April 27, 2005

Meeting Minutes - April 27, 2005

* Present: Aybars, Dan, Kevan, Skylar

* Talked about wire management in D224 closet
- D-rings on mounting board
- Two 3ft racks to split heat/cables
- In-rack cable management
- Mountings for all equipment
- Panduit for fiber
- Cut vents in doors?

* Two CS VLANs:
- One for public ports in Dennis, connected off most ports on Summit 48. No NFS/NIS; only XDM/SSH to private VLAN. DHCP forwarded to private VLAN.
- One for private traffic (e.g. servers). Entire Summit 24 can be dedicated to this, with a few ports on the Summit 48 for the admin office, Charlie's office, and 4th floor closet.

* Figure out what's up with quarkprime

* Configure PHP-GD for Toby

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April 20, 2005

Meeting Minutes - April 20, 2005

Present: Dan, CharlieP, Skylar
* quarkprime login (Skylar, Dan)
* TomS (CharlieP)
* nmh (Skylar)
* Talk to Kevan about next Wednesday meeting (Skylar)

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April 13, 2005

Meeting Minutes - April 13, 2005

Present: CharlieP, Aybars, Dan, Skylar

* Quark' (Dan, Aybars)
* Colored backing on ACL sign (Skylar)
* Get chair list from Mary Lou (Skylar)
* Log host on bagend (Skylar)
* Get admin cluster functional (Skylar, Aybars)
* Test FTP from Miller Farm (CharlieP)

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March 16, 2005

Meeting Minutes - March 16, 2005

Present: Dan, Skylar

* Run up-to-date Nessus against CS network from a machine outside the CS network. (Skylar, Dan)
* Figure out what' up with Maple update. (Dan)
* Get quarkprime up to speed. (Skylar, Dan?)
* Work on LDAP authentication. (Skylar)
* Get budget from TomS (CharlieP)
* Work on admin cluster over break. (Aybars)

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February 23, 2005

Meeting minutes (2.23.05)

- Postgres backup [Skylar]
- Millie [Dan, Skylar, Aybars]
- ACL sign (color backing) [Skylar]
- Proto's root password
- Terminal server [Skylar]
- Weather monitoring on AGS [Skylar]
- Phones [CharlieP]
- Chair list [Skylar]
- Maple upgrade [Dan, Skylar, Aybars]
- Admin cluster [Skylar, Aybars]
- Pricing and upgrades [Skylar, CharlieP]
- Backup testing [All]

Stuff Charlie needs to do:
- Contact Wyse about the Winterm
- Buy new battery for the BackUPS Pro 650

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February 16, 2005

Meeting notes (2.16.05)

- Postgres backup [Skylar]
- Perl script
- Millie [Dan, Skylar, Aybars]
- ACL sign [Skylar]
- Proto's root password
- Terminal server [Skylar]
- Weather monitoring on AGS [Skylar]
- Phones
- Chair list [Skylar]
- Maple upgrade [Dan, Skylar, Aybars]
- Admin cluster [Skylar, Aybars]
- Pricing and upgrades

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February 09, 2005

Meeting Minutes - February 9, 2005

Present: Dan, Aybars, Skylar

* Get NIS working on office1 (Dan)
* Upgrade RealPlayer on production ACL image (Aybars)
* Get cexec working on image (Skylar)
* Call Dell about acl15 (Skylar)
* Look into Jabber IM server (Skylar)
* Install SSL certificate on quark (Dan)
* Look into cdrom module disappearing (Skylar)
* Install wire management in cluster closet (?)

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February 02, 2005

Meeting Minutes - February 5, 2005

- Present: CharlieP, Skylar, Dan, Aybars

* Server move
- Install fiber from Noyes wiring closet to cluster closet (Skylar, CharlieP)
- Move Summit 24 to cluster closet (Skylar)
- Move quarkprime to cluster closet for testing (Skylar)
* Fix time sync problems on ACLs (Dan)
* Work on borken Linksys AP (Aybars)
* Work on Ethernet terminal server (?)

