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Configuring a Macintosh Computer to Authenticate Against the CSCF Active Directory This page needs updating The following needs updates to handle the current MacOSX...
Main.dlgawley 16 Sep 2008 Hardy client setup built from Gutsy notes and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryHowto Windows 2003 Active Directory Management...
Note \ These scripts are fine for setting up individual Ubuntu workstations, \ but, because they install ntp packages \ they should not currently (Apr 25,...
Main.ctucker 28 Oct 2005 CSCF Directory Services DNS Configuration (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) CSCF manages four general use DNS servers for the School of Computer...
Integration of Macintosh Authentication and Management into Active Directory (OBSOLETE) This document relates to MAC OS X 10.6.8 and needs to be updated to reflect...
Main.ctucker 02 Feb 2006 Main.iturner 20 Apr 2006 Sept 2009 Binding a Macintosh Client Through Command Scripting During testing, it was discovered that it is...
Thoughts Concerning The Planning Of A Campus Wide Directory Service (OBSOLETE) By Clayton Tucker Manager of CSCF`s Active Directory Forest, Forest Architect and...
Main.ctucker 04 Aug 2010 Plan For Implementing Campus Active Directory Prototype As Proof Of Concept (OBSOLETE) ADUwCampus outlines a proposed Active Directory forest...
Filesystem Group Definitions We want to document what each filesystem group we have is used for. That is to ensure consistent usage, and information for auditors....
AFF Codes used by CSCF Activity Name 100 Administration 500 Research 800 Teaching...
Asset Disposal Forms These forms are used when equipment is to be sent to Central Stores for surplus (see SurplusEquipment). These forms are kept in the `Forms` drawer...
Authentication Task Group Meeting Minutes 2008/06/26 Agenda / Discussion Date: 2008/06/26 Time: 10:00am 11:35am Membership invitees: Mike P...
Business Cards and Letterhead Who to ask Go to the Graphics web site for business cards: https://uwaterloo.ca/creative services/waterloo stationery orders#bcards...
CSCF Research Support These notes are intended to provide an overview of how the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF) Research Support Group (RSG) operates,...
CSCF Support for ESQ The ESQ (Engineering Science Quest) outreach program has, for the past few years, `borrowed` a Mac Lab from the SCS to support their computing...
ST#53793 for the primary motivation for this. 1 Edit /etc/hosts on this box it was nearly empty, guess it never got updated. The host`s idea of its own IP...
MikeGore 24 Aug 2012 Cluster Tools Ubuntu Linux Setup, Administration and Documentation see: See ClusterToolsSetup Cluster Tools scripts and Utilities...
Course Account SSH Key Access We use ssh and public keys to provide access to course accounts. This is background information on SSH public keys to authenticate as...
Course Account SSH Keys: CSCF Administration We use ssh and public keys to provide access to course accounts. We have deployed an automated tool to propagate ssh keys...
Course Evaluation Phase Two project CSCF Master ST Item ST#93435 Project Charter Introduction The Faculty of Math is responsible for collecting and reporting student...
Course Evaluation System Sysadmin Documentation This page is meant to include all useful instructions for maintaining the course evaluations by CSCF sysadmins Table...
Course Evaluation instructions for end users These instructions will be emailed to end users of the data. End users are Math administrators such as Chairs of Math...
27 January 2005, DC3540 Meeting 1300 1430h (Patrick had to duck out at 1400) Present: Daniel, Fraser, Guoxiang, Patrick, Mike. Agenda 1 What do we have running...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 12 14 Invited Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave,...
Discussion of Scope Summary OFIS was designed with one faculty`s data needs in mind. There is data in CS reports that is not currently captured in OFIS...
CSCF Organization Chart The CSCF Organization Chart can be found in the CSCF About pages, here: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/about/orgchart Updating the chart...
CSCF Specific notes Note 2008/04/22 (lfolland) Given that the entire CF Twiki is now CSCF specific, this page should be considered deprecated and these topics should...
The Administration of the CUPS PYKOTA server cups.cs This document is primarily addressed to system administrators who have root access but is also valuable for...
Setup a CUPS Printer on Linux Setting up all CUPS printers available from print.cs 17Jan2016 Note: We suggest using the Add Printers manually given that printing...
About Departing CSCF Employees When someone moves on, we need to remove references to them from various documentation, and access to various systems. Most of what...
Email Aliases System wide aliases are typically stored in /etc/aliases. However, in most xhier managed systems on campus, you cannot simply edit those files. Instead...
At present I see at least the following pieces: 1. Grad Desktop Equipment Management (GradDesktopEquipment) 1. TA Assignment System a. TA Preference...
