Workshop:2010/02/20

Workshop (to be) held on 2010/02/20 at 11:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous workshop: 16 January 2010 11:00:00 Next workshop: 24 April 2010 11:00:00

Projects

• 802.11n
• Wireless survey software

Investigate or Clarify

• Check accessibility of web site
• Investigate if / whether the LDAP portion of a community account can be deleted through the admin site
• message responses system
• Ensure the ldap:fail doesn't lead to normal users being rejected
• Implement broken link warning javascript for people who can't access auth
• monitor usage patterns of individual campus nodes
• Add/Update mac addresses and Wake-On-Lan ability to nagios and/or Wiki
• Implemenet a logging off/on switch for sown-bot for your nick, with reminders to tell you the current state.
• Check all email forms to ensure that they correctly handle new lines

Code change

• Ajaxify the login page so it doesn't redirect to the portal page until login is complete
• Find a way of detecting the user being forwarded back to the login page even though their credentials were correct - Done
• Ajax on the node-login page to reload if the user appears to have logged in from another tab/browser
• Finish secure docpot where files are hosted on auth
• Create a php library for sending commands to nagios and interrogating the database
• Get SOWN-Bot to auto update the topic based on upcoming meetings/workshops
• 'fix the  that appears in place of £ on the portal
• Fix the banned page so that the page structure/styling matches the rest of the SOWN web pages
• configure nodes to have 11b only mode
• Fix the minor bug that exists in http://sown.org.uk/stats/live
• Add a protocol field to the database web interface
• Do not allow community users accounts to be deleted unless dependent records are migrated to another account
• Investigate and fix why the admin site node approval map does not have deployed node data
• log 'public' IP address of nodes to some system, somewhere, but possibly not Nagios
• fix job lists (or teach davetaz how they work)
• node280 doesn't accept configure_ntpclient job

Major code change:

• Transition services to ldaps:// and disable ldap://
• Transactionaliseinate the database -versus- ldap calls
• Rework the node firewall

Down and dirty with the code:

• firewall groups should be set by node type

SjH's code change:

• Figure out and implement node usage caps set by deployments so it defaults back when a new deployment is started
• Figure how to toggle whether the node usage cap is on dependent on what type of deployment it is

Monitorring and Routing

• create nagios check to see if there are routes to the nodes (probably based around ip route show | grep <route> ) - Not necessary, nagios ping checks accomplish the same task.
• the ecswww and www checks need to run over IPV4, otherwise they are dependent on gw
• fix sown-vpn dmz|sown-vlan address selection
• fixt the nagios:host check to support dual stack properly - Not necessary, nagios ping checks accomplish the same task.
• Nagios to detect new-cron-jobs that aren't in the database
• migrate gw routing to xorp

Clarify and Rollout:

• re-implement re-captcha
• reInvestigate reCAPTCHA
• Write splash page for nodes to show when the tunnel is down
• Create a script to reboot the node at 4am if it has memory warning
• Store user's email address in LDAP (including from admin system)
• Add bandwidth accounting to all campus nodes
• Write logic to redirect un-authed users to splash page when tunnel is down

Done

• Fix SSH keys problem with SUSU -Done, keys go in /etc/dropbear
• Fix the infinite redirect on http://sown-gw.ecs.soton.ac.uk/graphs - Done
• Fix nagios logging to /root/nagiospinglog - DONE
• Prevent duplicate v6 subnets being assigned to nodes -Done for v4 and v6
• Add nagios job to detect syslogng crashes -DONE
• Reduce the frequency of UPDATE check state notifications - DONE
• Change users connected calculation to number of authenticated current DHCP leases - DONE
• Audit of community accounts to make sure no email address has more than one account - DONE
• Stop nagios filling VPNs disk (moving the file to a bigger partition is NOT the correct answer) - DONE
• Link all graph/stats to a network map type thing - DONE
• Check & Fix keys and passwords on newly deployed nodes - DONE