 |
Alastair |
create wiki page with bullet points for CO structure meeting |
Done |
| 2015-06-10 |
Craig |
Create a jabber project |
Done |
| 25/03/2020 |
MPU |
Create header file for Dell PE740xd2 |
Will be in stable release next week. |
| 10/09/08 |
squinney |
Create install CD for Optiplex 755 |
Done |
| 10/01/18 |
George |
Create no-slaac option for dns/inf6 rfe map |
See the inf-unit report |
| 08/03/2017 |
Toby |
Create project for 'sorting' roles |
Done |
| 10/01/18 |
George |
Create project to address deprecation of legacy style rsyslogd rules |
#452 |
| 27/06/18 |
George |
Create project to cover actions arising from server room notification investigation |
DevProj #558 |
| 10/01/18 |
Neil |
Create project to cover move of http: sites to https: |
Done Project 454 |
| 26/08/09 |
Tim/Stephen |
Create separate LCFG branch for on-line exam machines |
completed and documentation now added to lab exam procedures |
| 28/10/09 |
Alison |
Create wiki page to record machine problems requiring reboot |
Linked from us-unit wiki page |
| 14/04/10 |
mp-unit |
CUPS not to be running on servers by default |
More than just servers? |
| 18/11/20 |
RAT |
Deal with remaining machines with QuoVadis intermediate certificates |
|
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Decide on an appropriate procedure for shutting down self-managed servers |
Discussed at 10/03/10 meeting |
| fail2ban meeting |
Stephen/George |
Define range of local network addresses |
Some added to live/subnets.h and live/subnets6.h, but likely still incomplete |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Define the criticality of machines |
Now waiting for mp-unit work |
| 2015-09-09 |
MPU |
DICE_STICK_WITH_SL65? |
|
| 24/01/18 |
Alastair |
Discuss AT furniture proposals with Martin |
See specific suggestions in Section 4 of the Inf Unit Report for 8.8.2018 |
| 27/04/2016 |
Toby / Stephen / Others |
Discuss fail2ban configurations |
Meeting scheduled - 18/08 10am, IF-1.15. All welcome. Fail2BanMeeting20160818 |
| 27/07/16 |
Craig |
Discuss MDP/MFD printer accounting with Martin |
|
| 23/04/14 |
Stephen |
Discuss pandemic "security" topic with interested parties |
|
| 09/12/15 |
Alastair |
Discuss priorities and panic buttons with HoS |
Exams have priority |
| 13/09/17 |
Craig / Toby |
Discuss purge of old AFS admin IDs |
|
| 12/06/19 |
Craig |
Discuss with Alastair how to expedite load-shedding |
Alastair meeting with Jane on 13/6/19 to discuss |
| 25/10/17 |
Toby/Jennifer |
Document procedure for creating roles/entitlements to grant access to individual machines. |
Done |
| 28/09/2016 |
Craig |
Document Auristor client for self-managed Windows machines |
auristor |
| 24/02/10 |
inf-unit |
document bonding issues |
see here |
| 2015-07-22 |
MPU |
Document configuration and user experience of Fail2ban |
Added to MPU to-do list |
| 27/07/16 |
Ian |
Document current serial console use |
Done: RS232SerialConsoleProvision2016Review |
| 11/11/15 |
Roger |
Document for users the ability to scan to USB |
EnablingUSBonMFD (now user doc, linked from exam machine guide) |
| 01/07/09 |
George |
Document how the host keys of the ssh servers can be preserved during upgrades |
Subsumed by wallet project |
| 25/02/15 |
Toby |
Document how to query roles on the prometheus server |
Done - started RolesFAQ |
| 10/03/10 |
mp-unit |
Document power-button handling options |
|
| 10/01/18 |
MPU |
Document procedure for returning failed discs to Dell |
Done |
| 27/07/16 |
MPU/Alastair |
Document SL7 KVM migration issues? |
Done, in SimpleKVMDocs and SimpleKVMHost |
| 11/06/14 |
Craig |
Document use of CO gs/2010-07-14/inf-unit-report.html][Inf Unit report, 14.7.2010]] |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
George/Toby/Neil |
Documentation for VPN on iOS/Android |
Android - draft |
| 12/10/2106 |
ALL |
doodle over Christmas lunch |
Details Deposit to Neil please |
| 22/10/08 |
US unit |
Download SmartBoard drivers and make available to members of School |
Done |
| 14/01/09 |
squinney |
