| When raised |
Who |
What |
Comments |
| 03/03/21 |
Chris |
Investigate adding information about power usage to Tartarus |
Being tracked internally by MPU |
| 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 |
| 03/02/21 |
Graham |
Update crichton to deal with sudo not being installed |
Updated but not yet committed |
| 03/03/21 |
Iain |
Check out Forum rack 1 power arrangements |
|
| 25/03/2020 |
Alison |
Support staff accessing user's own machines to debug problems. |
No longer relevant. |
| 13/01/2016 |
All Units |
Remove unused kit from racks in IF, AT, KB |
|
| 07/10/2020 |
All Units |
Review VMs and delete unused/unwanted ones |
|
| 10/02/21 |
MPU |
Take on ownership of wake script in coutils area |
|
| 17/02/21 |
Alastair |
Take issue of firming up default rules for support for self-managed servers to CEG |
|
| 13/01/2016 |
Tim/George |
On-line exams and EdLAN issues: schedule test |
No longer relevant |
| 27/01/21 |
Toby |
Investigate reporting scripts for entitlements |
done - co-utils/prometheus/entitlements-summary |
| 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. |
| 26/06/19 |
Alastair |
Ask IS how they manage server room incidents |
The University's out-of-hours policy is here See minutes |
| 01/07/20 |
ALL |
Review "nograce" entitlements |
Services, MPU, Inf, US done |
| 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 gs/2010-07-14/inf-unit-report.html][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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