Meeting:2011/11/24

Meeting (to be) held on 2011/11/24 at 19:00 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Previous meeting: 17 November 2011 19:00:00 Next meeting: 8 December 2011 19:00:00

See SUWS meeting page for joint agenda.

Minutes

• Nodes (HeliosFA and daveruss)
  • HeliosFA was not present.

• Admin tasks
  • nat.sown.org.uk DNS inconsistency (daveruss)
    • Waiting for action from ECS.

• Auth2 build
  • Node-building VM infrastucture
    • morse will set up Eucalyptus.
  • Kohana install and configuration (daveruss)
    • We need to check with SjH what is going on with this.
  • New node admin system (daveruss)
    • This seems to have become complicated. Can SjH explain (in simple terms) what the situation was.
  • see admin testbed - build in Kohana (SjH)
    • DNS does not resolve.
  • OpenVPN install and configuration
    • This still needs to be done.

• OpenWRT backfire packages (crwilliams)
  • No progress

• New SUSU node
  • N-node building
    • Radius-accounting
      • Morse is working on this. Estimated to be ready within 3 months due to feature creep.
    • Webcam and other sensors
      • This is not likely to happen due to privacy concerns.
    • APRS i-gate
      • Likely to go ahead.
    • IO to bring to ground level (2xpower 2xethernet 1xserial), RFKill?
      • No need to discuss at this stage.
  • Antenna spacing
    • No progress.

• Other SOWN Projects
  • WiFi in Halls (daveruss)
  • orchard's third year project
  • Eduroam Crowd-sourcing GDP
  • Wireless Survey (UG coursework)
    • daveruss is sorting out the licensing issues regarding this.
    • Would be good to survey the outside areas to determine the level of coverage.
    • We can use the map.

• To Do List

• Icinga Alerts
  • Building 32, Level 3 North Server Room TEMP-AMB
    • Increased tolerance to 3 soft checks.
  • NWMONITOR/NAGIOS
    • No comment.
  • Tolerance of EAPOL failures
    • Increased tolerance from about 3 to about 5 soft checks.

• AOB