Meeting:2009/07/09

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/07/09 at 19:00 in Coffee Room

Previous meeting: 2 July 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 16 July 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• SOWN Core Network Update (Davetaz and morse)
  • Sown-gw deployment
    • Few problems migrating routes from Sown-nat
  • New Sown-dev deployment
    • Decided that the old Sown-nat will become Sown-dev or possibly one of the spare R200 may be used
  • Sown-voip deployment
    • Will also be an ECS VoIP server
  • New Ford will be deployed now [[User:Morse|morse has got it to behave

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes
  • Problematic Node: Newton Road
    • Came back up. morse has put on the wifi driver fix and rebooted
  • Update script cron job (SjH)
    • No real progress
  • Wifi driver fix (morse)
    • Has been gradually put on nodes that are up
  • IPv6 issues (morse)
    • Patched kernel will solve some of these problems
  • Halls' Bars' nodes (daveruss)
    • Will organise to meet up with the Satellites Bar manager and do a survey of the bars next week hopefully

• Admin Tasks
  • Login Monitoring (Leth and Graph Man)
    • monitoring % failures in the last 24 hours working out the values for this
  • Guest accounts (daveruss)
    • daveruss has submitted the guest account forms to admin office
    • Alternative to guest accounts would be having accounts to access to the SOWN network servers only that don't require any ECS infrastructure.
      • How could we do this VPN or SSH? SSH is more reliable but VPN would be nice
  • Eduroam test account (morse)
    • Need to find out site contact
  • LDAP World Domination (Wiki LDAP Authentication) (Leth)
  • Needs to be fixed

• User Account cleanup
  • Wiki
    • Some accounts couldn't be merged: DRN05R, morse, StuartHarland, AndyLandy
  • LDAP
    • See above
  • Servers
    • Still needs to be done

• Next "Saturday Surgery" plans - date?
  • 25th July
  • Subsequent surgeries should be regularly pencilled in for 3rd Saturday of the month.

• Projects
  • WiMAX (morse)
    • No progress
  • 802.11r (Jos)
    • No progress
  • Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
    • No progress
  • SOWN single Eduroam cloud (SjH, Davetaz and morse)
    • No progress
  • SOWN VoIP telephone replacement (was SOWN VoIP and Extending Network Coverage) (Lionel)
    • See above
  • Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)
    • Not present

• Progress on Todo list
  • No time

• AOB
  • Lionel will be de facto Andrew_W for the week
  • morse has almost finished the mobile phone for Nagios alerts
  • Need to monitor UPS power level needs to be moitored to work out thresholds for Nagios