NETWOG

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NETWOG

• New Email System Overview
• Directory Service
  Dialogue
• Network Engineering
  Whats New?
• NETWOG July 12,
  2001
• 2PM Baker
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Network Information Services Support(NISS)

• New Email System
  Overview
• Rick
  Holbert
• Office of Information
  Technology
• NETWOG - 12 Jul
  2001
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Network Information Services Support

• OVERVIEW
• - Why a New Email System?
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• - Time Line
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• - Hardware
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• - Software
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• - Conclusion
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NISS

• Why a New Email System?
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• Ever Increasing Demands
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• - Larger Email Messages (Attachments)
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• - Increase in Volume of Email Messages
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• - Increase in Frequency of Use
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• Requests of Additional Services
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• - LDAP
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• - IMAP
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• - Web Based Email
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NISS

• Time Line
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• Phase 1
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• - Define Architecture (Done)
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• Phase 2
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• - New Directory Server (Email Portion
  Implemented)
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• Phase 3
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• - Pilot Email System (Underway)
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• Phase 4
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• - Production Email System (by 1Q 2002)
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NISS

• Hardware
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• Servers
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• - Six Unix based Servers
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• -- Two Proxy Servers
• -- Two MTAs
• -- Two Storage Managers
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• - Shared Storage (One TeraByte)
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NISS

• 
  Software
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• iPlanet Academic
  Bundle
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• - Directory Server
• - iPlanet Messenger
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NISS

• Conclusion
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• New Email System
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• - Meet Increasing Demands
• - Provide Additional Services
• - Architecture Defined
• - Major portions of Directory Services
  Implemented
• - Pilot Email System (Underway)
• - Production New Email System (by 1Q 2002)
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NISS

• Directory Services
  Dialogue
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• - What is a Directory Service?
• - We will be extracting data from original
  source data repositories
• - A source for getting directory information
  quickly
• - What applications do you have that access
  whois and finger data?
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NISS

• Directory
  Services Dialogue
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•  Schedule
• - Fuzzy Email resolution turned off on July 2
• Fall quarter, who is, finger, white pages, ph
  will be done with the new functionality this
  service will be taken off of the old VMS machine
• - Must follow schedule of our Iplanet new email
  solution
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NISS

• Directory Services Dialogue
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• Communication
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• - Which technical groups on campus should
  roundtable?
• - Change Management group meets weekly
• - Communication group will communicate with
  campus
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NISS

• Directory Services Dialogue
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• References for more
  information/education
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• Iplanet.com
• docs.iplanet.com
• lapzone.com
• www.sun.com/blueprints
• Internet2.edu/middleware/ldaprecipe.htmldocs.iplan
  et.com
• - Oarnet (Mike Gettis) has a Directory Service
  seminar, Aug 17
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Network Engineering Whats new?

• What are you using to monitor your network?
• What are you using to monitor your systems?
• What recent purchases, changes have you made?
• What can we do to assist?
  
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Network Engineering continuedWireless Updates

• Research still in progress for University wide
  authentication
• Campus surveys are under way for outside wireless
  coverage
• OIT still in process of researching wireless test
  equipment
• OIT is researching and testing Aironet, Orinoco,
  and Symbol access products
• OIT is in the process of evaluating line powered
  Access Points
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