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3D Printing Guide This is a 3D printing guide for CSCF`s 3D printer. While the documentation on this page is mainly for internal use, others may be able to benefit...
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...
Thoughts Concerning The Planning Of A Campus Wide Directory Service (OBSOLETE) By Clayton Tucker Manager of CSCF`s Active Directory Forest, Forest Architect and...
CSCF Support for Administrative Computing These notes are intended to provide an overview of how the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF) User Support Group...
Main.iturner 29 Mar 2010 Attachments not yet available Apple Connect 2010 Toronto March 14 19, 2010 Conference Notes Parallels bare metal allows GoDaddy to be...
Backups Notes on various backup systems available for use in the Computer Science and Math environments Macs BackupMacs notes on backing up Macs for Staff...
CSCF Application Server (Asimov) notes 19 Aug 2020 Updates to new server notes are in progress mostly done Summary Purpose File system for CSCF image...
MikeGore 17 Nov 2009 CS Application Server (ASIMOV) Talk Resources CSApplicationServer Hardware 8 hard drives Fast Core 2 Duo, 4G Ram, dual 1G network...
CSCF Active Directory Overview ADForestLayout Structure of the CSCF Active Directory Forest. ADDnsConfiguration Special DNS Configuration for CSCF Active...
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 Service Catalog Version 2.2: Categories and Services from Education best practice standards, with proposed changes. See: of Services, Categories, Audiences...
CSCF Software Notes Software Task Group Meetings and notes from the Campus SoftwareTaskForce Software Information CSCF Standards Standard Software Applications...
CS network ACL summary (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) work in progress please send comments to trg We`ve requested a summary (with regular ongoing updates and maintenance...
CS SaltStack Working Group Mandate reasonable people trying to reach reasonable conclusions on what setup pieces should managed and how to manage our Large Integrated...
CanHEIT / HPCS 2016 CanHEIT CUCCIO oversees the annual Canadian Higher Education Information Technology Conference, known as CANHEIT. With a focus on IT issues of...
CSCF Client Projects 2005 GradOfficeWebApplication web based application to replace the Filemaker based Grad Database ( JasonTestart 24 May...
Creating the Gradpc Workstation Image The gradpc image consists of a sysprep`d Windows XP Pro (plus applications) partition (first partition of the hard drive, a middle...
DFSc Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 04 27 Invitees Attendees Anthony, Gouxiang, Lori, Nathan, Nick, Lawrence Review and accept previous meeting...
DFSc Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 08 17 Invitees Lori, O, Anthony, Nathan, Guoxiang, Nick, Clayton, Todd Attendees Lori, Anthony, Nathan...
CSCF Linux Working Group 2020 12 15 Announcements Power outage of MC 3015 server room: https://rt.uwaterloo.ca/Ticket/Display.html?id 1123196 DFSc...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 11 18 Invitees Attendees ldpaniak, a2brenna, lfolland, dlgawley, nfish, fhgunn, omnafees, gxshen, tlichty...
Linux Working Group Invitees Attendees Adrian, Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave, Lawrence, Omar...
Linux Working Group Invitees Attendees Adrian, Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave, Lawrence, Omar...
Linux Working Group AGENDA LOCKED 2022 04 06 Invitees Attendees Invited: Anthony, Adrian, Guoxiang, Clayton, Lori, Fraser, Nathan, Dave, Omar, Devon,...
Linux Working Group AGENDA LOCKED Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 05 18 Invitees Attendees Invited: Adrian, Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori...
Linux Working Group AGENDA LOCKED Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 08 10 Invited Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2022 10 19 Invited Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave,...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 02 22 Invited Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave,...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 06 14 Invited Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave,...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 06 28 Invited Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave,...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 07 12 Invited Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Lori, Fraser, Devon, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Dave,...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 07 26 Invited Anthony (group leader), Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed Attendees Anthony...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 08 09 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 08 23 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 09 06 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 09 20 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 10 04 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 11 01 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed, Devon Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 11 15 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed, Devon Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 11 29 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed, Devon Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2023 12 13 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed, Devon Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2024 01 10 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed, Devon Attendees...
Linux Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2024 01 24 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed, Devon Attendees...
Meeting Date TEAMS: 2024 02 07 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed, Devon Attendees Anthony (group...
