.
When raised |
Who |
What |
Comments |
28/09/2016 |
Gordon |
MacOS Sierra |
Only remaining issue is lack of TiBS support |
27/07/11 |
Alastair |
"BIOS settings" checklist |
SelectPCBiosSettings |
09/12/15 |
George |
"external connectivity" computing.help page |
It's here. Suggestions for improvement welcome! |
14/11/12 |
Graham |
"post-package-search" script. |
Done |
23/08/17 |
Stephen / Graham |
/home and exam lockdown |
|
22/02/17 |
George |
/netmask versions of subnets header files |
live/subnets_nm.h (see the inf-unit report) |
12/11/14 |
RAT |
Look into producing seminar specific email lists for staff/students/etc |
tracked in TRAC |
31/08/11 |
ALL |
Roles changes |
Went live 1st September! |
09/10/13 |
Stephen / Graham |
weka on NX |
weka removed from machines |
25/04/18 |
All |
Machines in rack 2 |
managers of these machine liaise with each other to spread the load across both banks. |
09/01/19 |
ALL |
Pandemic Planning |
We Name The Guilty!!!!!! - now completed! (22/01/20) |
26/01/11 |
Graham |
Action automatic generation of the sys-announce mailing list |
|
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!) |
12/10/11 |
inf-unit |
Add "how to disable" etc comment to .ports files |
Done, 19.10.2011 |
23/08/17 |
Alastair |
Add "migrate to https" to Computing Plan |
|
14/11/12 |
MPU |
Add "wake-ACL review" to to-do list. |
ACL modified |
28/03/12 |
Neil |
Add additional column to cookie list identifying responsibility for that cookie |
Updated ServicesUnitCookiesAudit with column |
24/10/18 |
MPU |
Add banners to XRDP hosts if possible |
09/07/14 |
Services-unit |
Add bonding issues to BondingProblems |
MPU to investigate. See also this week's inf-unit report |
2015-09-23 |
MPU |
Add encryption of tmp and swap to <develop> |
Done (in stable of 11/11/15) |
27/04/11 |
services-unit |
Add ext2/3/4 to to-look-at list |
|
fail2ban meeting |
Services |
Add fail2ban to git and gerrit |
|
22/06/11 |
Inf |
Add investigating weak password detecting PAM module to Devproj #168 - Password strength checks |
|
30/10/13 |
Services Unit |
Add investigation of home directory structure to to-do list |
Added to ServicesUnitCurrentTasks |
28/09/2016 |
MPU |
Add investigation of SL7 multi-homed issue to to-do list |
RT#79713 |
2015-10-28 |
George |
Add iptables to SL7 desktop project |
Done, with a mid-December deadline |
11/01/12 |
George |
Add more debugging info to lcfg-routing |
|
26/10/11 |
mp-unit/All |
Add nagios hardware checks to some machines by default |
Done, but see follow-up action |
08/02/17 |
ALL |
Add new and past console funnies to the wiki page |
CrazyConsoleAKABrownEffect |
10/11/10 |
Alison |
Add notes on syntax to location tag files |
Thanks to Ian D |
24/02/10 |
mp-unit |
add profile resources for machine criticality |
On mp-unit's list |
27/02/2019 |
Chris |
Add reference to Overleaf to computing.help |
computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/overleaf |
12/10/11 |
Alison |
Add student password portal concerns to CEG action |
See also the wiki page |
12/10/11 |
Alison |
Add student password portal concerns to CEG action |
Done and discussed |
27/07/11 |
Neil |
add support for .sslaccess files to the School's webservers |
Done |
24/06/09 |
Toby |
Add to the AFS FAQ details on how to use kerberised ssh on supported OSs |
Done |
09/04/14 |
Graham |
address issue of accounts being created for applicants |
|
06/04/11 |
RAT |
Adjust pathfix configuration |
part of sl6 re-packaging |
26/07/17 |
MPU |
Adjust quotas for package volumes |
|
12/11/08 |
Toby |
Advance warning of loss of staffmail accounts, possibly via IDMS feed? |
Done |
26/06/13 |
Neil |
AFSDB to AT |
Done. afsdb0 on afsdbvmkb, afsdb1 on afsdbvmat, afsdb2 on fenrir |
13/08/14 |
AT dwellers |
Agree room occupation for level 8 |
Done |
11/11/15 |
Neil |
Agreed suitable mail log retention period with RAT and update wiki retention page with same |
Done, and updated http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/DP-statement-managed-systems |
23/11/11 |
Support |
All server room desktops should have local home directories |
Done, there will be a header for server room desktops shortly |
27/08/14 |
All Units |
all servers to be running SL6.5 by end October |
Nearly there! |
09/08/17 |
All |
All SL7.2 servers to be upgraded to SL7.3 |
|
11/05/2016 |
RAT |
All Support team members should have access to Visitor tab in Theon |
Done. |
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 |
10/07/13 |
Inf-unit |
Alternatives to /admin |
Ian to bundle into DevProj#279 |
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" |
26/10/11 |
Craig |
Amend password portal character class level |
|
10/11/10 |
RAT |
Annual check of all open firewall holes for self-managed machines |
Done |
14/07/10 |
All |
Answer Ian's questions in Infrastructure Report |
|
22/10/08 |
ascobie |
Approach School re contribution to Christmas lunch |
Done |
22/10/08 |
squinney |
Arrange Christmas lunch |
Done |
30/09/20 |
Inf Unit |
Arrange for lab.inf and remote.inf mappings to be regenerated daily |
|
14/12/16 |
Services Unit |
Arrange for removal of tape library from KB server room |
Removed! |
11/11/15 |
Alastair |
Arrange groups for and set date for security review |
Now next year |
14/11/12 |
Neil |
Arrange ifevo work ASAP. |
|
30/05/12 |
Craig |
Arrange meeting re amd maps |
meeting held |
12/11/08 |
inf-unit |
Arrange tools for server rooms |
Done |
09/01/13 |
US |
Ask a number of taught students whether they received email about Office365. |
All that were asked had received notification |
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.) |
11/09/19 |
Neil |
Ask Dave H. to look into sound deadening screens for AT-7.07 |
Ticket in forum issues RT 97845 |
11/02/10 |
Alastair |
Ask Dave Robertson and Gordon about Building Committee minutes |
Apparently not published (yet??) |
27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Ask IS for Office 365 IMAP instructions |
Alison circulated responses. Alastair to take to CCPAG |
26/06/19 |
Alastair |
Ask IS how they manage server room incidents |
The University's out-of-hours policy is here See minutes |
|
13/11/13 |
Inf |
ask IS what actions they are proposing to take re signing ed and its subdomains |
See inf-unit report. Expected in F/Y 2015-16 |
23/11/16 |
Alison |
Ask Mohammed to mention mac-user mailing list when new kit goes out |
Done |
24/04/13 |
Craig |
Ask Sheila to check HP maintenance contracts |
As we thought, all servers have 4 years on-site warranty |
31/08/11 |
Craig |
AT-printing brain-dump and US training |
|
31/08/11 |
User-support |
AT-printing notices and FAQ changes |
|
27/04/2016 |
Alastair |
Attendance monitoring - Feed back concerns |
|
30/05/12 |
Toby |
Automatic running of ldapBuildAmdMaps |
Should be replaced by a Prometheus conduit or similar |
23/04/14 |
Iain |
Beowulf and GPU-machine shutdown when cooling fails |
See Hadoop Care and Feeding. |
09/12/2015 |
US |
bioboy |
disks wiped, boxed and put in B.03 |
26/01/11 |
Craig |
Bring backup retention proposals to CSG |
|
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. |
11/09/13 |
George |
CEG to discuss mod_waklog |
Discussed 24th September. MP-unit to take mod_waklog. |
28/01/09 |
mp-unit |
Change DIY DICE root password |
Done; ask Alastair if you need to know it |
27/03/13 |
Alison |
Change MPU RT mail settings to allow all Unit members to see correspondence |
Done - tested after 10/4/13 meeting |
12/11/14 |
Services Unit |
Change Tape Library power arrangements |
|
08/10/14 |
Alastair |
Change title of holidays page |
subsequently done - wiki page created |
23/11/11 |
Services |
Change username/password for accessing disk arrays |
Done and details circulated to COs |
13/08/08 |
support |
Chase down "temporary dhcp" usage |
Done; RT:37705 |
22/01/2020 |
MPU |
Chase kernel upgrades |
|
26/10/11 |
George |
Chase netflow data from Sam |
12/03/14 |
Inf Unit |
Chase old self-managed machines decomissioning action |
RT#67343 |
2015-07-22 |
Alastair |
Chase up Campus agreement |
|
14/11/12 |
Alastair/RAT |
Chase up Office365 IMAP with Dave B. |
RAT has tested and sent details to students. |
11/09/19 |
Inf Unit |
Chase up problems with AT server room alarm keypad |
|
24/06/09 |
Simon |
Chase up production of documentation on how to install jabber clients on supported OSs |
Done |
01/07/20 |
Alastair |
Chase whether Fortinet VPN bug has been fixed |
|
28/09/2016 |
Neil |
Check and mail out details of disk install issue |
Done - post to cos - basically how do you make sure which disk a machine installs to |
Structural Review |
ALL |
Check and update telephone contact list |
