Operational Meeting

These were approved.

Actions discussed:

• Check which services depend on the staff role and Linux group

  Deadline set for the end of May.

• Consider which further entitlements should be removed from the staff role

  Deadline set for the end of May. Contact Graham (roles supremo) with queries.

• review pages in computing.help

  This will be raised at CEG.

Actions (re-)deferred:

• Investigate using Teams

  To be deferred for 6 months

• Trawl for pages restricted by IP address

  Defer until September.

• Review nagios use

  Ian is happy with the list as it stands so this action to be re-deferred for 6 months. There are a few machines that have been off for a number of months (due to power constraints) but this will be dealt with separately.

Actions completed:

• Guest login for G.07 podium machine

  This has been added as a specific deliverable to project 477 so will be tracked there.

Report from Computing Executive Group

1. Appointments

   This summer, Mohammed and Adam will start working full-time on the Support desk, effectively replacing Lindsey and Ross. Two replacement Computing Support Officer (Procurement) posts will be advertised very soon.

Reports from Units

• Infrastructure

  1. Forum server room power usage
  2. Wire and ipaddrs headers
  3. New servers
  4. Switch firmware
  5. OpenVPN

• Managed Platform

  • Inventory

• Research and Teaching

  1. Exam notes - see US Unit Report.

• Services

  1. Tibs backup server - FC cards
  2. Tibs 3
  3. Xerox recycling
  4. New A3 colour MFDs

• User Support

  1. Exams

     Thanks to everyone who helped

Topics for discussion

None.

• None

AOCB

The next meeting will be on Wednesday 22nd May 2019 in IF-4.31 at 10:00.