Meeting:2010/10/14

Meeting (to be) held on 2010/10/14 at 19:00 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Previous meeting: 12 October 2010 12:00:00 Next meeting: 21 October 2010 19:00:00

Agenda

• Introductory Meetings follow-on questions / review (Crwilliams)
  • Davetaz introduced people to the current projects.
    • Eduroam-in-a-Box (Davetaz)
    • Wireless in Halls (Davetaz)
    • OpenWRT backfire packages (Leth)
    • SOWN VoIP (SjH)
    • Wifi Survey (daveruss)
    • SOWN-GW2
    • Other projects / ideas

• Workshop Planning

• HomeNodes (daveruss)
  • Highfield Crescent
  • Riverdene Place
    • Returned and deployment ended
  • Thackeray Road
    • Returned and deployment ended
  • Lilac Road
    • Has been retuned, needs reconfiguring.
  • StagsHead (daveruss)
    • Password changed to let more people debug things
  • New Chamberlain Bar node (daveruss)
    • Davetaz suggests we fit it ourselves.
    • The Node deployment officer will be looking into this.
  • Winchester Node
    • Had contact with people over there, the network link isn't coming up.
  • Node Requests (HeliosFA)
  • Replacement power adapters (daveruss)
    • Budget code has been obtained, daveruss intends to send the request to ECS buyer soon.

• Admin Tasks
  • UPS Shutdown Test Plan (Morse)
  • Phone line in Zepler Server Room 1 (Davetaz)
  • ISDN line (Davetaz)
  • Less nagging from Nagios (Crwilliams)
  • Backup2/Backup3 debsum check (Crwilliams)

• To Do List
  • Modify debsums nagios check so it only shows warning on timeout (Crwilliams)
  • Improve Node Host Notifications (Crwilliams)
  • monitor ecs nagios and dial cjg via voip, if it has been down for an hour,
  • prevent node login from unassigned addresses, (morse)
  • Integrate Google's geocode api into the node request system (Crwilliams)
  • Get the backup script to bzip2 the database dumps (morse)
  • re-add -force-overwrite to the install wget component in setupnode (morse)
  • 802.1x access to campus-tunnelled nodes with a non-eduroam SSID
  • Fix bugs with sown-bot's events module (Leth)

• AOB
  • Tyler asks if we might redirect DNS requests from users who haven't logged in yet to our dns servers.
    • Something for the wishlist.