Done |
14/10/09 |
Alison |
Check both invquery and minv provide accurate info. |
They don't but will be fixed as part of inventory project |
22/07/09 |
All |
Check cron logs. Checksum problem with hostname has caused lcfg-cron configure failure in some instances |
No longer necessary |
2015-06-10 |
MPU/RAT |
Check current rootmail situation |
Neil's figures are here. |
09/12/15 |
RAT |
Check dufferin's root mail |
Done |
18/05/11 |
RAT |
check for package issues with making 64-bit default |
|
11/01/12 |
Craig |
Check how password portal handles metacharacters |
Inconsistently! Fixed. |
12/06/13 |
George |
Check HV restart with Mike R |
|
01/07/20 |
Carol |
Check new Uni VPN issues |
See email of 1st July. Suggests someone else should try. Carol has offered |
09/03/11 |
US |
Check out server rack rails in B.03 |
Done, though not labelled |
09/03/11 |
Craig |
Check out tapes in B.03 |
|
10/10/2018 |
Craig |
Check password portal wording |
|
14/09/11 |
Craig |
check printing refund process |
|
06/04/11 |
inf-unit |
Check self-managed server room noise levels |
|
13/12/17 |
US-Unit |
Check self-managed status of CDT machines |
Checked. 7 DICE, 10 Linux. No-one is dual booting. |
2015-09-09 |
Gordon |
Check SL7 printing to IS "charged" queues |
Done. |
08/08/12 |
Alastair |
Check status and consquences of KB shutdown on 21st August |
|
25/02/15 |
Alastair |
Check status of SL7 partition layout |
|
14/09/11 |
Alison |
check that Stuart has sent e-mail to students explaining new printing charging |
|
11/03/15 |
Chris |
Check the toohot component on Dell 730s |
Done |
31/08/11 |
MPU |
Check upgrade to SL5.6 complete |
14/09/11 |
Iain |
check version of webots on lab machines and send out a suitable e-mail |
|
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. |
23/02/11 |
MPU |
check whether condor needs a kernel patch |
Not necessary in view of above |
25/01/17 |
Craig |
Check whether Tibs 3 client works with TiBS 2 server and whether this would fix sierra issue |
It doesn't. There's a project to cover the TiBS3 upgrade |
10/01/18 |
All units |
Check whether web sites under their control are still using Allow/Deny configuration directives |
Switch was made, not much seems to have broken |
27/03/19 |
All Units |
Check which services depend on the Staff role and Linux group |
Services - Now all done |
26/09/12 |
Tim |
Check with ITO re updates to non-standard students' records |
Tim confirmed via email after meeting that action is complete. |
8/06/11 |
Tim |
Check with Stuart Anderson about teaching packages and 64-bit |
Done, 64bit will be the default in labs |
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) |
27/01/2016 |
ALL |
Check/label kit in B.03 |
Anything not claimed by end-February will be assumed to be no longer required. |
10/09/08 |
Convener |
Check/Redo Operational meeting room bookings |
Done until end of year |
2015-09-23 |
ALL/Neil/Alison |
Christmas lunch suggestions |
discussed 14/10/15 - Neil sent out doodle poll |
2015-06-10 |
Stephen |
Circulate dmesg proposal |
On the MPU list |
28/04/10 |
Alastair |
circulate grade 8 competency framework |
|
13/10/10 |
Neil |
Circulate list of servers which allow non-CO logins |
For amd removal |
13/10/10 |
Stephen |
Circulate lists of what's in the "devel" bucket |
|
17/08/11 |
Toby |
Circulate notes on "roles" meeting |
Notes |
11/12/13 |
alisond |
Circulate slides on account creation process |
Linked in General Information section - UserSupportUnit |
08/10/14 |
Support |
Clarify COs entitlement to Dreamspark agreement |
Entitlement confirmed but will write up - see DreamSpark |
11/03/09 |
Tim and Alison |
Clarify exam procedures with the ITO |
Action adopted by CEG |
28/05/14 |
Alastair |
Clarify office options with Neil |
|
22/09/10 |
Craig |
Clarify whether CSBE printing uses our printer wire |
It doesn't |
27/04/2016 |
ALL |
Clear out old SL6 profiles |
Stephen has nagged about sl6 profiles SL6OfficeMachines. Support will investigate non-CO machines |
13/01/2106 |
All Units |
Clear out unwanted machines from racks in IF, AT, KB |
|
14/04/10 |
Ian |
Clear shelf space in Forum server room |
|
11/09/19 |
Craig |
Clear spurious bookings for AT-7.14 |
Done - we don't appear to have had any other bookings for this room. |
11/05/2016 |
Services |
Cloud printing - speak to other Schools about their experiences with Cloud printing |
|
13/08/08 |
iainr |
Collate responses re proposed University's Source Repository |
Done, being tracked at CEG |
2015-09-23 |
Alastair |
College encryption policy |
|
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 |
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 |
Graham |
come up with scanning tool for SSL issue |
|
2015-08-12 |
ALL |
Comment on advice on Internet safety |
now published |
11/09/13 |
ALL |
Comments ASAP on JCMB aircon proposals |
Received - thanks |
22/10/14 |
MPU |
Compile notes on dumpdeps |
How to use dumpdeps |
22/10/14 |
Inf |
Compile notes on extracting firewall information |
See our "how the network filtering works" document and our 2014-11-12 report |
11/11/09 |
All |
Complete pandemic actions |
to be tracked at CEG |
26/06/19 |
All Units |
Complete upgrade of multi-user servers to SL7.6 |
|
26/06/19 |
All Units |
Complete upgrade of remaining servers to SL7.6 |
Done - Services, US, MPU and Inf have 2 to go |
07/10/2020 |
All computing staff |
Computing staff to use Ubuntu by default |
|
08/06/2016 |
Services Unit |
Computing.help page for small NAS boxes |
http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/some-advice-buying-nas |
14/10/09 |
Tim |
Confirm what data on maelcum needs to be kept |
|
08/05/13 |
MPU |
consider additional wake features such as a command to wake individual lab machines |
On their list |
08/10/14 |
Neil/Tim |
Consider alternative cgi server |
We did have a chat. Neil will check the current write access to the cgi directory, and Tim will put moving the affected exam mark pages to a dedicated VM |
13/12/17 |
Toby |
Consider consequences of making "no-grace" the default |
some thoughts - PrometheusNoGraceDefault, move to CEG |
23/06/10 |
ALL |
Consider Craig's suggestion of doing the KB EVO firmware upgrade during the Forum power-down |
Agreed that this is a good plan |
2015-0610 |
MPU |
Consider descriptive KVM pool names |
On MPU list |
Structural Review |
Alastair |
Consider devolved budgets for units |
|
Structural Review |
Alastair |
Consider devolved budgets for units |
Budget of £500/Unit agreed |
29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
removed from Action list until further notice (22/01/20) |
29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
|
29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider festival of creative learning week |
|
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 |
08/08/12 |
Alastair |
Consider how to promote informal technical discussions amongst computing staff |
|
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 |
14/09/2016 |
All |
Consider importance of static IPv6 addresses |
|
29/01/14 |
ALL |
Consider innovative learning week |
There seems to be some doubt about when this is (and what it's called now) |
11/03/15 |
MPU, RAT |
Consider likely FibreChannel requirements |
Services unlikely to expand. 8Gbps would be good to have. 6 per fabric. |
23/09/09 |
All |
Consider Neil's discussion point about exporting group data |
|
27/01/10 |
MPU |
Consider periodic file reconfiguration (om file configure) issues |
On mp-unit's list |
22/07/09 |
All |
Consider plans for moving kit from FH |
Wiki page available |
12/03/14 |
ALL |
Consider ramifications of JCMB management subnet renumbering |
|
2015-08-26 |
CEG |
Consider reallocation of older kit |
|
14/03/12 |
Services |
Consider whether data location is optimum |
Moved to Services Unit task list |
24/06/09 |
All |
Consider whether it will be practicable for us to turn off AMD on servers once the AFS based RPM service is available |
Merge with other AMD action |
27/03/19 |
ALL |
Consider which further entitlements should be removed from the staff role |
|
11/03/09 |
inf-unit |
console server provision in self-managed server room |
Done |
25/02/15 |
Neil/Alastair |
consult records management about archived home directory |
RM responded. |
08/10/14 |
Support |
contact Records Management regarding the reconciliation of accounts. |
Discuss at meeting on 2nd December |
08/02/12 |
Alison |
Convert document about updating users into a checklisk |
NotifyUsersNotes |
10/09/08 |
inf-unit |
Coordinate forum server room rack rotation and floor grill replacements |
Done |
13/09/17 |
Neil |
