| When raised |
Who |
What |
Comments |
| 30/09/20 |
All Units |
Have SL7.8 upgrades done by Christmas |
|
| 07/10/2020 |
All computing staff |
Computing staff to use Ubuntu by default |
|
| 18/11/20 |
RAT |
Deal with remaining machines with QuoVadis intermediate certificates |
|
| 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 |
Alison/Jennifer |
Produce "get started" guide for new O365 users |
Mostly pointers to other documentation |
| 01/07/20 |
Alastair |
Chase whether Fortinet VPN bug has been fixed |
|
| 01/07/20 |
Carol |
Check new Uni VPN issues |
See email of 1st July. Suggests someone else should try. Carol has offered |
| 30/09/20 |
Inf Unit |
Arrange for lab.inf and remote.inf mappings to be regenerated daily |
|
| 05/08/2020 |
Toby |
Ensure Wiki page covering access to server rooms during COVID19 crisis is updated |
|
| 10/05/2016 |
George / Graham |
IPv6 for student labs |
No exams in labs so no requirement |
| 05/08/2020 |
Craig |
Update front page of password portal |
|
| 01/07/20 |
Craig |
Publicise advice for macOS AFS users to update client |
|
| 17/06/2020 |
Iain |
Make proposed changes to ILCC GPU server PSU configuration |
|
| 08/10/14 |
All Units |
review pages in computing.help |
Everything prior to Jul 2018 - computing.help pages sorted by last review date |
| 27/06/18 |
George |
Create project to cover actions arising from server room notification investigation |
DevProj #558 |
| 22/01/2020 |
MPU |
Chase kernel upgrades |
|
| 25/03/2020 |
MPU |
Create header file for Dell PE740xd2 |
Will be in stable release next week. |
| 01/04/20 |
Neil |
Update VNC documents |
|
| 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 |
| 25/03/2020 |
Craig |
Investigate more effective use of Teams for on-line meetings |
|
| 01/04/20 |
Chris |
Email out another reminder about remote working |
Done on 02/04/2020. |
| 01/04/20 |
MPU |
Update MOTD on XRDP servers |
|
| 25/03/2020 |
Neil |
Start computing.help page on debugging remote working |
Initial page at http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/network-tests |
| 13/11/2019 |
Iain, Support |
Improve documentation for GPUs in labs. Confirm access to machines and access to level 9 |
Chris is producing something |
| 22/01/2020 |
Services |
Investigate wiki speed |
Additional virtual hardware seems to have helped a bit |
| 12/02/2020 |
Services |
Staffmail removal implications |
|
| 26/06/19 |
All Units |
Complete upgrade of remaining servers to SL7.6 |
Done - Services, US, MPU and Inf have 2 to go |
| fail2ban meeting |
Neil |
Look at logging all Apache logs centrally |
Fixed problem of logging to multiple places, but better done by project 540 |
| 09/01/19 |
ALL |
Pandemic Planning |
We Name The Guilty!!!!!! - now completed! (22/01/20) |
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
removed from Action list until further notice (22/01/20) |
| 24/01/18 |
Alastair |
To investigate using Teams (rather than Slack) for alternative chat |
current status |
| 24/04/13 |
George |
Fix the wire_*.h headers |
Only the Forum managed DICE wires remaining. |
| 25/09/19 |
Ian |
Talk to School procurement about investigating the power requirements of prospective purchases |
| 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. |
| 11/09/19 |
Neil |
Ask Dave H. to look into sound deadening screens for AT-7.07 |
Ticket in forum issues RT 97845 |
| 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 |
| 03/11/15 |
ALL |
Review "nograce" entitlements |
Done - Services, US, Inf and MPU |
| 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 |
| 26/06/19 |
All Units |
Complete upgrade of multi-user servers to SL7.6 |
|
| 11/09/19 |
Inf Unit |
Chase up problems with AT server room alarm keypad |
|
| 11/09/19 |
Inf Unit |
Provide Person At Work sign for AT server room |
|
| 28/08/19 |
Alison |
Speak to Iain about GPU desktops |
|
| 14/08/2019 |
Iain/MPU |
Investigate issues with cluster file server installation |
Iain to contact MPU |
| 26/06/19 |
Tim |
Progress on remote resits |
|
| 24/07/19 |
Inf Unit |
IPMI password length bug |
RT#96635 |
| 27/03/19 |
All Units |
Check which services depend on the Staff role and Linux group |
Services - Now all done |
| 27/03/19 |
ALL |
Consider which further entitlements should be removed from the staff role |
|
| 12/06/19 |
Craig |
Take issue of server room monitoring back to CEG |
|
| 12/06/19 |
Craig |
Discuss with Alastair how to expedite load-shedding |
Alastair meeting with Jane on 13/6/19 to discuss |
| 27/03/19 |
Craig |
Raise issue of more transparent recruitment at CEG |
|
| 27/02/2019 |
Inf Unit |
Send out general warning about AT server room power work |
|
| 27/02/2019 |
All |
Mail Stephen with comments/suggestions about recent data incident |
Meeting arranged for end March |
| 27/02/2019 |
Neil |
Investigate how O365-using Schools handle root mail |
RootMailOnO365Summary |
| 28/06/17 |
George |
SLAAC-style forward DNS for server wires |
All now done. A handful of non-server wires remain. |
| 13/03/19 |
Ian |
Investigate IPv6 and Nagios |
Done. See the Nagios and IPv6 item of the Inf Unit Report, 27.3.2019. |
| 27/02/2019 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of School office using Google calendar with Martin |
Project created to cover work |
| 27/02/2019 |
Craig |
Raise issue of ISS using Google calendar with Neil H |
See above |
| 27/02/2019 |
Chris |
Add reference to Overleaf to computing.help |
computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/overleaf |
| 13/01/2106 |
RAT |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
|
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
|
| 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. |
| Structural Review |
Alastair |
Consider devolved budgets for units |
|
| 10/01/18 |
Iain |
Investigate setting up disc zeroing station |
|
| fail2ban meeting |
Services |
Add fail2ban to git and gerrit |
|
| 26/09/18 |
All Units |
Have servers upgraded to SL7.5 by end October |
|
| 10/10/2018 |
Craig |
Check password portal wording |
|
| 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 |
| 24/10/18 |
MPU |
Add banners to XRDP hosts if possible |
| 10/10/2018 |
CEG |
Review initial 30-day account-use period |
45-day period agreed and implemented |
| 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 |
| 24/01/18 |
Iain |
review School Data Protection statement |
|
| 23/04/18 |
Alison |
IS unchaperoned server room access? |
Alison to document CEG decision with regards to this - see here |
| 14/12/16 |
Services Unit |
Arrange for removal of tape library from KB server room |
Removed! |
| 23/04/18 |
Craig |
Take unmaintained personal web pages to Web Strategy Group |
|
| 27/01/2016 |
All |
Review pages in computing.help |
Marked as completed before next reoccurrence comes along in July |
| 13/01/2106 |
All Units |
Clear out unwanted machines from racks in IF, AT, KB |
|
| 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 |
| 25/04/18 |
Ian |
write a report on what is happening in AT server room |
Done - see email to cos 3/5/18 |
| 25/04/18 |
All |
Machines in rack 2 |
managers of these machine liaise with each other to spread the load across both banks. |
| 10/01/18 |
All units |
Move all servers to SL7.4 |
Deadline amended to end of April 2018 |
| 24/01/18 |
Ian |
Investigate how to best test IPv6 firewall holes |
see minutes |
| 14/02/18 |
All |
Try out the replacement NX service see computing.help |
|
| 13/12/17 |
Toby |
Consider consequences of making "no-grace" the default |
some thoughts - PrometheusNoGraceDefault, move to CEG |
| 11/04/18 |
All |
Move/delete data from nix:/disk/huge |
Done - thanks to Neil |
| 22/11/17 |
Alastair / George |
Review and update the compromised machine instructions |
moved to CEG |
| 28/03/18 |
All units |
Prepare reports for scheduled JCMB and Forum power-down |
reminder email sent out 28/03/18 |
| 12/07/17 |
Neil/Toby |
Have chat about ciphers |
ApacheCipherChat20180222 |
| 09/08/17 |
All |
All SL7.2 servers to be upgraded to SL7.3 |
|
| 10/01/18 |
Neil |
Create project to cover move of http: sites to https: |
Done Project 454 |
| 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 |
| 13/12/17 |
US-Unit |
Check self-managed status of CDT machines |
Checked. 7 DICE, 10 Linux. No-one is dual booting. |
| 10/01/18 |
Alison |
Raise issue of Bayes support at CEG |
Bayes people are to be treated as Informatics staff for the present |
| 10/01/18 |
MPU |
Document procedure for returning failed discs to Dell |
Done |
| 10/01/18 |
George |
Create no-slaac option for dns/inf6 rfe map |
See the inf-unit report |
| 10/01/18 |
George |
Create project to address deprecation of legacy style rsyslogd rules |
#452 |
| 22/11/17 |
George |
Review rsyslog rules |
