Operational Meeting

Actions discussed:

• Issue of copyright images

  Has been taken to Web Strategy Group but need to chase.

• Consider likely FibreChannel requirements

  6 per fabric.

• Pandemic actions

  The printing document is now complete. Ross and Jennifer to read and 'uppercase' names on wiki page.

• Look into producing seminar specific email lists

  Pending discussion with Toby.

Actions added:

• None

Actions completed:

• Help for 5th May exams

  Graham, Roger and Neil have volunteered.

• Organise talk at Jamboree

  Delivered.

Blog articles suggested:

• None

Blog articles completed:

• Apacheconf configuration

Report from Computing Executive Group

• Documentation week

  The next documentation week, focusing on our internal documentation, will be in November.

• AT decant (standing item)

  Alison re-iterated some provisional decant dates. The first weekend move (22nd - 24th May) will involve the Graduate School plus level 5 (North, South and West labs). The second weekend move (29th - 31st May) will involve levels 6, 7 and 8 moving to Wilkie building. The third move (9th - 19th Jun) will be the remainder of level 5, the Teaching Office and the flip-desks. Alison to confirm the arrangements for moving machines from 6,7 and 8.

Reports from units

• Infrastructure

  1. AT comms UPS #1

     Subsequent to the meeting, Ian posted a workaround.

     (14:19:55) idurkacz: Re the 'power failure' latching by IPMI I mentioned at the Ops Meeting: Neil's been looking at it 
     (and also looking at the Dell 'dset' utility) and has found that resetting the BMC ('ipmitool mc reset cold') clears 
     the incorrectly-latched fault in this case. Thanks for finding that out. So, that's a (manual) workaround we have if/when 
     we need it; we'll also pursue other leads.
     (14:22:41) neilb: I also discovered that to run the current Dell dset tool, I needed to do:
     export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH
     rpm -e --nodeps Lib_Utils
     Then run:
     ./dell-dset-lx64-3.7.0.219.bin --ostype=RHEL6
     

• Managed Platform

  1. URL shortener

     Although not an item in the report, Neil had noted in the MPU meeting minutes that Chris has 'URL shortener' on his list. Neil mentioned that we had an RT ticket in recently where someone had used bitly and was asking how to subsequently change the link. He suggested that it might be useful for us to provide a similar service but with authenticated access for managing links etc. Needs further discussion - perhaps at Technical Meeting.

• Research and Teaching

• Services

• User Support

Topics for discussion

(Nothing in the wiki list.)

None

AOCB

None

The next meeting will be on 22nd April 2015 at a time and place yet to be announced and will be chaired by Alison.