Meeting:2009/07/16

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/07/16 at 19:00 in Coffee Room

Previous meeting: 9 July 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 23 July 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• SOWN Core Network Update (Davetaz and morse)
  • Sown-gw deployment
    • Has been deployed in a temporary place, ECS is awaiting patch cables. It isn't railed and the rails are still in 32 as of this meeting.
    • Sown-6core's config is on Sown-gw and just need plugging in.
  • Sown-dev deployment
    • Old Sown-dev has been removed from the rack but is still in B59 L1 awaiting collection by 2 people.
  • Sown-voip deployment
    • No progress.

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes
  • Update script cron job (SjH)
    • No progress
  • Wifi driver fix (morse)
    • All but one node has been updated (Highfield Crescent)
    • Will write a automated script for doing this
  • IPv6 issues (morse)
    • Remove from agenda could not reproduce
  • Halls' Bars' nodes (daveruss)
    • Have spoken to satellites bar manager and will do a tour of bars Thursday/Friday 23rd/24th
    • daveruss and morse will go on this tour daveruss will confirm arrangements.

• Admin Tasks
  • Login Monitoring (Leth and Graph Man)
    • No real progress
  • Eduroam test account (morse)
    • No progress
  • User Account cleanup (crwilliams)
    • Wiki
      • Some merging still needs be done
    • LDAP
      • Not doing yet until will have new Sown-dev
    • Servers
      • Done

• Mobile phone Nagios alerts (morse)
  • Work in progress
  • Java is rubbish
  • There are a few other problems (davetaz offered to help with this)

• UPS Monitoring (morse)
  • Awaiting Systems Team input

• Alternative to guest accounts (Davetaz)
  • Need to give up backup2 so that we can create SOWN guest accounts and guarantee that people won't be able to get onto the ECS network

• Saturday 25th July Surgery plans
  • Location Tracking
  • Set up new Sown-dev
  • Upstream bandwidth checking
  • Redirect on login not timeout
  • Writing wiki pages
  • Contact us on captive portal page

• Projects
  • WiMAX (morse)
    • daveruss will draft an email
  • 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)
    • No progress
  • 802.1x (TheBase)
    • Tested most recent client. Still some bugs that have been reported. Waiting for next update
  • Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)
    • Can take KisMet traces and submit them into the database
    • How can this be integrated into the SOWN.
    • Observations from SOWN users. Upload via web page.
    • Authentication tool to prove you are after logging into SOWN
    • project to use new Sown-dev
    • Work on at next Saturday surgery

• Progress on Todo list
  • Broken links - crwilliams has a list

• AOB
  • Don't need to worry about copying backups from Sown-nat to Sown-gw. We have enough backups already
  • Should we not host our DNS in ECS
    • Will give us more flexibility for updates
    • We can ask ECS to slave their SOWN records against our primary name server, that way we can easily update it, and it will be tollerant to failure.
    • Should also get 2001:630:d0:f600::/55 reverse delegated to us as well.