Easy part done. George to create project to cover hard part |
| 13/09/17 |
ALL Units |
List "http:" sites |
Neil will create project to cover move of sites to https |
| 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 |
| 11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
Not sufficient to worry about |
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
|
| 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 |
| 28/06/17 |
All |
remove sl6 profiles that are no longer required |
by end of August. Stephen will send out updated list |
| 10/05/17 |
Toby |
make list of existing functional accounts available. |
Done |
| 23/08/17 |
Stephen / Graham |
/home and exam lockdown |
|
| 25/10/17 |
Toby/Jennifer |
Document procedure for creating roles/entitlements to grant access to individual machines. |
Done |
| 25/10/17 |
Alastair |
Propose to Stuart Anderson that students-in-grace should not have access to lab machines |
Stuart has agreed |
| Structural Review |
Alastair |
Consider devolved budgets for units |
Budget of £500/Unit agreed |
| 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. |
| 08/11/17 |
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) |
| 26/11/14 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use. |
(Recurrent action) |
| 13/09/17 |
Neil |
Coordinate our thoughts on the "open area" furniture |
|
| 13/09/17 |
Craig / Toby |
Discuss purge of old AFS admin IDs |
|
| 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" |
| 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. |
| 26/07/17 |
MPU |
produce script to monitor package volume usage |
|
| 13/09/17 |
MP Unit |
Reconsider "real" serial consoles for KVM hosts |
|
| 26/07/17 |
MPU |
Adjust quotas for package volumes |
|
| 23/08/17 |
ALL |
Review InformaticsFunctionalAccounts page, and update as required |
|
| 23/08/17 |
Toby |
New student account emails |
Then a month allowed by password portal to fix up things forgotten |
| 23/08/17 |
Stephen |
Enable apacheconf log compression |
fail2ban is on the MPU ToDo list |
| 23/08/17 |
Alastair |
Add "migrate to https" to Computing Plan |
|
| 08/02/17 |
ALL |
Add new and past console funnies to the wiki page |
CrazyConsoleAKABrownEffect |
| 28/06/17 |
MP unit |
Post mortem on KVM server crash |
Results inconclusive |
| 24/05/17 |
Stephen |
Move apacheconf logrotate "sharedscripts" to lcfg layer |
|
| 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. |
| 28/09/2016 |
Gordon |
MacOS Sierra |
Only remaining issue is lack of TiBS support |
| 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 |
| 08/03/2017 |
Neil |
Speak to Jon about request for web address - bayes.ed.ac.uk |
Done - DNS delegated to us |
| 28/09/2016 |
Craig |
Document Auristor client for self-managed Windows machines |
auristor |
| 11/11/15 |
ALL |
Read Toby's roles-management problem statement |
TheProblemWithRoles ServicesUnitNograceEntitlements |
| 08/03/2017 |
Toby |
Create project for 'sorting' roles |
Done |
| 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 |
| 25/01/17 |
MPU |
Produce script to fix "dracut" issues |
Stephen ran cron job |
| 22/02/17 |
George |
/netmask versions of subnets header files |
live/subnets_nm.h (see the inf-unit report) |
| 22/02/17 |
MPU / Inf |
hosts / DNS ordering |
Now on MPU list |
| 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 |
| 10/02/2016 |
Iain |
exFAT legality |
awaiting guidance on signing of NDA |
| 26/10/16 |
US |
Write a page on exFAT options |
|
| 11/11/15 |
Toby |
Write a roles-management document for discussion |
TheProblemWithRoles |
| 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. |
| 27/04/2016 |
Services |
Schedule WordPress upgrades |
on going - going to SL7 them at the same time |
| 12/10/2106 |
ALL |
Ensure SL6.8 upgrades are done |
Including kernel reboots as necessary - see SL66Profiles |
| 11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider innovative learning week |
There seems to be some doubt about when this is (and what it's called now) |
| 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 |
| 26/10/16 |
George |
Core switch firmware |
See the inf-unit report |
| 23/11/16 |
Alison |
Ask Mohammed to mention mac-user mailing list when new kit goes out |
Done |
| 12/10/2106 |
ALL |
doodle over Christmas lunch |
Details Deposit to Neil please |
| 28/09/2016 |
MPU |
Set up script to mail out monthly firmware update reminders |
Now on MPU to-do list |
| 26/10/16 |
US |
Notify cos of exam dates once known |
US report |
| 28/09/2016 |
MPU |
Add investigation of SL7 multi-homed issue to to-do list |
RT#79713 |
| fail2ban meeting |
Stephen/George |
Define range of local network addresses |
Some added to live/subnets.h and live/subnets6.h, but likely still incomplete |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 14/09/2016 |
All |
Consider importance of static IPv6 addresses |
|
| 27/04/2016 |
ALL |
Clear out old SL6 profiles |
Stephen has nagged about sl6 profiles SL6OfficeMachines. Support will investigate non-CO machines |
| 27/07/16 |
Craig |
Discuss MDP/MFD printer accounting with Martin |
|
| 09/12/15 |
All |
Reduce noise in lcfg status reports |
|
| 27/04/2016 |
US |
Server room desktops |
Done |
| 27/04/2016 |
Toby / Stephen / Others |
Discuss fail2ban configurations |
Meeting scheduled - 18/08 10am, IF-1.15. All welcome. Fail2BanMeeting20160818 |
| 27/07/16 |
MPU/Alastair |
Document SL7 KVM migration issues? |
Done, in SimpleKVMDocs and SimpleKVMHost |
| 08/06/2016 |
Services Unit |
Computing.help page for small NAS boxes |
http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/some-advice-buying-nas |
| 27/07/16 |
George |
IPv6 on wire M |
Done |
| 27/07/16 |
Ian |
Document current serial console use |
Done: RS232SerialConsoleProvision2016Review |
| 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. |
| 27/01/2016 |
RAT/MPU |
Student lab headers |
|
| 11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
| 08/06/2016 |
MPU |
Look into issue of KVM guest segregation and present recommendations |
Recommend a separate server for non-CO access. |
| 2015-08-12 |
ALL |
Comment on advice on Internet safety |
now published |
| 27/04/2016 |
Alastair |
Printing, VAT - discuss with Martin |
|
| 11/05/2016 |
Services |
Cloud printing - speak to other Schools about their experiences with Cloud printing |
|
| 27/04/2016 |
Alastair |
Attendance monitoring - Feed back concerns |
|
| 11/05/2016 |
RAT |
All Support team members should have access to Visitor tab in Theon |
Done. |
| 09/12/2015 |
US |
bioboy |
disks wiped, boxed and put in B.03 |
| 27/04/2016 |
ALL |
Server specification |
Re-read and comment on the document |
| 27/04/2016 |
MPU |
Logging and reporting of unexpected USB events? |
included in Security week action |
| 27/04/2016 |
Stephen |
Open area UG access rights |
Tighten up - done - uses new @login/forumpublic/console role |
| 27/04/2016 |
MPU |
HP 800 G2 computing.help and/or BIOS pages |
Transferred to MPU list |
| 23/03/2016 |
Craig |
investigate redirecting autofs debug output away from syslog. |
|
| 27/01/2016 |
Chris |
Investigate Virtual DICE diffs |
Done, and linked to from here |
| 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 |
| 13/01/2016 |
All |
Tidy inappropriately-develop machines |
|
| 27/01/2016 |
ALL |
Check/label kit in B.03 |
Anything not claimed by end-February will be assumed to be no longer required. |
| 13/05/15 |
RAT |
Update SSL certificates |
beast.inf, issrt.inf, rt4.inf - completed |
| 2015-08-26 |
Alison |
Flesh out Campus documentation |
See Windows section |
| 10/02/2016 |
Inf |
NUT service for SMSR |
Now an Inf Unit project |
| 11/11/15 |
Roger |
Document for users the ability to scan to USB |
EnablingUSBonMFD (now user doc, linked from exam machine guide) |
| 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 |
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. |
| 09/12/15 |
RAT |
Check dufferin's root mail |
Done |
| 13/01/2016 |
RAT/Inf |
Subnets for clusters |
Tracked at CEG, using wire 'O' for now |
| 27/01/2016 |
RAT |
Lecturer/TA-created VirtualBox images? |
Moved to RAT to-do list |
| 09/12/15 |
US |
Review SL7 tickets, and pass to MPU/RAT as required |
Upgrades have been restarted |
| 09/12/15 |
Craig |
On-line exams and pandemic list? |
Documentation here |
| 09/12/15 |
Alastair |
Discuss priorities and panic buttons with HoS |
Exams have priority |
| 2015-06-10 |
Stephen |
Circulate dmesg proposal |
On the MPU list |
| 09/12/15 |
George |
"external connectivity" computing.help page |
It's here. Suggestions for improvement welcome! |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 11/11/15 |
Alastair |
Arrange groups for and set date for security review |
Now next year |
| 11/11/15 |
Services |
Make sure arrangements for visitor printing are sufficiently widely promulgated |