Coordinate our thoughts on the "open area" furniture |
|
26/10/16 |
George |
Core switch firmware |
See the inf-unit report |
08/10/14 |
Alastair |
create wiki page with bullet points for CO structure meeting |
Done |
26/01/11 |
Alison |
Create a development project for improving the roles mechanism |
DevProj:197 |
26/01/11 |
Craig |
Create a development project for migrating School mailing lists to the central server |
devproj:193 |
26/01/11 |
Craig |
Create a development project to look at archiving |
DevProj:194 |
2015-06-10 |
Craig |
Create a jabber project |
Done |
11/01/12 |
Alison |
Create a wiki page to note password-entry locations |
PasswordEntry |
28/04/10 |
Iain |
create bugzilla actions for FC12 port |
|
25/03/2020 |
MPU |
Create header file for Dell PE740xd2 |
Will be in stable release next week. |
10/09/08 |
squinney |
Create install CD for Optiplex 755 |
Done |
28/08/13 |
MPU |
Create list of steps to take to 'un-manage' a DICE machine |
On mp-unit's ToDo list |
10/01/18 |
George |
Create no-slaac option for dns/inf6 rfe map |
See the inf-unit report |
08/03/2017 |
Toby |
Create project for 'sorting' roles |
Done |
10/01/18 |
George |
Create project to address deprecation of legacy style rsyslogd rules |
#452 |
10/11/10 |
Craig |
Create project to convert services-unit servers to apacheconf |
will be done by 6th December |
27/06/18 |
George |
Create project to cover actions arising from server room notification investigation |
DevProj #558 |
10/01/18 |
Neil |
Create project to cover move of http: sites to https: |
Done Project 454 |
24/11/10 |
RAT? |
Create project to review use/status of bugzilla |
|
26/08/09 |
Tim/Stephen |
Create separate LCFG branch for on-line exam machines |
completed and documentation now added to lab exam procedures |
23/03/11 |
US Unit |
Create web page for future interruptions to services |
Done, and linked from systems page |
23/03/11 |
Craig |
Create web page with procedure for announcing interruptions to services |
See ServiceInterruptionProcedure |
28/10/09 |
Alison |
Create wiki page to record machine problems requiring reboot |
Linked from us-unit wiki page |
14/04/10 |
mp-unit |
CUPS not to be running on servers by default |
More than just servers? |
13/03/13 |
us-unit |
Deal with old forumtracker so VMware can be retired |
|
18/11/20 |
RAT |
Deal with remaining machines with QuoVadis intermediate certificates |
|
13/01/10 |
All |
Decide on an appropriate procedure for shutting down self-managed servers |
Discussed at 10/03/10 meeting |
fail2ban meeting |
Stephen/George |
Define range of local network addresses |
Some added to live/subnets.h and live/subnets6.h, but likely still incomplete |
13/01/10 |
All |
Define the criticality of machines |
Now waiting for mp-unit work |
11/04/12 |
Iain/Alison |
Demonstrate RT4 |
Will be rescheduled for some future slot |
08/05/13 |
Graham |
Deploy Crichton to develop machines |
|
14/08/13 |
Alison/Craig/Stephen |
DES documentation - blogs/web page instructions by OS |
|
22/08/12 |
Toby |
Develop Alastair's Dice relationship diagram |
Merge updates and recirculate. latest here |
2015-09-09 |
MPU |
DICE_STICK_WITH_SL65? |
|
14/11/12 |
Neil/Stephen |
Discuss AFS/package dependencies. |
|
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 |
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 |
27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss EE's public key infrastructure with Colin Higgs |
Now on to-do list |
27/04/2016 |
Toby / Stephen / Others |
Discuss fail2ban configurations |
Meeting scheduled - 18/08 10am, IF-1.15. All welcome. Fail2BanMeeting20160818 |
27/06/12 |
RAT/Toby |
Discuss grace periods with new DOT |
discussed at meeting held on 10/7 - can wait until lifecycle code |
27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss how transportation of kit to KB should work with Dave H |
|
27/07/16 |
Craig |
Discuss MDP/MFD printer accounting with Martin |
|
25/01/12 |
Stephen/Graham |
Discuss pam_console and exam machines |
|
23/04/14 |
Stephen |
Discuss pandemic "security" topic with interested parties |
|
12/10/11 |
Alison |
Discuss pcounter credit refunds with ISS |
|
09/12/15 |
Alastair |
Discuss priorities and panic buttons with HoS |
Exams have priority |
13/09/17 |
Craig / Toby |
Discuss purge of old AFS admin IDs |
|
12/06/13 |
RaT-unit |
Discuss security of exam scripts for external examiners with Neil M |
Not an issue - see 12/08/14 |
10/07/13 |
Graham |
Discuss snowmen with Toby and Neil |
|
26/10/11 |
Alison |
Discuss visitors' (non)-sponsors with HR |
|
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 |
28/11/12 |
Alastair |
Discuss wireless with HoS. |
|
12/06/19 |
Craig |
Discuss with Alastair how to expedite load-shedding |
Alastair meeting with Jane on 13/6/19 to discuss |
27/03/13 |
Graham |
distribute notes from the recent UKUUG spring conference |
see here (Graham) and here (Chris) |
25/10/17 |
Toby/Jennifer |
Document procedure for creating roles/entitlements to grant access to individual machines. |
Done |
28/09/2016 |
Craig |
Document Auristor client for self-managed Windows machines |
auristor |
24/02/10 |
inf-unit |
document bonding issues |
see here |
2015-07-22 |
MPU |
Document configuration and user experience of Fail2ban |
Added to MPU to-do list |
27/07/16 |
Ian |
Document current serial console use |
Done: RS232SerialConsoleProvision2016Review |
11/11/15 |
Roger |
Document for users the ability to scan to USB |
EnablingUSBonMFD (now user doc, linked from exam machine guide) |
01/07/09 |
George |
Document how the host keys of the ssh servers can be preserved during upgrades |
Subsumed by wallet project |
25/02/15 |
Toby |
Document how to query roles on the prometheus server |
Done - started RolesFAQ |
10/03/10 |
mp-unit |
Document power-button handling options |
|
10/01/18 |
MPU |
Document procedure for returning failed discs to Dell |
Done |
27/07/16 |
MPU/Alastair |
Document SL7 KVM migration issues? |
Done, in SimpleKVMDocs and SimpleKVMHost |
11/06/14 |
Craig |
Document use of CO iPad |
Link UsingTheCoIpad somewhere |
TDM 21/05/14 |
George/Toby/Neil |
Documentation for VPN on iOS/Android |
Android - draft |
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 |
12/10/2106 |
ALL |
doodle over Christmas lunch |
Details Deposit to Neil please |
22/10/08 |
US unit |
Download SmartBoard drivers and make available to members of School |
Done |
24/11/10 |
All |
Each Unit to trawl through bugs in bugzilla.inf |
not applicable for MPU as used only for weekly release |
14/12/11 |
Craig |
Edit blog article to include Inadvertent disk shutdown doc |
|
14/01/09 |
squinney |
Email a server example for auto reboot |
Done |
28/03/12 |
Alastair |
Email CCPAG about the possibility of cooperation between Schools in the event of disaster |
|
23/11/11 |
Toby |
Email Graeme Wood about changes to EASE authentication |
Graeme has replied sayaing that no major changes are imminent |
26/09/12 |
Alison |
Email ITPF re UniDesk |
wiki page to incorporate Angus's suggestions and any other useful contacts |
01/04/20 |
Chris |
Email out another reminder about remote working |
Done on 02/04/2020. |
08/05/13 |
Iain |
Email out details of changes to default RT quicksearch behaviour |
|
2015-09-09 |
Alison |
Email returning students re SL7 |
|
10/09/08 |
toby |
Email timetable for installing new Informatics root certificate |
Done |
23/08/17 |
Stephen |
Enable apacheconf log compression |
fail2ban is on the MPU ToDo list |
14/09/11 |
Services |
Enable pcounter on student servers (e.g. student.compute, student.login) |
|
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 |
13/07/11 |
Services |
Ensure pages under old groups documentation tree are unavailable |
Content still in CVS |
13/01/10 |
RAT |
Ensure shutdown of beowulf cluster is more manageable |
Tested but needs someone else to test |
12/10/2106 |
ALL |
Ensure SL6.8 upgrades are done |
Including kernel reboots as necessary - see SL66Profiles |
13/01/10 |
All |
Ensure that all machines in the server room have their corresponding entries in the fpdu/sxx.outlets maps labelled correctly |
|
05/08/2020 |
Toby |
Ensure Wiki page covering access to server rooms during COVID19 crisis is updated |
|
27/02/13 |
Services |
Evo firmware upgrades |
icsa-evo done, leaving only ifevo2 to be replaced by ifevo4 |
10/02/2016 |
Iain |
exFAT legality |
awaiting guidance on signing of NDA |
27/11/13 |
Toby |
Experiment with test LDAP server/virtual DICE from home using EDLAN VPN |
Done - email sent to MPU 29/11 |
26/10/11 |
ALL |
Feed back to inf-unit re JCMB EdLAN-link work |
ASAP! |
12/01/11 |
All |
feedback comments to George on Compromised DICE machine policy |
