| When raised |
Who |
What |
Comments |
| 25/09/19 |
Ian |
Talk to School procurement about investigating the power requirements of prospective purchases |
| 24/10/18 |
MPU |
Add banners to XRDP hosts if possible |
| 31/08/11 |
MPU |
Check upgrade to SL5.6 complete |
| 26/10/11 |
George |
Chase netflow data from Sam |
| 09/11/11 |
Toby/Graham |
investigate the LCFG client hang when switching to and from exam lockdown mode. |
| 27/06/18 |
George |
Create project to cover actions arising from server room notification investigation |
DevProj #558 |
| 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 |
|
| 01/07/20 |
Alastair |
Chase whether Fortinet VPN bug has been fixed |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 22/01/2020 |
MPU |
Chase kernel upgrades |
|
| 01/04/20 |
Neil |
Update VNC documents |
|
| 25/03/2020 |
Craig |
Investigate more effective use of Teams for on-line meetings |
|
| 01/04/20 |
MPU |
Update MOTD on XRDP servers |
|
| 12/02/2020 |
Services |
Staffmail removal implications |
|
| 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 |
|
| 26/06/19 |
Tim |
Progress on remote resits |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 13/01/2106 |
RAT |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
|
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
|
| 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 |
|
| 24/01/18 |
Iain |
review School Data Protection statement |
|
| 23/04/18 |
Craig |
Take unmaintained personal web pages to Web Strategy Group |
|
| 13/01/2106 |
All Units |
Clear out unwanted machines from racks in IF, AT, KB |
|
| 14/02/18 |
All |
Try out the replacement NX service see computing.help |
|
| 09/08/17 |
All |
All SL7.2 servers to be upgraded to SL7.3 |
|
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
|
| 23/08/17 |
Stephen / Graham |
/home and exam lockdown |
|
| 13/09/17 |
Neil |
Coordinate our thoughts on the "open area" furniture |
|
| 13/09/17 |
Craig / Toby |
Discuss purge of old AFS admin IDs |
|
| 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 |
Alastair |
Add "migrate to https" to Computing Plan |
|
| 24/05/17 |
Stephen |
Move apacheconf logrotate "sharedscripts" to lcfg layer |
|
| 26/10/16 |
US |
Write a page on exFAT options |
|
| 11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
| 14/09/2016 |
All |
Consider importance of static IPv6 addresses |
|
| 27/07/16 |
Craig |
Discuss MDP/MFD printer accounting with Martin |
|
| 09/12/15 |
All |
Reduce noise in lcfg status reports |
|
| 27/01/2016 |
RAT/MPU |
Student lab headers |
|
| 11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
| 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 |
|
| 23/03/2016 |
Craig |
investigate redirecting autofs debug output away from syslog. |
|
| 13/01/2016 |
All |
Tidy inappropriately-develop machines |
|
| 11/11/15 |
Services |
Make sure arrangements for visitor printing are sufficiently widely promulgated |
|
| 2015-10-14 |
MPU/Inf |
lcfg-dns - Discuss points raised in section 6 of Inf Unit report |
|
| 2015-09-23 |
Alastair |
College encryption policy |
|
| 2015-07-22 |
Roger |
Take issue of package names to LCFG deployers meeting |
|
| 2015-09-09 |
MPU |
DICE_STICK_WITH_SL65? |
|
| 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 |
|
| 2015-06-24 |
All units |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
|
|
| 25/02/15 |
Alison |
Organise CO talk at jamboree |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 25/07/09 |
ALL |
Send partition layout thoughts to Stephen |
|
| 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 |
|
| 11/06/14 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
| 09/04/14 |
Craig |
test volume release script with x86_64 version of perl::AFS |
|
| 28/05/14 |
Alastair |
Clarify office options with Neil |
|
| 09/04/14 |
Alison |
put pandemic mail list information on Pandemic pages |
|
| 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 |
All |
replace SSL certificates and restart affected services |
|
| 12/03/14 |
Graham |
Provide Services Unit with patch for role rfe map delete script |
|
| 26/06/13 |
US-unit |
Server-room desktops to be "full CO" |
|
| 12/03/14 |
ALL |
Consider ramifications of JCMB management subnet renumbering |
|
| 11/12/13 |
cms |
Update pandemic planning page with rationale for exercise |
|
| 12/06/13 |
MP-unit |
Sundry "criticality" things from discussion |
|
| 24/07/13 |
Alison |
Review old *-team lists |
|
| 14/08/13 |
Alison/Craig/Stephen |
DES documentation - blogs/web page instructions by OS |
|
| 10/07/13 |
Graham |
Discuss snowmen with Toby and Neil |
|
| 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 |
Graham |
Deploy Crichton to develop machines |
|
| 13/03/13 |
us-unit |
Deal with old forumtracker so VMware can be retired |
|
| 28/11/12 |
Toby |
Review JANET certs re new charging model |
|
| 28/11/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss wireless with HoS. |
|
| 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. |
|
| 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 |
Name and shame ancient AT kit |
|
| 22/08/12 |
Iain |
Take SL6.3 decision to RAT for consideration |
|
| 14/12/11 |
Craig |
Edit blog article to include Inadvertent disk shutdown doc |
|
| 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 |
|
| 27/06/12 |
Graham |
File enhancement request about handling branches in source code |
|
| 27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss how transportation of kit to KB should work with Dave H |
|
| 28/03/12 |
Alastair |
Email CCPAG about the possibility of cooperation between Schools in the event of disaster |
|
| 30/05/12 |
Alastair/Ian |
IPMI for new server models |
|
| 30/05/12 |
ALL |
Restart VMs on central as required |
|
| 11/01/12 |
Craig |
Update docs to warn against some characters in passwords |
|
| 28/03/12 |
Chris |
Move Nagios code from individual hardware headers to server.h and small-server.h |
|
| 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 |
RAT |
Tidy junk out of AT server room racks |
|
| 8/06/11 |
MPU |
Flesh out framework for handling firmware updates |
|
| 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 |
Alison |
Discuss pcounter credit refunds with ISS |
|
| 14/09/11 |
Services |
Enable pcounter on student servers (e.g. student.compute, student.login) |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 22/06/11 |
Toby |
Investigate resurrection web interface to jabber |
|
| 26/01/11 |
Graham |
Action automatic generation of the sys-announce mailing list |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
inf-unit |
Check self-managed server room noise levels |
|
| 06/04/11 |
US |
Link systems blog from main "systems" page |
|
| 09/03/11 |
Craig |
Check out tapes in B.03 |
|
| 26/01/11 |
Craig |
