Operational Meeting

Neil suggested a change to the records of the discussion on mail to support@inf. This change was agreed by the meeting, Alison will modify the minutes of the last meeting accordingly.

Actions discussed:

• SLAAC-style forward DNS for server wires.

  George to generate list of KB servers without an assigned IPV6 address.

• review the ipaddrs_*.h and wire_*.h headers

  Action changed to Fix the wire_*.h headers.

• Guest login for G.07 podium machine

  Machine replaced.

• Improve notifications of server room issues.

  George to specify what is required.

• Improve notifications of server room issues

  George to specify

• Review nagios use.

  Still some long-term offenders.

Actions added or revived:

• Stephen to check and update computing.help VNC page.
• Consider Festival of Creative Learning week.

Actions completed:

• Amend password portal wording
• Have servers upgraded to SL7.5 by end October
• Add fail2ban to git and gerrit
• Investigate setting up disc zeroing station.

Report from Computing Executive Group

Reports from Units

• Infrastructure

  1. Replacement Forum and AT core switches.
  2. OSPF changes.
  3. New racks in the Forum server room IF-B.02.
  4. SLAAC at KB.
  5. wire and ipaddrs headers.
  6. ATL9 comms UPS.

  Asked about details of the new Bayes VLANS, George pointed out that these can be found in the Subnet Usage page of the Infrastructure Unit documentation.

• Managed Platform

  • SL7 updates
  • Last LCFG release of the year.

    Wednesday 19th December.

  • Faster LCFG client.

• Research and Teaching

  • Submit.
  • Roles Supremo.
  • Security Incident.

• Services

  1. Disk failure news.
  2. Cloud printing - released jobs not appearing.
  3. TiBS backups going slow again.

• User Support

  1. December Exam Diet.

Topics for discussion

None.

AOCB

The next meeting will be on Wednesday 9th January 2019 in IF-4.31 at 10:00.