Meeting:2009/08/13

Meeting (to be) held on 2009/08/13 at 19:00 in Access Grid Room

Previous meeting: 6 August 2009 19:00:00 Next meeting: 20 August 2009 19:00:00

Minutes

• SOWN Core Network Update (Davetaz and morse)
  • Sown-gw is now deployed in its final location but ECS's database has yet to be updated

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes
  • Wifi driver fix (morse)
    • morse will run a task list script that will make sure all deployed nodes are updated when they are up
    • Task list utility needs to allow node groups to be defined to save having to create a job for each node. SjH will do this
  • Halls' Bars' nodes (daveruss)
    • All JCRs want wireless
    • We need to make sure that they are deployed in a secure location
    • We need to make sure that someone at SUSU is ultimately responsible for the loss/damage of these nodes
    • We are running out of nodes. Davetaz will buy an OpenMesh node to see if they are a suitable replacement
  • Default bandwidth limit
    • To do list tasks have be created to sort this out
  • Bandwidth accounting for multiple users on same device
    • Discourage multiplexing accounts on a single device
    • Limit the usage for a device on a day but only limit on a user account for the week and month
    • There are problems that need to be fixed with users who share a device

• Admin Tasks
  • Login Monitoring (Leth and Graph Man)
    • Login monitoring is fixed and working how we expect. Can be removed from agenda
  • Eduroam test account (morse)
    • Long term task can be removed from agenda
  • User Account cleanup (crwilliams)
    • Leth account cannot be merged. It is not a problem so task can be marked complete
  • Todo list:
    • http://www.sown.org.uk/todo/task/94
    • http://www.sown.org.uk/todo/task/43
    • http://www.sown.org.uk/todo/task/141
    • http://www.sown.org.uk/todo/task/130
    • http://www.sown.org.uk/todo/task/55
    • Tasks annotated in the todo list

• Tasks for Workshop_-_2009/08/22
  • People will add as appropriate

• Alternative to guest accounts (Davetaz)
  • We have to still decomission backup2. This can be done as backup2 is ine the same building as another backup server
  • This is the last task before we can safely create guest accounts

• External DNS hosting (Davetaz)
  • No progress. Will do stuff at surgery

• Mobile phone Nagios alerts (morse)
  • Work in progress

• Projects
  • WiMAX (Davetaz)
    • No progress
  • 802.11r (Jos)
    • No progress
  • Mobile IPv6 (SjH)
    • Nothing interesting
  • SOWN single Eduroam cloud (SjH, Davetaz and morse)
    • Will do stuff at surgery
  • SOWN VoIP telephone replacement (was SOWN VoIP and Extending Network Coverage) (Lionel)
    • Not present
  • 802.1x (TheBase)
    • Not present
  • Location Tracking (AndrewWillmott)
    • No progress

• AOB
  • Need to sort Nagios so that Nagios messages are more accurate, as certain services going down causes inappropriate warnings to be generated.
  • There was an email from SUSU about the bunfight we have submitted a form for a stall back in June.