Email a server example for auto reboot |
Done |
| 01/04/20 |
Chris |
Email out another reminder about remote working |
Done on 02/04/2020. |
| 2015-09-09 |
Alison |
Email returning students re SL7 |
|
| 10/09/08 |
toby |
Email timetable for installing new Informatics root certificate |
Done |
| 23/08/17 |
Stephen |
Enable apacheconf log compression |
fail2ban is on the MPU ToDo list |
| 13/01/10 |
RAT |
Ensure shutdown of beowulf cluster is more manageable |
Tested but needs someone else to test |
| 12/10/2106 |
ALL |
Ensure SL6.8 upgrades are done |
Including kernel reboots as necessary - see SL66Profiles |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Ensure that all machines in the server room have their corresponding entries in the fpdu/sxx.outlets maps labelled correctly |
|
| 05/08/2020 |
Toby |
Ensure Wiki page covering access to server rooms during COVID19 crisis is updated |
|
| 10/02/2016 |
Iain |
exFAT legality |
awaiting guidance on signing of NDA |
| 10/09/08 |
ascobie |
Find holidays policy page |
Done |
| 10/12/14 |
Chris |
Find home for dumpdep notes |
Where's my software? |
| 13/12/17 |
George |
Find out if there's a spare corner of the KB College server room for the old tape library |
There is |
| 26/08/09 |
Tim/Alison |
Fix inventory problems with HP desktops |
progress made but still problems with MDP machines - now fixed |
| 10/09/08 |
gdmr |
Fix routing component to allow static route to be added via LCFG resources |
https://bugs.lcfg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111 |
| 24/04/13 |
George |
Fix the wire_*.h headers |
Only the Forum managed DICE wires remaining. |
| 2015-08-26 |
Alison |
Flesh out Campus documentation |
See Windows section |
| 22/02/17 |
Alastair |
Follow up "functional accounts" with Angus / Abdul |
Report scheduled for 26/4/17 CCPAG meeting. Toby will coordinate our eventual response. |
| 24/02/10 |
Alastair |
follow up on 24/02/10 "home directories" discussion |
|
| 24/02/10 |
Alison (documentation project) |
follow up on 24/02/10 AFS discussion |
Tracked as part of documentation project |
| 14/04/10 |
services |
follow up on 24/02/10 AFS discussion: wrapper for long-running jobs, scripts server |
to be included in AFS enhancements project |
| Structural Review |
CEG |
Formalise and resource support for self-managed platforms |
Discussed and being tracked at CEG |
| 12/05/10 |
All |
Forward suggestions for additions to self managed server room web page |
|
| 10/03/10 |
inf-unit |
Front-page for self-managed server room |
Initial skeleton |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
Craig |
Further investigation of mobile printing |
To be submitted as a project. Done. |
| 23/11/11 |
Graham |
Generated mailing lists and grace periods |
GracePeriodsMeeting2013 - project proposal incoming - now being tracked in Unit |
| 12/07/17 |
Neil/Toby |
Have chat about ciphers |
ApacheCipherChat20180222 |
| 26/09/18 |
All Units |
Have servers upgraded to SL7.5 by end October |
|
| 30/09/20 |
All Units |
Have SL7.8 upgrades done by Christmas |
|
| 25/03/15 |
All |
Help out with 5th May exams if possible |
Roger and Neil offered to help |
| 22/02/17 |
MPU / Inf |
hosts / DNS ordering |
Now on MPU list |
| 27/04/2016 |
MPU |
HP 800 G2 computing.help and/or BIOS pages |
Transferred to MPU list |
| 13/11/2019 |
Iain, Support |
Improve documentation for GPUs in labs. Confirm access to machines and access to level 9 |
Chris is producing something |
| 14/04/10 |
Tim |
Inform Stuart and/or Teaching Committee of news service news |
|
| 14/10/09 |
Tim |
Inform support about the 'round-robin' changes for ssh'ing to lab machines |
|
| 25/10/17 |
Carol |
Investigate access rfe access requirements of technicians |
Technicians emailed. Gibert has responded saying that he needs access to the switch files. Garry responded saying he also needs this access plus uses rfe to look at lcfg profiles of machines. |
| 03/03/21 |
Chris |
Investigate adding information about power usage to Tartarus |
