Eric and I have just confirmed that the issues previously thought to be DNS problems using ns60 were in fact a firewall problem.

Eric is going to identify a bunch of test vms and provisioning servers, and I'm going to look for admin vms and servers at Monday's WAL meeting to set to use ns60 using a GPO.  The idea is that we eat our own dogfood while the CAB deliberates on pushing ns60 out wholesale to all ACSAD workstations.

Once there is a WolfTech Remedy queue created, I'll put in a formal request for the ilo extensions, and confirm a date when we can install in WolfTest.

Rather then try to paraphrase, here's a hacked up e-mail response to give some background:

We had the answer all along

http://xteams.oit.ncsu.edu/iso/node/273

Everette has semi-tested and can therefore semi-confirm that in the WolfTest Domain, before the group reading restrictions were applied, he was seeing better results.  We're planning to do a more formal test in WolfTest RSN.

Rough notes on features we want to see in the New Nagios, given the assumption that we have a rush deployment. It's a little light on details regarding the Sun and HPSIM integration. Feel free to edit!

Version "1.0"

Main goal is to provide existing function and look and feel for operations. No major changes to the "field of green" or the host detailed status. No changes to paging.

I've created two more groups in the WolfTech AD, "ISO_SHS-Server-Admins" and "OIT_SHS-Server-OnCall".

I've populated ISO_SHS-Server-Admins and set a group policy so that any servers installed under the OU=OIT_SHS,OU=Computers container will have this group in the local Administrators' group.

I've done some changes to the ISO_SHS container in the WolfTech active directory.

First off, I've created a manged group named "WT-ISO-Infrastructure Systems Operations Staff" that contains all of the ISO staff according to GuardDog.  This group should get updated nightly, so as staff changes it will automatically update itself.

The Wolftech managed group tool is at https://www.wolftech.ncsu.edu/wtmg/index.php

Secondly, I've added this group to the "ISO_Users" and "ISO_SHS_Users" group.

Three is a Vista sidebar gadget that you can use to monitor the status of the hosts in our new Nagios. Basic status info can be read by anyone. In order to "drill down" to see the actual new Nagios pages, you'll have to contact Breandan for access, and promise to do testing. :-)

I've been attending a biweekly meeting called by Jason M. in TSS-SC for a while now, but haven't been posting my notes.  Sorry 'bout that. :-)

The membership at these meetings is Ed L (TSS), Tom F (TSS), Tim G. (Security & Complience), Danny D (TSS), Dan Evans (TSS) and Jason M. (TSS). It was originally conviened to discuss the use of "cached credentials" on administrative desktops.  It's since transmongrafied into a general discussion of desktop issues, and thus something to be reported to our ISO team as a whole.

A number of folks I've talked with haven't see John Blacks list of Tactical and Strategic Projects in the Information Please newsletter, so here's the link

http://oit.ncsu.edu/infoplease/infrastructure-systems-and-operations

and here's the complete text, for your reading pleasure. :-)

Infrastructure, Systems and Operations

John Black – Infrastructure, Systems & Operations

So here's my understanding of our situation with DNS and ACSAD.  Please chime in and correct anything you find amiss.