Bring backup retention proposals to CSG |
|
| 23/02/11 |
MPU |
Set up perpetual mirroring of latest CD image (LCFG disaster recovery) |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 13/10/10 |
gdmr |
Prometheus -> CEG pandemic list |
|
| 26/05/10 |
Infrastructure Unit |
Propose scheme for root passwords |
|
| 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 |
|
| 8/9/10 |
Neil |
Make macros for putting criticallity information into netgroups more generally available |
|
| 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 |
|
| 28/04/10 |
Iain |
create bugzilla actions for FC12 port |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 10/03/10 |
mp-unit |
Document power-button handling options |
|
| 24/02/10 |
Alastair |
follow up on 24/02/10 "home directories" discussion |
|
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Ensure that all machines in the server room have their corresponding entries in the fpdu/sxx.outlets maps labelled correctly |
|
| 11/11/09 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of forwarding homepages with Perdita |
|
| 28/10/09 |
All |
Move kit from BP |
|
| 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 |
|
| 24/06/09 |
Alastair |
Talk to Perdita and Dave Robertson about further steps we can take to promote social communication within the school |
|
| 28/03/12 |
MPU |
Investigate removing pam_kx509 module by default from PAM stack |
(from deferred) Now on to-do list |
| 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. |
| 26/11/14 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use. |
(Recurrent action) |
| 27/02/13 |
Chris |
Merge remaining documentation items from ToDo list into RT queue |
... or at least gather everything together into one location. |
| 27/02/13 |
ALL |
upgrade remaining SL6.2 machines |
... or take out of service |
| 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 |
| 30/10/13 |
Toby/Graham |
Set up scripts area in CO group space |
/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/group/cos/utils/ |
| 10/10/2018 |
CEG |
Review initial 30-day account-use period |
45-day period agreed and implemented |
| 12/06/13 |
Alastair/Chris |
College's data security pages and computing.help |
Our and College's data security advice pages are in accord. |
| 26/01/11 |
Craig |
Create a development project to look at archiving |
DevProj:194 |
| 26/01/11 |
Alison |
Create a development project for improving the roles mechanism |
DevProj:197 |
| 28/09/11 |
Inf |
Produce proposal for update to Jabber service |
DevProj:221 |
| 26/10/11 |
services-unit |
Liaise with George/Malc re KB evo work |
RT:55508 |
| 28/03/12 |
George |
Investigate new rack for AT server room |
RT:57384 |
| 25/01/12 |
Stephen/Graham |
Discuss pam_console and exam machines |
 |
| 25/01/12 |
MP-unit |
Remote access arrangements to COs' desktops |
- dice/options/co-desktop.h |
| 22/02/17 |
George |
/netmask versions of subnets header files |
live/subnets_nm.h (see the inf-unit report) |
| 17/08/11 |
Toby |
Circulate notes on "roles" meeting |
Notes |
| 27/03/19 |
All Units |
Check which services depend on the Staff role and Linux group |
Services - Now all done |
| 28/10/09 |
Ian |
Look at power management for machines with IPMI v1.5 |
Documentation |
| 2015-09-09 |
Services |
Update computing.help re quotas |
Done |
| 28/09/2016 |
Craig |
Document Auristor client for self-managed Windows machines |
auristor |
| 27/02/2019 |
Chris |
Add reference to Overleaf to computing.help |
computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/overleaf |
| 27/01/2016 |
Chris |
Investigate Virtual DICE diffs |
Done, and linked to from here |
| 22/06/11 |
Neil |
Produce documentation on how to Cosign protect pages |
Done |
| 26/10/16 |
US |
Notify cos of exam dates once known |
US report |
| 24/02/10 |
inf-unit |
document bonding issues |
see here |
| 10/03/10 |
inf-unit |
Front-page for self-managed server room |
Initial skeleton |
| 24/06/09 |
Toby |
Add to the AFS FAQ details on how to use kerberised ssh on supported OSs |
Done |
| 2015-06-10 |
Neil/Chris |
Update not-a-service documentation |
Updated |
| 2015-08-12 |
ALL |
Comment on advice on Internet safety |
now published |
| 09/12/15 |
George |
"external connectivity" computing.help page |
It's here. Suggestions for improvement welcome! |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
George/Toby/Neil |
Documentation for VPN on iOS/Android |
Android - draft |
| 10/01/18 |
George |
Create project to address deprecation of legacy style rsyslogd rules |
#452 |
| 12/10/2106 |
ALL |
doodle over Christmas lunch |
Details Deposit to Neil please |
| 12/03/14 |
Inf Unit |
Chase old self-managed machines decomissioning action |
RT#67343 |
| 28/09/2016 |
MPU |
Add investigation of SL7 multi-homed issue to to-do list |
RT#79713 |
| 24/07/19 |
Inf Unit |
IPMI password length bug |
RT#96635 |
| 2015-07-22 |
MPU |
Produce documentation on how to locate packages under the new setup |
How to find packages |
| 2015-08-26 |
Alison |
Flesh out Campus documentation |
See Windows section |
| 22/07/09 |
All |
Consider plans for moving kit from FH |
Wiki page available |
| 22/10/14 |
MPU |
Compile notes on dumpdeps |
How to use dumpdeps |
| 24/01/18 |
Alastair |
To investigate using Teams (rather than Slack) for alternative chat |
current status |
| 10/05/17 |
Toby |
make list of existing functional accounts available. |
Done |
| 09/12/15 |
Craig |
On-line exams and pandemic list? |
Documentation here |
| 10/01/18 |
MPU |
Document procedure for returning failed discs to Dell |
Done |
| 09/01/19 |
ALL |
Pandemic Planning |
We Name The Guilty!!!!!! - now completed! (22/01/20) |
| 16/05/12 |
Alison |
Update wiki page on procedures on safe disposal of disks |
Procedure Document |
| 25/10/17 |
Toby/Jennifer |
Document procedure for creating roles/entitlements to grant access to individual machines. |
Done |
| 26/11/14 |
Craig |
Mac mini and VirtualBox. |
documentation |
| 10/12/14 |
Chris |
Find home for dumpdep notes |
Where's my software? |
| 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 |
| 14/11/12 |
MPU |
Add "wake-ACL review" to to-do list. |
ACL modified |
| 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 |
| 09/03/11 |
Services |
Prevent onward logins from SVN server |
Add ssh-daemon (re)configuration to unit ToDo list |
| 2015-07-22 |
MPU |
Document configuration and user experience of Fail2ban |
Added to MPU to-do list |
| 26/09/12 |
Neil |
Mail-flood discussion: think about where to go next with root-mail |
added to Services to-do list. |
|
| 30/07/14 |
Services Unit |
Move final AFS DB server off of KDC |
Added to Services Unit todo list |
| 30/10/13 |
Services Unit |
Add investigation of home directory structure to to-do list |
Added to ServicesUnitCurrentTasks |
