Meeting:2010/10/21

Meeting (to be) held on 2010/10/21 at 19:00 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Previous meeting: 14 October 2010 19:00:00 Next meeting: 28 October 2010 19:00:00

Minutes

• Workshops
  • Workshop Review
    • Full summary next week. Helios has a list of nodes and their status'.
  • Next workshop
    • The next workshop will be 13th November which one the more popular vote.

• HomeNodes (HeliosFA)
  • Highfield Crescent
    • Graeme to email the host to ask for it back, as we don't know what's up with it.
  • Steep Close
  • Albany Park Court
    • Probably needs a new PSU. Davetaz will deal with that.
  • Winchester Node
    • Pending us going to winchester.
  • New Chamberlain Bar node
    • No progress, Graeme not here to report.
  • Node Hunt
    • Daveruss has added a column to show the number of admins on a node.
    • Full report when Graeme present.
  • Node255 morse's E-Mail in User Admin
    • No progress, Graeme not here to report.
  • Node265 & Node271 "Trying Alternate Public Key" Issue
    • wget with ssl support needs installing

    • ipkg --force-overwrite install wget

  • Node Requests
    • 3 accepted, 1 on mead crescent, 1 on broadlands, 1 on upper shaftsbury.
  • Replacement power adapters (daveruss)
    • Good for Merakis, but not voltage compatible with the openmesh nodes, although the connectors fit.

• Admin Tasks
  • UPS Shutdown Test Plan (Morse)
    • Multicast is proving unstable, going to try periodic group joining/leaving to compensate.
  • Phone line in Zepler Server Room 1 (Davetaz)
  • ISDN line (Davetaz)
  • Less nagging from Nagios (Crwilliams)
  • Backup2/Backup3 debsum check (Crwilliams)

• Projects
  • Eduroam-in-a-Box (Davetaz)
  • OpenWRT backfire packages (Leth)
  • SOWN VoIP (SjH)
  • Wifi Survey (daveruss)
  • SOWN-GW2

• To Do List
  • Modify debsums nagios check so it only shows warning on timeout (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)
  • Fix SOWN (at) Home node autogeneration (Crwilliams)

• AOB
  • vpn2 needs to be removed from the topology diagram