|
27/06/12 |
Graham |
File enhancement request about handling branches in source code |
|
13/03/13 |
Graham/mp-unit |
File enhancements to certain components to deal with USB/VirtualBox issues |
Tracked by Unit |
10/09/08 |
ascobie |
Find holidays policy page |
Done |
10/12/14 |
Chris |
Find home for dumpdep notes |
Where's my software? |
13/12/17 |
George |
Find out if there's a spare corner of the KB College server room for the old tape library |
There is |
24/11/10 |
All |
Fix cabling in rack 3 , Forum server room |
Done |
24/11/10 |
All |
Fix cabling in rack 3 , Forum server room |
|
26/08/09 |
Tim/Alison |
Fix inventory problems with HP desktops |
progress made but still problems with MDP machines - now fixed |
10/09/08 |
gdmr |
Fix routing component to allow static route to be added via LCFG resources |
https://bugs.lcfg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111 |
24/04/13 |
George |
Fix the wire_*.h headers |
Only the Forum managed DICE wires remaining. |
2015-08-26 |
Alison |
Flesh out Campus documentation |
See Windows section |
8/06/11 |
MPU |
Flesh out framework for handling firmware updates |
|
22/02/17 |
Alastair |
Follow up "functional accounts" with Angus / Abdul |
Report scheduled for 26/4/17 CCPAG meeting. Toby will coordinate our eventual response. |
24/02/10 |
Alastair |
follow up on 24/02/10 "home directories" discussion |
|
24/02/10 |
Alison (documentation project) |
follow up on 24/02/10 AFS discussion |
Tracked as part of documentation project |
14/04/10 |
services |
follow up on 24/02/10 AFS discussion: wrapper for long-running jobs, scripts server |
to be included in AFS enhancements project |
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. |
17/08/11 |
Craig/Neil |
Follow up on printing issues |
|
Structural Review |
CEG |
Formalise and resource support for self-managed platforms |
Discussed and being tracked at CEG |
12/05/10 |
All |
Forward suggestions for additions to self managed server room web page |
|
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 |
US |
From technical talk on mobile devices, add AV to Unit list or create project |
Added to Unit list |
27/11/13 |
Services |
From technical talk on mobile devices, add printing to Unit list or create project |
Done |
10/03/10 |
inf-unit |
Front-page for self-managed server room |
Initial skeleton |
TDM 21/05/14 |
Craig |
Further investigation of mobile printing |
To be submitted as a project. Done. |
23/11/11 |
Graham |
Generated mailing lists and grace periods |
GracePeriodsMeeting2013 - project proposal incoming - now being tracked in Unit |
17/08/11 |
MPU |
Grub and pxe passwords |
|
12/07/17 |
Neil/Toby |
Have chat about ciphers |
ApacheCipherChat20180222 |
26/09/18 |
All Units |
Have servers upgraded to SL7.5 by end October |
|
30/09/20 |
All Units |
Have SL7.8 upgrades done by Christmas |
|
25/03/15 |
All |
Help out with 5th May exams if possible |
Roger and Neil offered to help |
22/02/17 |
MPU / Inf |
hosts / DNS ordering |
Now on MPU list |
26/09/12 |
US/MPU |
How to spot off-the-air machines sooner? |
On the MPU to-do list |
27/04/2016 |
MPU |
HP 800 G2 computing.help and/or BIOS pages |
Transferred to MPU list |
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. |
23/11/11 |
All |
Identify which servers should have local home directories |
MPU have created a web page listing the machines |
13/11/2019 |
Iain, Support |
Improve documentation for GPUs in labs. Confirm access to machines and access to level 9 |
Chris is producing something |
11/09/13 |
mp-unit |
inf-level machine for package testing |
Done, see the inf layer |
14/04/10 |
Tim |
Inform Stuart and/or Teaching Committee of news service news |
|
14/10/09 |
Tim |
Inform support about the 'round-robin' changes for ssh'ing to lab machines |
|
11/09/13 |
George |
Infrastructure for commercialisation decant from AT |
Rolled into general AT decant |
29/01/14 |
Alison |
Innovative learning week |
See Informatics Innovative Learning week and US Unit report |
25/06/14 |
Tim |
inSpace robotarium |
Investigate concerns, then refer to CEG as appropriate. |
09/02/11 |
US |
install VM student lab development machine |
Machine should be given more meaningful name |
10/11/10 |
US |
Installing f13 on student.compute and student.login |
completed 23/2/2011 |
13/03/13 |
Alastair |
Investigate 32-bit Windows 7 laptops |
Most manufacturers supply 64=-bit Windows as a no-cost option. |
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. |
22/10/14 |
Services |
Investigate AFS aspect of AT network problem |
see RT 69292 - dropped due to inability to reproduce problem |
22/10/14 |
MPU/Inf |
Investigate AT network problem - why is data being lost/corrupted |
see RT 68813 |
09/06/10 |
Alison/George |
Investigate AT server inventory issues |
script now amended |
08/10/08 |
ascobie |
Investigate availability of central bulletin board service |
Done - the service has been suspended indefinitely |
13/01/10 |
All |
Investigate best use of temperature monitoring. |
Part of cc project |
23/02/11 |
RAT |
Investigate condor usage |
No-one appears to be using it so has been turned off |
13/03/13 |
Alastair |
Investigate consequences of delegating some headers to other Schools |
MPU will create project. Will use git. |
26/01/11 |
Stephen |
Investigate creating a header file for self-managed machines with dynamic IP addresses |
On MPU list |
28/01/15 |
toby |
Investigate handling of kerberos credentials during SL7 install |
It looks like kdcregister doesn't store any credentials on disk, so this isn't an issue |
10/12/14 |
MPU |
Investigate how local facilities for syslogd should be allocated |
On MPU list |
27/02/2019 |
Neil |
Investigate how O365-using Schools handle root mail |
RootMailOnO365Summary |
24/01/18 |
Ian |
Investigate how to best test IPv6 firewall holes |
see minutes |
24/09/14 |
User Support |
Investigate information given to new users about passwords |
Confirmed that text on pp.inf and in email sent to users needs to be changed. Confirmed that IS do not send anything that might cause confusion |
13/03/19 |
Ian |
Investigate IPv6 and Nagios |
Done. See the Nagios and IPv6 item of the Inf Unit Report, 27.3.2019. |
28/03/12 |
RAT |
Investigate issue of matlab status web page |
being tracked by RAT as part of flexlm component ap |
28/03/12 |
Graham |
Investigate issue of user crontabs further |
done - but going to write blog |
14/08/2019 |
Iain/MPU |
Investigate issues with cluster file server installation |
Iain to contact MPU |
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. |
11/12/13 |
neilb |
Investigate management of Wordpress |
See here |
2015-07-22 |
Services |
Investigate measures to reduce blog comment spam |
http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/blog, also added a link to this page to new blog email, and first post page. |
11/03/09 |
Craig |
Investigate MFD costs |
Action adopted by CEG |
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 |
TDM 21/05/14 |
Alastair |
Investigate Mobile AV options further |
Transfer to techs though RT |
25/03/2020 |
Craig |
Investigate more effective use of Teams for on-line meetings |
|
28/03/12 |
George |
Investigate new rack for AT server room |
RT:57384 |
28/09/11 |
Inf |
Investigate non-CO Jabber usage |
Part of DevProj:221 |
09/03/11 |
Inf/MPU |
Investigate NTP clocksource problem further |
Rebooting fenrir fixed problem |
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 |
12/03/14 |
Craig/Toby |
investigate progress of AFS patch at conference |
In Gerrit now, will be in 1.6.8 |
23/03/2016 |
Craig |
investigate redirecting autofs debug output away from syslog. |
|
28/03/12 |
MPU |
Investigate removing pam_kx509 module by default from PAM stack |
(from deferred) Now on to-do list |
27/01/21 |
Toby |
Investigate reporting scripts for entitlements |
done - co-utils/prometheus/entitlements-summary |
22/06/11 |
Toby |
Investigate resurrection web interface to jabber |
|
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. |
10/01/18 |
Iain |
Investigate setting up disc zeroing station |
|
14/01/09 |
alisond |
Investigate severe outage user communication options |
Done |
09/11/11 |
Toby/Graham |
investigate the LCFG client hang when switching to and from exam lockdown mode. |
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? |
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 |
2015-08-26 |
MPU |
Investigate usage of pkgsearch |
|
27/01/2016 |
Chris |
Investigate Virtual DICE diffs |
Done, and linked to from here |
11/02/09 |
Alastair |
Investigate whether access to the installroot should be limited to HOST_MANAGED |