Being tracked internally by MPU |
| 22/10/14 |
Services |
Investigate AFS aspect of AT network problem |
see RT 69292 - dropped due to inability to reproduce problem |
| 22/10/14 |
MPU/Inf |
Investigate AT network problem - why is data being lost/corrupted |
see RT 68813 |
| 08/10/08 |
ascobie |
Investigate availability of central bulletin board service |
Done - the service has been suspended indefinitely |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Investigate best use of temperature monitoring. |
Part of cc project |
| 28/01/15 |
toby |
Investigate handling of kerberos credentials during SL7 install |
It looks like kdcregister doesn't store any credentials on disk, so this isn't an issue |
| 10/12/14 |
MPU |
Investigate how local facilities for syslogd should be allocated |
On MPU list |
| 27/02/2019 |
Neil |
Investigate how O365-using Schools handle root mail |
RootMailOnO365Summary |
| 24/01/18 |
Ian |
Investigate how to best test IPv6 firewall holes |
see minutes |
| 24/09/14 |
User Support |
Investigate information given to new users about passwords |
Confirmed that text on pp.inf and in email sent to users needs to be changed. Confirmed that IS do not send anything that might cause confusion |
| 13/03/19 |
Ian |
Investigate IPv6 and Nagios |
Done. See the Nagios and IPv6 item of the Inf Unit Report, 27.3.2019. |
| 14/08/2019 |
Iain/MPU |
Investigate issues with cluster file server installation |
Iain to contact MPU |
| 2015-07-22 |
Services |
Investigate measures to reduce blog comment spam |
http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/blog, also added a link to this page to new blog email, and first post page. |
| 11/03/09 |
Craig |
Investigate MFD costs |
Action adopted by CEG |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
Alastair |
Investigate Mobile AV options further |
Transfer to techs though RT |
| 25/03/2020 |
Craig |
Investigate more effective use of Teams for on-line meetings |
|
| 28/09/2016 |
Services Unit |
Investigate options for allowing dynamic quotas to cope with large downloads |
DynamicAFSQuotasIssue1 - Raised at CEG. UG3/4/5 and MSc will get full quota from the start |
| 23/03/2016 |
Craig |
investigate redirecting autofs debug output away from syslog. |
|
| 27/01/21 |
Toby |
Investigate reporting scripts for entitlements |
done - co-utils/prometheus/entitlements-summary |
| 10/01/18 |
Iain |
Investigate setting up disc zeroing station |
|
| 14/01/09 |
alisond |
Investigate severe outage user communication options |
Done |
| 2015-08-26 |
MPU |
Investigate usage of pkgsearch |
|
| 27/01/2016 |
Chris |
Investigate Virtual DICE diffs |
Done, and linked to from here |
| 11/02/09 |
Alastair |
Investigate whether access to the installroot should be limited to HOST_MANAGED |
In release mechanism |
| 25/02/15 |
Tim |
investigate why transmit and receive checksum unloading was disabled in the DICE virtualbox host configuration |
(It has now been enabled) Tim will investigate only if this becomes an issue in the future. |
| 22/01/2020 |
Services |
Investigate wiki speed |
Additional virtual hardware seems to have helped a bit |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
Toby |
iOS Authentication |
Investigations complete. Written-up |
| 24/07/19 |
Inf Unit |
IPMI password length bug |
RT#96635 |
| 10/05/2016 |
George / Graham |
IPv6 for student labs |
No exams in labs so no requirement |
| 27/07/16 |
George |
IPv6 on wire M |
Done |
| 23/04/18 |
Alison |
IS unchaperoned server room access? |
Alison to document CEG decision with regards to this - see here |
| 2015-10-14 |
MPU/Inf |
lcfg-dns - Discuss points raised in section 6 of Inf Unit report |
|
| 27/01/2016 |
RAT |
Lecturer/TA-created VirtualBox images? |
Moved to RAT to-do list |
| 2015-09-23 |
Chris |
lightdm WM choice menu image |
Updated (picture). |
| 13/09/17 |
ALL Units |
List "http:" sites |
Neil will create project to cover move of sites to https |
| 27/04/2016 |
MPU |
Logging and reporting of unexpected USB events? |
included in Security week action |
