Meeting:2010/09/16

Meeting (to be) held on 2010/09/16 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 9 September 2010 19:00:00 Next meeting: 23 September 2010 19:00:00

Minutes

• HomeNodes (daveruss)
  • Highfield Crescent
    • No progress.
  • Riverdene Place
    • No progress.

• Intro presentations
  • 5 minute presentation at JumpStart on 27th September (Crwilliams)
    • We have been working on generating a 'wordle' or two. We need to locate some suitable photographs.
    • Need to identify some useful statistics.
    • Need to send the presentation to Jumpstart organisers early next week.
  • SOWN flyers for JumpStart/Bunfight (daveruss)
    • daveruss has redesigned the flyers.
    • We need to get these printed.
  • Introductory meetings (Crwilliams)
    • We have booked appropriate rooms for this.
    • We need to create/update a presentation.

• Admin Tasks
  • UPS Shutdown Test Plan (Morse)
    • No progress.
  • Phone line in Zepler Server Room 1 (Davetaz)
    • Not present.
  • ISDN line (Davetaz)
    • Not present.
  • Less nagging from Nagios (Crwilliams)
    • Nagios has been found to be running 56,000 processes per hour. It seems to start these on 'minute boundaries' and therefore sown-vpn gets rather loaded, as does the network. We need a way to fix this.
    • We are going to reduce the number of forked processes by turning of child_processes_fork_twice.
    • We are also going to implement exponential backoff of alert sending.
    • We are also going to selectively disable emails for certain 'non-urgent' services.

• To Do List
  • Make database anomalies script into a Nagios check (Crwilliams)
    • No progress.
  • Modify debsums nagios check so it only shows warning on timeout (Crwilliams)
    • No progress.
  • Improve Node Host Notifications (Crwilliams)
    • No progress.
  • monitor ecs nagios and dial cjg via voip, if it has been down for an hour,
    • No progress.
  • prevent node login from unassigned addresses, (morse)
    • No progress.

• Projects
  • OpenWRT backfire packages (Leth)
  • SOWN VoIP (SjH)
    • Firewall holes have been opened.
  • Wifi Survey (daveruss)
  • SOWN-GW2

• AOB