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January 26, 2005

Meeting Minutes - January 26, 2005

Present: Dan, Skylar

* Get Aybars keys and timesheet on WebDB (CharlieP)
* Meet Sunday afternoon for 4th floor cleanup (Skylar, Dan, Aybars, CharlieP)
* Get time sync working on ACLs (Dan, Aybars)
* Figure out NFS mounting issue on ACLs (Skylar)
* Fix CD kernel module problem wrt imaging on ACLs (Skylar)
* Write up documentation for Amanda backup/restore (Skylar)
* Get new monitor in ACL lab (Dan)
* Reinstall Solaris 9 on millie (Dan)
* Get NetBSD working again on bagend (Skylar)
* Get Aybars wheel access on ACLs (Skylar)
* Investigate bare-metal recovery with Amanda (Skylar)
* Pimp out the admin office with new LCD monitors (Dan, Skylar)

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January 19, 2005

Meeting Minutes - January 19, 2005

- Present: CharlieP, Dan, Aybars, Skylar

* Chair count (Skylar)
* Meet Saturday at 8AM (EST) for cleaning (CharlieP, Skylar, Aybars, Dan)
* Backup schedule will be to maintain full set of incremental backups for a month, full monthly backups for a semester, and an end-of-semester full backup for another semester. Need to order one more magazine w/ tapes. (Skylar, CharlieP)

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December 06, 2004

Meeting Minutes

Present: CharlieP, Dan, Skylar

- Backup - Split / /usr [Skylar]

- Equipment List [Dan, Skylar]
- Optical scroll mice (Dell)
- +512 MB memory per machine
- 1 year warranty extension (may be cheaper as 2 year extension)
- external scsi cabinet
- 1 with cables, 1 w/o cables
- 4 IP terminals

- FreeBSD 5 migration on admin cluster + LDAP

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November 15, 2004

Meeting Minutes - November 15, 2004

Present: CharlieP, Dan, Skylar

* New backup scheme with /,/usr on one tape once a week. /clients and /var on separate tape.
* Give Hassan codd for DB project
* Hardware list
- Gigabit switch
- IP terminals
- Optical scroll mice

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October 25, 2004

Meeting Minutes - October 25, 2004

Present: Dan, Skylar, CharlieP

* Error trapping in new backup script (Skylar)
* Create image plugin with offset from convert (Skylar)
* lm_sensors on image (Dan)

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October 18, 2004

Meeting Minutes - October 18, 2004

Present: Skylar, Dan, Charlie

* Modify no_dump.sh to add .mozilla cache and *.iso (Skylar)
* Continue working on sensors (Dan)
* Trim weather-cam (Skylar)
* Use Ethereal to track down RT problem on image (Skylar)
* Write script to send mail to top n disk hogs (Dan)
* Check for image plugin for MT auth (Skylar)
* Work on hopperprime (Skylar)

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October 11, 2004

Meeting Minutes - October 11, 2004

Present: Dan, Charlie, Skylar

* lm_sensors on some machine in 4th-floor closet (Dan)
* Backup script rewrite (Skylar)
* Tape drive addressable as one unit (Skylar)

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September 13, 2004

Meeting Minutes - September 13, 2004

Present: Charlie, Dan, Skylar

* Talk to HIP about moving proto out of the closet (midterm break).

* Change keys?

* Take VT220 from Stanley.

* Mylex battery.

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August 30, 2004

Meeting Minutes - August 30, 2004

Present: Charlie, Dan, Skylar

Image list:

* Ask Jim to try reading theory PS on laptop in Preview

Quark list:

* Fix lpd to return FQDNs

* Investigate FreeBSD 5-RELEASE

* More details from Toby wrt PHP problem, how critical?

* Use strace to fix dvips option

* Apache problems

Long-term:

* Automated image testing (with applied groups?)

Other list:

* Clean up fourth floor

* Move fan into 2nd floor closet

* Gigabit between quark/quarkprime/backup. Does quark support jumbo frames?

* Quarkprime's RAID battery

Next meeting:

* Change root passwords.
* Fan on 4th floor.
* Key system.
* Discuss switch/hub utilization
* Account expiration

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