| 12/11/08 |
Toby |
Look at LDAP logging |
Done |
| fail2ban meeting |
Neil |
Look at logging all Apache logs centrally |
Fixed problem of logging to multiple places, but better done by project 540 |
| 11/03/09 |
mp-unit |
Look at om disowning credentials |
Done. Fix in release cycle |
| 28/10/09 |
Ian |
Look at power management for machines with IPMI v1.5 |
Documentation |
| 28/04/10 |
Ian |
look at splitting UPS mailing list |
Mailing list not split; instead, KB UPSes reconfigured to send email alerts as necessary every 12 hours, not every 2 minutes |
| 10/09/08 |
ascobie |
Look at whether can add remote USB connector for SmartBoards onto lecterns |
being tracked at meeting room committee |
| 12/11/14 |
Toby |
look into intermediate certificates |
Not possible at the moment but perhaps Summer 15. |
| 08/06/2016 |
MPU |
Look into issue of KVM guest segregation and present recommendations |
Recommend a separate server for non-CO access. |
| 12/08/09 |
Tim |
Look into politics of managing hamburg |
Done |
| 08/03/2017 |
MPU/Inf |
Look into time sync problem on VMs - possibly create script to report VMs with wrong time |
script done - no general problem noticed |
| 26/11/14 |
Craig |
Mac mini and VirtualBox. |
documentation |
| 10/06/09 |
Toby |
mail out about upcoming Cosign v3 upgrade |
Done |
| 12/08/09 |
Chris |
Mail out details of proposed cron job start time changes |
Done |
| 13/05/09 |
inf-unit |
Mail out to if-people re. wireless |
Done |
| 10/06/09 |
Graham |
mail out with details of autoreboot mechanism |
Ongoing |
| 27/02/2019 |
All |
Mail Stephen with comments/suggestions about recent data incident |
Meeting arranged for end March |
| 28/04/10 |
User Support |
Mail users about introduction of fail2ban |
|
| 10/09/08 |
mp-unit |
Make DBAN easier to use |
On MPU to-do list |
| 10/05/17 |
Toby |
make list of existing functional accounts available. |
Done |
| 12/05/10 |
Iain |
make platspec header entries explicitly SL5 |
|
| 17/06/2020 |
Iain |
Make proposed changes to ILCC GPU server PSU configuration |
|
| 11/11/15 |
Services |
Make sure arrangements for visitor printing are sufficiently widely promulgated |
|
| 27/05/15 |
Services |
Make Yesterday point to readonly volumes |
It's on the list |
| 11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
Not sufficient to worry about |
| 11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
| 11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
| 10/12/14 |
Craig |
Move actions from computing structure discussion discussion to operational meeting |
done |
| 10/01/18 |
All units |
Move all servers to SL7.4 |
Deadline amended to end of April 2018 |
| 24/05/17 |
Stephen |
Move apacheconf logrotate "sharedscripts" to lcfg layer |
|
| 28/01/09 |
iainr |
move beowulf profiles to normal LCFG servers and decomission illustrious |
Done |
| 30/07/14 |
Services Unit |
Move final AFS DB server off of KDC |
Added to Services Unit todo list |
| 28/10/09 |
All |
Move kit from BP |
|
| 08/04/09 |
All |
Move kit from BP and FH - aimimg towards 2 sites + off-site at JCMB |
merged with another action |
| 25/02/09 |
Alastair |
Move network tester to 2.09 |
Done; please remember to sign it out when you use it |
| 09/04/14 |
MPU |
Move the BMCs of all KB servers to the new KB server management subnet |
Stephen has moved BMCs, Ian confirmed |
| 11/04/18 |
All |
Move/delete data from nix:/disk/huge |
Done - thanks to Neil |
| 10/09/14 |
MPU |
MPU should consider adding MSI fix for HP DL180 bonding problems to appropriate server headers |
Done |
| 2015-09-23 |
MPU/Inf |
named on SL7 |
See the inf-unit report MPU/Inf to meet to discuss. |
| 23/08/17 |
Toby |
New student account emails |
Then a month allowed by password portal to fix up things forgotten |
| 26/10/16 |
US |
Notify cos of exam dates once known |
US report |
| 10/02/2016 |
Inf |
NUT service for SMSR |
Now an Inf Unit project |
| 13/01/2016 |
Tim/George |
On-line exams and EdLAN issues: schedule test |
No longer relevant |
| 09/12/15 |
Tim/Alison |