|
| 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 |
| 29/01/14 |
Alison |
www.anc/dtc |
Met Pim. www.anc/dtc will move to new Wordpress site on Mon 16th Nov |
| 23/11/11 |
Graham |
Generated mailing lists and grace periods |
GracePeriodsMeeting2013 - project proposal incoming - now being tracked in Unit |
| 2015-09-23 |
MPU |
Add encryption of tmp and swap to <develop> |
Done (in stable of 11/11/15) |
| 2015-10-14 |
MPU/Inf |
lcfg-dns - Discuss points raised in section 6 of Inf Unit report |
|
| 2015-08-26 |
George/ALL |
Set up meeting to discuss internal documentation |
FutureofInternalTechnicalDocumentation Action kept until week scheduled |
| 2015-09-23 |
Alastair |
College encryption policy |
|
| 2015-09-23 |
MPU/Inf |
named on SL7 |
See the inf-unit report MPU/Inf to meet to discuss. |
| 2015-10-28 |
George |
Add iptables to SL7 desktop project |
Done, with a mid-December deadline |
| 2015-08-12 |
All |
Start using new VPN configurations |
See blog. Old configurations turned off on 2nd November |
| 2015-09-23 |
ALL/Neil/Alison |
Christmas lunch suggestions |
discussed 14/10/15 - Neil sent out doodle poll |
| 2015-09-23 |
Chris |
lightdm WM choice menu image |
Updated (picture). |
| 2015-07-22 |
Roger |
Take issue of package names to LCFG deployers meeting |
|
| 2015-09-09 |
MPU |
DICE_STICK_WITH_SL65? |
|
| 2015-09-09 |
Services |
Update computing.help re quotas |
Done |
| 2015-09-09 |
Gordon |
Check SL7 printing to IS "charged" queues |
Done. |
| 2015-09-09 |
Alison |
Email returning students re SL7 |
|
| 2015-09-09 |
MPU / RAT |
Review and update SL7 release notes |
|
| 2015-08-26 |
MPU |
Investigate usage of pkgsearch |
|
| 2015-08-26 |
CEG |
Consider reallocation of older kit |
|
| 2015-07-22 |
Alastair |
Chase up Campus agreement |
|
| 27/05/15 |
All units |
Review IF rack usage |
See ForumRackPopulation . See cos emails dated 8/7 about USB ID dongle information |
| 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. |
| 2015-07-22 |
MPU |
Document configuration and user experience of Fail2ban |
Added to MPU to-do list |
| 2015-08-12 |
Craig |
Take IPMI issue to CEG |
MPU and Inf Unit will discuss |
| 2015-06-10 |
Neil/Chris |
Update not-a-service documentation |
Updated |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
Alastair |
Investigate Mobile AV options further |
Transfer to techs though RT |
| 2015-06-24 |
All units |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
|
|
| 2015-06-10 |
MPU/RAT |
Check current rootmail situation |
Neil's figures are here. |
| 2015-07-22 |
MPU |
Produce documentation on how to locate packages under the new setup |
How to find packages |
| 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. |
| 12/11/14 |
Craig |
review password portal rewording |
Done |
| 2015-06-10 |
Craig |
Create a jabber project |
Done |
| 2015-0610 |
MPU |
What does sync mean on a KVM client? |
On MPU list |
| 2015-0610 |
MPU |
Consider descriptive KVM pool names |
On MPU list |
| 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 |
| 27/05/15 |
Services |
Make Yesterday point to readonly volumes |
It's on the list |
| 27/05/15 |
Services |
Review Yesterday documentation |
Done - http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/yesterday |
| 25/02/15 |
Toby |
Document how to query roles on the prometheus server |
Done - started RolesFAQ |
| 13/05/15 |
Neil |
Point "Contact Us" link at non-DICE support form |
Done |
| Structural Review |
CEG? |
Organise another documentation week |
Pencilled in for November 2015 |
| 10/12/14 |
Craig |
Take issue of copyright images on webpages to Web Strategy Group |
Sub-group to be set up by Steve Scott |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
Craig |
Further investigation of mobile printing |
To be submitted as a project. Done. |
| 15/01/14 |
Ross/Jennifer |
Pandemic actions |
Names now 'upper-cased' |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
George/Toby/Neil |
Documentation for VPN on iOS/Android |
Android - draft |
| 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 |
| 12/11/14 |
RAT |
Look into producing seminar specific email lists for staff/students/etc |
tracked in TRAC |
| 25/02/15 |
Neil/Alastair |
consult records management about archived home directory |
RM responded. |
| 11/03/15 |
Chris |
Check the toohot component on Dell 730s |
Done |
| 11/03/15 |
MPU, RAT |
Consider likely FibreChannel requirements |
Services unlikely to expand. 8Gbps would be good to have. 6 per fabric. |
| 25/02/15 |
Alison |
Organise CO talk at jamboree |
|
| 25/03/15 |
All |
Help out with 5th May exams if possible |
Roger and Neil offered to help |
| 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 |
| Structural Review |
CEG |
Formalise and resource support for self-managed platforms |
Discussed and being tracked at CEG |
| 25/02/15 |
Alastair |
Check status of SL7 partition layout |
|
| 10/12/14 |
Craig |
Take issue of copyright images on webpages to Web Strategy Group |
|
| 08/10/14 |
Support |
Clarify COs entitlement to Dreamspark agreement |
Entitlement confirmed but will write up - see DreamSpark |
| 26/11/14 |
Craig |
Mac mini and VirtualBox. |
documentation |
| 10/12/14 |
MPU |
Investigate how local facilities for syslogd should be allocated |
On MPU list |
| Structural Review |
ALL |
Check and update telephone contact list |
Done |
| 08/10/14 |
Craig |
review pages in computing.help |
Procedures for use with the new Mac Mini - merged with other mac mini action |
| 22/10/14 |
Services |
Investigate AFS aspect of AT network problem |
see RT 69292 - dropped due to inability to reproduce problem |
| 10/12/14 |
Craig |
Move actions from computing structure discussion discussion to operational meeting |
done |
| 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 |
Toby |
look into intermediate certificates |
Not possible at the moment but perhaps Summer 15. |
| 10/12/14 |
Chris |
Find home for dumpdep notes |
Where's my software? |
| 12/02/14 |
Alastair |
Service Catalogue |
Take topic to CCPAG. Delayed until next CCPAG meeting |
|
| 27/08/14 |
All Units |
all servers to be running SL6.5 by end October |
Nearly there! |
| 09/07/14 |
Alastair |
Schedule/advertise "computing structure discussion" discussion |
Alastair to write up meeting |
| 08/10/14 |
Support |
contact Records Management regarding the reconciliation of accounts. |
Discuss at meeting on 2nd December |
| 22/10/14 |
MPU |
Compile notes on dumpdeps |
How to use dumpdeps |
| 12/11/14 |
alisond |
set up meeting about visitor accounts |
Tuesday 2nd at 14:00 in IF-4.02 |
| 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 |
Neil |
Take "web pages with DP issues" to a TDM |
Did this as an AOCB on the 26/11/14 |
| 12/11/14 |
cms |
update Pandemic planning page to say that people should add themselves to appropriate mailing lists |
|
| 12/11/14 |
Services Unit |
Change Tape Library power arrangements |
|
| 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 |
| 22/10/14 |
MPU/Inf |
Investigate AT network problem - why is data being lost/corrupted |
see RT 68813 |
| 22/10/14 |
Inf |
Compile notes on extracting firewall information |
See our "how the network filtering works" document and our 2014-11-12 report |
| 08/10/14 |
Alastair |
create wiki page with bullet points for CO structure meeting |
Done |
| 08/10/14 |
Alastair |
Change title of holidays page |
subsequently done - wiki page created |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
Toby |
iOS Authentication |
Investigations complete. Written-up |
| 12/02/14 |
Alastair |
Service Catalogue |
Review/remove fields in service catalogue |
Now being tracked at CEG |
| 25/07/09 |
ALL |
Send partition layout thoughts to Stephen |
|
| 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 |
| 23/04/14 |
Stephen |
Discuss pandemic "security" topic with interested parties |
|
| 09/07/14 |
Stephen |
Survey partition use and disc sizes and revise and expand EL7PartitionLayout |
|
| 10/09/14 |
MPU |
MPU should consider adding MSI fix for HP DL180 bonding problems to appropriate server headers |
Done |
| 09/04/14 |
MPU |
Move the BMCs of all KB servers to the new KB server management subnet |
Stephen has moved BMCs, Ian confirmed |
| 09/07/14 |
Services-unit |
Add bonding issues to BondingProblems |
MPU to investigate. See also this week's inf-unit report |
| 13/08/14 |
AT dwellers |
Agree room occupation for level 8 |
Done |
| 30/07/14 |
Services Unit |
Move final AFS DB server off of KDC |
Added to Services Unit todo list |
| 09/07/14 |
Craig |
Tape library dust filters? |
Doesn't have them |
| 09/07/14 |
Craig |
Poll for TDM options |
Last Wednesday afternoon of month |
| 11/06/14 |
Craig |
Document use of CO iPad |
Link UsingTheCoIpad somewhere |
| 23/04/14 |
