Operational Meeting

These were accepted as a reasonable account of the last meeting.

Actions discussed:

• SL7 KVM migration issues

  Change action to 'Document SL7 KVM migration issues' e.g. once migrated to sl7 a guest can't be migrated back to sl6 or indeed migrated in sl7.

• Review "nograce" entitlements

  All Units to edit roles as required. Support have identified a few.

• Discuss fail2ban configurations

  Meeting scheduled for 18th Aug, 10am, 1F-1.15.

• Schedule WordPress upgrades

  WIll be rolled into the sl7 upgrades

• Clear out old SL6 profiles

  Stephen has sent out list. Support will investigate the non-CO machines.

• SMSR power down

  Documented as far as possible for now. To be deferred for 3 months to allow Ian to investigate NUT further.

Actions added or revived:

• Reduce noise in lcfg status reports
• Review pages in computing.help with review date in 2014.

Actions deferred:

• SMSR power down emergency page

  Deferred until November.

Actions completed:

• Speak to IS about ESSIS replacement
• IPv6 on wire M
• Document current serial console use

  See wiki page

• computing.help page for small NAS boxes

  See Advice on buying NAS

Blog articles suggested:

• Craig to write blog article on changes to printing/pcounter.

Blog articles completed:

• git

Report from Computing Executive Group

Reports from Units

• Infrastructure

• Managed Platform

• Research and Teaching

• Services

• User Support

  • On-line exams

    Still 2 dates - Friday 12th and Monday 15th

Topics for discussion

Craig to write blog on changes to printing/pcounter.

Ian suggested that it might be helpful to have an SL7 question and answer wiki page. It was agreed that this would be helpful and Chris will take this to MPU meeting.

Neil reminded everyone that from today all new accounts will use EASE (AD) authentication for eduroam.

The next meeting will be on Wed 24th August 2016 at 10:00 in IF-4.31, chaired by Craig.