Meeting Date TEAMS: 2024 02 21 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Dave, O, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed, Devon, Gwen Attendees Anthony...
Meeting Date TEAMS: 2024 10 30 Invited Anthony (group leader), Lori, Clayton, Guoxiang, Nathan, Nick, Todd, Ed, Devon, Gwen, Ushe Attendees: NL, EC, NF,...
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021 Attendees Anthony, Dave, Gordon, Lori, Nathan, Lawrence Discussion Items What Saltstack...
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Attendees nfish, a2brenna, ldpaniak, lfolland Review and accept previous meeting...
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: Wednesday, February 16, 2021 Attendees Dave, Anthony, Lawrence, Lori, Nathan Review and accept previous...
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 03 09 Invitees Dave, Anthony, Lawrence, Lori, Nathan Review and accept previous meeting minutes....
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 09 01 Invitees Attendees Dave, Anthony, Lawrence, Lori, Nathan Any corrections to previous meeting...
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 11 10 Invitees Attendees Dave, Anthony, Lawrence, Lori, Nathan Review and accept previous meeting...
SaltStack Working Group Meeting Date TEAMS: 2021 11 24 Invitees Attendees Dave, Anthony, Lawrence, Lori, Nathan Review and accept previous meeting...
Setup Ubuntu/Linux/Gnu frontends (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) (deprecated pre 2012, see CSCF Ubuntu Setup Information) A description of what a frontend is Strictly...
Different Methods of Deploying the Grad Workstation Image To a System This section will give a brief description on the different possible ways to apply the Grad Workstation...
Notes on Particular Versions of the Grad Workstation Image References CloneZilla clonezilla documents An index to this page listed by Motherboard / Laptop...
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 DHCP information system in Computer Science (OBSOLETE) Overview CSCF CSI provides a DHCP infrastructure for computers, printers and other devices on its networks...
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Documentation Standards 2022 A lot has changed since the original creation of the DocumentationStandards Those `standards` were never fully adopted and agreed upon...
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...
High School Equipment Co op Guide This guide is intended to be used, and maintained by the co op student in the Computer Support Assistant position. It will cover...
CSCF Git Repository This page is to document CSCF use of the https://git.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/ group of the git.uwaterloo.ca server, which has an easy to use Gitlab web...
Here is a list of tasks with time estimates for Phase One: Complete OUAC data model complete Develop internal data model for OGSAS complete...
Graduate Student Computing Workflow Initial Computing Selection Supervisors are provided with a form to select which kind of equipment they wish to provide their...
Grad Workstation Schedule The arrival of graduate students each term, in varying numbers, combined with the release schedule for the desired operating systems, drive...
HP Health SNMP Configuration This page includes notes and references for setting up an HP Proliant server to be monitored by CSCF`s nagios system via hp health SNMP...
Hardware notes Computing Platforms AppleHardware notes relating to Apple hardware BlackBerries notes on selecting, purchasing and configuring...
UW DNS/DHCP Maintenance How To This page is very out of date and needs significant rewriting. See DNS Naming Standards or Naming Rules and RFC Documents instead...
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Inventory Database: Field Descriptions These are the field definitions for the CSCF/MFCF Inventory System. See InventoryUserDocs for more information. Note: These...
Inventory System Administrator Documentation The inventory system tracks CSCF and Computer Science equipment in a database. It can be accessed at https://cs.uwaterloo...
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...
The CS General Windows Domain Introduction There is a Windows Domain (part of the Active Directory infrastructure) membership in which provides some advantages:...
05 Jul 2012 Infrastructure Group Meeting. Attendance: Adrian, Clayton, Dave, Dan, Guoxiang, Phil Dates of Interest Last day of lectures for this term is: 25 spring...
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 Ronaldo`s attendee notes `10: November 7...
Laptop Lending Program for the School of Computer Science CSCF Master ST item ST#81816 Public service description https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/services/LaptopLending...
Legato Client Installation notes (OBSOLETE) See Legato Install Notes for Windows Restoring Files https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/setups...
Starting Points for CSCF non twiki LXC documentation up LinuX Containers (LXC) https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/infrastructure/setups/ubuntu/UW CS Container...