User-support |
Investigate twitter for system status reporting |
see infalerts still a little tweaking and documenting to do - See Ross for account password |
| 11/06/14 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
| 25/06/14 |
Tim |
inSpace robotarium |
Investigate concerns, then refer to CEG as appropriate. |
| 25/07/09 |
George/Ian |
JCMB dust protection? |
All part of master plan |
| 12/03/14 |
Inf Unit |
Chase old self-managed machines decomissioning action |
RT#67343 |
| 09/04/14 |
Craig |
test volume release script with x86_64 version of perl::AFS |
|
| 28/05/14 |
Alastair |
Clarify office options with Neil |
|
| 28/05/14 |
Toby/Neil |
Making changes for ResetTheNet |
Some final changes after apache upgrade transferred to Services Unit to-do list |
| 26/03/14 |
Neil |
Try to unbung mail |
Probably due to our relay being down. How robustly is that handled? Perhaps the action should be to make sure that improving the resilience of mail.inf is on the unit todo list. Added to ServicesUnitCurrentTasks |
| 09/04/14 |
Neil |
check whether accessing mailman via the https interface allows viewing of other unit's mailing lists |
I have a working patch that adds a entitlements field to the list, people with that entitlement can admin the list. Configuration audit trails? - No, there are none. |
| 09/04/14 |
Alison |
put pandemic mail list information on Pandemic pages |
|
| 09/04/14 |
Graham |
provide Craig with information on how to change mailing list memberships, roles etc in Theon to allow pandemic people to receive mail, nagios alerts etc |
Done |
| 12/06/13 |
Chris |
Run fs flushall before DICE sleep |
Sleep now runs flushall |
| 23/04/14 |
Iain |
Beowulf and GPU-machine shutdown when cooling fails |
See Hadoop Care and Feeding. |
| 23/04/14 |
Toby |
Look for unusual access patterns in cosign logs |
Toby explained that this had been quite difficult to do but he couldn't see anything obviously unusual. |
| 09/04/14 |
Graham |
address issue of accounts being created for applicants |
|
| 09/04/14 |
Graham |
come up with scanning tool for SSL issue |
|
| 09/04/14 |
User Support |
scan self managed machines with tool provided by Graham |
Done |
| 09/04/14 |
All |
replace SSL certificates and restart affected services |
|
| 12/03/14 |
Craig/Toby |
investigate progress of AFS patch at conference |
In Gerrit now, will be in 1.6.8 |
| 12/03/14 |
Graham |
Provide Services Unit with patch for role rfe map delete script |
|
| 12/03/14 |
Neil |
Talk to alastair about local homedirs |
Spoke to Alastair (on bus) he confirms we do still support local home dirs for users |
| 12/02/26 |
Alison |
Windows XP - end of life |
Take to CEG to discuss policy |
| 26/06/13 |
Neil |
AFSDB to AT |
Done. afsdb0 on afsdbvmkb, afsdb1 on afsdbvmat, afsdb2 on fenrir |
| 26/06/13 |
Ian |
tlsdir locations |
Now a X3 round-robin |
| 26/06/13 |
US-unit |
Server-room desktops to be "full CO" |
|
| 26/06/13 |
Ian |
Mirroring and retention of console logs |
Now mirrored to loghosts |
| 12/03/14 |
ALL |
Consider ramifications of JCMB management subnet renumbering |
|
| 11/09/13 |
George |
Infrastructure for commercialisation decant from AT |
Rolled into general AT decant |
| 24/07/13 |
ALL Units |
Procedures for penetration testing |
to be tracked at CEG |
| 11/12/13 |
neilb |
Investigate management of Wordpress |
See here |
| 13/03/13 |
inf-unit / mp-unit |
Discuss dhcpd component changes |
ProposalsForChangesToLcfgDhcpComponent; Inf Unit and MPU to finalise proposal; take outcome to LCFG deployer's meeting |
| 12/06/13 |
Iain |
Revamp cluster shutdown scripts |
Scripts done. Now install them somewhere and write some docs. See HadoopCareAndFeeding |
| 25/09/13 |
All |
Think about how to make service catalogue more useful before meeting on 12th February |
All to add usage cases to ServiceCatalogueBrainStorm - discussed 12/02/14 and further actions added to list |
| 27/11/13 |
Toby |
To action proposals from meeting to discuss whether revealing 'people' LDAP info. to EDLAN is OK. |
There are parts of ou=People which shouldn't be revealed outside Informatics. 11th Feb meeting decided that ou=People branch (but nothing else) of ldap tree may be accessed anonymously from EDLAN. Role information must be removed from people objects first. Toby to set up but will be tracked elsewhere. |
| 29/01/14 |
Alison |
Innovative learning week |
See Informatics Innovative Learning week and US Unit report |
| 12/02/14 |
Alison |
staffmail vs exchange |
Glitch last August was not procedural i.e. not due to human error |
| 25/09/13 |
All |
Move to using rmirror-client.h header |
ServicesUnitMirrorService and Neil's script - just venus remaining and it's due to be turned off. Suggest we say this is done. |
| 10/07/13 |
Alastair |
switchtoinfdb frequency? |
Frequency increased. Monitored and all seems well. |
| 11/12/13 |
alisond |
Publish checklist for firewall holes |
Circulated to CEG and comments incorporated. Now circulate to COs. Done |
| 11/12/13 |
alisond |
Circulate slides on account creation process |
Linked in General Information section - UserSupportUnit |
| 09/10/13 |
Alastair |
Take "security bollards" issues to Building Committee |
Security have agreed. Dave H has a key. Sheila is aware. |
| 27/11/13 |
US |
From technical talk on mobile devices, add AV to Unit list or create project |
Added to Unit list |
| 11/12/13 |
gdmr |
Report recent compromise to Brian Gilmore |
Done. No response. |
| 11/12/13 |
cms |
Update pandemic planning page with rationale for exercise |
|
| 10/07/13 |
Inf-unit |
Alternatives to /admin |
Ian to bundle into DevProj#279 |
| 11/09/13 |
mp-unit |
inf-level machine for package testing |
Done, see the inf layer |
| 13/11/13 |
Alison |
Review NotifyUserDisruption page |
Done |
| 27/11/13 |
George |
Ask Dave about about sniffing data to extract URLs hosted on self-managed machines |
Dave has agreed. Note, though, that under the LBP regulations we have to publicise that we're going to do this before we do it. (We also have to publicise re the IDS project and the potential sFlow project.) |
| 27/11/13 |
Services |
From technical talk on mobile devices, add 'make websites more accessible' to Unit list or create project |
Done |
| 27/11/13 |
Services |
From technical talk on mobile devices, add printing to Unit list or create project |
Done |
| 27/11/13 |
Toby |
Experiment with test LDAP server/virtual DICE from home using EDLAN VPN |
Done - email sent to MPU 29/11 |
| 26/09/12 |
Alison |
Email ITPF re UniDesk |
wiki page to incorporate Angus's suggestions and any other useful contacts |
| 11/09/13 |
Alison |
RT best practice |
Document updated, Alison to mail out - RTBestPractice |
| 30/10/13 |
Neil |
Look into scraping of penetration testing results |
Had a look, not really feasible, too much javascript. Dumping of CSV file may be enough to view issues. |
| 30/10/13 |
Services Unit |
Add investigation of home directory structure to to-do list |
Added to ServicesUnitCurrentTasks |
| 30/10/13 |
Toby/Graham |
Set up scripts area in CO group space |
/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/group/cos/utils/ |
| 12/06/13 |
Alastair |
Take "power-down evacuation?" to Building Committee |
No action to be taken |
| 26/06/13 |
ALL/US |
Review "to-be-kept" contents of B.03 |
US will ask Units about kit and if to be kept, will record reason. Alastair will have final say. |
| 25/09/13 |
Neil |
Check Wordpress installations on homepages and groups.inf |
Only 1 remaining active WP on homepages and that's now been updated. Groups, none found (other than my test one) |
| 09/10/13 |
Stephen / Graham |
weka on NX |
weka removed from machines |
| 12/06/13 |
Alastair/Chris |
College's data security pages and computing.help |
Our and College's data security advice pages are in accord. |
| 12/06/13 |
MP-unit |
Sundry "criticality" things from discussion |
|
| 11/09/13 |
ALL |
Comments ASAP on JCMB aircon proposals |
Received - thanks |
| 11/09/13 |
George |
CEG to discuss mod_waklog |
Discussed 24th September. MP-unit to take mod_waklog. |
| 12/06/13 |
Neil |
Ensure our drupal requirements are known |
Miles has now left and didn't send list. Neil now has a meeting with the web people on Monday 16th |
| 28/08/13 |
MPU |
Create list of steps to take to 'un-manage' a DICE machine |
On mp-unit's ToDo list |
| 24/07/13 |
Alison |
Review old *-team lists |
|
| 14/08/13 |
Alison/Craig/Stephen |
DES documentation - blogs/web page instructions by OS |
|
| 12/06/13 |
RaT-unit |
Discuss security of exam scripts for external examiners with Neil M |
Not an issue - see 12/08/14 |
| 24/04/13 |
Alison |
Talk to Neil McG about ISSRT ticket retention time |
Will apply retention times on a queue by queue basis. Alison to email details to George/Iain - being tracked at CEG |