| 27/11/13 |
US |
From technical talk on mobile devices, add AV to Unit list or create project |
Added to Unit list |
| 22/01/2020 |
Services |
Investigate wiki speed |
Additional virtual hardware seems to have helped a bit |
| 26/09/12 |
Alison |
Issues regarding IS's handling of UniDesk tickets |
Aggregate 'in-house' fixes - see UniDeskTips |
| 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 |
| 12/06/19 |
Craig |
Discuss with Alastair how to expedite load-shedding |
Alastair meeting with Jane on 13/6/19 to discuss |
| 09/07/14 |
Alastair |
Schedule/advertise "computing structure discussion" discussion |
Alastair to write up meeting |
| 27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Ask IS for Office 365 IMAP instructions |
Alison circulated responses. Alastair to take to CCPAG |
| 23/04/18 |
Alison |
IS unchaperoned server room access? |
Alison to document CEG decision with regards to this - see here |
| 22/09/10 |
Inf,US |
Units to record system criticality using Neil's macros |
All now complete |
| 28/06/17 |
George |
SLAAC-style forward DNS for server wires |
All now done. A handful of non-server wires remain. |
| 25/07/09 |
George/Ian |
JCMB dust protection? |
All part of master plan |
| 09/01/13 |
US |
Ask a number of taught students whether they received email about Office365. |
All that were asked had received notification |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 27/01/2016 |
ALL |
Check/label kit in B.03 |
Anything not claimed by end-February will be assumed to be no longer required. |
| 12/07/17 |
Neil/Toby |
Have chat about ciphers |
ApacheCipherChat20180222 |
| 11/02/10 |
Alastair |
Ask Dave Robertson and Gordon about Building Committee minutes |
Apparently not published (yet??) |
| 24/04/13 |
Craig |
Ask Sheila to check HP maintenance contracts |
As we thought, all servers have 4 years on-site warranty |
| 26/10/11 |
ALL |
Feed back to inf-unit re JCMB EdLAN-link work |
ASAP! |
| 10/02/2016 |
Iain |
exFAT legality |
awaiting guidance on signing of NDA |
| 10/01/18 |
Alison |
Raise issue of Bayes support at CEG |
Bayes people are to be treated as Informatics staff for the present |
| 13/05/15 |
RAT |
Update SSL certificates |
beast.inf, issrt.inf, rt4.inf - completed |
| 06/04/11 |
Neil/Stephen |
Look at RAID1 lockups |
Behaviour not unexpected |
| 14/03/12 |
US |
Talk to research groups about server location |
Being done as part of SL6 upgrade |
| 10/09/08 |
ascobie |
Look at whether can add remote USB connector for SmartBoards onto lecterns |
being tracked at meeting room committee |
| 28/03/12 |
RAT |
Investigate issue of matlab status web page |
being tracked by RAT as part of flexlm component ap |
| Structural Review |
Alastair |
Consider devolved budgets for units |
Budget of £500/Unit agreed |
| 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 |
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 |
| 28/06/17 |
All |
remove sl6 profiles that are no longer required |
by end of August. Stephen will send out updated list |
| 8/9/10 |
US Unit |
Print off criticality info once complete |
by next meeting |
| 25/04/12 |
Alastair |
Take PGP/GPG discussion to CCPAG |
CCPAG Meeting 24/10 |
| 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. |
| 13/12/17 |
US-Unit |
Check self-managed status of CDT machines |
Checked. 7 DICE, 10 Linux. No-one is dual booting. |
| 13/11/2019 |
Iain, Support |
Improve documentation for GPUs in labs. Confirm access to machines and access to level 9 |
Chris is producing something |
| 11/12/13 |
alisond |
Publish checklist for firewall holes |
Circulated to CEG and comments incorporated. Now circulate to COs. Done |
| 28/10/09 |
All |
Start planning move from FH |
Complete! |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Test out the new query tools as per RAT report for 13/01 |
completed |
| 10/11/10 |
US |
Installing f13 on student.compute and student.login |
completed 23/2/2011 |
| 26/08/09 |
Tim/Stephen |
Create separate LCFG branch for on-line exam machines |
completed and documentation now added to lab exam procedures |
| 14/03/12 |
US |
Produce folder of essential computing staff contact information |
Completed document in top drawer of 2.09 |
| 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. |
| 24/09/14 |
User Support |
Investigate information given to new users about passwords |
Confirmed that text on pp.inf and in email sent to users needs to be changed. Confirmed that IS do not send anything that might cause confusion |
| 13/07/11 |
Services |
Ensure pages under old groups documentation tree are unavailable |
Content still in CVS |
| 12/09/12 |
Craig |
Raise MFD-printing evaluation issues upstream |
Craig has emailed Angus Rae |
| 08/02/17 |
ALL |
Add new and past console funnies to the wiki page |
CrazyConsoleAKABrownEffect |
| 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.) |
| 10/01/18 |
All units |
Move all servers to SL7.4 |
Deadline amended to end of April 2018 |
| 25/04/12 |
All Units |
Upgrade sl6.1 servers to sl6.2 |
Deadline end of May - expect deadline will be met. It was. |
| 26/01/11 |
Craig |
Create a development project for migrating School mailing lists to the central server |
devproj:193 |
| 26/11/14 |
Neil |
Take "web pages with DP issues" to a TDM |
Did this as an AOCB on the 26/11/14 |
| 08/10/14 |
Support |
contact Records Management regarding the reconciliation of accounts. |
Discuss at meeting on 2nd December |
| 11/09/13 |
George |
CEG to discuss mod_waklog |
Discussed 24th September. MP-unit to take mod_waklog. |
| 2015-09-23 |
ALL/Neil/Alison |
Christmas lunch suggestions |
discussed 14/10/15 - Neil sent out doodle poll |
| Structural Review |
CEG |
Formalise and resource support for self-managed platforms |
Discussed and being tracked at CEG |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Decide on an appropriate procedure for shutting down self-managed servers |
Discussed at 10/03/10 meeting |
| 27/06/12 |
RAT/Toby |
Discuss grace periods with new DOT |
discussed at meeting held on 10/7 - can wait until lifecycle code |
| 09/12/2015 |
US |
bioboy |
disks wiped, boxed and put in B.03 |
| 11/09/13 |
Alison |
RT best practice |
Document updated, Alison to mail out - RTBestPractice |
| 09/07/14 |
Craig |
Tape library dust filters? |
Doesn't have them |
| 08/03/2017 |
Toby |
Create project for 'sorting' roles |
Done |
| 23/11/16 |
Alison |
Ask Mohammed to mention mac-user mailing list when new kit goes out |
Done |
| 27/04/2016 |
US |
Server room desktops |
Done |
| 27/07/16 |
George |
IPv6 on wire M |
Done |
| 09/12/15 |
RAT |
Check dufferin's root mail |
Done |
| 12/11/14 |
Craig |
review password portal rewording |
Done |
| 2015-06-10 |
Craig |
Create a jabber project |
Done |
| 13/05/15 |
Neil |
