Technology Update

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Technology Update

• TSAG Meeting 12/11/03

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Outage Dec 20

• Saturday 1000PM --gt Sunday 1200PM
• PPM will be replacing electrical panel in the MDF
• The MDF will have limited power during this time
• Affected systems
• All inter-building network connectivity
• All Internet network connectivity
• Hence all non-local (via subnet) services will be
  unavailable
• Telephone systems will be operational
• Intermittent outage just at the beginning and at
  the end of the outage window

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Holiday Operations Coverage

• Dec 25 Jan 1
• On-call operator
• Dec 26-31 Jan 2-4
• On-duty operator 800am - 500pm
• On-call operator during other times
• Standard Off-hours (Network/Systems) Analysis
  Support

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Email Quotas are being Applied

• Enforcement is underway for
• All new accounts
• All student accounts (to be complete by Dec 15)
• 100 MB limit for all accounts below this limit
• Over quota No E-mail!
• Faculty/Staff maximum email storage limits
• 400 MB by Dec 15, 2003
• 300 MB by Feb 15, 2004
• 200 MB by March 15, 2004
• 100 MB by April 15, 2004
• E-mails those above 400MB (22 43), 25 still over
  quota
• Yearly review of quotas by ATC is underway

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TII Close-out

• Summary
• Stage 1 wiring, Stage 2 electronics
• One of three campus within Phase 1 that are
  completed
• Lessons Learned
• Course Knowledge on Cisco Equipment
• Exchanged one-set of bugs for another
• Interoperability of Enterasys and Cisco
• What remains
• Return Enterasys equipment
• We are short hubs to comply with our trade-in
  agreement (500 ports)
• Give us your old, broken, worn huddled hubs!

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Post TII Activities

• CENIC (phase out of 4CNET)
• Wireless Enhancements
• Packeteer and Dragon
• Intracampus Network ACLs
• Classifying Subnets, e.g.,
• Student Lab subnets
• Administrative subnets
• Open Area subnets (live jacks)
• Authenticate to the wire (802.1X) ??

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End of Life IPX and Appletalk

• Original Announcement of Intent
• TSAG Meeting, Nov Dec 2002
• Proposed Last Date of support
• Friday June 4 2004 (Last day of academic year)
• Reasons for the End of Life on Campus
• To reduce load on and to simplify management of
  Network Services
• IPX is 20 of load for 5 of population
• To reduce the load on NetWare/NDS servers
• Novell and Apple have adopted pure IP
• Your tasks
• Migrate Novell/Apple services off of
  IPX/Appletalk
• Need Netware 5 or above
• Need Mac OS 8.1 or above
• Provide early feedback on problems and concerns
• Sourceshttp//www.novell.com/info/collateral/doc
  s/4621162.01/4621162.html
• http//docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum308
  22

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Campus IT Status Page

• Summary information from Big Brother, MRTG,
  Spectrum, etc.
• Provides
• Summary status of Enterprise systems
• Pending Maintenance Announcement (if any)
• Black Lists
• Spammers E-mail messages blocked
• Irresponsible ISP or Host Internet
  connectivity blocked
• Compromised Computers (ports disabled) Network
  connectivity blocked
• Consult as part of IT diagnosis process

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Registry of Computer Labs

• ATC requested Campus-wide Lab Schedule
• Intent To allow students to more easy locate IT
  resources
• Information Needed
• Location of Lab Purpose of the Lab
• Provided Equipment (e.g., 24 Windows XP, )
• Supported Users (e.g., only COMP 100 students)
• Hours of Operation
• Restricted Access
• Open Access
• Contact point for more info (e.g., URL)
• We need you to provide the information

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FISMA Audit Preparation

• Financial Integrity and State Manager's
  Accountability (FISMA)
• Focus has been on Mainframe type of operations
• Higher focus on Client/Server types of operations
  (e.g., CMS)
• Some Emphasis this year
• Account Lifecycle
• Access Controls Vendors, Passwords, Audit,
  Review,
• Confidentiality Protection
• DRP and BCP
• Non-Enterprise level operations (more coming in
  the future)
• We will starting preliminary discussions with
  local IT units

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ProposalBlocking Administrative Lists

• We have three types of lists
• -l_at_csun.edu Department/Official Lists
• -c_at_csun.edu Class Lists
• -g_at_csun.edu General Purpose Lists
• Goal to prevent spam on Administrative lists
• Tested with tsag-l_at_csun.edu (thanks Peter!)
• Ramification
• Only individuals with a campus accounts can send
  e-mail to Administrative Lists
• Home users use Webmail or configure e-mail
  client to use SMTP.csun.edu
• But whatif I dont want my list blocked!
• Transform your list to a -g list (e.g.)
• Set up your list to Reply-to the owner