Infrastructure Unit Documentation

NOTE: the Infrastructure Unit recently merged with the Managed Platform Unit to form the Systems Unit. At some point the documentation will be merged too, but meanwhile it's still all here.

The pages linked from here are intended primarily for CO use. User-level network documentation can be found on the computing help site. However, feel free to browse!

• "What we do": odp, ppt, pdf
• Project documentation
  
• Server room access arrangements
• Some of our documentatation is on the DICE wiki
• Quick link to the Operational Meeting pages
• Miscellaneous documentation and reports and even more miscellaneous stuff
• Some notes on infrastructure resilience
• Our service arrangement for the Forum UPS, including call-out arrangements, are documented in RT#97201.
• Machines operated by the Infrastructure Unit; machines being transferred to the Services Unit
• Documentation on the Informatics network
• LDAP Overview
• Authentication/Authorisation Overview
• Cosign and iFriend Overview
• Wiki page on configuring Apache to use Cosign
• Wiki page on upgrading to Cosign version 3
• The Apacheconf component (slides of a talk given by sxw, Sep 2007)
• The Monitoring System
• The iFriend Guest Account System
• The proposed new Account Management System
• Consoles
• How to monitor an APC serial-port UPS
• How to monitor the server room UPSes
• Server room GSS doc (from E&B)
• Old documentation relating to the "New" Forum
• AT Level 9 Security Cameras

Certificates

• Creating and Installing the Informatics Root CA
• Obtaining and installing properly signed certificates for web servers

Useful links

• The CERT home page.
• The Computer Misuse Act (1990).
• The Data Protection Act (1998).
• The Freedom of Information Act 2000. (Note that, although we are mostly affected by the FoI(S)A(2002), this one does contain amendments to the Data Protection Act which might be relevant.)
• The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
• The GnuPG home page.
• The HP ProCurve home page.
• The IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) home page.
• The IEEE home page.
• The IEEE standards home page.
• The IEEE ethernet standards home page.
• The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) home page.
• The ipfilter home page.
• The ISC (Internet Software Consortium) home page, the place to obtain bind and dhcpd.
• The JANET publications index.
• The JANET-CERT home page.
• The LINX (London InterNet eXchange) home page.
• The LINX Best Current Practice index.
• The netfilter/iptables home page.
• The NTP home page.
• The OpenSWAN home page.
• The OpenVPN home page.
• The Poptop (PPTP server) home page.
• The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) and its associated Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000.
• The RFC editor's home page.
• The rrdtool home page.
• The Tcl sourceforge page.
• The Tcl Developer Xchange.
• The tkined home page.
• The UKERNA home page.
• The University Computing Regulations.
• The University's Web 2.0 Guidelines.

There is some really ancient early-DICE stuff here.

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