Meeting:2009/07/02

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/07/02 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 25 June 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 9 July 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• SOWN Core Network Update (Davetaz and morse)
  • Sown-gw deployment
    • Outstanding things to move from sown-nat
      • portal to move to sown-auth... portal.sown.org.uk vhost?
      • sown-bot to move to sown-vpn ... (/opt/sownbot would be best)
        • this also requires the logs database to move
        • www.sown.org.uk needs to point at the new location
        • scripts that talk to sown-bot will need updating, eg. Nagios
    • Quagga config will need updating when sown-gw moves.
  • New servers!
    • New servers have arrived.
    • MAC address lists (Leth forgot if we decided on a location for this)
      • These are being stored in DNS (therefore on sown-auth, cached on sown-nat and sown-vpn).

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes
  • Problematic Nodes: Drummond Arms, Highfield Crescent, Archers Road
    • Work has been carried out this afternoon on Drummond Arms - updated wireless driver has been installed
    • Highfield Crescent came back up after the node admin restarted it
    • Archers Road came back up after the node admin returned
  • Update script issues (SjH)
    • Needs to be set up to be run by cron
  • Wifi driver fix (morse)
    • As above, this has been deployed on the Drummond Arms node, and a couple of others (morse and AndrewWillmott
  • IPv6 issues (morse)
    • No progress, unable to repeat problem
  • Halls' Bars' nodes (daveruss)
    • We are happy to deploy at Chamberlain and at the WSA Union
    • We have also offered our services in helping to identify suitable locations for network points

• Admin Tasks
  • Login Monitoring (Leth and Graph Man)
    • A new graph has been created https://sown-auth.ecs.soton.ac.uk/stats/graphs.php?type=login30t&counttype=login
    • We want to monitor success ratio over a 24 hour period, per domain.
  • Guest accounts (daveruss)
    • Affected guests need to fill out a form and return to daveruss
  • Eduroam test account (morse)
    • Systems team agree that this would be a good idea, but this would require support from iSolutions as ECS do not have a direct peering with Eduroam.
  • LDAP World Domination (Wiki LDAP Authentication) (Leth)
    • This wiki now allows SOWN community account users (in the relevant group) to log in using their credentials.
  • SOWN-Bot svn functionality
    • Uncommitted files are now logged into the database, so individual file changes can be
  • User Account cleanup
    • Wiki
      • Crwilliams will complete this
    • LDAP - postpone until LDAP re-engineering?
      • We plan to re-engineer this when sown-dev is back
    • Servers
      • Quite a few old accounts are already locked. We need to check this and delete really old ones.

• Progress on Todo list
  • Specifically relating to old (imported from wiki) todo items.
    • This was discussed and updated as necessary.

• Projects
  • WiMAX (morse)
  • 802.11r (Jos)
  • Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
  • SOWN single Eduroam cloud (SjH, Davetaz and morse)
  • SOWN VoIP telephone replacement (was SOWN VoIP and Extending Network Coverage) (Lionel)
  • Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)
    • No progress on any of these this week

• AOB