Operational Meeting

Apologies for absence

George, Ken, Neil

Minutes of the last meeting.

These were accepted.

Actions.

The following items were removed from the actions list:

• Chase down "temporary dhcp" usage
  • Done
• Coordinate forum server room rack rotation and floor grill replacements
  • Ongoing - being tracked by Inf unit.
• Make DBAN easier to use
  • Being tracked within MPU
• Check/Redo operational meeting room bookings
  • Done - until end of year
• Create install CD for Optiplex 755
  • Done
• Look at whether can add remote USB connector for SmartBoards onto lecterns
  • Being tracked at meeting room committee
• Find holiday policy page
  • Done
• Investigate availability of central bulletin board service
  • Done - the service has been suspended indefinitely

The following items were added to the actions list:

• Alastair - Put holiday policy on CEG to-do list
• US unit - download drivers for smartboards and make them available within the School
• Ken - Include actual ticket numbers in reports on RT ticket resolution
• Stephen - Arrange computing staff Christmas lunch
• Alastair - Approach HOS re funding of Christmas lunch

It was pointed out that the on-line CEG minutes were somewhat out of date.

The issue of driving the smartboards in the meeting rooms from user's own laptops was raised. This required installing a driver which can only be obtained by inputting a serial number into the smartboard manufacturer's web site. There seems to be no reason however why we cannot download the drivers ourselves and make them available to School staff and students. It was agreed that the User Support unit should do so.

Reports from units.

• Infrastructure.
  • Server room moves

    George reported that we need to be out of the AT server room some time in February. Since much of the kit in the AT server room is concerned with teaching, we probably need to make the move during the Christmas break to avoid disruption. We will have the FH server room available and will probably move the kit there.

  • Condor

    Condor is back in limited service. It can be enabled in one of the AT labs to enable Toby to test the new LDAP setup.

• Managed Platform.
• Research and Teaching.
• Services.
• User Support.
  • RT ticket resolution figures

    It was agreed that the figures on RT ticket resolution would be more meaningful if the actual number of tickets involved could be included in the reports. Ken is to be asked to do this.

• Party time!

  After some debate, it was agreed that most of those not of the arctic barbecue persuasion would prefer to hold a Christmas lunch similar to last year's with the School making a contribution to the cost. Stephen will arrange the lunch, Alastair will approach the School.

• School Computing Strategy

  This item was deferred for another month.

AOCB

• Stephen has produced a script for mailing out reminders generated from LCFG headers. He will package it up and make it generally available.

• Toby reminded the meeting of the existence of the very useful 'dumpdeps' script. It can be found on the LCFG servers.