This is obsolete and should not be used. University of Waterloo Standard PC deployment information sheet Request #...
Graduate Student Computing Workflow Initial Computing Selection Supervisors are provided with a form to select which kind of equipment they wish to provide their...
High Performance Computing at UW Here we will document the resources available for High Performance Computing in the School of Computer Science, Math Faculty and the...
HR Submissions This will be a page related to HR Submissions, How and When your supervisor wants them submitted, what they pay periods are and the cutoff for submissions...
Handling Accounts Requests System Logs Ignore mails from: 0000 Admin(0000), accounts maintenance software, root, and super user This is info sent from...
Help Desk Assistance This page will outline the various things I do to help the CSCF Help Desk. General Duties Equipment Loaning From time to time students, staff...
Help Desk Guide This is here to be used as a basic guide for help desk personnel. More guides can be found on the CSCF website at: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/howto...
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Icinga Icinga is an open source computer and network monitoring system that originally started as a fork of Nagios in 2009. CSCF is working to migrate from Nagios...
Explanation of /software/accounts master/data/sponsors/School School/ School/ files under School are for non teaching resource requirements School/Away...
sponsor resources command Run the sponsor resources program to process the changes Note: everyone who runs the sponsor resources command should be aware that it...
Internal CSCF Projects SCS Email Plans 2021 Plans for deprecation of CS Mail Services CSCF website to WCMS Winter 2018 through Fall 2018...
Inventory Database: Field Descriptions These are the field definitions for the CSCF/MFCF Inventory System. See InventoryUserDocs for more information. Note: These...
JabberWockie Overview Ubuntu 14.04LTS Supermicro nScale 101 Operon 6000 Series Server Supermicro H8SGL motherboard with AMD AOPeteron 12C 6344 2.6 32G ram 4x Hot...
John`s Work Guide and Responsibilities These notes are to describe the basic work that I do, the responsibilities that I have here at the University, guides to my...
LISA 2010 Fraser`s attendee notes `10: November 7 12, San Jose CA Training Sessions Attended Nagios: Advanced Topics Instructor: John Sellens, SYONEX Description...
LISA 2010 Lawrence`s attendee notes `10: November 7...
LISA 2010 Ronaldo`s attendee notes `10: November 7...
SGI Altix System Administration Dave Wright out of Egan, Minnesota daw #64;sgi.com 10.15.0.2 7 hostname: tng2 tng7 Course expects some amount of Red Hat background...
Linux in CS CollectdConfiguration Configuring your system for resource monitoring MetaPackages bundle, deploy and update collections of deb packages across...
Managing Linux User Accounts An initial foray into figuring out how Linux user accounts and perhaps other stuff like printing can be managed by using network based...
Advanced Solaris Administration Informal classroom poll: there`s still some legacy Solaris 6 in production, some 7, loads and loads of 8/9, and very little 10. Lots...
Creating a Mac OS X Installation Image using DeployStudio (Obsolete) 2011 11 08: in progress This applies to both multicast and unicast images. 1. creating a netboot...
Mac Image Deployment We almost always use DeployStudio. Sometimes it`s handy to use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup to an external drive before installing a new OS....
Mac OS X Running a Command at Login and Logout One way to run applications at login time is to launch them using a LoginHook. Similarly, a LogoutHook can be used...
The following tools are currently used by Google to manage over 64,000 Apple devices with less than a dozen people. They mentioned to avoid sourceforge (because it...
Setting up a BaseSystem (Obsolete) 1 Initial Account Set up administration Account need IPaddress temporary address or permanent address and port to the internet...
Macintosh We are currently discussing and determining the overall Mac support approach. Installation and Configuration Mac OS X Versions Mac Image Creation...
Adrian Pepper`s Simple Quick Start Guide to Using Mailman Lists (rendered for `` list) How to use this page View this page as ?mmlist LISTNAME but replace the...
Enumerated Mailman Management Links (rendered for `` list) Reminder View this page as ?mmlist LISTNAME But replace the word LISTNAME with the actual name for...
Creating a Mailman Mailing List on IST`s Mailman server Contact IST Contact IST via JIRA https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2/group...
Management This page is intended to list the topics of interest to the CSCF Management group. Employees New/Departing/Job Info/Absences Notes for new CSCF...
Management Principles and Insights Management Principles and Insights We`ve learned that we must spend as much time on management as is necessary, and only with...
MinUWet Overview This application was developed by Erick Engelke in Engineering to help promote safe computing. It tests Windows laptops to ensure that they meet...