On-line exams and FRB closure |
Confident we now have sufficient skills. Phone contact with RAT is sufficient if required. |
| 09/12/15 |
Craig |
On-line exams and pandemic list? |
Documentation here |
| 27/04/2016 |
Stephen |
Open area UG access rights |
Tighten up - done - uses new @login/forumpublic/console role |
| Structural Review |
CEG? |
Organise another documentation week |
Pencilled in for November 2015 |
| 25/02/15 |
Alison |
Organise CO talk at jamboree |
|
| 15/01/14 |
Ross/Jennifer |
Pandemic actions |
Names now 'upper-cased' |
| 13/05/15 |
Neil |
Point "Contact Us" link at non-DICE support form |
Done |
| 09/07/14 |
Craig |
Poll for TDM options |
Last Wednesday afternoon of month |
| 25/03/09 |
Toby |
Poll ITPF re. EASE principals |
IS are consulting |
| 28/06/17 |
MP unit |
Post mortem on KVM server crash |
Results inconclusive |
| 13/08/08 |
gdmr |
Potential gap in off-site provision |
Taken to CEG |
| 28/03/18 |
All units |
Prepare reports for scheduled JCMB and Forum power-down |
reminder email sent out 28/03/18 |
| 27/04/2016 |
Alastair |
Printing, VAT - discuss with Martin |
|
| 27/02/2019 |
Alison/Jennifer |
Produce "get started" guide for new O365 users |
Mostly pointers to other documentation |
| 24/06/09 |
Toby |
Produce a web page detailing how to manually add signed server certificates when reinstalling services which use these certificates |
Done |
| 2015-07-22 |
MPU |
Produce documentation on how to locate packages under the new setup |
How to find packages |
| 24/06/09 |
Neil |
Produce new guidelines on how to work around the issues with AFS and ssh public keys |
Updated "top 10" |
| 12/06/19 |
Chris |
Produce script to allow toohot to be easily used by self-managed machines |
Done amended action - mailed selfmanaged-sr with howto details |
| 25/01/17 |
MPU |
Produce script to fix "dracut" issues |
Stephen ran cron job |
| 26/07/17 |
MPU |
produce script to monitor package volume usage |
|
| 12/08/09 |
Simon |
produce short note summarising the School's position on the use of EASE passwords with services and comment on use of AD |
subsumed by central doc |
| 26/06/19 |
Tim |
Progress on remote resits |
|
| 25/10/17 |
Alastair |
Propose to Stuart Anderson that students-in-grace should not have access to lab machines |
Stuart has agreed |
| 11/09/19 |
Inf Unit |
Provide Person At Work sign for AT server room |
|
| 01/07/20 |
Craig |
Publicise advice for macOS AFS users to update client |
|
| 22/10/08 |
ktd |
Put actual number of tickets in RT resolution reports |
Done wef 12/11/08 |
| 22/10/08 |
ascobie |
Put holiday policy on CEG to-do list |
Done - on CEG wish-list |
| 08/06/2016 |
Services Unit |
Query users about NAS box purchases |
Several interesting points have emerged, it would appear that it's not all about cost. |
| 10/09/08 |
Convener |
Raise "Disaster Recovery Procedures" at CEG |
Done |
| 10/09/08 |
Convener |
Raise "Server Decomissioning Procedure" at CEG |
Done |
| 10/09/08 |
Convener |
Raise "server reboots for 5.2 upgrade" at CEG |
Done |
| 10/01/18 |
Alison |
Raise issue of Bayes support at CEG |
Bayes people are to be treated as Informatics staff for the present |
| 11/11/09 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of forwarding homepages with Perdita |
|
| 27/02/2019 |
Craig |
Raise issue of ISS using Google calendar with Neil H |
See above |
| 27/03/19 |
Craig |
Raise issue of more transparent recruitment at CEG |
|
| 30/09/20 |
Craig |
Raise issue of Mosh service at CEG |
CEG agreed that if this was to be done, it should be as a dev project. Replied to RT ticket (RT103876) asking them to submit project but the requester replied that this was no longer needed by him. |
| 27/02/2019 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of School office using Google calendar with Martin |
Project created to cover work |
| 11/11/15 |
ALL |
Read Toby's roles-management problem statement |
TheProblemWithRoles ServicesUnitNograceEntitlements |
| 09/09/09 |
ALL |
Reboot machines as soon as possible for latest kernel |
