Meeting:2010/08/12

Meeting (to be) held on 2010/08/12 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 29 July 2010 19:00:00 Next meeting: 19 August 2010 19:00:00

Agenda

• HomeNodes (daveruss)
  • Omdurman Road
    • Daveruss still to email the host.
  • Steep Close
    • Node has been swapped out with a new one.
    • Had a couple of logins, but no traffic. We suspect it was a homenet user because the bandwidth reporting appears to be working.
  • Thackeray Road
    • daveruss will nag the host.
  • Highfield Crescent
    • daveruss will nag the host.

• Admin Tasks
  • JRS test account
    • Davetaz to ask Tim about this
  • UPS Test Plan
    • We can't test the UPS until morse has finished the code he's working on.
    • Morse will provide a list or risks.
    • Need a thorough test plan, and a list of outcomes we are after.
  • VOIP debsums issue
    • SjH to fix.
  • Backup2/Backup3 debsums and packages flapping
    • Combination of a slow link and a slow machine.
    • We will change it to only warn on timeout. We will make warning not notified
  • Contact us replies (daveruss)
    • Davetaz to respond to this.

• Workshop review
  • N-Nodes (Morse)
    • Hostap is needed to get the node into AP mode.
  • SOWN VoIP (SjH)
    • SjH has done some work on this, it now has loads of features and accepts calls on PSTN.
    • Nagios has inbuilt SIP monitoring.
  • Cron Job Monitoring (Davetaz)
    • User level cronjobs are monitored on all servers and nodes.
    • We're going to monitor /etc/cron.hourly et. al. by asking debsums whether things in there belong to any packages.
  • Community Account Audit (daveruss)
    • User:DavidNewman:daveruss has implemented a community account audit page which is swanky.
  • Next Workshop - Provisionally set for 21/08/2010
    • Now Official.

• OpenVPN Config Audit / Monitoring (daveruss)
  • Create a separate table for OpenVPN tunnels in the database
    • For a workshop sometime.
    • We need to be able to check nodes without a current deployment.

• Projects
  • OpenWRT backfire packages (Leth)
    • There is progress on this. We have packages building and stuff.
  • SOWN VoIP (SjH)
    • See above
  • SOWN VM Server
    • Nothing to report, this is a long-term server.
  • SOWN-GW2
    • Phoneline stuff.

• AOB
  • Nagios check frequency & database size.
    • We will move this off /root
  • Davetaz to also ask Tim about VOIP card + connection and BT line for ADSL line.
  • daveruss has written a page entitled Database Anomalies that list records in the database that shouldn't possibly exist.