In release mechanism |
13/02/13 |
Alastair |
Investigate whether we set up a secure location for examples of secondary authentication |
Now at SecondaryAuthentication |
23/11/11 |
Ian |
Investigate why nagios did not report the fibre problem sooner |
Done - see email sent to COs on 24.11.2011 |
25/02/15 |
Tim |
investigate why transmit and receive checksum unloading was disabled in the DICE virtualbox host configuration |
(It has now been enabled) Tim will investigate only if this becomes an issue in the future. |
22/01/2020 |
Services |
Investigate wiki speed |
Additional virtual hardware seems to have helped a bit |
26/10/11 |
Neil |
Investigate/report pcounter charging oddities |
|
TDM 21/05/14 |
Toby |
iOS Authentication |
Investigations complete. Written-up |
30/05/12 |
Alastair/Ian |
IPMI for new server models |
|
24/07/19 |
Inf Unit |
IPMI password length bug |
RT#96635 |
10/05/2016 |
George / Graham |
IPv6 for student labs |
No exams in labs so no requirement |
27/07/16 |
George |
IPv6 on wire M |
Done |
23/04/18 |
Alison |
IS unchaperoned server room access? |
Alison to document CEG decision with regards to this - see here |
12/09/12 |
Toby/Alastair |
IS's information provision |
|
26/09/12 |
Alison |
Issues regarding IS's handling of UniDesk tickets |
Aggregate 'in-house' fixes - see UniDeskTips |
25/07/09 |
George/Ian |
JCMB dust protection? |
All part of master plan |
30/05/12 |
George/Craig/Ian |
JCMB server room cleaning |
Scheduled for 18th June |
2015-10-14 |
MPU/Inf |
lcfg-dns - Discuss points raised in section 6 of Inf Unit report |
|
27/01/2016 |
RAT |
Lecturer/TA-created VirtualBox images? |
Moved to RAT to-do list |
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 |
26/10/11 |
services-unit |
Liaise with George/Malc re KB evo work |
RT:55508 |
2015-09-23 |
Chris |
lightdm WM choice menu image |
Updated (picture). |
27/04/11 |
Stephen |
Link component-version script |
|
12/06/13 |
Chris |
Link new "social media" guidelines into computing.help |
Now linked from the Guidelines page. |
06/04/11 |
US |
Link systems blog from main "systems" page |
|
12/10/11 |
Alastair |
Link T3 documents |
|
13/09/17 |
ALL Units |
List "http:" sites |
Neil will create project to cover move of sites to https |
27/04/2016 |
MPU |
Logging and reporting of unexpected USB events? |
included in Security week action |
12/11/08 |
Toby |
Look at LDAP logging |
Done |
fail2ban meeting |
Neil |
Look at logging all Apache logs centrally |
Fixed problem of logging to multiple places, but better done by project 540 |
11/03/09 |
mp-unit |
Look at om disowning credentials |
Done. Fix in release cycle |
28/10/09 |
Ian |
Look at power management for machines with IPMI v1.5 |
Documentation |
06/04/11 |
Neil/Stephen |
Look at RAID1 lockups |
Behaviour not unexpected |
17/08/11 |
Stephen |
Look at reboot/halt questions |
|
28/04/10 |
Ian |
look at splitting UPS mailing list |
Mailing list not split; instead, KB UPSes reconfigured to send email alerts as necessary every 12 hours, not every 2 minutes |
10/09/08 |
ascobie |
Look at whether can add remote USB connector for SmartBoards onto lecterns |
being tracked at meeting room committee |
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. |
12/11/14 |
Toby |
look into intermediate certificates |
Not possible at the moment but perhaps Summer 15. |
08/06/2016 |
MPU |
Look into issue of KVM guest segregation and present recommendations |
Recommend a separate server for non-CO access. |
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 |
12/08/09 |
Tim |
Look into politics of managing hamburg |
Done |
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. |
08/03/2017 |
MPU/Inf |
Look into time sync problem on VMs - possibly create script to report VMs with wrong time |
script done - no general problem noticed |
26/11/14 |
Craig |
Mac mini and VirtualBox. |
documentation |
28/11/12 |
Craig/Graham |
maelcum upgrade. |
Graham doing it |
10/06/09 |
Toby |
mail out about upcoming Cosign v3 upgrade |
Done |
12/08/09 |
Chris |
Mail out details of proposed cron job start time changes |
Done |
13/05/09 |
inf-unit |
Mail out to if-people re. wireless |
Done |
10/06/09 |
Graham |
mail out with details of autoreboot mechanism |
Ongoing |
27/02/2019 |
All |
Mail Stephen with comments/suggestions about recent data incident |
Meeting arranged for end March |
28/04/10 |
User Support |
Mail users about introduction of fail2ban |
|
26/09/12 |
Neil |
Mail-flood discussion: think about where to go next with root-mail |
added to Services to-do list. |
|
8/06/11 |
MPU |
make apacheconf-2 the default for SL6 |
|
10/09/08 |
mp-unit |
Make DBAN easier to use |
On MPU to-do list |
10/05/17 |
Toby |
make list of existing functional accounts available. |
Done |
8/9/10 |
Neil |
Make macros for putting criticallity information into netgroups more generally available |
|
12/05/10 |
Iain |
make platspec header entries explicitly SL5 |
|
17/06/2020 |
Iain |
Make proposed changes to ILCC GPU server PSU configuration |
|
11/11/15 |
Services |
Make sure arrangements for visitor printing are sufficiently widely promulgated |
|
27/05/15 |
Services |
Make Yesterday point to readonly volumes |
It's on the list |
28/05/14 |
Toby/Neil |
Making changes for ResetTheNet |
Some final changes after apache upgrade transferred to Services Unit to-do list |
8/9/10 |
RAT, Inf, US units |
Meet to discuss account issues |
Inf to convene |
14/12/11 |
Iain |
Meet with Beetle project to discuss issues preventing upgrade of their machines to SL6 |
|
27/02/13 |
Chris |
Merge remaining documentation items from ToDo list into RT queue |
... or at least gather everything together into one location. |
11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
Not sufficient to worry about |
11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
11/01/12 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
11/06/14 |
ALL units |
Minimise rootmail |
|
26/06/13 |
Ian |
Mirroring and retention of console logs |
Now mirrored to loghosts |
10/12/14 |
Craig |
Move actions from computing structure discussion discussion to operational meeting |
done |
09/03/11 |
Services |
Move afsdb1 to different hardware if necessary |
Not necessary |
10/01/18 |
All units |
Move all servers to SL7.4 |
Deadline amended to end of April 2018 |
24/05/17 |
Stephen |
Move apacheconf logrotate "sharedscripts" to lcfg layer |
|
28/01/09 |
iainr |
move beowulf profiles to normal LCFG servers and decomission illustrious |
Done |
30/07/14 |
Services Unit |
Move final AFS DB server off of KDC |
Added to Services Unit todo list |
24/04/13 |
All units |
Move junked machines to B.03 |
|
28/10/09 |
All |
Move kit from BP |
|
08/04/09 |
All |
Move kit from BP and FH - aimimg towards 2 sites + off-site at JCMB |
merged with another action |
12/09/12 |
ALL |
Move managed machines from SMSR to main server room |
Ian asked that this be dropped from here - 10/4/13 |
28/03/12 |
Chris |
Move Nagios code from individual hardware headers to server.h and small-server.h |
|
25/02/09 |
Alastair |
Move network tester to 2.09 |
Done; please remember to sign it out when you use it |
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 |
09/04/14 |
MPU |
Move the BMCs of all KB servers to the new KB server management subnet |
Stephen has moved BMCs, Ian confirmed |
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. |
11/04/18 |
All |
Move/delete data from nix:/disk/huge |
Done - thanks to Neil |
10/09/14 |
MPU |
MPU should consider adding MSI fix for HP DL180 bonding problems to appropriate server headers |
Done |
26/09/12 |
ALL/Ian |
nagios oddities |
See Infrastructure Report |
|
22/08/12 |
George |
Name and shame ancient AT kit |
|
2015-09-23 |
MPU/Inf |
named on SL7 |
See the inf-unit report MPU/Inf to meet to discuss. |
30/05/12 |
Toby/Neil |
New certificates |
Done 12/6/2012 |
23/08/17 |
Toby |
New student account emails |
Then a month allowed by password portal to fix up things forgotten |
12/12/12 |
All |
Note down occasions on which secondary authentication is required. |
See discussion items |
12/12/12 |
All |
Note down occasions on which secondary authentication should be required. |
See SecondaryAuthentication - MPU to create project |
26/10/16 |
US |
Notify cos of exam dates once known |
US report |
10/02/2016 |
Inf |
NUT service for SMSR |
Now an Inf Unit project |
13/01/2016 |
Tim/George |
On-line exams and EdLAN issues: schedule test |
No longer relevant |
09/12/15 |
Tim/Alison |
On-line exams and FRB closure |
Confident we now have sufficient skills. Phone contact with RAT is sufficient if required. |
09/12/15 |
