Technology Update

1
Technology Update

• TSAG Meeting 6/10/04

2
Old Voicemail System

• New Voicemail System installed on May 17
• Remaining Issues
• Migrating calling trees
• Some users have still not activated their account
• If users are experienceing any problems, please
  report to
• Cat.Carrigan_at_csun.edu 4879 or the University
  Helpdesk
• Old system will be removed on June 18
• Users must remove any wanted voice mail
• Users may access the system via x3100

3
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)
• Current Status
• IPX and Appletalk routing is off in many areas
• ITR/NEO is removing remaining remnants shortly
• Exceptions
• Library to support Pay-for-Print infrastructure
• Univ. Hall to provide additional time to migrate
  off both protocols
• Do not rely on intrasubnet functionality

4
Programming Support PHP,

• ATC requested additional server-side support
• Security support SSL and authentication
• Programming support PHP, CGI, fastCGI,
• Database support mysql
• Campus web server (www.csun.edu)
• Supports SSL and LDAP-based authentication
  (.htaccess)
• Provides PHP, CGI, fastCGI via
• ITR has provisioned a server, towhee.csun.edu,
  for long running jobs (e.g., mysql database
  instances)
• Access to these services will be limited.
• Support is limited to infrastructure support,
  programming support will be a end-user or local
  issue

5
CSUN1 Interactive Shell Access

• General intent
• Phase-out shell access
• Current CSUN1 services
• Shell access
• Pine access
• Home directories (primarily for web publishing)
• Uploading and Downloading files
• Future services
• Shell access will be limited (e.g., to support
  pine users)
• Home Directories via UDrive
• File transfers via SCP (secure copy)
• (recall inbound telnet/ftp being phased out on
  Oct 15, 2004)
• Towhee.csun.edu will replace csun1.csun.edu

6
UTBI Anti-Virus Purchase

• The University is planning on purchasing a
  campus-wide anti-virus license
• 8,000 on-campus licenses (9.44/license, 4.50
  annual)
• 4,000 off-campus faculty/staff licenses (onetime
  3.09/license)
• 30,000 student licenses (1.07/license)
• Final decision has not be made, but Cabinet has
  endorsed the proposal
• Distribution of software for on-campus computers
  via TSAG
• Your tasks
• Provide a count of the number of desktops in your
  area
• Mac, Windows, and Unix variants
• Indicate if you are going to
• Run local anti-virus distribution server
• Utilize the Enterprise anti-virus distribution
  server
• POC for software David.Sorkin x6442

7
Account Cleanup

• We have a large number of dormant, unclassified
  accounts
• Password have expired
• E-mail quota limit set to zero
• These accounts will be deleted soon
• Your tasks
• Review local usage of department and special
  accounts.
• Remind users to double check their account
  classification via https//www.csun.edu/account

8
Email Quotas

• All e-mail quotas have been applied based upon
  affiliation
• Recall Notification system
• 90 usage Advisory message
• 100-120 usage
• Initial Warning Message
• Two-weeks later additional Notice
• Two-weeks later, quota adjusted to 100 limit
• gt120 usage Automatic message and account lock
• Possible changes
• Increase frequency of notices
• Increase overdraft amount (20-gt100)
• (Note that some clients report a different quota
  limit.)

9
VPN and Security Issues

• VPN version being updated on the website
• ITR is only supporting the Cisco VPN client
• You may use other clients at your own discretion
• SNMP strings
• Many network-attack devices have public for the
  public string. Either
• disable SNMP access
• set an appropriate public string
• Printer Management, e.g., via web interface
• You need to set password for these services,
  otherwise anyone on campus (including students
  from housing) can reconfigure your printers.