|
| 14/04/10 |
All |
reboot servers requiring SL5.4 updates |
|
| 12/08/09 |
All |
Reboot servers to pick up SL5.3 by end of August |
Overtaken by latest kernel |
| 27/01/10 |
US |
Reconfigure ex-mars machines with root partition on large disk |
Done |
| 13/09/17 |
MP Unit |
Reconsider "real" serial consoles for KVM hosts |
|
| 09/12/15 |
All |
Reduce noise in lcfg status reports |
|
| 26/08/09 |
Services Unit |
Removal of AMD from servers RemovingAMDFromServers |
see action on ALL to act on Neil's list |
| 28/06/17 |
All |
remove sl6 profiles that are no longer required |
by end of August. Stephen will send out updated list |
| 08/11/17 |
US Unit |
Remove unrequired Tech access |
Done: the capability rfe/lcfg/write has been removed from the role techs. (See item 2 of https://www.dice.inf.ed.ac.uk/units/infrastructure/Projects/399-Second-factor/restricted/short-term-fixes-made.html) |
| 13/01/2016 |
All Units |
Remove unused kit from racks in IF, AT, KB |
|
| 01/07/20 |
ALL |
Review "nograce" entitlements |
Services, MPU, Inf, US done |
| 03/11/15 |
ALL |
Review "nograce" entitlements |
Done - Services, US, Inf and MPU |
| 24/01/18 |
Iain |
review School Data Protection statement |
|
| 22/11/17 |
Alastair / George |
Review and update the compromised machine instructions |
moved to CEG |
| 2015-09-09 |
MPU / RAT |
Review and update SL7 release notes |
|
| 27/05/15 |
All units |
Review IF rack usage |
See ForumRackPopulation . See cos emails dated 8/7 about USB ID dongle information |
| 23/08/17 |
ALL |
Review InformaticsFunctionalAccounts page, and update as required |
|
| 10/10/2018 |
CEG |
Review initial 30-day account-use period |
45-day period agreed and implemented |
| 26/11/14 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. Refer to the Nagios Tactical Overview and Comments pages. |
| 13/05/15 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. Refer https://nagios.inf.ed.ac.uk/nagios/cgi-bin/tac.cgi |
| 26/11/14 (recurrent) |
RAT |
Review nagios use. |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. Refer to the current Nagios 'comments' page. Reminder: CEG has decreed that systems should be fixed promptly or removed from monitoring. |
| 26/11/14 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use. |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. |
| 26/11/14 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use. |
(Recurrent action) |
| 26/11/14 |
All Units |
Review nagios use. |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. |
| 08/10/14 |
All Units |
review pages in computing.help |
Everything prior to Jul 2018 - computing.help pages sorted by last review date |
| 27/01/2016 |
All |
Review pages in computing.help |
Marked as completed before next reoccurrence comes along in July |
| 08/10/14 |
Craig |
review pages in computing.help |
Procedures for use with the new Mac Mini - merged with other mac mini action |
| 12/11/14 |
Craig |
review password portal rewording |
Done |
| 13/12/17 |
MPU |
Review procedures to be followed when a machine goes self-managed, particularly the deletion of the DICE host principal |
Wiki page created |
| 13/01/2106 |
RAT |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
|
| 13/01/2106 |
All Units |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
Old kit can be put in B.03 but please ensure serial number or name of machine is clearly visible. Services to arrange removal of old tape library |
| 2015-06-24 |
RAT, US |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
Forum 'non-fibre' racks (i.e. racks 6-14 - see the map) are particularly full. baphomet, ratte, stakhanov to be removed 13/11, roseval (now removed), scargill to be virtualised |
| 2015-06-24 |
All units |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
|
|
| 22/11/17 |
George |
Review rsyslog rules |
Easy part done. George to create project to cover hard part |
| 09/12/15 |
US |
Review SL7 tickets, and pass to MPU/RAT as required |
Upgrades have been restarted |
| 07/10/2020 |