| 10/07/13 |
Iain |
Follow up on e-expenses registration |
IS responded to say that they intend implementing a random password generator. Using EASE is not a simple option. |
| 10/07/13 |
George/Alison |
Take "self-managed machines with firewall holes" to CEG |
See CEG minutes for August 12th |
| 10/07/13 |
Graham |
Discuss snowmen with Toby and Neil |
|
| 12/06/13 |
Chris |
Link new "social media" guidelines into computing.help |
Now linked from the Guidelines page. |
| 12/06/13 |
Chris |
Should lab 780s and 790s sleep or not? |
They will sleep w.e.f. the stable release of 17/7/13 |
| 27/02/13 |
Services |
Evo firmware upgrades |
icsa-evo done, leaving only ifevo2 to be replaced by ifevo4 |
| 26/09/12 |
Alison |
Issues regarding IS's handling of UniDesk tickets |
Aggregate 'in-house' fixes - see UniDeskTips |
| 08/05/13 |
Alison |
Talk to techs about their RT queue |
|
| 08/05/13 |
RAT |
Update computing.help to emphasise that students needing significant processing power for their projects should preferably use ECDF |
|
| 12/06/13 |
George |
Check HV restart with Mike R |
|
| 08/05/13 |
Iain |
Email out details of changes to default RT quicksearch behaviour |
|
| 24/04/13 |
All units |
Move junked machines to B.03 |
|
| 08/05/13 |
MPU |
consider additional wake features such as a command to wake individual lab machines |
On their list |
| 08/05/13 |
Graham |
Deploy Crichton to develop machines |
|
| 28/11/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss wake/labs with DoT and Buildings Committee. |
Done. Spawned two new actions, RAT to update computing.help to to emphasis that students needing significant processing power for their projects should preferably use ECDF and MPU to consider additional wake features such as a command to wake individual lab machines |
| 27/03/13 |
US/George |
Let Ian know which sysadmin tools you would like to see on servers |
The discussion can be seen at https://wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk/DICE/ExtraSysadminSwOnServers. This part is considered complete. US to document how to access the web interfaces of printers using tunnelling/authenticated proxy - see PrinterWebInterface. George to consider wireshark |
| 27/03/13 |
Iain/Alison |
look into making RT mail behaviour more consistent. |
By default all queues will notify Unit on ticket creation and when ticket moved to queue. If a Unit wants all members of the group to be watchers on the queue, contact Alison |
| 27/03/13 |
Graham |
distribute notes from the recent UKUUG spring conference |
see here (Graham) and here (Chris) |
| 24/04/13 |
Craig |
Ask Sheila to check HP maintenance contracts |
As we thought, all servers have 4 years on-site warranty |
| 12/12/12 |
All |
Note down occasions on which secondary authentication should be required. |
See SecondaryAuthentication - MPU to create project |
| 28/11/12 |
ALL |
Reboot ASAP for kernel updates. |
only catzilla left - completed Fri 19th Apr |
| 12/09/12 |
ALL |
Remove unneeded machines from AT server room |
venom now removed from rack and placed in B.03 |
| 12/09/12 |
ALL |
Move managed machines from SMSR to main server room |
Ian asked that this be dropped from here - 10/4/13 |
| 14/11/12 |
Graham |
"post-package-search" script. |
Done |
| 13/03/13 |
Graham/mp-unit |
File enhancements to certain components to deal with USB/VirtualBox issues |
Tracked by Unit |
| 13/03/13 |
Alastair |
Investigate consequences of delegating some headers to other Schools |
MPU will create project. Will use git. |
| 13/03/13 |
Toby |
Raise 32-bit Windows 7 issues on Heimdal list |
bugreport submitted. For details see minutes from 10/4/13 |
| 27/03/13 |
Alastair |
press for more say in when the building UPSes are turned off |
Done - to be turned back on 19/4/13 |
| 27/03/13 |
Craig |
talk to Sheila about what our HP warranties provide |
Done - they provide on-site warranty |
| 27/03/13 |
Alison |
Change MPU RT mail settings to allow all Unit members to see correspondence |
Done - tested after 10/4/13 meeting |
| 23/01/13 |
Craig |
Sort out management of websites hosted on dunkvm |
Kenny Bell is taking over management of websites but will need help. Craig will discuss with Colin Adams |
| 27/02/13 |
Chris |
Merge remaining documentation items from ToDo list into RT queue |
... or at least gather everything together into one location. |
| 13/03/13 |
us-unit |
Deal with old forumtracker so VMware can be retired |
|
| 13/03/13 |
Alastair |
Investigate 32-bit Windows 7 laptops |
Most manufacturers supply 64=-bit Windows as a no-cost option. |
| 27/02/13 |
ALL |
upgrade remaining SL6.2 machines |
... or take out of service |
| 13/02/13 |
Alastair |
Investigate whether we set up a secure location for examples of secondary authentication |
Now at SecondaryAuthentication |
| 22/08/12 |
Toby |
Develop Alastair's Dice relationship diagram |
Merge updates and recirculate. latest here |
| 28/11/12 |
Toby |
Review JANET certs re new charging model |
|
| 28/11/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss wireless with HoS. |
|
| 11/04/12 |
Iain/Alison |
Demonstrate RT4 |
Will be rescheduled for some future slot |
| 12/09/12 |
Craig |
Raise MFD-printing evaluation issues upstream |
Craig has emailed Angus Rae |
| 24/10/12 |
ALL |
Identify and label all 'spare' machines and remove 1850s. Identify bids for old kit. |
There's a ParkedKit page. Labels have been added to spare machines in Forum. Units have bid for old kit. |
| 09/01/13 |
US |
Ask a number of taught students whether they received email about Office365. |
All that were asked had received notification |
| 12/12/12 |
All |
Note down occasions on which secondary authentication is required. |
See discussion items |
| 14/11/12 |
Alastair/RAT |
Chase up Office365 IMAP with Dave B. |
RAT has tested and sent details to students. |
| 14/03/12 |
Craig |
Raise possibility of cooperation between Schools in the event of disaster at the next Scicos not-a-conference |
Raised at CCPAG. In view of other Schools lack of resources, we will rely on IS's virtual provision |
| 28/11/12 |
Craig/Graham |
maelcum upgrade. |
Graham doing it |
| 28/11/12 |
Inf-unit |
Try to track down bogus SSIDs. |
|
| 14/11/12 |
Stephen/Neil/Toby |
perl-AFS package management. |
|
| 14/11/12 |
Neil |
Arrange ifevo work ASAP. |
|
| 14/11/12 |
Neil/Stephen |
Discuss AFS/package dependencies. |
|
| 14/11/12 |
MPU |
Add "wake-ACL review" to to-do list. |
ACL modified |
| 28/03/12 |
MPU |
Investigate removing pam_kx509 module by default from PAM stack |
(from deferred) Now on to-do list |
| 26/09/12 |
US/MPU |
How to spot off-the-air machines sooner? |
On the MPU to-do list |
| 27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Ask IS for Office 365 IMAP instructions |
Alison circulated responses. Alastair to take to CCPAG |
| 25/04/12 |
Alastair |
Take PGP/GPG discussion to CCPAG |
CCPAG Meeting 24/10 |
| 26/09/12 |
Tim |
Check with ITO re updates to non-standard students' records |
Tim confirmed via email after meeting that action is complete. |
| 28/03/12 |
Craig |
Trawl through user and group space for cookies |
Take to HoS; write report - tracked at CEG |
| 16/05/12 |
Alison |
Update wiki page on procedures on safe disposal of disks |
Procedure Document |
| 26/09/12 |
Neil |
Mail-flood discussion: think about where to go next with root-mail |
added to Services to-do list. |
|
| 26/09/12 |
ALL/Ian |
nagios oddities |
See Infrastructure Report |
|
| 26/09/12 |
Neil/Tim |
Raise posting to DB-generated teaching lists with ITO |
|
| 12/09/12 |
George/Alastair |
Replacement of Forum switches |
|
| 12/09/12 |
Toby/Alastair |
IS's information provision |
|
| 22/08/12 |
George |
Set up aliases for DHCP servers |
ifdhcp, atdhcp, kbdhcp |
| 22/08/12 |
George |
Name and shame ancient AT kit |
|
| 22/08/12 |
Iain |
Take SL6.3 decision to RAT for consideration |
|
| 27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss EE's public key infrastructure with Colin Higgs |
Now on to-do list |
| 28/03/12 |
Alastair |
Set up USENIX membership |
Ordered |
| 14/03/12 |
All |
Move some reusable retired kit to AT server room |
This referred to the idea of parking them on some Dexion shelving |
| 14/12/11 |
Craig |
Edit blog article to include Inadvertent disk shutdown doc |
|
| 30/05/12 |
Craig |
Arrange meeting re amd maps |
meeting held |
| 08/08/12 |
Alastair |
Check status and consquences of KB shutdown on 21st August |
|
| 08/08/12 |
Alastair |
Consider how to promote informal technical discussions amongst computing staff |
|
| 28/03/12 |
All Units/US |
Work through cookie list identifying cookies for which they are responsible |
|
| 30/05/12 |
Toby |
Automatic running of ldapBuildAmdMaps |
Should be replaced by a Prometheus conduit or similar |
| 27/06/12 |