Point "Contact Us" link at non-DICE support form |
Done |
| 11/03/15 |
Chris |
Check the toohot component on Dell 730s |
Done |
| Structural Review |
ALL |
Check and update telephone contact list |
Done |
| 10/12/14 |
Craig |
Move actions from computing structure discussion discussion to operational meeting |
done |
| 08/10/14 |
Alastair |
create wiki page with bullet points for CO structure meeting |
Done |
| 10/09/14 |
MPU |
MPU should consider adding MSI fix for HP DL180 bonding problems to appropriate server headers |
Done |
| 13/08/14 |
AT dwellers |
Agree room occupation for level 8 |
Done |
| 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 |
| 09/04/14 |
User Support |
scan self managed machines with tool provided by Graham |
Done |
| 13/11/13 |
Alison |
Review NotifyUserDisruption page |
Done |
| 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 |
| 14/11/12 |
Graham |
"post-package-search" script. |
Done |
| 14/12/11 |
Iain |
Organise meeting about DHCP enhancements |
Done |
| 27/07/11 |
Neil |
add support for .sslaccess files to the School's webservers |
Done |
| 24/11/10 |
All |
Fix cabling in rack 3 , Forum server room |
Done |
| 10/11/10 |
RAT |
Annual check of all open firewall holes for self-managed machines |
Done |
| 23/06/10 |
Roger |
Take "user documentation" discussion points back to the project group |
done |
| 27/01/10 |
US |
Reconfigure ex-mars machines with root partition on large disk |
Done |
| 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 |
| 24/06/09 |
Simon |
Chase up production of documentation on how to install jabber clients on supported OSs |
Done |
| 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 |
| 11/03/09 |
inf-unit |
console server provision in self-managed server room |
Done |
| 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 |
| 10/09/08 |
ascobie |
Find holidays policy page |
Done |
| 10/09/08 |
squinney |
Create install CD for Optiplex 755 |
Done |
| 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 |
gdmr |
Unblock IRC ports |
Done |
| 13/08/08 |
inf-unit |
Various Forum server room things |
Done |
| 2015-09-23 |
MPU |
Add encryption of tmp and swap to <develop> |
Done (in stable of 11/11/15) |
| 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 |
| 28/03/12 |
Graham |
Investigate issue of user crontabs further |
done - but going to write blog |
| 08/03/2017 |
Neil |
Speak to Jon about request for web address - bayes.ed.ac.uk |
Done - DNS delegated to us |
| 27/11/13 |
Toby |
Experiment with test LDAP server/virtual DICE from home using EDLAN VPN |
Done - email sent to MPU 29/11 |
| 27/05/15 |
Services |
Review Yesterday documentation |
Done - http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/yesterday |
| 22/10/08 |
ascobie |
Put holiday policy on CEG to-do list |
Done - on CEG wish-list |
| 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 |
Alison |
Write procedure for contacting users about unscheduled service disruptions |
Done - see here |
| 25/04/18 |
Ian |
write a report on what is happening in AT server room |
Done - see email to cos 3/5/18 |
| 03/11/15 |
ALL |
Review "nograce" entitlements |
Done - Services, US, Inf and MPU |
| 26/06/19 |
All Units |
Complete upgrade of remaining servers to SL7.6 |
Done - Services, US, MPU and Inf have 2 to go |
| 25/02/15 |
Toby |
Document how to query roles on the prometheus server |
Done - started RolesFAQ |
| 27/03/13 |
Alison |
Change MPU RT mail settings to allow all Unit members to see correspondence |
Done - tested after 10/4/13 meeting |
| 11/04/18 |
All |
Move/delete data from nix:/disk/huge |
Done - thanks to Neil |
| 08/10/08 |
ascobie |
Investigate availability of central bulletin board service |
Done - the service has been suspended indefinitely |
| 27/03/13 |
Craig |
talk to Sheila about what our HP warranties provide |
Done - they provide on-site warranty |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 30/05/12 |
Toby/Neil |
New certificates |
Done 12/6/2012 |
| 10/01/18 |
Neil |
Create project to cover move of http: sites to https: |
Done Project 454 |
| 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 |
| 23/11/11 |
Services |
Change username/password for accessing disk arrays |
Done and details circulated to COs |
| 12/10/11 |
Alison |
Add student password portal concerns to CEG action |
Done and discussed |
| 24/11/10 |
All |
Review and update pandemic documentation |
Done apart from Database which is still in a state of flux |
| 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!) |
| 01/04/20 |
Chris |
Email out another reminder about remote working |
Done on 02/04/2020. |
| 10/09/08 |
Convener |
Check/Redo Operational meeting room bookings |
Done until end of year |
| 22/10/08 |
ktd |
Put actual number of tickets in RT resolution reports |
Done wef 12/11/08 |
| 10/11/10 |
Inf |
Suggested that there should be a pinboard in server room |
Done, 11.3.2011 |
| 12/10/11 |
inf-unit |
Add "how to disable" etc comment to .ports files |
Done, 19.10.2011 |
| 8/06/11 |
Tim |
Check with Stuart Anderson about teaching packages and 64-bit |
Done, 64bit will be the default in labs |
| 23/03/11 |
US Unit |
Create web page for future interruptions to services |
Done, and linked from systems page |
| 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 |
| 13/08/08 |
iainr |
Collate responses re proposed University's Source Repository |
Done, being tracked at CEG |
| 26/10/11 |
mp-unit/All |
Add nagios hardware checks to some machines by default |
Done, but see follow-up action |
| 23/07/08 |
inf-unit |
Unify naming of switches with floorbox ports |
Done, Feb 2009 |
| 27/07/16 |
MPU/Alastair |
Document SL7 KVM migration issues? |
Done, in SimpleKVMDocs and SimpleKVMHost |
| 11/09/13 |
mp-unit |
inf-level machine for package testing |
Done, see the inf layer |
| 23/11/11 |
Support |
All server room desktops should have local home directories |
Done, there will be a header for server room desktops shortly |
| 09/03/11 |
US |
Check out server rack rails in B.03 |
Done, though not labelled |
| 2015-10-28 |
George |
Add iptables to SL7 desktop project |
Done, with a mid-December deadline |
| 11/05/2016 |
RAT |
All Support team members should have access to Visitor tab in Theon |
Done. |
| 2015-09-09 |
Gordon |
Check SL7 printing to IS "charged" queues |
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. |
| 11/12/13 |
gdmr |
Report recent compromise to Brian Gilmore |
Done. No response. |
| 26/06/13 |
Neil |
AFSDB to AT |
Done. afsdb0 on afsdbvmkb, afsdb1 on afsdbvmat, afsdb2 on fenrir |
| 11/03/09 |
mp-unit |
Look at om disowning credentials |
Done. Fix in release cycle |
| 13/03/19 |
Ian |
Investigate IPv6 and Nagios |
Done. See the Nagios and IPv6 item of the Inf Unit Report, 27.3.2019. |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 27/07/16 |
