Meeting:2011/05/12

Meeting (to be) held on 2011/05/12 at 18:00 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Previous meeting: 5 May 2011 18:30:00 Next meeting: 19 May 2011 18:00:00

Agenda

Amateur Radio (18:00-18:45)

• May Festival Review (HeliosFA)

• FT101 Status (HeliosFA)

• Members (HeliosFA)

• Club outing (HeliosFA)

• Antenna Building Evening (HeliosFA)

• AOB

Joint Agenda (18:45-19:15)

• SUWS Website (phil)

• Membership Fees Vote (Davetaz)

• RSGB Affiliation (HeliosFA)

• AOB

SOWN (19:15-20:00)

• May Festival Review (daveruss)

• Admin Tasks
  • Issues changing SSID of 8021X interface (daveruss)
  • Cron emails (Leth)
  • Undercroft situation (Crwilliams)
  • Labelling Inventory (Davetaz)
  • Kit order (Davetaz)
  • DNS record usage by servers (Davetaz)

• HomeNodes (HeliosFA)
  • Stags Head - reported issues with 802.1X
  • Chamberlain

• Icinga Alerts (Crwilliams)
  • Monitor/Debsums
  • Dev/Debsums
  • VPN/Ping
  • UPS checks and Auth/UPS
  • SUSU/Boottime-SNMP

• SOWN Projects
  • Wifi Survey (daveruss)
  • Eduroam campus-wide (Davetaz and mike)
  • OpenWRT backfire packages (Leth)
  • Wifi in Halls (nsefan and phil)
  • Networking Labs Support (Scorpia and orchard)

• Workshop Planning

• To Do List

• AOB

Minutes

Amateur Radio

• May Festival Review (HeliosFA)
  • Low attendance
  • Stand reported not very visible

• FT101 Status (HeliosFA)
  • Currently broken, due to stuck pot.
  • (HeliosFA) fix in progress

• Members (HeliosFA)
  • No new members
  • But a few people showed interest

• Club outing (HeliosFA)
  • Possible outdoor trip to more radio-friendly location
    • Milton-on-sea
    • Wayfarer's Walk
    • Sea-side locations
    • High locations

• Antenna Building Evening (HeliosFA)
  • At SOWN workshop
  • Or over next few SUWS meetings

• AOB
  • Club callsign
    • Ofcom contacted, email sent to correct station address.

Joint Agenda

• SUWS Website (HeliosFA)
  • Colour scheme is too dark, contrast too low
  • Link colouring needs fixing
  • Light grey good
  • Check of server hosting rules, inc. DNS

• Membership Fees Vote (Davetaz)
  • No redistibution
  • Motion Carried
  • Student fees include postgraduate students

• RSGB Affiliation (HeliosFA)
  • Affiliation vote carried

• AOB

SOWN (19:15-20:00)

• May Festival Review (daveruss)
  • Sort area for Fresher's week
  • Could do a repeat of May Fair setup
  • Justify inside/outside setup as one stand, one week long

• Admin Tasks
  • Issues changing SSID of 8021X interface (daveruss)
  • Cron emails (Leth)
    • (Leth) still working on it
    • partially complete
    • check mailscanner ipv6
  • Undercroft situation (Crwilliams)
    • Last kit moved out.
    • Cupboard now locked with another lock
    • Inventory not updated
    • Scorpia to chase up SUSU for storage via email with Crwilliams
  • Labelling Inventory (Davetaz)
  • Kit order (Davetaz)
    • no progress
  • DNS record usage by servers (Davetaz)
    • routing based on source address will not resolve problem
    • removed problematic route on monitor
    • workshop task: look at ipv6
• HomeNodes (HeliosFA)
  • Stags Head - reported issues with 802.1X
    • Workshop task: look at during lunch break.
  • Chamberlain
    • No progress, HeliosFA still waiting for reply.
    • Get node back.

• Icinga Alerts (Crwilliams)
  • Monitor/Debsums
    • Checks passive and fixed
  • Dev/Debsums
    • Checks passive and fixed
  • VPN/Ping
    • Monitor had incorrect route to itself, route removed
  • UPS checks and Auth/UPS
    • Fixed, but may go critical/unknown depending on timeout set up
    • Need check for passive, to define as down if checks not sent
  • SUSU/Boottime-SNMP
    • Needs to be rebooted to check

• SOWN Projects
  • Wifi Survey (daveruss)
    • going well, making significant progress
    • iSolutions appreciative of data
    • need to sort out further work, including interns
  • Eduroam campus-wide (Davetaz and mike)
    • links to above
  • OpenWRT backfire packages (Leth)
    • no progress
  • Wifi in Halls (nsefan and phil)
    • no progress
    • another possiblity for Eduroam campus-wide
    • need to go by Halls Board
  • Networking Labs Support (Scorpia and orchard)
    • Kit from Orange Labs being dispatched
    • First lab ready to go

• Workshop Planning
  • Can keep workshops integrated SOWN/SUWS
  • Scorpia and daveruss in Stag's all day to test

• To Do List

• AOB
  • Contact us page needs new captcha
  • ECS moving sown.org.uk to new server soon
  • Site already made more secure
  • VOIP can be brought back.
    • need to fit 2U bracket to VOIP card