Craig |
On-line exams and pandemic list? |
Documentation here |
27/04/2016 |
Stephen |
Open area UG access rights |
Tighten up - done - uses new @login/forumpublic/console role |
Structural Review |
CEG? |
Organise another documentation week |
Pencilled in for November 2015 |
25/02/15 |
Alison |
Organise CO talk at jamboree |
|
14/12/11 |
Iain |
Organise meeting about DHCP enhancements |
Done |
15/01/14 |
Ross/Jennifer |
Pandemic actions |
Names now 'upper-cased' |
14/11/12 |
Stephen/Neil/Toby |
perl-AFS package management. |
|
13/05/15 |
Neil |
Point "Contact Us" link at non-DICE support form |
Done |
09/07/14 |
Craig |
Poll for TDM options |
Last Wednesday afternoon of month |
25/03/09 |
Toby |
Poll ITPF re. EASE principals |
IS are consulting |
28/06/17 |
MP unit |
Post mortem on KVM server crash |
Results inconclusive |
17/08/11 |
Tim |
Post to sys-announce re database changes |
|
13/08/08 |
gdmr |
Potential gap in off-site provision |
Taken to CEG |
28/03/18 |
All units |
Prepare reports for scheduled JCMB and Forum power-down |
reminder email sent out 28/03/18 |
27/03/13 |
Alastair |
press for more say in when the building UPSes are turned off |
Done - to be turned back on 19/4/13 |
09/03/11 |
Services |
Prevent onward logins from SVN server |
Add ssh-daemon (re)configuration to unit ToDo list |
8/9/10 |
US Unit |
Print off criticality info once complete |
by next meeting |
27/04/2016 |
Alastair |
Printing, VAT - discuss with Martin |
|
24/07/13 |
ALL Units |
Procedures for penetration testing |
to be tracked at CEG |
27/02/2019 |
Alison/Jennifer |
Produce "get started" guide for new O365 users |
Mostly pointers to other documentation |
24/06/09 |
Toby |
Produce a web page detailing how to manually add signed server certificates when reinstalling services which use these certificates |
Done |
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 |
28/09/11 |
Inf |
Produce document gathering subnet definitions together |
live/subnets.h |
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 |
22/06/11 |
Neil |
Produce documentation on how to Cosign protect pages |
Done |
2015-07-22 |
MPU |
Produce documentation on how to locate packages under the new setup |
How to find packages |
14/03/12 |
US |
Produce folder of essential computing staff contact information |
Completed document in top drawer of 2.09 |
24/06/09 |
Neil |
Produce new guidelines on how to work around the issues with AFS and ssh public keys |
Updated "top 10" |
28/09/11 |
Inf |
Produce proposal for update to Jabber service |
DevProj:221 |
12/06/19 |
Chris |
Produce script to allow toohot to be easily used by self-managed machines |
Done amended action - mailed selfmanaged-sr with howto details |
25/01/17 |
MPU |
Produce script to fix "dracut" issues |
Stephen ran cron job |
26/07/17 |
MPU |
produce script to monitor package volume usage |
|
12/08/09 |
Simon |
produce short note summarising the School's position on the use of EASE passwords with services and comment on use of AD |
subsumed by central doc |
12/01/11 |
Stephen |
produce worked svn examples, in particular branching |
|
26/06/19 |
Tim |
Progress on remote resits |
|
13/10/10 |
gdmr |
Prometheus -> CEG pandemic list |
|
26/10/11 |
Neil/Toby |
Prometheus initial AFS volume creation |
|
26/05/10 |
Infrastructure Unit |
Propose scheme for root passwords |
|
25/10/17 |
Alastair |
Propose to Stuart Anderson that students-in-grace should not have access to lab machines |
Stuart has agreed |
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 |
11/09/19 |
Inf Unit |
Provide Person At Work sign for AT server room |
|
12/03/14 |
Graham |
Provide Services Unit with patch for role rfe map delete script |
|
27/04/11 |
Roger |
Provide Stephen with apacheconf/cosign information |
|
01/07/20 |
Craig |
Publicise advice for macOS AFS users to update client |
|
12/10/11 |
Alastair |
Publicise auto-swap-size algorithm |
see here |
12/10/11 |
Alastair |
Publicise auto-swap-size algorithm |
on lcfg wiki |
16/05/12 |
US Unit |
Publish a list of public servers |
On new website |
11/12/13 |
alisond |
Publish checklist for firewall holes |
Circulated to CEG and comments incorporated. Now circulate to COs. Done |
09/04/14 |
Alison |
put pandemic mail list information on Pandemic pages |
|
22/10/08 |
ktd |
Put actual number of tickets in RT resolution reports |
Done wef 12/11/08 |
22/10/08 |
ascobie |
Put holiday policy on CEG to-do list |
Done - on CEG wish-list |
08/06/2016 |
Services Unit |
Query users about NAS box purchases |
Several interesting points have emerged, it would appear that it's not all about cost. |
10/09/08 |
Convener |
Raise "Disaster Recovery Procedures" at CEG |
Done |
10/09/08 |
Convener |
Raise "Server Decomissioning Procedure" at CEG |
Done |
10/09/08 |
Convener |
Raise "server reboots for 5.2 upgrade" at CEG |
Done |
13/03/13 |
Toby |
Raise 32-bit Windows 7 issues on Heimdal list |
bugreport submitted. For details see minutes from 10/4/13 |
27/07/11 |
Alastair |
Raise BIOS settings for new machines at lcfg deployers meeting |
|
10/01/18 |
Alison |
Raise issue of Bayes support at CEG |
Bayes people are to be treated as Informatics staff for the present |
27/06/12 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of exam data policy with Liz |
Wait until college raises issue |
11/11/09 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of forwarding homepages with Perdita |
|
27/02/2019 |
Craig |
Raise issue of ISS using Google calendar with Neil H |
See above |
27/03/19 |
Craig |
Raise issue of more transparent recruitment at CEG |
|
30/09/20 |
Craig |
Raise issue of Mosh service at CEG |
CEG agreed that if this was to be done, it should be as a dev project. Replied to RT ticket (RT103876) asking them to submit project but the requester replied that this was no longer needed by him. |
27/02/2019 |
Alastair |
Raise issue of School office using Google calendar with Martin |
Project created to cover work |
12/09/12 |
Craig |
Raise MFD-printing evaluation issues upstream |
Craig has emailed Angus Rae |
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 |
26/09/12 |
Neil/Tim |
Raise posting to DB-generated teaching lists with ITO |
|
11/11/15 |
ALL |
Read Toby's roles-management problem statement |
TheProblemWithRoles ServicesUnitNograceEntitlements |
28/11/12 |
ALL |
Reboot ASAP for kernel updates. |
only catzilla left - completed Fri 19th Apr |
09/09/09 |
ALL |
Reboot machines as soon as possible for latest kernel |
|
23/02/11 |
US |
reboot remaining servers ASAP |
Just a few to do (btw, no need to reboot just for glibc changes) |
14/04/10 |
All |
reboot servers requiring SL5.4 updates |
|
12/08/09 |
All |
Reboot servers to pick up SL5.3 by end of August |
Overtaken by latest kernel |
27/01/10 |
US |
Reconfigure ex-mars machines with root partition on large disk |
Done |
13/09/17 |
MP Unit |
Reconsider "real" serial consoles for KVM hosts |
|
23/11/11 |
CEG |
Record arguments for and against local home directories |
On the CEG wish list |
14/03/12 |
Inf |
Record locations of RFE maps |
Linked at the end of the netmon pages |
09/12/15 |
All |
Reduce noise in lcfg status reports |
|
25/01/12 |
MP-unit |
Remote access arrangements to COs' desktops |
- dice/options/co-desktop.h |
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 |
18/05/11 |
All |
Remove redundant LCFG reminders |
|
28/06/17 |
All |
remove sl6 profiles that are no longer required |
by end of August. Stephen will send out updated list |
12/09/12 |
ALL |
Remove unneeded machines from AT server room |
venom now removed from rack and placed in B.03 |
08/11/17 |
US Unit |
Remove unrequired Tech access |
Done: the capability rfe/lcfg/write has been removed from the role techs . (See item 2 of https://www.dice.inf.ed.ac.uk/units/infrastructure/Projects/399-Second-factor/restricted/short-term-fixes-made.html) |
13/01/2016 |
All Units |
Remove unused kit from racks in IF, AT, KB |
|
09/11/11 |
Stephen |
Repeat AFS talks |
Scheduled for February |
09/04/14 |
All |
replace SSL certificates and restart affected services |
|
12/09/12 |
George/Alastair |
Replacement of Forum switches |
|
28/04/10 |
Iain |
report back on progress of FC12 port |
redundant |
11/12/13 |
gdmr |
Report recent compromise to Brian Gilmore |
Done. No response. |
28/09/11 |
All |
Restart VMs |
Enough done for now |
30/05/12 |
ALL |
Restart VMs on central as required |
|
12/06/13 |
Iain |
Revamp cluster shutdown scripts |
Scripts done. Now install them somewhere and write some docs. See HadoopCareAndFeeding |
01/07/20 |
ALL |
Review "nograce" entitlements |
Services, MPU, Inf, US done |
03/11/15 |
ALL |
