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          

Information about the inner workings of sysnews.ncsu.edu and the integrated Nagios.

The SysNews server is located at http://sysnews.ncsu.edu/.

The server itself is a pair of Linux machines running their own shared high-availability scheduler. If either machine is un-available, the other will automatically take over the service. The basic principal of this configuration is to try to ensure that even if other services are failing on campus, the SysNews server will be available to announce the outages.

This is a collection of documentation provided by the Windows Services group.

Though the "windows-services" group has no official organizational definition, it's the people on the windows-services@lists.ncsu.edu mailing list.

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.