All Units |
Review VMs and delete unused/unwanted ones |
|
| 27/05/15 |
Services |
Review Yesterday documentation |
Done - http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/yesterday |
| 27/04/2016 |
Services |
Schedule WordPress upgrades |
on going - going to SL7 them at the same time |
| 09/07/14 |
Alastair |
Schedule/advertise "computing structure discussion" discussion |
Alastair to write up meeting |
| 10/02/2016 |
Alastair |
Security week |
Each group met to discuss priorities - See CEG report Alastair to write up notes from CEG meeting on 4th May. (being tracked at CEG) |
| 27/02/2019 |
Inf Unit |
Send out general warning about AT server room power work |
|
| 10/06/09 |
Stephen |
send out mail detailing ancient entries in live_testing_defaults.rpms |
Done |
| 25/07/09 |
ALL |
Send partition layout thoughts to Stephen |
|
| 27/04/2016 |
US |
Server room desktops |
Done |
| 27/04/2016 |
ALL |
Server specification |
Re-read and comment on the document |
| 12/02/14 |
Alastair |
Service Catalogue |
Take topic to CCPAG. Delayed until next CCPAG meeting |
|
| 12/02/14 |
Alastair |
Service Catalogue |
Review/remove fields in service catalogue |
Now being tracked at CEG |
| 14/01/15 |
George/Alison |
Set ports in all Forum meeting rooms to Conf110 apart from existing DICE ports which should be MAC-locked |
Done. |
| 12/11/14 |
alisond |
set up meeting about visitor accounts |
Tuesday 2nd at 14:00 in IF-4.02 |
| 2015-08-26 |
George/ALL |
Set up meeting to discuss internal documentation |
FutureofInternalTechnicalDocumentation Action kept until week scheduled |
| 28/09/2016 |
MPU |
Set up script to mail out monthly firmware update reminders |
Now on MPU to-do list |
| 28/06/17 |
George |
SLAAC-style forward DNS for server wires |
All now done. A handful of non-server wires remain. |
| 10/02/2016 |
Ian |
SMSR power down - Create an 'Emergency' page on computing.help |
See https://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/smsr-emergencies and http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/smsr-ups-monitoring |
| 28/08/19 |
Alison |
Speak to Iain about GPU desktops |
|
| 27/07/16 |
Ian |
Speak to IS re ESSIS replacement |
Done: no action required by us; some problems/issues (namely: limitations on allowed number of users; deficiencies in the scheduler) with the previous service have been fed back. |
| 08/03/2017 |
Neil |
Speak to Jon about request for web address - bayes.ed.ac.uk |
Done - DNS delegated to us |
| 12/02/2020 |
Services |
Staffmail removal implications |
|
| 25/03/2020 |
Neil |
Start computing.help page on debugging remote working |
Initial page at http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/network-tests |
| 28/10/09 |
All |
Start planning move from FH |
Complete! |
| 2015-08-12 |
All |
Start using new VPN configurations |
See blog. Old configurations turned off on 2nd November |
| 27/01/2016 |
RAT/MPU |
Student lab headers |
|
| 13/01/2016 |
RAT/Inf |
Subnets for clusters |
Tracked at CEG, using wire 'O' for now |
| 25/03/2020 |
Alison |
Support staff accessing user's own machines to debug problems. |
No longer relevant. |
| 09/07/14 |
Stephen |
Survey partition use and disc sizes and revise and expand EL7PartitionLayout |
|
| 13/09/17 |
Carol |
Sweep of FH for junk |
A14 now clear of all Informatics stuff. A15 has had an uplift from CCL. Some of the remaining desktops will be going to charity and some need to be brought to the Forum |
| 13/05/09 |
Iain/Toby/Alastair |
Take "certificates" to CCPAG. |
No longer needed |
| 10/09/08 |
neilb |
Take "recycling of old machines" to ITPF |
There's a talk coming up... |
| 26/11/14 |
Neil |
Take "web pages with DP issues" to a TDM |
Did this as an AOCB on the 26/11/14 |
| 28/04/10 |
Alison |
take concerns over new web site to health and safety committee |
|
| 2015-08-12 |
Craig |
Take IPMI issue to CEG |
MPU and Inf Unit will discuss |
| 10/12/14 |
Craig |
Take issue of copyright images on webpages to Web Strategy Group |
Sub-group to be set up by Steve Scott |