Review "nograce" entitlements |
Done - Services, US, Inf and MPU |
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. |
24/01/18 |
Iain |
review School Data Protection statement |
|
13/10/10 |
ALL |
Review and act on Neil's non-CO-login list |
For amd removal - US done, will be in stable on Thursday 2nd December |
13/10/10 |
ALL |
Review and act on Stephen's "devel" bucket lists |
|
22/11/17 |
Alastair / George |
Review and update the compromised machine instructions |
moved to CEG |
24/11/10 |
All |
Review and update pandemic documentation |
Done apart from Database which is still in a state of flux |
2015-09-09 |
MPU / RAT |
Review and update SL7 release notes |
|
27/05/15 |
All units |
Review IF rack usage |
See ForumRackPopulation . See cos emails dated 8/7 about USB ID dongle information |
23/08/17 |
ALL |
Review InformaticsFunctionalAccounts page, and update as required |
|
10/10/2018 |
CEG |
Review initial 30-day account-use period |
45-day period agreed and implemented |
28/11/12 |
Toby |
Review JANET certs re new charging model |
|
26/11/14 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. Refer to the Nagios Tactical Overview and Comments pages. |
|
13/05/15 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. Refer https://nagios.inf.ed.ac.uk/nagios/cgi-bin/tac.cgi |
26/11/14 (recurrent) |
RAT |
Review nagios use. |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. Refer to the current Nagios 'comments' page. Reminder: CEG has decreed that systems should be fixed promptly or removed from monitoring. |
26/11/14 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use. |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. |
26/11/14 |
ALL units |
Review nagios use. |
(Recurrent action) |
26/11/14 |
All Units |
Review nagios use. |
The objective is to minimize the numbers of machines/services which are in permanently "error'ed-and-ack'ed" states. |
13/11/13 |
Alison |
Review NotifyUserDisruption page |
Done |
24/07/13 |
Alison |
Review old *-team lists |
|
08/10/14 |
All Units |
review pages in computing.help |
Everything prior to Jul 2018 - computing.help pages sorted by last review date |
27/01/2016 |
All |
Review pages in computing.help |
Marked as completed before next reoccurrence comes along in July |
08/10/14 |
Craig |
review pages in computing.help |
Procedures for use with the new Mac Mini - merged with other mac mini action |
12/11/14 |
Craig |
review password portal rewording |
Done |
31/08/11 |
Yan |
Review past RT tickets from Unidesk perspective |
|
13/12/17 |
MPU |
Review procedures to be followed when a machine goes self-managed, particularly the deletion of the DICE host principal |
Wiki page created |
13/01/2106 |
RAT |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
|
13/01/2106 |
All Units |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
Old kit can be put in B.03 but please ensure serial number or name of machine is clearly visible. Services to arrange removal of old tape library |
2015-06-24 |
RAT, US |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
Forum 'non-fibre' racks (i.e. racks 6-14 - see the map) are particularly full. baphomet, ratte, stakhanov to be removed 13/11, roseval (now removed), scargill to be virtualised |
2015-06-24 |
All units |
Review rack use in IF, AT, KB |
|
|
22/11/17 |
George |
Review rsyslog rules |
Easy part done. George to create project to cover hard part |
09/12/15 |
US |
Review SL7 tickets, and pass to MPU/RAT as required |
Upgrades have been restarted |
07/10/2020 |
All Units |
Review VMs and delete unused/unwanted ones |
|
09/06/10 |
Inf |
Review what's currently connected to fibre channels and investigate load balancing |
See the Inf Unit report, 14.7.2010 |
27/05/15 |
Services |
Review Yesterday documentation |
Done - http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/yesterday |
11/09/13 |
Alison |
RT best practice |
Document updated, Alison to mail out - RTBestPractice |
12/06/13 |
Chris |
Run fs flushall before DICE sleep |
Sleep now runs flushall |
06/04/11 |
services-unit |
SAN partition monitoring |
Use /proc |
09/04/14 |
User Support |
scan self managed machines with tool provided by Graham |
Done |
27/04/2016 |
Services |
Schedule WordPress upgrades |
on going - going to SL7 them at the same time |
09/07/14 |
Alastair |
Schedule/advertise "computing structure discussion" discussion |
Alastair to write up meeting |
10/02/2016 |
Alastair |
Security week |
Each group met to discuss priorities - See CEG report Alastair to write up notes from CEG meeting on 4th May. (being tracked at CEG) |
22/06/11 |
All |
see which pages, if any, are still relevant in the old groups documentation tree |
|
27/02/2019 |
Inf Unit |
Send out general warning about AT server room power work |
|
10/06/09 |
Stephen |
send out mail detailing ancient entries in live_testing_defaults.rpms |
Done |
25/07/09 |
ALL |
Send partition layout thoughts to Stephen |
|
27/04/2016 |
US |
Server room desktops |
Done |
27/04/2016 |
ALL |
Server specification |
Re-read and comment on the document |
26/06/13 |
US-unit |
Server-room desktops to be "full CO" |
|
12/02/14 |
Alastair |
Service Catalogue |
Take topic to CCPAG. Delayed until next CCPAG meeting |
|
12/02/14 |
Alastair |
Service Catalogue |
Review/remove fields in service catalogue |
Now being tracked at CEG |
14/01/15 |
George/Alison |
Set ports in all Forum meeting rooms to Conf110 apart from existing DICE ports which should be MAC-locked |
Done. |
22/08/12 |
George |
Set up aliases for DHCP servers |
ifdhcp, atdhcp, kbdhcp |
12/11/14 |
alisond |
set up meeting about visitor accounts |
Tuesday 2nd at 14:00 in IF-4.02 |
2015-08-26 |
George/ALL |
Set up meeting to discuss internal documentation |
FutureofInternalTechnicalDocumentation Action kept until week scheduled |
23/02/11 |
MPU |
Set up perpetual mirroring of latest CD image (LCFG disaster recovery) |
|
28/09/2016 |
MPU |
Set up script to mail out monthly firmware update reminders |
Now on MPU to-do list |
30/10/13 |
Toby/Graham |
Set up scripts area in CO group space |
/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/group/cos/utils/ |
28/03/12 |
Alastair |
Set up USENIX membership |
Ordered |
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 |
11/08/10 |
All |
SL5.5 servers to be rebooted by end of August |
Still waiting on one RAT machine |
28/06/17 |
George |
SLAAC-style forward DNS for server wires |
All now done. A handful of non-server wires remain. |
10/02/2016 |
Ian |
SMSR power down - Create an 'Emergency' page on computing.help |
See https://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/smsr-emergencies and http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/smsr-ups-monitoring |
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 |
22/09/10 |
Neil |
Speak to Alison about Staffmail forwarding |
|
28/08/19 |
Alison |
Speak to Iain about GPU desktops |
|
27/07/16 |
Ian |
Speak to IS re ESSIS replacement |
Done: no action required by us; some problems/issues (namely: limitations on allowed number of users; deficiencies in the scheduler) with the previous service have been fed back. |
08/03/2017 |
Neil |
Speak to Jon about request for web address - bayes.ed.ac.uk |
Done - DNS delegated to us |
09/02/11 |
RAT |
split ipfilter.h |
Over to RAT for testing |
12/02/2020 |
Services |
Staffmail removal implications |
|
12/02/14 |
Alison |
staffmail vs exchange |
Glitch last August was not procedural i.e. not due to human error |
25/03/2020 |
Neil |
Start computing.help page on debugging remote working |
Initial page at http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/network-tests |
28/10/09 |
All |
Start planning move from FH |
Complete! |
2015-08-12 |
All |
Start using new VPN configurations |
See blog. Old configurations turned off on 2nd November |
10/11/10 |
Alison |
Stephen suggested that date in 'when raised' field should link to the minutes |
|
27/01/2016 |
RAT/MPU |
Student lab headers |
|
13/01/2016 |
RAT/Inf |
Subnets for clusters |
Tracked at CEG, using wire 'O' for now |
10/11/10 |
Inf |
Suggested that there should be a pinboard in server room |
Done, 11.3.2011 |
12/06/13 |
MP-unit |
Sundry "criticality" things from discussion |
|
25/03/2020 |
Alison |
Support staff accessing user's own machines to debug problems. |
No longer relevent. |
09/07/14 |
Stephen |
Survey partition use and disc sizes and revise and expand EL7PartitionLayout |
|
13/09/17 |
Carol |
Sweep of FH for junk |
A14 now clear of all Informatics stuff. A15 has had an uplift from CCL. Some of the remaining desktops will be going to charity and some need to be brought to the Forum |
