Operational Meeting

Alastair, George, Stephen

No corrections to previous minutes.

Actions completed:

• It was agreed to remove the action on printing problems as this is being addressed elsewhere.
• Alison has talked to CSTR about their BP servers. They would like all bar one of them moved as although they are out of warranty, they are functional and working adequately. See wiki for more details.

Actions added:

• Everyone to check cron logs to see whether lcfg-cron has failed to configure due to checksum problem with hostname - see RAT unit report.
• Craig/Toby to thrash out final solution for keytabs.

Report from Computing Executive Group

No report.

Reports from units.

• Infrastructure.

  7. Cosign v3 upgrade

     Managers of cosign-protected web servers are reminded that they should upgrade to v3 as soon as possible.

  8. Network problems 17/07/09

     George will clarify what exactly happened when he gets back.

• Managed Platform.

  1. HP 7900

     Attention was drawn to the need for a special installation cd.

  6. Server reboots

     A reminder to managers that servers will require a reboot to pick up boot-only packages.

• Research and Teaching.

  1. Virtual Server Problems

     Graham noted that one server is still not re-installing. The cause of the problem has not as yet been identified but Graham noted that the virtual disks looked as though they dropped data possibly as a result of being busy?

• Services.

  No additional comments.

• User Support.

  No additional comments.

Topics for discussion

• Ending support for SSH public keys

  This was held over for another meeting with a wider range of attendees.

AOCB

None.

The next Operational meeting will be on Wednesday 12th August in IF-4.31.