Ian |
Document current serial console use |
Done: RS232SerialConsoleProvision2016Review |
| 08/11/17 |
US Unit |
Remove unrequired Tech access |
Done: the capability rfe/lcfg/write has been removed from the role techs. (See item 2 of https://www.dice.inf.ed.ac.uk/units/infrastructure/Projects/399-Second-factor/restricted/short-term-fixes-made.html) |
| 13/08/08 |
support |
Chase down "temporary dhcp" usage |
Done; RT:37705 |
| 23/07/08 |
inf-unit |
Wireless in the Forum |
Done; RT:37791 |
| 28/01/09 |
mp-unit |
Change DIY DICE root password |
Done; ask Alastair if you need to know it |
| 25/02/09 |
Alastair |
Move network tester to 2.09 |
Done; please remember to sign it out when you use it |
| 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 |
| 28/09/2016 |
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 |
| 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) |
| 22/11/17 |
George |
Review rsyslog rules |
Easy part done. George to create project to cover hard part |
| 11/11/15 |
Roger |
Document for users the ability to scan to USB |
EnablingUSBonMFD (now user doc, linked from exam machine guide) |
| 28/09/11 |
All |
Restart VMs |
Enough done for now |
| 08/10/14 |
Support |
Clarify COs entitlement to Dreamspark agreement |
Entitlement confirmed but will write up - see DreamSpark |
| 08/10/14 |
All Units |
review pages in computing.help |
Everything prior to Jul 2018 - computing.help pages sorted by last review date |
| 09/12/15 |
Alastair |
Discuss priorities and panic buttons with HoS |
Exams have priority |
| 23/08/17 |
Stephen |
Enable apacheconf log compression |
fail2ban is on the MPU ToDo list |
| fail2ban meeting |
Neil |
Look at logging all Apache logs centrally |
Fixed problem of logging to multiple places, but better done by project 540 |
| 13/10/10 |
Neil |
Circulate list of servers which allow non-CO logins |
For amd removal |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 10/07/13 |
Alastair |
switchtoinfdb frequency? |
Frequency increased. Monitored and all seems well. |
| 2015-08-26 |
George/ALL |
Set up meeting to discuss internal documentation |
FutureofInternalTechnicalDocumentation Action kept until week scheduled |
| 12/02/14 |
Alison |
staffmail vs exchange |
Glitch last August was not procedural i.e. not due to human error |
| 23/11/11 |
Graham |
Generated mailing lists and grace periods |
GracePeriodsMeeting2013 - project proposal incoming - now being tracked in Unit |
| 23/11/11 |
Toby |
Email Graeme Wood about changes to EASE authentication |
Graeme has replied sayaing that no major changes are imminent |
| 28/11/12 |
Craig/Graham |
maelcum upgrade. |
Graham doing it |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 08/06/2016 |
Services Unit |
Computing.help page for small NAS boxes |
http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/some-advice-buying-nas |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 14/08/2019 |
Iain/MPU |
Investigate issues with cluster file server installation |
Iain to contact MPU |
| 12/09/12 |
ALL |
Move managed machines from SMSR to main server room |
Ian asked that this be dropped from here - 10/4/13 |
| 10/07/13 |
Inf-unit |
Alternatives to /admin |
Ian to bundle into DevProj#279 |
| 27/02/13 |
Services |
Evo firmware upgrades |
icsa-evo done, leaving only ifevo2 to be replaced by ifevo4 |
| 22/08/12 |
George |
Set up aliases for DHCP servers |
ifdhcp, atdhcp, kbdhcp |
| 12/03/14 |
Craig/Toby |
investigate progress of AFS patch at conference |
In Gerrit now, will be in 1.6.8 |
| 11/02/09 |
Alastair |
Investigate whether access to the installroot should be limited to HOST_MANAGED |
In release mechanism |
| 27/04/2016 |
MPU |
Logging and reporting of unexpected USB events? |
included in Security week action |
| 12/10/2106 |
ALL |
Ensure SL6.8 upgrades are done |
Including kernel reboots as necessary - see SL66Profiles |
| 11/01/12 |
Craig |
Check how password portal handles metacharacters |
Inconsistently! Fixed. |
| 8/9/10 |
RAT, Inf, US units |
Meet to discuss account issues |
Inf to convene |
| 25/03/2020 |
Neil |
Start computing.help page on debugging remote working |
Initial page at http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/network-tests |
| 25/06/14 |
Tim |
inSpace robotarium |
Investigate concerns, then refer to CEG as appropriate. |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
Toby |
iOS Authentication |
Investigations complete. Written-up |
| 25/03/09 |
Toby |
Poll ITPF re. EASE principals |
IS are consulting |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 22/09/10 |
Craig |
Clarify whether CSBE printing uses our printer wire |
It doesn't |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 27/05/15 |
Services |
Make Yesterday point to readonly volumes |
It's on the list |
| 23/02/11 |
US |
reboot remaining servers ASAP |
Just a few to do (btw, no need to reboot just for glibc changes) |
| 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 |
| 09/07/14 |
Craig |
Poll for TDM options |
Last Wednesday afternoon of month |
| 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 |
| 11/06/14 |
Craig |
Document use of CO iPad |
Link UsingTheCoIpad somewhere |
| 14/03/12 |
Inf |
Record locations of RFE maps |
Linked at the end of the netmon pages |
| 28/10/09 |
Alison |
Create wiki page to record machine problems requiring reboot |
Linked from us-unit wiki page |
| 11/12/13 |
alisond |
Circulate slides on account creation process |
Linked in General Information section - UserSupportUnit |
| 28/09/11 |
Inf |
Produce document gathering subnet definitions together |
live/subnets.h |
| 09/02/11 |
US |
install VM student lab development machine |
Machine should be given more meaningful name |
| 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 |
| 25/04/18 |
All |
Machines in rack 2 |
managers of these machine liaise with each other to spread the load across both banks. |
| 27/01/2016 |
All |
Review pages in computing.help |
Marked as completed before next reoccurrence comes along in July |
| 27/02/2019 |
All |
Mail Stephen with comments/suggestions about recent data incident |
Meeting arranged for end March |
| 30/05/12 |
Craig |
Arrange meeting re amd maps |
meeting held |
| 27/04/2016 |
Toby / Stephen / Others |
Discuss fail2ban configurations |
Meeting scheduled - 18/08 10am, IF-1.15. All welcome. Fail2BanMeeting20160818 |
| 22/08/12 |
Toby |
Develop Alastair's Dice relationship diagram |
Merge updates and recirculate. latest here |
| 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 |
| 08/04/09 |
All |
Move kit from BP and FH - aimimg towards 2 sites + off-site at JCMB |
merged with another action |
| 29/01/14 |
Alison |
www.anc/dtc |