10/07/13 |
Alastair |
switchtoinfdb frequency? |
Frequency increased. Monitored and all seems well. |
13/05/09 |
Iain/Toby/Alastair |
Take "certificates" to CCPAG. |
No longer needed |
12/06/13 |
Alastair |
Take "power-down evacuation?" to Building Committee |
No action to be taken |
10/09/08 |
neilb |
Take "recycling of old machines" to ITPF |
There's a talk coming up... |
09/10/13 |
Alastair |
Take "security bollards" issues to Building Committee |
Security have agreed. Dave H has a key. Sheila is aware. |
10/07/13 |
George/Alison |
Take "self-managed machines with firewall holes" to CEG |
See CEG minutes for August 12th |
23/06/10 |
Roger |
Take "user documentation" discussion points back to the project group |
done |
26/11/14 |
Neil |
Take "web pages with DP issues" to a TDM |
Did this as an AOCB on the 26/11/14 |
28/04/10 |
Alison |
take concerns over new web site to health and safety committee |
|
31/08/11 |
Convener |
Take iDEA-lab-type web sites to CEG for guidance |
|
2015-08-12 |
Craig |
Take IPMI issue to CEG |
MPU and Inf Unit will discuss |
10/12/14 |
Craig |
Take issue of copyright images on webpages to Web Strategy Group |
Sub-group to be set up by Steve Scott |
10/12/14 |
Craig |
Take issue of copyright images on webpages to Web Strategy Group |
|
17/02/21 |
Alastair |
Take issue of firming up default rules for support for self-managed servers to CEG |
|
09/03/11 |
Tim |
Take issue of Matlab usage to Ian Stark |
No change for moment but monitor situation |
2015-07-22 |
Roger |
Take issue of package names to LCFG deployers meeting |
|
12/06/19 |
Craig |
Take issue of server room monitoring back to CEG |
|
10/02/21 |
MPU |
Take on ownership of wake script in coutils area |
|
25/04/12 |
Alastair |
Take PGP/GPG discussion to CCPAG |
CCPAG Meeting 24/10 |
22/08/12 |
Iain |
Take SL6.3 decision to RAT for consideration |
|
12/08/09 |
Craig |
take the proposals for a new general purpose Informatics mailing list to Dave |
Done |
23/04/18 |
Craig |
Take unmaintained personal web pages to Web Strategy Group |
|
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 |
10/06/09 |
Tim/Alison |
talk to CSTR about BP servers |
Ongoing |
28/03/12 |
Services Unit |
Talk to IS about MDP print queues |
UniDesk I120409-0390 - I'd say done now |
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 |
24/06/09 |
Alastair |
Talk to Perdita and Dave Robertson about further steps we can take to promote social communication within the school |
|
14/03/12 |
US |
Talk to research groups about server location |
Being done as part of SL6 upgrade |
25/09/19 |
Ian |
Talk to School procurement about investigating the power requirements of prospective purchases |
27/03/13 |
Craig |
talk to Sheila about what our HP warranties provide |
Done - they provide on-site warranty |
08/05/13 |
Alison |
Talk to techs about their RT queue |
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09/07/14 |
Craig |
Tape library dust filters? |
Doesn't have them |
13/01/10 |
All |
Test out the new query tools as per RAT report for 13/01 |
completed |
09/04/14 |
Craig |
test volume release script with x86_64 version of perl::AFS |
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13/01/10 |
Alastair |
Text messages to be sent to willing COs and policy on subsequent action to be decided. |
Take to CEG |
13/05/09 |
Toby/Simon |
Think about afs principal (cf. chatroom) |
principal will be deleted |
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 |
17/08/11 |
ALL |
Think about IS helpdesk |
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13/01/2016 |
ALL |
Think about KVM servers and VMs with end users |
Here's a discussion document: On the segregation of KVM guests All to read for next Operational Meeting |
22/07/09 |
Craig/Toby |
Thrash out final solution for keytabs |
Done |
13/01/2016 |
All |
Tidy inappropriately-develop machines |
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23/11/11 |
RAT |
Tidy junk out of AT server room racks |
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26/06/13 |
Ian |
tlsdir locations |
Now a X3 round-robin |
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. |
24/01/18 |
Alastair |
To investigate using Teams (rather than Slack) for alternative chat |
current status |
10/11/10 |
RAT |
To look into Rootmail appearing to be polluted by the webots component |
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08/10/14 |
Services |
Trawl for pages restricted by ip address rather than via cosign |
No active ones in /teaching, leaving about 6 active ones elsewhere |
08/10/14 |
Services |
Trawl for pages restricted by ip address rather than via cosign |
Neil identified 6 to be fixed - I've fixed the ones I'm going to |
28/03/12 |
Craig |
Trawl through user and group space for cookies |
Take to HoS; write report - tracked at CEG |
25/01/12 |
RaT-unit |
Try ColTeX on SL6 again |
Patch distributed |
14/02/18 |
All |
Try out the replacement NX service see computing.help |
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28/11/12 |
Inf-unit |
Try to track down bogus SSIDs. |
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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 |
13/08/08 |
gdmr |
Unblock IRC ports |
Done |
23/07/08 |
inf-unit |
Unify naming of switches with floorbox ports |
Done, Feb 2009 |
09/06/10 |
All |
Units to consider their future server needs |
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22/09/10 |
Inf,US |
Units to record system criticality using Neil's macros |
All now complete |
28/07/10 |
RAT |
Units to set sysinfo.criticality if default of low is not appropriate |
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2015-09-09 |
Services |
Update computing.help re quotas |
Done |
08/05/13 |
RAT |
Update computing.help to emphasise that students needing significant processing power for their projects should preferably use ECDF |
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11/01/12 |
Craig |
Update docs to warn against some characters in passwords |
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05/08/2020 |
Craig |
Update front page of password portal |
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01/04/20 |
MPU |
Update MOTD on XRDP servers |
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2015-06-10 |
Neil/Chris |
Update not-a-service documentation |
Updated |
12/11/14 |
cms |
update Pandemic planning page to say that people should add themselves to appropriate mailing lists |
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11/12/13 |
cms |
Update pandemic planning page with rationale for exercise |
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13/05/15 |
RAT |
Update SSL certificates |
beast.inf, issrt.inf, rt4.inf - completed |
01/04/20 |
Neil |
Update VNC documents |
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16/05/12 |
Alison |
Update wiki page on procedures on safe disposal of disks |
Procedure Document |
27/02/13 |
ALL |
upgrade remaining SL6.2 machines |
... or take out of service |
25/04/12 |
All Units |
Upgrade sl6.1 servers to sl6.2 |
Deadline end of May - expect deadline will be met. It was. |
13/08/08 |
inf-unit |
Various Forum server room things |
Done |
2015-0610 |
MPU |
What does sync mean on a KVM client? |
On MPU list |
12/02/26 |
Alison |
Windows XP - end of life |
Take to CEG to discuss policy |
2015-10-14 |
MPU/Inf |
Wire headers &c. - Discuss points raised in section 4 of Inf Unit report - e.g. eth0 or not?; &c. |
MPU believe sufficiently discussed. eth0 point will have to wait on NG network component |
23/07/08 |
inf-unit |
Wireless in the Forum |
Done; RT:37791 |
28/03/12 |
All Units/US |
Work through cookie list identifying cookies for which they are responsible |
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13/10/10 |
Inf |
Write a "what do do when things go wrong" document |
posted in server room |
26/10/16 |
US |
Write a page on exFAT options |
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25/04/18 |
Ian |
write a report on what is happening in AT server room |
Done - see email to cos 3/5/18 |
11/11/15 |
Toby |
Write a roles-management document for discussion |
TheProblemWithRoles |
11/04/12 |
Alastair/George |
Write letter about the continuing cooling issues in LV room. |
not required as issue resolved |
23/11/11 |
Alison |
Write procedure for contacting users about unscheduled service disruptions |
Done - see here |
31/08/11 |
Alison |
Write up relationship with IS helpdesk |
To be done as part of DevProj:177 |
29/01/14 |
Alison |
www.anc/dtc |
Met Pim. www.anc/dtc will move to new Wordpress site on Mon 16th Nov |