Two more baby steps towards killing uni04nt, our last Windows 2000, Java/Tomcat soaked server.

I've added redirects for the old WolfPrep IP mangement tool to send folks to web00, where this tool now lives.

I fixed a bug like feature in the new NovellUSMDBClient where a quota of zero was reported as "" and not "0"

User "daniel" is the only account that ever had a zero quota, as he was hand moved from the super special ITD only volume that's not under USMDB control by hand, and didn't get a pleab quota assigned.

I've retired the "integrate@lists.ncsu.edu" mailing list, as there hasn't been an integration services team for some time.  If you were using this for anything, my apologies, and please start using windows-services@lists.ncsu.edu

Folks,

I've made some hopefully cosmetic changes to the ISO blog:

1. There is now a "post to blog" entry on the navigation, to get it up top and easily accessible.
2. The "Service Teams" RSS feed (right side) no longer includes events from the ISO blog itself.  We've already got recent items from there on the main pane.
3. Theres is a "Teams" menu item along with Blogs/Docs/Forums for quick navigation to our legion of beloved service team sites.

Folks,

At the request of the folks in the WolfTech active directory, I've added a CNAME to uni03ps of

wolfprint.ncsu.edu

This is so that existing clients that have .ncsu.edu in their DNS search path can find it more easily.

For the spring semester, we're no longer using the Novell Pcounter system for Windows workstation printing.  Instead, uni03ps is running Samba to provide access to the lprng printers via the Microsoft RPCs.

I've rumored it quite a bit and now its official.  The first NCSU FOSS         
Fair will be held Monday, February 2nd in Engineering Building 2.  More
information here:                                

https://opensource.ncsu.edu/FossFair2009

The fair is open to students, staff, faculty, Red Hat, and guests and is       
run in an unconference style.  Sign up to talk about your Open Source
project, get feedback from the community, hold a hackfest, plan your          

I've modified the nagios function "slp" to include more than just monitoring the service location protocol port.

Since our SLP servers are also Novell servers, function "slp" now monitors the usual Netware stuff, namely abends, cpu, drive space for SYS, login enabled, and nds database (open or closed).

To accompany the new checks, I've updated our playbook documentation to include SLP servers.

In the Documentation section under the Vision category I've created a brief document on how to sign and verify RPM packages.  As we move forward with the new OIT unix systems yum repository all packages there will need to be signed with the key as documented.  I have set the unixsys.repo configuration file to check for proper GPG signatures.

Keith Boswell (COE/ITECS) is the sole nominee for chair of the AITD for the next year. Greg Robinson (CNR) was nominated and declined. However, he is the nominee for the second officer.

I attended the CAB today. The meeting was very brief as several members were absent. There were no changes to report on, except that I provided the update that we are working to test moving administrative Novell file and print servers from the CheckPoint to the Cisco firewall. The original date was 11/14; I noted that the date depends on successful completion of testing. Gary Li asked that Gene coordinate a date/time with Cheryl Cleveland as there is a major financials update scheduled a few hours after the original date for this change.

Since we now allow folks outside of ISO to see our public content, I've changed the default permissions so that any logged in user can post comments.

Since folks must authenticate, we should be protected from the great spamiverse outside.

I also added the right to vote in polls, and to cancel their own votes, should we ever post any polls.  If an intra-ISO poll is desired, we can just use the regular taxonomy controls to restrict who can access the poll to vote on it.