Meeting:2009/04/30

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/04/30 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 23 April 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 7 May 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes
  • Drummond node kernel paniced and for some reason didn't reboot. SjH is looking into the problem. This is a different problem to that seen previously.
  • Highfield Crescent is either off or has also crashed.
  • daveruss to look into who needs to return nodes before they leave the Uni.
  • Time default script has been rolled out to most nodes, there is also a script to test if the upgrade has been run.
  • It was also discussed that we should have a new nagios script to check that nodes have been upgraded with the latest install scripts on Auth.

• Admin Tasks
  • A new radius login php/c script is now running on Auth which also provides greater security.
  • Startup Issues - Nat is now fixed to allow port 4444.
  • Database Permissions Audit (crwilliams)
    • Colin has been looking into this and is constructing a list of things ready to be moved or deleted.
  • LDAP Query Permissions Audit needed?
    • Is a good point and should be looked into at some point.
  • Nagios 'Reminders' to 'support' email address (crwilliams)
    • Are these necessary? - Yes but they need to be snapshot not a digest.
    • If so, at what frequency? - 8am, 12pm , 4pm
    • How about via sown-bot? - Leave as is.

• SOWN Core Network Update (Davetaz)
  • 6core and Dev are working on a life support machine which will be switched off soon, they need to be replaced ASAP.
  • Nat will be replaced with a new box and nat will become dev. The new NAT will then duplicate as NAT and 6core with 3 interfaces.
  • Final outcome being one less box on the network.
  • We need to leave the bottom 3U of our rack free for a UPS.

• WiMAX
  • We are still working on get building plans. Otherwise no progress

• 802.11r (Jos)
  • One of the nodes works, the second needs to be slaved against it. The setup node scripts need to be tweaked to support multiple node types.
  • Work is in progress.

• AOB
  • None

Undiscussed

• Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
• SOWN-single Eduroam cloud (SjH, Davetaz and morse)
• Extending Meraki Coverage (Lionel)
• SOWN VoIP (Inipairus)
• Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)