| 10/12/14 |
Craig |
Take issue of copyright images on webpages to Web Strategy Group |
|
| 17/02/21 |
Alastair |
Take issue of firming up default rules for support for self-managed servers to CEG |
|
| 2015-07-22 |
Roger |
Take issue of package names to LCFG deployers meeting |
|
| 12/06/19 |
Craig |
Take issue of server room monitoring back to CEG |
|
| 10/02/21 |
MPU |
Take on ownership of wake script in coutils area |
|
| 12/08/09 |
Craig |
take the proposals for a new general purpose Informatics mailing list to Dave |
Done |
| 23/04/18 |
Craig |
Take unmaintained personal web pages to Web Strategy Group |
|
| 10/06/09 |
Tim/Alison |
talk to CSTR about BP servers |
Ongoing |
| 24/06/09 |
Alastair |
Talk to Perdita and Dave Robertson about further steps we can take to promote social communication within the school |
|
| 25/09/19 |
Ian |
Talk to School procurement about investigating the power requirements of prospective purchases |
| 09/07/14 |
Craig |
Tape library dust filters? |
Doesn't have them |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Test out the new query tools as per RAT report for 13/01 |
completed |
| 13/01/10 |
Alastair |
Text messages to be sent to willing COs and policy on subsequent action to be decided. |
Take to CEG |
| 13/05/09 |
Toby/Simon |
Think about afs principal (cf. chatroom) |
principal will be deleted |
| 13/01/2016 |
ALL |
Think about KVM servers and VMs with end users |
Here's a discussion document: On the segregation of KVM guests All to read for next Operational Meeting |
| 22/07/09 |
Craig/Toby |
Thrash out final solution for keytabs |
Done |
| 13/01/2016 |
All |
Tidy inappropriately-develop machines |
|
| 24/01/18 |
Alastair |
To investigate using Teams (rather than Slack) for alternative chat |
current status |
| 08/10/14 |
Services |
Trawl for pages restricted by ip address rather than via cosign |
No active ones in /teaching, leaving about 6 active ones elsewhere |
| 08/10/14 |
Services |
Trawl for pages restricted by ip address rather than via cosign |
Neil identified 6 to be fixed - I've fixed the ones I'm going to |
| 14/02/18 |
All |
Try out the replacement NX service see computing.help |
|
| 13/08/08 |
gdmr |
Unblock IRC ports |
Done |
| 23/07/08 |
inf-unit |
Unify naming of switches with floorbox ports |
Done, Feb 2009 |
| 09/06/10 |
All |
Units to consider their future server needs |
|
| 2015-09-09 |
Services |
Update computing.help re quotas |
Done |
| 03/02/21 |
Graham |
Update crichton to deal with sudo not being installed |
Updated but not yet committed |
| 05/08/2020 |
Craig |
Update front page of password portal |
|
| 01/04/20 |
MPU |
Update MOTD on XRDP servers |
|
| 2015-06-10 |
Neil/Chris |
Update not-a-service documentation |
Updated |
| 12/11/14 |
cms |
update Pandemic planning page to say that people should add themselves to appropriate mailing lists |
|
| 13/05/15 |
RAT |
Update SSL certificates |
beast.inf, issrt.inf, rt4.inf - completed |
| 24/02/21 |
Alastair |
Update the list of supported platforms |
Done |
| 03/02/21 |
Services Unit |
Update Ubuntu self managed AFS documentation |
Add information covering 18.4 release |
| 01/04/20 |
Neil |
Update VNC documents |
|
| 13/08/08 |
inf-unit |
Various Forum server room things |
Done |
| 2015-0610 |
MPU |
What does sync mean on a KVM client? |
On MPU list |
| 2015-10-14 |
MPU/Inf |
Wire headers &c. - Discuss points raised in section 4 of Inf Unit report - e.g. eth0 or not?; &c. |
MPU believe sufficiently discussed. eth0 point will have to wait on NG network component |
| 23/07/08 |
inf-unit |
Wireless in the Forum |
Done; RT:37791 |
| 26/10/16 |
US |
Write a page on exFAT options |
|
| 25/04/18 |
Ian |
write a report on what is happening in AT server room |
Done - see email to cos 3/5/18 |
| 11/11/15 |
Toby |
Write a roles-management document for discussion |
TheProblemWithRoles |
| 29/01/14 |
Alison |
www.anc/dtc |
Met Pim. www.anc/dtc will move to new Wordpress site on Mon 16th Nov |
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