Operational Meeting

The meeting scheduled for the 27th November was cancelled. The minutes of the meeting of the 13th November still need to be approved.

Actions discussed:

• Complete upgrade of remaining servers to SL7.6

  Infrastructure and MPU still have two machines to go each.

• Pandemic Planning

  To be completed by end of December. Three services to go.

• Review pages in computing.help

  To be completed by end of December. Only one page left.

Actions added or revived:

• Minimise Rootmail
• Consider festival of creative learning week.

Actions (re-)deferred:

• Improve notifications of server room issues

  Further deferred until March 2020.

Actions completed:

• Investigate using Teams for alternative chat.

Blog articles completed:

• Review of user CGIs
• Change Freeze.

Report from Computing Executive Group

Deadline for report not met!

Reports from Units

• Infrastructure

  1. Forum server room cooling
  2. Forum server room power
  3. Server room usage in general
  4. AT comms power
  5. AT electrical testing
  6. EdLAN
  7. IPv6 for the self-managed wires
  8. "One of our subnets has been hijacked"
  9. OpenVPN outage

  Stephen asked about the status of the backup chiller in the Forum server room. It is still out of commission awaiting parts.

• Managed Platform

  • Kernel upgrade
  • updaterpms changes
  • Banjo upgrade
  • Girassol upgrade

• Research and Teaching

  1. crypt is STILL up!
  2. Power Usage
  3. Post change-freeze, various updates
  4. Python 3
  5. Exam checklist

• Services

  1. Tightening up fail2ban on mail server - follow up
  2. Extra disk space - JBODs and cards now in service
  3. Staff mail forwards
  4. Peppercorn problems 25/11/2019

• User Support

  1. Lab exams

Topics for discussion

None

None

AOCB

The next meeting will be on Wednesday 8th January 2020, in AT-7.07, at 10:00.