Operational Meeting

Graham, Craig, Neil

Minor correction - Alastair, rather than George, commented on 1 month's notice for power shutdown.

Actions completed:

• MPU, Inf and Services have set sysinfo.criticality. RAT and US still to do.
• Investigate inventory location issues with AT basement servers.

Report from Computing Executive Group

Reports from units.

• Infrastructure.

  3. Prometheus deployment

     The first stage has now been deployed. The conduits are being run manually for now but will be automated shortly.

• Managed Platform.

  1. LCFG Server problem

     Stephen explained that the fix for the memory leak problem associated with the recent perl package update is not trivial. It does not appear to be a problem with f13.

  2. Server reboots

     A deadline of the end of August for all SL5.5 server reboots was agreed. It was also noted that f13 will not be available for the 260, 270 and hp530. We do still have a few of these machines in service. They will need to either be brought out of service completely, replaced or become self-managed machines.

• Research and Teaching.

• Services.

  1. Machine kernel reboots

     Ian noted that he had spotted fibre switches resetting themselves when these reboots took place.

• User Support.

Topics for discussion

1. Disappearing tokens

   This was not discussed at any length (see Services report) but it was noted that we have possibly not seen the issue for a few weeks which might co-incide with the update to openafs 1.4.12.

AOCB

1. Servers

   Alison to confirm with Sheila on server delivery status. There have been significant delays and George Reid has been made aware.

2. Next meeting

   The next meeting should be on Wednesday 25th August in room 4.31.