Met Pim. www.anc/dtc will move to new Wordpress site on Mon 16th Nov |
| 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 |
| 14/04/10 |
mp-unit |
CUPS not to be running on servers by default |
More than just servers? |
| 13/03/13 |
Alastair |
Investigate 32-bit Windows 7 laptops |
Most manufacturers supply 64=-bit Windows as a no-cost option. |
| 27/02/2019 |
Alison/Jennifer |
Produce "get started" guide for new O365 users |
Mostly pointers to other documentation |
| 22/11/17 |
Alastair / George |
Review and update the compromised machine instructions |
moved to CEG |
| 27/01/2016 |
RAT |
Lecturer/TA-created VirtualBox images? |
Moved to RAT to-do list |
| 14/03/12 |
Services |
Consider whether data location is optimum |
Moved to Services Unit task list |
| 2015-08-12 |
Craig |
Take IPMI issue to CEG |
MPU and Inf Unit will discuss |
| 2015-10-14 |
MPU/Inf |
Wire headers &c. - Discuss points raised in section 4 of Inf Unit report - e.g. eth0 or not?; &c. |
MPU believe sufficiently discussed. eth0 point will have to wait on NG network component |
| 23/11/11 |
All |
Identify which servers should have local home directories |
MPU have created a web page listing the machines |
| 09/07/14 |
Services-unit |
Add bonding issues to BondingProblems |
MPU to investigate. See also this week's inf-unit report |
| 13/03/13 |
Alastair |
Investigate consequences of delegating some headers to other Schools |
MPU will create project. Will use git. |
| 15/01/14 |
Ross/Jennifer |
Pandemic actions |
Names now 'upper-cased' |
| 27/08/14 |
All Units |
all servers to be running SL6.5 by end October |
Nearly there! |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 13/09/17 |
ALL Units |
List "http:" sites |
Neil will create project to cover move of sites to https |
| 2015-06-10 |
MPU/RAT |
Check current rootmail situation |
Neil's figures are here. |
| 12/06/13 |
Alastair |
Take "power-down evacuation?" to Building Committee |
No action to be taken |
| 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 |
| 09/03/11 |
Tim |
Take issue of Matlab usage to Ian Stark |
No change for moment but monitor situation |
| 10/05/2016 |
George / Graham |
IPv6 for student labs |
No exams in labs so no requirement |
| 22/07/09 |
All |
Check cron logs. Checksum problem with hostname has caused lcfg-cron configure failure in some instances |
No longer necessary |
| 13/05/09 |
Iain/Toby/Alastair |
Take "certificates" to CCPAG. |
No longer needed |
| 23/02/11 |
RAT |
Investigate condor usage |
No-one appears to be using it so has been turned off |
| 12/06/13 |
RaT-unit |
Discuss security of exam scripts for external examiners with Neil M |
Not an issue - see 12/08/14 |
| 24/11/10 |
All |
Each Unit to trawl through bugs in bugzilla.inf |
not applicable for MPU as used only for weekly release |
| 09/03/11 |
Services |
Move afsdb1 to different hardware if necessary |
Not necessary |
| 23/02/11 |
MPU |
check whether condor needs a kernel patch |
Not necessary in view of above |
| 12/11/14 |
Toby |
look into intermediate certificates |
Not possible at the moment but perhaps Summer 15. |
| 11/04/12 |
Alastair/George |
Write letter about the continuing cooling issues in LV room. |
not required as issue resolved |
| 11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
Not sufficient to worry about |
| 08/02/12 |
Alison |
Convert document about updating users into a checklisk |
NotifyUsersNotes |
| 26/06/13 |
Ian |
tlsdir locations |
Now a X3 round-robin |
| 10/02/2016 |
Inf |
NUT service for SMSR |
Now an Inf Unit project |
| 13/02/13 |
Alastair |
Investigate whether we set up a secure location for examples of secondary authentication |
Now at SecondaryAuthentication |
| 12/06/13 |
Chris |
Link new "social media" guidelines into computing.help |
Now linked from the Guidelines page. |
| 26/06/13 |
Ian |
Mirroring and retention of console logs |
Now mirrored to loghosts |
| 11/11/15 |
Alastair |
Arrange groups for and set date for security review |
Now next year |
| 22/02/17 |
MPU / Inf |
hosts / DNS ordering |
Now on MPU list |
| 28/09/2016 |
MPU |
Set up script to mail out monthly firmware update reminders |
Now on MPU to-do list |
| 27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss EE's public key infrastructure with Colin Higgs |
Now on to-do list |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Define the criticality of machines |
Now waiting for mp-unit work |
| 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 |
| 27/04/2016 |
Services |
Schedule WordPress upgrades |
on going - going to SL7 them at the same time |
| 12/10/11 |
Alastair |
Publicise auto-swap-size algorithm |
on lcfg wiki |
| 28/08/13 |
MPU |
Create list of steps to take to 'un-manage' a DICE machine |
On mp-unit's ToDo list |
| 24/02/10 |
mp-unit |
add profile resources for machine criticality |
On mp-unit's list |
| 27/01/10 |
MPU |
Consider periodic file reconfiguration (om file configure) issues |
On mp-unit's list |
| 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 |
| 10/12/14 |
MPU |
Investigate how local facilities for syslogd should be allocated |
On MPU list |
| 26/01/11 |
Stephen |
Investigate creating a header file for self-managed machines with dynamic IP addresses |
On MPU list |
| 10/09/08 |
mp-unit |
Make DBAN easier to use |
On MPU to-do list |
| 16/05/12 |
US Unit |
Publish a list of public servers |
On new website |
| 23/11/11 |
CEG |
Record arguments for and against local home directories |
On the CEG wish list |
| 2015-06-10 |
Stephen |
Circulate dmesg proposal |
On the MPU list |
| 26/09/12 |
US/MPU |
How to spot off-the-air machines sooner? |
On the MPU to-do list |
| 08/05/13 |
MPU |
consider additional wake features such as a command to wake individual lab machines |
On their list |
| 10/06/09 |
Tim/Alison |
talk to CSTR about BP servers |
Ongoing |
| 10/06/09 |
Graham |
mail out with details of autoreboot mechanism |
Ongoing |
| 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) |
| 28/11/12 |
ALL |
Reboot ASAP for kernel updates. |
only catzilla left - completed Fri 19th Apr |
| 28/09/2016 |
Gordon |
MacOS Sierra |
Only remaining issue is lack of TiBS support |
| 24/04/13 |
George |
Fix the wire_*.h headers |
Only the Forum managed DICE wires remaining. |
| 28/03/12 |
Alastair |
Set up USENIX membership |
Ordered |
| 09/02/11 |
RAT |
split ipfilter.h |
Over to RAT for testing |
| 12/08/09 |
All |
Reboot servers to pick up SL5.3 by end of August |
Overtaken by latest kernel |
| 28/09/11 |
Inf |
Investigate non-CO Jabber usage |
Part of DevProj:221 |
| 13/01/10 |
All |
Investigate best use of temperature monitoring. |
Part of cc project |
| 06/04/11 |
RAT |
Adjust pathfix configuration |
part of sl6 re-packaging |
| 11/01/12 |
Alison |
Create a wiki page to note password-entry locations |
PasswordEntry |