Graham |
File enhancement request about handling branches in source code |
|
| 27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of exam data policy with Liz |
Wait until college raises issue |
| 27/06/12 |
RAT/Toby |
Discuss grace periods with new DOT |
discussed at meeting held on 10/7 - can wait until lifecycle code |
| 27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss how transportation of kit to KB should work with Dave H |
|
| 28/03/12 |
Services Unit |
Talk to IS about MDP print queues |
UniDesk I120409-0390 - I'd say done now |
| 28/03/12 |
Alastair |
Email CCPAG about the possibility of cooperation between Schools in the event of disaster |
|
| 14/03/12 |
US |
Produce folder of essential computing staff contact information |
Completed document in top drawer of 2.09 |
| 25/04/12 |
All Units |
Upgrade sl6.1 servers to sl6.2 |
Deadline end of May - expect deadline will be met. It was. |
| 25/04/12 |
Neil/Alison |
Investigate mining data previously mounted on diglett |
half the data's been rsync to cameleopard/rmirror21 and the other half to lammasu/rmirror18 |
| 16/05/12 |
US Unit |
Publish a list of public servers |
On new website |
| 30/05/12 |
Alastair/Ian |
IPMI for new server models |
|
| 30/05/12 |
George/Craig/Ian |
JCMB server room cleaning |
Scheduled for 18th June |
| 30/05/12 |
Toby/Neil |
New certificates |
Done 12/6/2012 |
| 30/05/12 |
ALL |
Restart VMs on central as required |
|
| 14/03/12 |
US |
Talk to research groups about server location |
Being done as part of SL6 upgrade |
| 25/01/12 |
Toby |
Add "cookie" text to Cosign and iFriend |
Done but suggestion to make text more obvious on weblogin. Now more obvious (it's got a box around it!) |
| 28/03/12 |
Graham |
Investigate issue of user crontabs further |
done - but going to write blog |
| 28/09/11 |
Stephen |
Produce document on sanitising of local account UIDs and GIDs |
lcfg-level header now exists for uids/gids <= 700 - see LCFG wiki |
| 28/03/12 |
RAT |
Investigate issue of matlab status web page |
being tracked by RAT as part of flexlm component ap |
| 11/04/12 |
Alastair/George |
Write letter about the continuing cooling issues in LV room. |
not required as issue resolved |
| 23/11/11 |
All |
Identify which servers should have local home directories |
MPU have created a web page listing the machines |
| 11/01/12 |
Craig |
Update docs to warn against some characters in passwords |
|
| 08/02/12 |
US Unit |
Investigate issues with non-authenticated DICE support form |
Neil has changed cgi to use cosign (where available) to populate username field. |
| 28/03/12 |
MPU |
Produce apacheconf headerfile to switch on connection limits |
Done; see LCFG:core/include/dice/options/apacheconf-iplimit.h and LCFG:core/include/lcfg/options/apacheconf-iplimit.h |
| 28/03/12 |
Neil |
Add additional column to cookie list identifying responsibility for that cookie |
Updated ServicesUnitCookiesAudit with column |
| 28/03/12 |
George |
Investigate new rack for AT server room |
RT:57384 |
| 28/03/12 |
Chris |
Move Nagios code from individual hardware headers to server.h and small-server.h |
|
| 26/10/11 |
mp-unit/All |
Add nagios hardware checks to some machines by default |
Done, but see follow-up action |
| 14/03/12 |
Services |
Consider whether data location is optimum |
Moved to Services Unit task list |
| 14/03/12 |
Inf |
Record locations of RFE maps |
Linked at the end of the netmon pages |
| 12/10/11 |
Alison |
Add student password portal concerns to CEG action |
See also the wiki page |
| 08/02/12 |
Alison |
Convert document about updating users into a checklisk |
NotifyUsersNotes |
| 12/10/11 |
Alison |
Add student password portal concerns to CEG action |
Done and discussed |
| 23/11/11 |
Services |
Change username/password for accessing disk arrays |
Done and details circulated to COs |
| 23/11/11 |
Toby |
Email Graeme Wood about changes to EASE authentication |
Graeme has replied sayaing that no major changes are imminent |
| 14/12/11 |
Iain |
Organise meeting about DHCP enhancements |
Done |
| 25/01/12 |
RaT-unit |
Try ColTeX on SL6 again |
Patch distributed |
| 25/01/12 |
MP-unit |
Remote access arrangements to COs' desktops |
 - dice/options/co-desktop.h |
| 25/01/12 |
Stephen/Graham |
Discuss pam_console and exam machines |
|
| 11/01/12 |
Craig |
Check how password portal handles metacharacters |
Inconsistently! Fixed. |
| 11/01/12 |
Alison |
Create a wiki page to note password-entry locations |
PasswordEntry |
| 11/01/12 |
George |
Add more debugging info to lcfg-routing |
|
| 14/12/11 |
Iain |
Meet with Beetle project to discuss issues preventing upgrade of their machines to SL6 |
|
| 23/11/11 |
CEG |
Record arguments for and against local home directories |
On the CEG wish list |
| 23/11/11 |
RAT |
Tidy junk out of AT server room racks |
|
| 09/11/11 |
Stephen |
Repeat AFS talks |
Scheduled for February |
| 27/07/11 |
Alastair |
"BIOS settings" checklist |
SelectPCBiosSettings |
| 8/06/11 |
MPU |
Flesh out framework for handling firmware updates |
|
| 12/10/11 |
Alastair |
Publicise auto-swap-size algorithm |
see here |
| 23/11/11 |
Alison |
Write procedure for contacting users about unscheduled service disruptions |
Done - see here |
| 23/11/11 |
Ian |
Investigate why nagios did not report the fibre problem sooner |
Done - see email sent to COs on 24.11.2011 |
| 23/11/11 |
Support |
All server room desktops should have local home directories |
Done, there will be a header for server room desktops shortly |
| 23/11/11 |
Neil/Ian |
Investigate the loss of the jabber service |
Done. The suggested test (to remove the AFS cwd under which jabberd had been started) didn't cause any problem with the Jabber service, so we are currently none the wiser.
Question: to be clear about what happened two weeks ago: was it the case that the Jabber service completely broke? Can we make a detailed note of the actual symptoms and effects that were seen at the time? |
| 31/08/11 |
MPU |
Check upgrade to SL5.6 complete |
| 14/09/11 |
Services |
Consider how to restrict printing in Forum (i.e. lab wires can't access Forum printers) |
.58 and .59 wires restricted |
| 12/10/11 |
Alastair |
Publicise auto-swap-size algorithm |
on lcfg wiki |
| 26/10/11 |
George |
Chase netflow data from Sam |
| 09/11/11 |
All |
All units/service managers to consider which of their services are to are to be available to guest wireless users, and then to make the necessary arrangements. Inf Unit can advise. |
Superseded: all Informatics services should now be accessible by 'guest' wireless users. See Infrastructure Report, 23.11.20121, point 4 and Infrastructure Report, 14.12.2011, point 3 |
| 09/11/11 |
Toby/Graham |
investigate the LCFG client hang when switching to and from exam lockdown mode. |
| 26/10/11 |
ALL |
Feed back to inf-unit re JCMB EdLAN-link work |
ASAP! |
| 26/10/11 |
services-unit |
Liaise with George/Malc re KB evo work |
RT:55508 |
| 26/10/11 |
Neil/Toby |
Prometheus initial AFS volume creation |
|
| 26/10/11 |
Neil |
Investigate/report pcounter charging oddities |
|
| 26/10/11 |
Alison |
Discuss visitors' (non)-sponsors with HR |
|
| 26/10/11 |
Craig |
Amend password portal character class level |
|
| 12/10/11 |
Alastair |
Link T3 documents |
|
| 12/10/11 |
inf-unit |
Add "how to disable" etc comment to .ports files |
Done, 19.10.2011 |
| 12/10/11 |
Alison |
Discuss pcounter credit refunds with ISS |
|
| 14/09/11 |
Services |
Enable pcounter on student servers (e.g. student.compute, student.login) |
|
| 28/09/11 |
Inf |
Investigate rotation of Jabber chat logs |
Answer: currently done by a daily cron job (set up by live/jabber-server.h) on curlew which deletes any 'cos' chat room logs over 90 days old. The facility for chat room log rotation/culling appears not to be provided by the Jabber suite itself; the only configuration choice for any chatroom seems to be whether or not it is actually logged or not - if it is, the logs persist until external action to rotate or cull them is taken. |
| 28/09/11 |
Inf |
Investigate non-CO Jabber usage |
Part of DevProj:221 |
| 28/09/11 |
Inf |
Produce proposal for update to Jabber service |
DevProj:221 |
| 28/09/11 |
All |
Restart VMs |
Enough done for now |
| 28/09/11 |
Inf |
Produce document gathering subnet definitions together |
live/subnets.h |
| 31/08/11 |
Alison |
Write up relationship with IS helpdesk |
To be done as part of DevProj:177 |
| 14/09/11 |
Iain |
check version of webots on lab machines and send out a suitable e-mail |
|
| 14/09/11 |
Craig |
check printing refund process |
|
| 14/09/11 |
Alison |
check that Stuart has sent e-mail to students explaining new printing charging |
|
| 27/07/11 |
Alastair |
Raise BIOS settings for new machines at lcfg deployers meeting |
|
| 17/08/11 |
Craig/Neil |
