Workshop:2016/05/12

Workshop (to be) held on 2016/05/12 at 18:00 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Previous workshop: 28 April 2016 18:00:00 Next workshop: 19 May 2016 18:00:00

Task List

Tasks that could be closed?

• Figure out why nagios-apid sometimes stalls on monitor
• Find out why Auth isn't sending 304 Not Modified in response to node config requests
• Ensure cdp/lldpad-tool works on all servers so each interface's switchport info can be recorded.
• stop node:/etc/sown/firewall/setup.sh stopping hostap on remote fw config change

Tasks that can be progressed

• Create Ubuntu 16.04 build image for VMS
• Create new switch map for SOWN switch
• Add ability to change title and add comments to todo list tasks

Tasks that require further discussion

• Improve security of our OpenWRT packages
• Consider the repercussions of allowing 3rd party configured nodes
• Add support for client isolation on wireless interface.
• Allow node config to specify additional DNS servers for selected domains and make this configurable from the admin site
• swap 'sown' and 'atheros' packages trees on the public website once all nodes have the config
• Check/add support for IPv6 on nodes where host network supports IPv6.
• Consider reorganising node's crontab so jobs do not collide
• Consider how node's configuration can be tweaked to support wet bits of string

Tasks that require further investigation

• Investigate why syslog is so flaky on Chestnut Road (#302)
• Investigate whether usage stats for deployments get deleted after 3 months?
• Investigate using LetsEncrypt for www.sown and www.suws certificates
• Investigate whether vpnserver.crt is actually being used by anything anymore

Tasks dependent on other tasks

• Build VM on sown-vms as a new-style package management server on its existing addresses
  • We should sort out a Ubuntu 16.04 image first