ITS Architecture Open Forum

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ITS ArchitectureOpen Forum

• December 19th, 2002
• Jeff Gumpf, Senior IT Architect
• Information Technology Services

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Agenda

• News
• Recent Problems
• Updates

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News

• New e-mail system to be made operational January
  24th
• Changed from the previously announced January
  11th date to avoid risk of problems during
  Drop-Add period
• Case Research Institute, the new University
  Hospitals/CWRU joint medical research facility
  located at Cornell and Circle Drive, will include
  CWRU network infrastructure
• A new high speed network link is to be
  established between the Cleveland Clinic
  Foundation and CWRU to provide services for the
  new medical school

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Recent Problems

• Port scanning and off-campus performance
• Cisco IDS (intrusion detection system) and Cisco
  PIX firewall now in operation
• Port scanning no longer causing disruption of the
  off-campus connection
• Some minor problems affecting a few systems due
  to idiosyncrasies of the new system have been
  corrected
• New problem KaZaa v2
• KaZaa peer-to-peer filesharing software has been
  causing off-campus outgoing bandwidth to hit the
  limit
• Action has been taken to block KaZaa servers
  manually until appropriate signature detection
  mechanisms are available for the packetshaper

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Update ITP Network Upgrade

• Gigabit Ethernet deployment now well into Phase
  IV (Health Science Complex) with installations
  currently taking place in the Medical School
• East Wing and Sears Tower complete
• Work underway in the Wood Building
• Phase I, II, III complete
• Phase Va equipment has arrived, electrical work
  is done
• Installation planning meeting for Phase Va and Vb
  is January 13
• Wireless
• Installing access points in Phase III areas
• MSASS, Adelbert construction in progress,
  Wickenden is next
• Eudora e-mail problem resolved, driver is
  available on the SoftwareCenter

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Update - Portal

• Portal beta system expected to be made
  operational early in the Spring semester

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Update LDAP, E-mail and Calendaring

• On January 24, a complete switch will be made off
  of the current e-mail system
• Old system will be shut off
• During a brief outage, mailboxes will be moved to
  the new system and e-mail will be re-directed to
  proper systems
• New system will be turned on
• Current e-mail client configuration will work, no
  changes necessary
• Outgoing or SMTP server smtp.cwru.edu
• Incoming or POP server pop.cwru.edu
• The switchover should be invisible to end-users
• No configuration changes required for
  departmental e-mail servers
• IMAP will be available after the changeover, Web
  access via portal
• 100 MB mail folder for IMAP
• Limit on the size of a message is 6 MB

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Update Off-campus link

• Upgrade from OC-3 (155 Mb/s) to OC-12 (622 Mb/s)
  is expected to be completed by early January

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Security Alert

• New virus attacking Windows 2000 Systems
• Uses a null session to attempt to log in
• See http//cnswww.cwru.edu/net/security for more
  information

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The End

• Thank you
• Questions and Answers