Follow up on printing issues |
|
| 31/08/11 |
Convener |
Take iDEA-lab-type web sites to CEG for guidance |
|
| 31/08/11 |
Yan |
Review past RT tickets from Unidesk perspective |
|
| 31/08/11 |
User-support |
AT-printing notices and FAQ changes |
|
| 31/08/11 |
Craig |
AT-printing brain-dump and US training |
|
| 31/08/11 |
ALL |
Roles changes |
Went live 1st September! |
| 17/08/11 |
Toby |
Circulate notes on "roles" meeting |
Notes |
| 17/08/11 |
Stephen |
Look at reboot/halt questions |
|
| 17/08/11 |
Tim |
Post to sys-announce re database changes |
|
| 17/08/11 |
MPU |
Grub and pxe passwords |
|
| 17/08/11 |
ALL |
Think about IS helpdesk |
|
| 27/07/11 |
Neil |
add support for .sslaccess files to the School's webservers |
Done |
| 22/06/11 |
Toby |
Investigate resurrection web interface to jabber |
|
| 22/06/11 |
Neil |
Produce documentation on how to Cosign protect pages |
Done |
| 26/01/11 |
Graham |
Action automatic generation of the sys-announce mailing list |
|
| 13/07/11 |
Services |
Ensure pages under old groups documentation tree are unavailable |
Content still in CVS |
| 13/01/10 |
Inf |
Don't advertise private IP addresses outside Informatics |
is less trivial than first expected but progress made. Forthcoming upgrades to BIND may make things easier |
| 18/05/11 |
All |
Remove redundant LCFG reminders |
|
| 8/06/11 |
MPU |
make apacheconf-2 the default for SL6 |
|
| 22/06/11 |
Inf |
Add investigating weak password detecting PAM module to Devproj #168 - Password strength checks |
|
| 22/06/11 |
All |
see which pages, if any, are still relevant in the old groups documentation tree |
|
| 8/06/11 |
Tim |
Check with Stuart Anderson about teaching packages and 64-bit |
Done, 64bit will be the default in labs |
| 18/05/11 |
RAT |
check for package issues with making 64-bit default |
|
| 27/04/11 |
Roger |
Provide Stephen with apacheconf/cosign information |
|
| 27/04/11 |
services-unit |
Add ext2/3/4 to to-look-at list |
|
| 27/04/11 |
Stephen |
Link component-version script |
|
| 06/04/11 |
RAT |
Adjust pathfix configuration |
part of sl6 re-packaging |
| 06/04/11 |
inf-unit |
Check self-managed server room noise levels |
|
| 06/04/11 |
services-unit |
SAN partition monitoring |
Use /proc |
| 06/04/11 |
Neil/Stephen |
Look at RAID1 lockups |
Behaviour not unexpected |
| 06/04/11 |
US |
Link systems blog from main "systems" page |
|
| 23/03/11 |
US Unit |
Create web page for future interruptions to services |
Done, and linked from systems page |
| 23/03/11 |
Craig |
Create web page with procedure for announcing interruptions to services |
See ServiceInterruptionProcedure |
| 09/03/11 |
Tim |
Take issue of Matlab usage to Ian Stark |
No change for moment but monitor situation |
| 09/03/11 |
US |
Check out server rack rails in B.03 |
Done, though not labelled |
| 09/03/11 |
Craig |
Check out tapes in B.03 |
|
| 09/03/11 |
Services |
Prevent onward logins from SVN server |
Add ssh-daemon (re)configuration to unit ToDo list |
| 09/02/11 |
RAT |
split ipfilter.h |
Over to RAT for testing |
| 26/01/11 |
Stephen |
Investigate creating a header file for self-managed machines with dynamic IP addresses |
On MPU list |
| 26/01/11 |
Craig |
Bring backup retention proposals to CSG |
|
| 24/11/10 |
All |
Each Unit to trawl through bugs in bugzilla.inf |
not applicable for MPU as used only for weekly release |
| 23/02/11 |
US |
reboot remaining servers ASAP |
Just a few to do (btw, no need to reboot just for glibc changes) |
| 23/02/11 |
MPU |
Set up perpetual mirroring of latest CD image (LCFG disaster recovery) |
|
| 26/01/11 |
Tim/Alison |
Come up with a solution for the issue of student helpers having the "staff" role |
Staff role removed from student helpers |
| 09/03/11 |
Inf/MPU |
Investigate NTP clocksource problem further |
Rebooting fenrir fixed problem |
| 09/03/11 |
Services |
Move afsdb1 to different hardware if necessary |
Not necessary |
| 23/02/11 |
RAT |
Investigate condor usage |
No-one appears to be using it so has been turned off |
| 23/02/11 |
MPU |
check whether condor needs a kernel patch |
Not necessary in view of above |
| 09/02/11 |
US |
install VM student lab development machine |
Machine should be given more meaningful name |
| 26/01/11 |
Craig |
Create a development project for migrating School mailing lists to the central server |
devproj:193 |
| 26/01/11 |
Alison |
Create a development project for improving the roles mechanism |
DevProj:197 |
| 26/01/11 |
Craig |
Create a development project to look at archiving |
DevProj:194 |
| 12/01/11 |
Stephen |
produce worked svn examples, in particular branching |
|
| 12/01/11 |
All |
feedback comments to George on Compromised DICE machine policy |
|
| 24/11/10 |
All |
Fix cabling in rack 3 , Forum server room |
Done |
| 24/11/10 |
All |
Review and update pandemic documentation |
Done apart from Database which is still in a state of flux |
| 10/11/10 |
Inf |
Suggested that there should be a pinboard in server room |
Done, 11.3.2011 |
| 10/11/10 |
US |
Installing f13 on student.compute and student.login |
completed 23/2/2011 |
| 26/08/09 |
Services Unit |
Removal of AMD from servers RemovingAMDFromServers |
see action on ALL to act on Neil's list |
| 22/09/10 |
Inf,US |
Units to record system criticality using Neil's macros |
All now complete |
| 10/11/10 |
RAT |
Annual check of all open firewall holes for self-managed machines |
Done |
| 10/11/10 |
Alison |
Add notes on syntax to location tag files |
Thanks to Ian D |
| 24/11/10 |
All |
Fix cabling in rack 3 , Forum server room |
|
| 10/11/10 |
Alison |
Stephen suggested that date in 'when raised' field should link to the minutes |
|
| 10/11/10 |
RAT |
To look into Rootmail appearing to be polluted by the webots component |
|
| 24/11/10 |
RAT? |
Create project to review use/status of bugzilla |
|
| 10/11/10 |
Craig |
Create project to convert services-unit servers to apacheconf |
will be done by 6th December |
| 13/10/10 |
ALL |
Review and act on Neil's non-CO-login list |
For amd removal - US done, will be in stable on Thursday 2nd December |
| 13/10/10 |
gdmr |
Prometheus -> CEG pandemic list |
|
| 13/10/10 |
Inf |
Write a "what do do when things go wrong" document |
posted in server room |
| 26/05/10 |
Infrastructure Unit |
Propose scheme for root passwords |
|
| 13/10/10 |
Neil |
Circulate list of servers which allow non-CO logins |
For amd removal |
| 13/10/10 |
Stephen |
Circulate lists of what's in the "devel" bucket |
|
| 13/10/10 |
ALL |
Review and act on Stephen's "devel" bucket lists |
|
| 22/09/10 |
Neil |
Speak to Alison about Staffmail forwarding |
|
| 22/09/10 |
Craig |
Clarify whether CSBE printing uses our printer wire |
It doesn't |
| 8/9/10 |
US Unit |
Print off criticality info once complete |
by next meeting |
| 8/9/10 |
RAT, Inf, US units |
Meet to discuss account issues |
Inf to convene |
| 8/9/10 |
Neil |
Make macros for putting criticallity information into netgroups more generally available |
|
| 11/08/10 |
All |
SL5.5 servers to be rebooted by end of August |
Still waiting on one RAT machine |
| 28/07/10 |
RAT |
Units to set sysinfo.criticality if default of low is not appropriate |
|
| 14/07/10 |
All |
Answer Ian's questions in Infrastructure Report |
|
| 23/06/10 |
Roger |
Take "user documentation" discussion points back to the project group |
done |
| 09/06/10 |
Alison/George |
Investigate AT server inventory issues |
script now amended |
| 26/05/10 |
MP Unit |
Consider how best to use the new sysinfo.criticality resource, following discussion on 9th June |
see minutes from 28/07/2010 for update |
| 28/04/10 |
Iain |
report back on progress of FC12 port |
redundant |
| 28/04/10 |
Iain |
create bugzilla actions for FC12 port |
|
| 09/06/10 |
Inf |
Review what's currently connected to fibre channels and investigate load balancing |
See the Inf Unit report, 14.7.2010 |
| 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 |
| 12/05/10 |
Iain |
make platspec header entries explicitly SL5 |
|
| 28/04/10 |
User Support |
Mail users about introduction of fail2ban |
|
| 09/06/10 |
All |
Units to consider their future server needs |
|
| 12/05/10 |
All |
Forward suggestions for additions to self managed server room web page |
|
| 28/04/10 |
Alison |
take concerns over new web site to health and safety committee |
|
| 28/04/10 |
Alastair |
circulate grade 8 competency framework |
|
| 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 |
| 14/04/10 |
All |
reboot servers requiring SL5.4 updates |
|
| 14/04/10 |
Ian |
Clear shelf space in Forum server room |
|
| 14/04/10 |
Tim |
Inform Stuart and/or Teaching Committee of news service news |
|
| 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 |
| 14/04/10 |
mp-unit |
CUPS not to be running on servers by default |