| 25/01/12 |
RaT-unit |
Try ColTeX on SL6 again |
Patch distributed |
| Structural Review |
CEG? |
Organise another documentation week |
Pencilled in for November 2015 |
| 13/10/10 |
Inf |
Write a "what do do when things go wrong" document |
posted in server room |
| 13/05/09 |
Toby/Simon |
Think about afs principal (cf. chatroom) |
principal will be deleted |
| 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 |
| 08/10/14 |
Craig |
review pages in computing.help |
Procedures for use with the new Mac Mini - merged with other mac mini action |
| 26/08/09 |
Tim/Alison |
Fix inventory problems with HP desktops |
progress made but still problems with MDP machines - now fixed |
| 27/02/2019 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of School office using Google calendar with Martin |
Project created to cover work |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 14/11/12 |
Alastair/RAT |
Chase up Office365 IMAP with Dave B. |
RAT has tested and sent details to students. |
| 27/04/2016 |
ALL |
Server specification |
Re-read and comment on the document |
| 09/03/11 |
Inf/MPU |
Investigate NTP clocksource problem further |
Rebooting fenrir fixed problem |
| 11/09/13 |
ALL |
Comments ASAP on JCMB aircon proposals |
Received - thanks |
| 08/06/2016 |
MPU |
Look into issue of KVM guest segregation and present recommendations |
Recommend a separate server for non-CO access. |
| 28/04/10 |
Iain |
report back on progress of FC12 port |
redundant |
| 28/03/18 |
All units |
Prepare reports for scheduled JCMB and Forum power-down |
reminder email sent out 28/03/18 |
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
removed from Action list until further notice (22/01/20) |
| 14/12/16 |
Services Unit |
Arrange for removal of tape library from KB server room |
Removed! |
| 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. |
| 28/06/17 |
MP unit |
Post mortem on KVM server crash |
Results inconclusive |
| 12/02/14 |
Alastair |
Service Catalogue |
Review/remove fields in service catalogue |
Now being tracked at CEG |
| 25/02/15 |
Neil/Alastair |
consult records management about archived home directory |
RM responded. |
| 25/03/15 |
All |
Help out with 5th May exams if possible |
Roger and Neil offered to help |
| 11/09/13 |
George |
Infrastructure for commercialisation decant from AT |
Rolled into general AT decant |
| 27/02/2019 |
Neil |
Investigate how O365-using Schools handle root mail |
RootMailOnO365Summary |
| 30/05/12 |
George/Craig/Ian |
JCMB server room cleaning |
Scheduled for 18th June |
| 09/11/11 |
Stephen |
Repeat AFS talks |
Scheduled for February |
| 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 |
| 09/06/10 |
Alison/George |
Investigate AT server inventory issues |
script now amended |
| 12/06/13 |
Iain |
Revamp cluster shutdown scripts |
Scripts done. Now install them somewhere and write some docs. See HadoopCareAndFeeding |
| 09/10/13 |
Alastair |
Take "security bollards" issues to Building Committee |
Security have agreed. Dave H has a key. Sheila is aware. |
| 26/09/12 |
ALL/Ian |
nagios oddities |
See Infrastructure Report |
|
| 22/10/14 |
MPU/Inf |
Investigate AT network problem - why is data being lost/corrupted |
see RT 68813 |
| 22/10/14 |
Services |
Investigate AFS aspect of AT network problem |
see RT 69292 - dropped due to inability to reproduce problem |
| 11/12/13 |
neilb |
Investigate management of Wordpress |
See here |
| 23/04/14 |
Iain |
Beowulf and GPU-machine shutdown when cooling fails |
See Hadoop Care and Feeding. |
| 2015-08-12 |
All |
Start using new VPN configurations |
See blog. Old configurations turned off on 2nd November |
| 27/03/13 |
Graham |
distribute notes from the recent UKUUG spring conference |
see here (Graham) and here (Chris) |
| 24/01/18 |
Ian |
Investigate how to best test IPv6 firewall holes |
see minutes |
| 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 |
| 12/10/11 |
Alastair |
Publicise auto-swap-size algorithm |
see here |
| 29/01/14 |
Alison |
Innovative learning week |
See Informatics Innovative Learning week and US Unit report |
| 27/02/2019 |
Craig |
Raise issue of ISS using Google calendar with Neil H |
See above |
| 26/08/09 |
Services Unit |
Removal of AMD from servers RemovingAMDFromServers |
see action on ALL to act on Neil's list |
| 26/08/09 |
Services Unit |
Removal of AMD from servers RemovingAMDFromServers |
see action on ALL to act on Neil's list |
| 12/10/11 |
Alison |
Add student password portal concerns to CEG action |
See also the wiki page |
| 10/07/13 |
George/Alison |
Take "self-managed machines with firewall holes" to CEG |
See CEG minutes for August 12th |
| 12/12/12 |
All |
Note down occasions on which secondary authentication is required. |
See discussion items |
| 01/07/20 |
Carol |
Check new Uni VPN issues |
See email of 1st July. Suggests someone else should try. Carol has offered |
| 27/05/15 |
All units |
Review IF rack usage |
See ForumRackPopulation . See cos emails dated 8/7 about USB ID dongle information |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 22/10/14 |
Inf |
Compile notes on extracting firewall information |
See our "how the network filtering works" document and our 2014-11-12 report |
| 12/12/12 |
All |
Note down occasions on which secondary authentication should be required. |
See SecondaryAuthentication - MPU to create project |
| 23/03/11 |
Craig |
Create web page with procedure for announcing interruptions to services |
See ServiceInterruptionProcedure |
| 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 |
| 09/06/10 |
Inf |
Review what's currently connected to fibre channels and investigate load balancing |
See the Inf Unit report, 14.7.2010 |
| 2015-09-23 |
MPU/Inf |
named on SL7 |
See the inf-unit report MPU/Inf to meet to discuss. |
| 26/10/16 |
George |
Core switch firmware |
See the inf-unit report |
| 10/01/18 |
George |
Create no-slaac option for dns/inf6 rfe map |
See the inf-unit report |
| 27/07/11 |
Alastair |
"BIOS settings" checklist |
SelectPCBiosSettings |
| 11/03/15 |
MPU, RAT |
Consider likely FibreChannel requirements |
Services unlikely to expand. 8Gbps would be good to have. 6 per fabric. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 30/05/12 |
Toby |
Automatic running of ldapBuildAmdMaps |
Should be replaced by a Prometheus conduit or similar |
| 12/06/13 |
Chris |
Run fs flushall before DICE sleep |
Sleep now runs flushall |
| fail2ban meeting |
Stephen/George |
Define range of local network addresses |
Some added to live/subnets.h and live/subnets6.h, but likely still incomplete |
| 28/05/14 |
Toby/Neil |
Making changes for ResetTheNet |
Some final changes after apache upgrade transferred to Services Unit to-do list |
| 13/12/17 |
Toby |
Consider consequences of making "no-grace" the default |
