Systems Update

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Systems Update

• wcw Jan 22, 2002

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Items Completed (Mail)

• AMS Bboard transition
• Prototype Web mailing list viewerhttp//asg.web.c
  mu.edu/bb/archive.info-cyrus
• New sendmail deployed
• SMTP AUTH - K4, K5, PLAIN/LOGIN TLS
• LDAP lookup
• new CMU.EDU
• SASLv2

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Items Completed (OS)

• Operating Systems updated
• Linux 2.4
• Solaris 2.8
• Windows XP (client) beta testing
• Transition to use OpenAFS clients/servers
• AFS most Amanda backups moved to RAID

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Items Completed (Other)

• Consulting help
• Remedy sendmail, performance
• Blackboard
• GNOME in beta
• SNMP stats
• http//graphs.andrew.cmu.edu

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Immediate Todo - Mail (Spring/Summer)

• Deploy Cyrus Aggregator
• Increase AFS and Cyrus quotas
• Finish AMS Phaseout
• Enable dlist behavior on sendmail
• Disable AMS clients turn off old servers
• Change delivery on remaining users

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Immediate Todo - Windows

• Windows XP for clusters
• start of summer
• Windows.NET (aka Windows XP Server) new AD
  structure
• Deployment
• Migration
• Windows XP AFS
• MSI repository

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Immediate Todo - Other

• Grand unified monitoring
• Cutover to use new DynDNS LB
• Use of LDAP for Unix GECOS info
• misc software updates
• gcc 3, apache 2.x, etc.
• Web password changer/password policy
• Consulting
• blackboard scaling/reliability

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Futures Plan to do - Security

• Kerberos5
• Server cutover - Likely over December
• k5 client conversions
• Investigate smartcards/UI for administrative web
  apps
• Investigate junk certs for auth (web, imap, etc.)
• Authwork to support Alumni email

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FuturesPlan to do - Windows

• Roaming profiles for Orpheus clients
• Distributed Software installations for WinXP
  clients
• Orpheus for servers
• Investigate enabling other services (e.g. MS SQL)
• Disconnected/Laptop Orpheus clients

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FuturesPlan to do - Other

• Smart web access to Cyrus
• Online backups
• Web cache
• Investigate back-end infrastructure move to
  Linux/Intel platform (cost)

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Futures (if interest)

• GNOME deployment
• Update printing infrastructure with lpr-ngfrom
  MIT
• Central ssh keys (netreg integration)
• 'productionize' bugzilla
• Anti-virus
• Anti-SPAM
• Advanced Sieve builder
• e.g. mobile/paging devices web interface
• build your own filters page
• Improve service reliability
• Disaster recovery