Discussion Agenda archive 1

If there is anything that needs to be/should be discussed in a sysadmin meeting, please list it here.

Topics are arranged by priority with the most important at the top.

Northrop Grumman donation

 * Moving the Sun rack?
 * Specifications of Itanium nodes (use as VM hosts?)
 * Cabling provided - power, Infiniband, ethernet
 * Switches provided - just ethernet?
 * Power requirements? Cooling?
 * When would we get the equipment?

Sun equipment

 * Support contract
 * Kiosk deployment - status?
 * Smartcards with or instead of student IDs
 * Move to L1 because of NG grant?
 * Power & networking requirements
 * Sun Ray donation from Chantilly HS

Budget & purchases

 * 10 GigE uplink to main switch - when?
 * 48 port GigE module?
 * Consolidate and update servers
 * Itanium nodes as VM hosts? hard drives included?

RFID housekeeping

 * RFID cards MIA with graduated students
 * Current list of owners

Password card access

 * SSH keys when needed; root only for lead admins?
 * LDAP sysadmin auth for servers

Backups

 * Full backup system that handles most (all if possible) data in the lab - "protect the data"
 * Mainly a policy about how often the backup should be run.
 * AFS Backups (more than .backup volumes)
 * Integrate with the big backup system, or run separately?
 * "Off-site" backups?
 * Would actually need to be "offsite," not ten feet from the edge of the lab (119s).

Cleanup of AFS

 * Clean the service directory
 * Archive everything that is no longer in use
 * Archive everything that is no longer useful
 * One home directory per user
 * Web-docs volumes?
 * Audit permissions on all directories, including web, etc
 * Other cleanup tasks

Additional "Services" To offer

 * Postgresql (?)

Enable Dynamic Power Savings Mode on Intel HPs

 * Note to Lee: I have had no bad experiences with laptop power savings features (from an ancient P1 Toshiba to a 1-2 yr old IBM) and I was unable to find any problems online (either with laptops or with HP's) after a quick Google search. Please provide some links.  FYI it is OS-independent.
 * HP's website