Operational Meeting

These were accepted.

Actions discussed:

• Pandemic Actions

  A reminder to ALL to keep going with those "pandemic" actions!

• "May 2014" deferred actions

  Re-defer Toby's action on mobile devices and authentication until June.

  Moved action for Inf to chase IS to current.

  Moved action for Alison to chase Jim about www.anc to current.

Actions added:

• Central page on using and maintaining rfe.
• Document what services have been configured for mobile devices.
• Take recommendation that password portal is extended to all users to CEG for approval.

Actions completed:

• Look for unusual access patterns in cosign logs

  Toby explained that this had been quite difficult to do but he couldn't see anything obviously unusual.

• Beowulf and GPU-machine shutdown when cooling fails

  See Hadoop Care and Feeding

• Run fs flushall before DICE sleep
• provide Craig with information on how to change mailing list memberships

  Done and Alison has created wiki page

Blog articles suggested:

• None

Report from Computing Executive Group

• None

Reports from units

• Infrastructure

  6. Odd nagios reports

     If you happen to bombarded with unexpected nagios reports, please let the Inf Unit know.

  8. Prometheus lifecycle changes

     Units have until Friday 16th May to let Toby know of any entitlements that should not persist for the length of a user's grace period.

• Managed Platform

  • LCFG Check - Updaterpms

    The script has now been fixed so could all Units attend to any updaterpms problems with their machines.

• Research and Teaching

  • PostgreSQL upgrades

    Graham pointed out that 8.4 is not going away but it may be wise to upgrade soon as it is reaching end of life.

• Services

  • Wordpress vs drupal

    Ian asked whether we recommend Wordpress or whether users are just actively keen to use it and how drupal fits in. Gordon explained that the intention is to use the IS drupal service when this becomes available but as we already run Wordpress this is an option that we can offer for now.

• User Support

Topics for discussion

• Improving RFE

  The proposals in Graham and Toby's document were accepted but confirmation should also be sought from the remaining Unit Heads.

  It was also suggested that a central page on using and maintaining rfe would be useful.

• Password portal

  The proposal to extend the use of the portal to all users was agreed but will be taken to CEG for final approval.

• Technical discussion meeting

  In summary, we are all to document what we have configured so far. Concern was expressed that there is not much time to prepare demonstrations for the meeting so Alison will ask Craig to clarify the purpose and format of the meeting.

  Although there is an Ipad and a Nexus 7 available for COs to use, we agreed that it would not be appropriate to use personal accounts to download so we need to confirm whether there is a suitable account we can use. Toby offered to look at authentication.

AOCB

The next meeting will be on 28th May 2014 at 10:00 in IF-4.31, chaired by Alison.