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.

Folks,

This is still in an early stage of development, so it's a perfect time to seek involvement before it goes too far and we find we've missed a stakeholder.

We have a proposal in the works to replace Quickbase as our inventory system in ISO.  Though it's been useful to have QuickBase as a central inventory system, it's more tailored for the business services and HPC needs than those of ISO (current iteration doesn't seem to record IP or MAC address, info I really need about a server!)

The unix systems group needs hardware for the clustered MySQL service. MySQL is used by Drupal, OCS Inventory, Nagios, and a number of other misson critical and core activities.

At Monday's "Windows Action League" it was decided that we could, and should, migrate the guest VMs that the old ITD group was hosting on the free VMware offering to the ESX VMware from the old ETSS group. This will free up 2 x Dell 2850 class servers, complete with HBAs to attach them to the SAN, already wired up and ready to go in DC1 and DC2. This machines can feed the MySQL project.

The 'admin vms'  (for our little "Action League") have their workstation objects stored in the "ou=WSUSPilot,ou=Servers,ou=HSS,ou=Technical Sercices" container in the ACSAD domain.

In order to test using the QIP DNS servers without impacting those not involved with the test, 've created a new container,

"ou=AdminVMs,ou=Computers,ou=HSS,ou=Technical Services"

and linked it to two new Group Policies.

I can identify the following Remedy groups for ISO

• OIT_UNIX
• LINUX
• OIT_WEB_SERVICES
• OIT_ISO_CNS
• OIT_LISTMAN
• WRAP
• OIT_MICROSYS
• OIT_HS
• OIT_WOLFPRINT
• WOLFWARE
• OIT_ITD_MAIL
• OIT_MYSQL
• ITD_CALENDAR
• OIT_CITRIX
• OIT_SMS
• OIT_ISO_PROV
• UNCRHEL
• OIT_ANTIVIRUS
• OIT_ISO_ERP
• OIT_WINDOWS

We also have staff in the following workgroups (I may have missed some)

In the minutes from the OCC Staff meeting, there was some traffic about actual budget numbers ("Had to cut up to 8.5%. Now being asked to aim for a larger cut (state has $3 billion shortfall). Now looking at 12-15% but maybe as high as a 20% cut)

I'm also interested in the news that staff in OCC also feel that information about the recent RIFS is significantly under-reported and that they feel it impacts the moral of OIT as a whole.

I talked with Joey Jenkins (Design) about the issue that they had when the cross-realm trust to EOS.NCSU.EDU was enabled in WolfTech. Basically, authentication to their CIFS shares broke. They were running samba on Mac OS X.