More than just servers? |
| 10/03/10 |
mp-unit |
Document power-button handling options |
|
| 10/03/10 |
inf-unit |
Front-page for self-managed server room |
Initial skeleton |
| 24/02/10 |
Alison (documentation project) |
follow up on 24/02/10 AFS discussion |
Tracked as part of documentation project |
| 24/02/10 |
inf-unit |
document bonding issues |
see here |
| 24/02/10 |
Alastair |
follow up on 24/02/10 "home directories" discussion |
|
| 24/02/10 |
mp-unit |
add profile resources for machine criticality |
On mp-unit's list |
| 11/02/10 |
Alastair |
Ask Dave Robertson and Gordon about Building Committee minutes |
Apparently not published (yet??) |
| 27/01/10 |
US |
Reconfigure ex-mars machines with root partition on large disk |
Done |
| 27/01/10 |
MPU |
Consider periodic file reconfiguration (om file configure) issues |
On mp-unit's list |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Decide on an appropriate procedure for shutting down self-managed servers |
Discussed at 10/03/10 meeting |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Define the criticality of machines |
Now waiting for mp-unit work |
| 28/10/09 |
All |
Start planning move from FH |
Complete! |
| 24/06/09 |
Toby |
Add to the AFS FAQ details on how to use kerberised ssh on supported OSs |
Done |
| 13/01/10 |
Alastair |
Text messages to be sent to willing COs and policy on subsequent action to be decided. |
Take to CEG |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Ensure that all machines in the server room have their corresponding entries in the fpdu/sxx.outlets maps labelled correctly |
|
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Investigate best use of temperature monitoring. |
Part of cc project |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Test out the new query tools as per RAT report for 13/01 |
completed |
| 13/01/10 |
RAT |
Ensure shutdown of beowulf cluster is more manageable |
Tested but needs someone else to test |
| 11/11/09 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of forwarding homepages with Perdita |
|
| 11/11/09 |
All |
Complete pandemic actions |
to be tracked at CEG |
| 28/10/09 |
All |
Move kit from BP |
|
| 28/10/09 |
Alison |
Create wiki page to record machine problems requiring reboot |
Linked from us-unit wiki page |
| 28/10/09 |
Ian |
Look at power management for machines with IPMI v1.5 |
Documentation |
| 14/10/09 |
Alison |
Check both invquery and minv provide accurate info. |
They don't but will be fixed as part of inventory project |
| 14/10/09 |
Tim |
Confirm what data on maelcum needs to be kept |
|
| 14/10/09 |
Tim |
Inform support about the 'round-robin' changes for ssh'ing to lab machines |
|
| 09/09/09 |
ALL |
Reboot machines as soon as possible for latest kernel |
|
| 23/09/09 |
All |
Consider Neil's discussion point about exporting group data |
|
| 26/08/09 |
Services Unit |
Removal of AMD from servers RemovingAMDFromServers |
see action on ALL to act on Neil's list |
| 26/08/09 |
Tim/Stephen |
Create separate LCFG branch for on-line exam machines |
completed and documentation now added to lab exam procedures |
| 12/08/09 |
All |
Reboot servers to pick up SL5.3 by end of August |
Overtaken by latest kernel |
| 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 |
| 01/07/09 |
George |
Document how the host keys of the ssh servers can be preserved during upgrades |
Subsumed by wallet project |
| 24/06/09 |
Alastair |
Talk to Perdita and Dave Robertson about further steps we can take to promote social communication within the school |
|
| 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 |
| 10/06/09 |
Tim/Alison |
talk to CSTR about BP servers |
Ongoing |
| 10/06/09 |
Graham |
mail out with details of autoreboot mechanism |
Ongoing |
| 12/08/09 |
Chris |
Mail out details of proposed cron job start time changes |
Done |
| 12/08/09 |
Tim |
Look into politics of managing hamburg |
Done |
| 12/08/09 |
Craig |
take the proposals for a new general purpose Informatics mailing list to Dave |
Done |
| 22/07/09 |
Craig/Toby |
Thrash out final solution for keytabs |
Done |
| 22/07/09 |
All |
Check cron logs. Checksum problem with hostname has caused lcfg-cron configure failure in some instances |
No longer necessary |
| 22/07/09 |
All |
Consider plans for moving kit from FH |
Wiki page available |
| 24/06/09 |
Simon |
Chase up production of documentation on how to install jabber clients on supported OSs |
Done |
| 24/06/09 |
Neil |
Produce new guidelines on how to work around the issues with AFS and ssh public keys |
Updated "top 10" |
| 24/06/09 |
Toby |
Produce a web page detailing how to manually add signed server certificates when reinstalling services which use these certificates |
Done |
| 10/06/09 |
Stephen |
send out mail detailing ancient entries in live_testing_defaults.rpms |
Done |
| 10/06/09 |
Toby |
mail out about upcoming Cosign v3 upgrade |
Done |
| 13/05/09 |
inf-unit |
Mail out to if-people re. wireless |
Done |
| 13/05/09 |
Toby/Simon |
Think about afs principal (cf. chatroom) |
principal will be deleted |
| 13/05/09 |
Iain/Toby/Alastair |
Take "certificates" to CCPAG. |
No longer needed |
| 08/04/09 |
All |
Move kit from BP and FH - aimimg towards 2 sites + off-site at JCMB |
merged with another action |
| 25/03/09 |
Toby |
Poll ITPF re. EASE principals |
IS are consulting |
| 11/03/09 |
mp-unit |
Look at om disowning credentials |
Done. Fix in release cycle |
| 11/03/09 |
inf-unit |
console server provision in self-managed server room |
Done |
| 11/03/09 |
Tim and Alison |
Clarify exam procedures with the ITO |
Action adopted by CEG |
| 11/03/09 |
Craig |
Investigate MFD costs |
Action adopted by CEG |
| 25/02/09 |
Alastair |
Move network tester to 2.09 |
Done; please remember to sign it out when you use it |
| 11/02/09 |
Alastair |
Investigate whether access to the installroot should be limited to HOST_MANAGED |
In release mechanism |
| 28/01/09 |
mp-unit |
Change DIY DICE root password |
Done; ask Alastair if you need to know it |
| 28/01/09 |
iainr |
move beowulf profiles to normal LCFG servers and decomission illustrious |
Done |
| 14/01/09 |
alisond |
Investigate severe outage user communication options |
Done |
| 14/01/09 |
squinney |
Email a server example for auto reboot |
Done |
| 12/11/08 |
Toby |
Advance warning of loss of staffmail accounts, possibly via IDMS feed? |
Done |
| 12/11/08 |
inf-unit |
Arrange tools for server rooms |
Done |
| 12/11/08 |
Toby |
Look at LDAP logging |
Done |
| 22/10/08 |
US unit |
Download SmartBoard drivers and make available to members of School |
Done |
| 22/10/08 |
squinney |
Arrange Christmas lunch |
Done |
| 22/10/08 |
ascobie |
Approach School re contribution to Christmas lunch |
Done |
| 22/10/08 |
ascobie |
Put holiday policy on CEG to-do list |
Done - on CEG wish-list |
| 22/10/08 |
ktd |
Put actual number of tickets in RT resolution reports |
Done wef 12/11/08 |
| 08/10/08 |
ascobie |
Investigate availability of central bulletin board service |
Done - the service has been suspended indefinitely |
| 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 |
| 10/09/08 |
neilb |
Take "recycling of old machines" to ITPF |
There's a talk coming up... |
| 10/09/08 |
ascobie |
Find holidays policy page |
Done |
| 10/09/08 |
ascobie |
Look at whether can add remote USB connector for SmartBoards onto lecterns |
being tracked at meeting room committee |
| 10/09/08 |
squinney |
Create install CD for Optiplex 755 |
Done |
| 10/09/08 |
Convener |
Check/Redo Operational meeting room bookings |
Done until end of year |
| 10/09/08 |
mp-unit |
Make DBAN easier to use |
On MPU to-do list |
| 10/09/08 |
Convener |
Raise "Server Decomissioning Procedure" at CEG |
Done |
| 10/09/08 |
Convener |
Raise "Disaster Recovery Procedures" at CEG |
Done |
| 10/09/08 |
Convener |
Raise "server reboots for 5.2 upgrade" at CEG |
Done |
| 10/09/08 |
toby |
Email timetable for installing new Informatics root certificate |
Done |
| 10/09/08 |
inf-unit |
Coordinate forum server room rack rotation and floor grill replacements |
Done |
| 13/08/08 |
support |
Chase down "temporary dhcp" usage |
Done; RT:37705 |
| 23/07/08 |
inf-unit |
Wireless in the Forum |
Done; RT:37791 |
| 26/08/09 |
Tim/Alison |
Fix inventory problems with HP desktops |
progress made but still problems with MDP machines - now fixed |
| 13/08/08 |
gdmr |
Potential gap in off-site provision |
Taken to CEG |
| 13/08/08 |
gdmr |
Unblock IRC ports |
Done |
| 13/08/08 |
iainr |
Collate responses re proposed University's Source Repository |
Done, being tracked at CEG |
| 13/08/08 |
inf-unit |
Various Forum server room things |
Done |
| 23/07/08 |
inf-unit |
Unify naming of switches with floorbox ports |
Done, Feb 2009 |
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