Operational Meeting

Minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday 22nd April 2015 in IF-4.31

Present:: Richard Bell, Toby Blake, Lindsey Brown, Neil Brown, Roger Burroughes, Chris Cooke, Alison Downie (convener and minutes), Ian Durkacz, Graham Dutton, Jennifer Oxley, Iain Rae, George Ross, Alastair Scobie, Craig Strachan

Minutes of the last meeting
Actions and blog articles
Actions discussed:
- Issue of copyright images
  sub-group to be set up by Steve Scott.
- review pages in computing.help
Actions added:
- None
Actions completed:
- Furthe investigation of mobile printing
  Submitted as a project.
- Pandemic actions
  Ross and Jennifer have read the wiki page
- Producing seminar specific email lists
  Tracked in TRAC
- Documentation for VPN on iOS/Android
  See notes on computing.help
Blog articles suggested:
- None
Blog articles completed:
- Apacheconf configuration
Report from Computing Executive Group
- AT decant (standing item)
  Alison re-iterated some provisional decant dates. CEG would like all Units to record effort with this project. N.B. subsequent to the meeting, projects have been created for this purpose.
  Ian also commented that it would be useful for us to know about the proposed room changes in the Forum so that the occupancy maps for the touchscreens can be updated.
Reports from units
- Infrastructure
  1. ESISS
    Although the scans still appear to be running, the ESISS licence has expired.
  2. Certificates and sha1
    Chrome (as of version 41/42) has become even more intolerant of certificates which use sha-1 as the signing algorithm, particularly if the certificate doesn't expire until 2017 - displaying it with a red cross and https crossed out. To avoid this, upgrade all proper certificates to those obtained in the recent batch.
- Managed Platform
  1. new kernels
    MPU are working on SL7.1 and a new SL6 kernel (6.6) will be available soon.
- Research and Teaching
- Services
- User Support
Topics for discussion
- Tardis move
  The space provision in the Forum server room was discussed. The group had been given 3 date options. It can now be reported that the move took place on Friday 1st May and the kit is now located in the lower part of a rack. It has been installed neatly and no unnecessary kit has been brought across.
Items for the Computing Systems blog
None
AOCB

None
Next meeting
The next meeting will be on 13th May 2015, 10am in 4.31. George will convene.

: Operational : Meetings

Please contact us with any comments or corrections.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all material is copyright The University of Edinburgh