some thoughts - PrometheusNoGraceDefault, move to CEG |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 09/04/14 |
MPU |
Move the BMCs of all KB servers to the new KB server management subnet |
Stephen has moved BMCs, Ian confirmed |
| 27/04/2016 |
ALL |
Clear out old SL6 profiles |
Stephen has nagged about sl6 profiles SL6OfficeMachines. Support will investigate non-CO machines |
| 25/01/17 |
MPU |
Produce script to fix "dracut" issues |
Stephen ran cron job |
| 11/08/10 |
All |
SL5.5 servers to be rebooted by end of August |
Still waiting on one RAT machine |
| 25/10/17 |
Alastair |
Propose to Stuart Anderson that students-in-grace should not have access to lab machines |
Stuart has agreed |
| 10/12/14 |
Craig |
Take issue of copyright images on webpages to Web Strategy Group |
Sub-group to be set up by Steve Scott |
| 08/10/14 |
Alastair |
Change title of holidays page |
subsequently done - wiki page created |
| 01/07/09 |
George |
Document how the host keys of the ssh servers can be preserved during upgrades |
Subsumed by wallet project |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 28/03/12 |
Craig |
Trawl through user and group space for cookies |
Take to HoS; write report - tracked at CEG |
| 13/01/10 |
Alastair |
Text messages to be sent to willing COs and policy on subsequent action to be decided. |
Take to CEG |
| 12/02/26 |
Alison |
Windows XP - end of life |
Take to CEG to discuss policy |
| 12/02/14 |
Alastair |
Service Catalogue |
Take topic to CCPAG. Delayed until next CCPAG meeting |
|
| 13/08/08 |
gdmr |
Potential gap in off-site provision |
Taken to CEG |
| 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. |
| 13/01/10 |
RAT |
Ensure shutdown of beowulf cluster is more manageable |
Tested but needs someone else to test |
| 10/11/10 |
Alison |
Add notes on syntax to location tag files |
Thanks to Ian D |
| 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 |
| 26/11/14 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use. |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. |
| 26/11/14 |
All Units |
Review nagios use. |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. |
| 13/05/15 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. Refer https://nagios.inf.ed.ac.uk/nagios/cgi-bin/tac.cgi |
| 26/11/14 (recurrent) |
RAT |
Review nagios use. |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. Refer to the current Nagios 'comments' page. Reminder: CEG has decreed that systems should be fixed promptly or removed from monitoring. |
| 23/08/17 |
Toby |
New student account emails |
Then a month allowed by password portal to fix up things forgotten |
| 11/11/15 |
Toby |
Write a roles-management document for discussion |
TheProblemWithRoles |
| 11/11/15 |
ALL |
Read Toby's roles-management problem statement |
TheProblemWithRoles ServicesUnitNograceEntitlements |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider innovative learning week |
There seems to be some doubt about when this is (and what it's called now) |
| 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. |
| 10/09/08 |
neilb |
Take "recycling of old machines" to ITPF |
There's a talk coming up... |
| 14/10/09 |
Alison |
Check both invquery and minv provide accurate info. |
They don't but will be fixed as part of inventory project |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 11/09/19 |
Neil |
Ask Dave H. to look into sound deadening screens for AT-7.07 |
Ticket in forum issues RT 97845 |
| 27/04/2016 |
Stephen |
Open area UG access rights |
Tighten up - done - uses new @login/forumpublic/console role |
| 26/09/12 |
Tim |
Check with ITO re updates to non-standard students' records |
Tim confirmed via email after meeting that action is complete. |
| 31/08/11 |
Alison |
Write up relationship with IS helpdesk |
To be done as part of DevProj:177 |
| 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 |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
Craig |
Further investigation of mobile printing |
To be submitted as a project. Done. |
| 24/07/13 |
ALL Units |
Procedures for penetration testing |
to be tracked at CEG |
| 11/11/09 |
All |
Complete pandemic actions |
to be tracked at CEG |
| 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. |
| 24/02/10 |
Alison (documentation project) |
follow up on 24/02/10 AFS discussion |
Tracked as part of documentation project |
| 13/01/2016 |
RAT/Inf |
Subnets for clusters |
Tracked at CEG, using wire 'O' for now |
| 13/03/13 |
Graham/mp-unit |
File enhancements to certain components to deal with USB/VirtualBox issues |
Tracked by Unit |
| 12/11/14 |
RAT |
Look into producing seminar specific email lists for staff/students/etc |
tracked in TRAC |
| TDM 21/05/14 |
Alastair |
Investigate Mobile AV options further |
Transfer to techs though RT |
| 27/04/2016 |
MPU |
HP 800 G2 computing.help and/or BIOS pages |
Transferred to MPU list |
| 12/11/14 |
alisond |
set up meeting about visitor accounts |
Tuesday 2nd at 14:00 in IF-4.02 |
| 28/03/12 |
Services Unit |
Talk to IS about MDP print queues |
UniDesk I120409-0390 - I'd say done now |
| 28/03/12 |
Neil |
Add additional column to cookie list identifying responsibility for that cookie |
Updated ServicesUnitCookiesAudit with column |
| 24/06/09 |
Neil |
Produce new guidelines on how to work around the issues with AFS and ssh public keys |
Updated "top 10" |
| 2015-09-23 |
Chris |
lightdm WM choice menu image |
Updated (picture). |
| 09/12/15 |
US |
Review SL7 tickets, and pass to MPU/RAT as required |
Upgrades have been restarted |
| 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. |
| 06/04/11 |
services-unit |
SAN partition monitoring |
Use /proc |
| 12/09/12 |
ALL |
Remove unneeded machines from AT server room |
venom now removed from rack and placed in B.03 |
| 27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of exam data policy with Liz |
Wait until college raises issue |
| 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 |
| 09/10/13 |
Stephen / Graham |
weka on NX |
weka removed from machines |
| 31/08/11 |
ALL |
Roles changes |
Went live 1st September! |
| 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 |
| 26/09/12 |
Alison |
Email ITPF re UniDesk |
wiki page to incorporate Angus's suggestions and any other useful contacts |
| 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 |
| 10/11/10 |
Craig |
Create project to convert services-unit servers to apacheconf |
will be done by 6th December |
| 25/03/2020 |
MPU |
Create header file for Dell PE740xd2 |
Will be in stable release next week. |
| 11/04/12 |
Iain/Alison |
Demonstrate RT4 |
Will be rescheduled for some future slot |
| 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. |
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