This is old and obsolete and should be moved to a private section. Migrating a Mailman Mailing List Betweenbbcrandmailman...
Nagios Systems Monitoring and Reporting CSCF uses Nagios to monitor and report on hosts. Our setup is described on this page, including extensions to Nagios to integrate...
Net ID Accounts The announcement: From ctsc bounces #64;lists.uwaterloo.ca Tue Aug 13 09:00:49 2013 From: Natasha Jennings njennings@uwaterloo.ca To: `isthd@lists...
Tutorial 2: Basic access and configuration display Roadmap for this tutorial: In this tutorial, the focus will be on the connectivity issues for attaching a serial...
Preparing for a new Director of CSCF (migrated to: https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSCF/pages/44440715315/Preparing for New Director) Much of the preparation...
New Faculty Onboarding (migrated to https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSCF/pages/44441272325/New Faculty Onboarding) Here we list the many tasks that have...
New Lecturer Onboarding (migrated to:https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSCF/pages/44440911896/New Lecturer Onboarding) Needs updating from Faculty to...
New Part Time Employee Guide (migrated to: https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSCF/pages/44440780824/New Part Time Employee Guide) These are additional guidelines...
This is a repository for useful information for programmers who are new to CSCF. Some information may be specific to co op students but a goal is general applicability...
New Sessional Onboarding (migrated to:https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSCF/pages/44441108536/New Sessional Onboarding) Needs updating from Faculty...
New Staff Onboarding (migrated to: https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSCF/pages/44441042992/New Staff Onboarding) Here we list the many tasks that have to...
New Visitor Onboarding (migrated to: https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSCF/pages/44441141262/New Visitor Onboarding) Here we list the many tasks that have...
NextCloud This is the replacement for OwnCloud. We use NextCloud as the base software for our Vault service. This provides a DropBox like service for our...
CS Events The CS Events application is used to advertise events of interest to CS. IsaacMorland 09 Feb 2007 StephenNickerson 8 Dec 2008 Adding a User to webCalendar...
Weekly Meeting with Dawn, 31 March, 2009 I suggested it would be useful to get opinions from current users of the system Dawn suggests Shaz, admin for Software...
OFIS Notes from 3 November, 2010 Past CS tasks Daniel: Research Book work: data cleanup. Today Vu: research support: `losing fields` means missing data...
OFIS Notes from 9 February, 2011 Today Vu: big project coming down the pipe for him: grad student data administration project. He doesn`t have full spec, hard due...
I went to OUCC 2005 in Kingston. I tried to balance what sessions I wanted to go with the sessions I felt I should have gone to. The complete list of sessions is...
Main.ctucker 18 Nov 2005 Supported Operating Systems for the Eon 4000 and E100 Terminals The following are the currently in service operating systems for CSCF`s Eon...
OwnCloud Server Administration OwnCloud Set up: OwnCloud Usage: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/OwnCloudUsage link OwnCloud Server Info Information on our...
Initial Planning Monday 19 December 2005 First thing to do: look at the upgrade to ALE 3 and see how that went. It looks like I took things like backups for...
Planning and Directions in CSCF For an alternate view, see: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/about/plans/ This page will attempt to provide an overview of our services...
Point of Contact In CSCF, a Point of Contact is the `go to` person for your computing needs. These are usually divided between teaching, administration and research...
MikeGore 16 May 2011 WinXP Ubuntu1010 x32 Image Windows XP (32 Bit) Post Install Steps Change hostname from rsg pcxxx Join cs.uwaterloo.ca domain...
win7vm Ubuntu Spring2011 Post Install Steps Ubuntu Customizations Steps SSH Keys 1) Change host name by updating /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts Regenerate...
Post install steps for x2gen016 image Windows Immediately post imaging IMPORTANT NOTE: Do NOT restart the computer except where noted 1 Boot, Windows will...
PostgreSQL Setup Finding documentation Check the PostgreSQL page in this wiki and the web site postgresql.org . http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive...
Print Quota Here we can gather notes on managing print quotas within CS This is being edited by Bill and Wendy (and Lawrence (and Adrian)). However, we`re finding...
Professional Development The Approach The Approach describes how we allocate professional development resources as fairly as we can. DLP Collection of CSCF Books...
Real time Lab Administration Guide The Real time Lab is used by students taking courses in CS 452/652 where students design and implement a real time multi tasking...
Real Time Lab Administrator Procedures General information The Real Time Programming Lab (aka the Train Lab) is in MC 3018. Spare parts and specialized...
Replacement of Setpw and Custom Login with Vendor software using Kerberos and LDAP Project Overview The goal of this project is to eliminate our dependence on a custom...
