Infrastructure Unit Documentation

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
  (The Infrastructure Unit home page contains links to other areas of activity.)
• Server room access arrangements
• Miscellaneous documentation and reports and even more miscellaneous stuff
• Some notes on infrastructure resilience
• Machines operated by the Infrastructure Unit (and 2020-21 spending profile and 2019-20 spending profile, with three-year projections)
• 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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