Research Subscriptions User Documentation Overview You can find the application here. Application Description The Research Subscriptions application maintains a...
Research Support Billing Overview The Research Support Group charges a subscription fee for services. Research Groups or individuals may subscribe to either or...
Riemann Cluster Notes General The Riemann cluster obtained in late 2009 is an SGI XE340 cluster consisting of nine chassis with two separate machines per chassis...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Accounts API This is a description of the Accounts API. Architecture All data is housed within the Odyssey database. See...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Accounts Database This is an understanding of the Accounts Database and CSCF`s redevelopment project. Architecture As of...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Accounts Management sub project Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose is to investigate and implement...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Accounts Management Requirements Proposed Requirements Immediate Implementation Database The database relies on three...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Accounts User Stories Is this suppose to be what type of queries clients want to be able to use? Some of the Data queries...
See any of: CourseAccountSshKeyAccess CourseAccountSshKeyAccessAdministration PasswordWebApp PasswordWebAppHelpdeskDocumentation
.classlist differencing root@linux.student.cs:~/isg/grades/README contains info on some scripts that are run regularly to publish changes to .classlist files...
See any of: CourseAccountSshKeyAccess CourseAccountSshKeyAccessAdministration
ST to RT Investigation: Changes Requests for CSCF/MFCF RT Queues Change requests, by term, most recent first. Before items will appear here, they will be reviewed...
Fields in ST Documentation copied from https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/ST/debug/doc/fields/ . The proposed situation in campus RT will be recorded in BOLDCAPS...
SaltStack within CSCF Policies Please read `in 10 minutes` (linked in External Documentation) and all of this article before doing anything on a Salt master...
Computer Science SAMBA Servers Non Computer Science students and staff should consult with MFCF for the appropriate Math SAMBA servers. Printer and File Services...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Project (Was: School Administration Tools investigation See StandardizedAdministrationTools for implementation project)...
School Administration Tools Database See attached files. quest.sql: existing quest schema watiam.sql: existing watiam schema See Also bottom of...
School Administration Tools History This project builds on the work of prior CSCF projects. GradOfficeWebApplication 2005 2007 headed by Isaac project...
School Administration Tools: Requirements Requirements summary Facilitate Room/desk assignments: record the purpose for a room (by association with parent...
School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Standard PC Deployment Information Request # Date Installed/Delivered: Computer name IP: 129....
Setting up PLG Lab PCs with Ubuntu The following assumes that the PC being setup is called `scspc187.cs` Prepatory steps We started out with awk.cs and then proceeded...
Dave Gawley wanted me to help him set up watcher202.cscf as a FreeBSD system. So here`s what I did. watcher202 is a Sun Fire V60z server with a pair of Xeon...
SGI Altix System Administration course June 6 10, 2005 Instructor: Dave Wright (daw at sgi.com) Course notes LawrenceNotes Reference Materials SGI...
Sponsors Data The hierarchical text files under the directory /software/accounts master/data/sponsors on the machine cs xh admin.cs.private.uwaterloo.ca are a...
Giant Sponsors Database Historical Documentation Page Most readers who end up here should go straight to SponsorsDataAccountsDocumentationBigPruned instead. Perhaps...
Giant Sponsors Database Historical Documentation Page (Pruned) Working from SponsorsDataAccountsDocumentationBig as a start, we attempt to indicate sections which...
Raw Sponsors Data Accounts Documentation This no longer works well. (at all) Perhaps see... SponsorsDataAccountsDocumentationBig SponsorsDataAccountsDocumentationBigPruned...
# Sponsors Data Overview This is a `backup` copy. The original is currently available at http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/MFCF/info/overviews/resource.shtml Please...
Sponsors Data Directory Admin Organization Note that in the case of any discrepency between what is stated here. and what is the actual case on the UNIX computer...
Staff Absences Staff Send E mail to `cscf away@cs` Staff who will not be coming in are requested to send email to cscf away@cs to let management know that they will...
Staff Stuff This page is intended to gather up the various topics that will be of interest to staff relating to how we work, vacation, professional development, etc...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Project (Was: SchoolAdministrationTools investigation project) Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Importer SAT needs a batch importer to add data which is not automatically available from elsewhere in the odyssey.uwaterloo...
System Testing for Ubuntu In Ubuntu versions 14.04 and earlier, there is a tool called System Testing. Use this for checking and benchmarking a system. In Ubuntu...
Taskgroup Membership Mail can be sent to a task group via an address of the form: tg group@cscf The group names below can be used to send mail, and/or determine appropriate...
Term Goals Fall 2015 for Research Support and Special Projects General environment File storage Meet with Dave and Anthony to review plans for Distributed File...
CSCF Objectives and Milestones Fall 2016 Hardware Acquisition, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Plan, purchase, configure, deploy and manage lifecycle of equipment...
CSCF Objectives and Milestones Fall 2017 Previous Term: TermGoalsSpring2017 Meeting 2017 08 16 Discussion of potential goals for Fall 2017 Infrastructure https:...
Spring 2016 CSCF Objectives and Milestones April 2016 Ken`s original version: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/pub/CF/TermGoals/CSCFObjectivesS16.pdf Hardware Acquisition...
Term Goals Spring 2016 Research Support Group Master ST#104569 Hardware Acquisition, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Objective: timely deployment of desktop...
CSCF Objectives and Milestones May 2017 Previous Term: TermGoalsWinter2017 Hardware Acquisition, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Plan, purchase, configure, deploy...
Term Goals Winter 2016 for Research Support and Special Projects General environment File storage Distributed File Service Lawrence/Lori w/Dave/Anthony (ST...
CSCF Objectives and Milestones Winter 2017 January 2017 Next Term: TermGoalsSpring2017 Hardware Acquisition, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Plan, purchase,...
pre { margin left: 5em; white space: pre wrap; white space: moz pre wrap; } Tomcat Setup This describes setting up Tomcat WebServletFramework. Documentation...
TwoFactor Authentication Service (Needs Updating) Purpose The Two Factor Authentication service is a secure authentication service intended for computing support...
Architecture for the TwoFactor Authentication Service (This page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) The TwoFactor service makes use of technology developed by CRYPTOCard...
Setting up a Linux host for Using LDAP Accounts and TwoFactor Authentication These instructions assume you are using Ubuntu 7.04, so YMMV. First, install some packages...
User Support Triage Documentation From CFPrivate.USG20120126 : Technical system coverage: we should all self identify the systems on which we are the primary...
Use of UW Grouper for those with permissions to modify NEXUS groups Current CSCF members with general permissions (2020 07 29): drallen, ijmorlan, dmerner, lfolland...
UBUNTU Install Notes (This page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) Image file location See also: CscfStWrkLinuxImageUpdates Linux images Location of Files...
Ubuntu Post install Steps Version information These notes are being updated for Ubuntu 8.04 (as of Fall 2008) Automatic Security Updates https://help.ubuntu...
Howto for Installing Xhier onto ubuntu Supplement for Ray`s solaris specific install howto. (http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/mfcf/internal/procedures/OS/Solaris/xhier...
Unit4 Unit4 is the new system as of May 2017 for financial information and procurement Information about Unit 4: https://uwaterloo.ca/finance/financial systems...
The CSCF User Support Group Meetings User Support Group Meeting Notes (in CFPrivate) Operations Resources for PoCs which should aid them in managing software...
Watform Ubuntu Migration In 2009, we met with the Watform group and agreed to begin a migration of their existing server configuration into a set of Ubuntu servers...
Web Server Capabilities This page is meant to be a starting point for people who need to make changes to what is visible on websites hosted on the main CS webservers...
CF Home for CSCF technical notes Welcome to the home of TWiki.CF . This is a web based collaboration area for CSCF. Anything that belonged in http://www.math...
Information in this area is meant for use by CSCF staff and is not official documentation, but anybody who is interested is welcome to use it if they find it useful...
Statistics for CF Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and...
Why Xhier? Why do we want xhier on FreeBSD? BSD has many strengths, one of which is its packaging/ports system. Why replace that with something else? Can`t...
Windows This page is to document issues relating to the administration of Windows machines in Math and CS Installation notes for CSCF WindowsInCS CSCF Windows...
Workflow Time Management The way in which we allocate time is determined by our understanding of what our clients want and will accept. All that follows is intended...
Setting up the Xerox Workcentre Pro 123/128 Printer on Windows Note: This printer is gone now see XeroxWorkCentre5335 instead CS Xerox printers (Note: we will...
Setting up the Xerox WorkCentre 5335 Printer Note: June 2012 copied these notes from XeroxWorkCenter128 details need to be verified CS Xerox printers CSCF...
Meeting time Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 1330h 1430h Initial notes by DanielAllen Present: Dave Gawley, DanielAllen, Ray Butterworth, and Steven Nickerson. Since two of...
21 February 2005 Present: Guoxiang Shen, David Gawley, DanielAllen, MikePatterson, ChristopherCalzonetti, LawrenceFolland. We`re interested in xhiering several new...
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