CSCF Machine Rooms Labelling Standards Machine Room racks and organization MachineRoomRacks Fire Suppression Power and Air Conditioning Consoles and KVMs...
RobynLanders 07 Aug 2008 MOVED TO MFCF MEDIAWIKI This page has been moved to the MFCF wiki as of September 2010. Don`t bother editing it here. MC3015 Machine Room...
Macintosh We are currently discussing and determining the overall Mac support approach. Installation and Configuration Mac OS X Versions Mac Image Creation...
Annual Reviews Client Survey We usually email something like this: To: cs announce Subject: annual CSCF (Computer Science Computing Facility) staff reviews It`s...
Restoring Broken Old Master After Failover Caution: this process is meant to cover most situations output of commands should be reviewed to make sure they make sense...
CS MySQL Database High Availability Testing Notes for System Administrators DRAFT This document is for historical use only, as of 8 April, 2016. Current details...
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...
NetTop notes Overview and Background In 2011, we began to use the NetTop as a `fatter` thin client. This was primarily driven by the desire to speed up browser usage...
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Tutorial 5: How to Configure a HP 2650 Switch (OBSOLETE) Roadmap to this tutorial : This document will show you how to configure a HP2650 switch. For this document...
Tutorial 8: Networking Documentation Roadmap for official CSCF documentation on network facilities, and design criteria, see: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf...
CSCF Networking Twiki (OBSOLETE) This is to augment WWW networking information which is the authoritative site until merged with this site. There are also public facing...
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...
Notes taken in Isaac`s briefing to Dawn, Lawrence, Daniel, Stephen, and Adrian on 1 December, 2008. 1) Contact info 2) RT Queue items that should be done before he...
MikeGore 2016 10 12 Clonezilla image U16041 VM 250G F16 V2 Update 17 Oct 2016 Location: asimov:/coregroup/images/research/U16041 VM 250G F16 V2 Summary...
Dell OpenManage SNMP Configuration This page includes notes and references for setting up a Dell PowerEdge server to be monitored by CSCF`s nagios system via OpenManage...
OwnCloud Background ownCloud is a PHP based service that allows you to sync your files across different computers. Smartphone support is in progress. ownCloud is...
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...
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Programming Languages Group Web site http://plg.uwaterloo.ca Email Group email: plgroup@plg2 Procedures PlgLdap notes on adding users and using PLGs...
MikeGore 2014 11 20 RSGMetaPackages Note ALL RSG metapackages and scripts are being handed over to CS infrastructure. List of Unique packages NOT in the CS metapackages...
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 This page includes notes and references to pages of primary interest to the Computer Science Research Support Group (RSG) Research Support ResearchGroups...
Creating a Sponsors File for a New Researcher Here we will document the setting up of sponsors data configuration for newly arriving faculty member by using a fictional...
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 Management Requirements Proposed Requirements Immediate Implementation Database The database relies on three...
SCS Email Plans 2021 We have been discussing for some time now the elimination of CS Mail services. What exactly that will look like and how we will replace some...
SCS CSCF Infrastructure Group (CSI) Ubuntu 16.04 Standards Project (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose CSCF Infrastructure group...
How to Set Up a Virtual Host on cs.uwaterloo.ca Web Server Add nsbuild alias: https://nsbuild.uwaterloo.ca/ui/ DNS search for haproxy.cs.uwaterloo.ca and add...
Roughly ordered Steps to setup a system: Install an LTS Ubuntu using a standard ISO and then update the Apt Repository Sources using instructions at https://cs...
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...
SaltStack Introductory information You can get an overview to Salt here: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/ Steve Weber recommends: Baumgartner...
Shoshin (Black, Taylor, Ward) Lab Manager Hao Chen (h8chen) Overview The Shoshin lab manages their own infrastructure for the most part. They have their own subnet...
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...
Standardized Administration Tools (SAT) Project (Was: SchoolAdministrationTools investigation project) Table of Contents Project Objective: Purpose The purpose...
Stored Researcher Equipment (This page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) We regularly have equipment returned from students that belong to research groups or individual...
Raspberry Pi based Stratum 1 NTP Server Notes The Raspberry Pi is a low cost ARM7 based singleboard linux computer. The most useful feature of the Raspberry Pi is...
Surplussing Old Equipment (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) To Surplus Or Not to Surplus? Before surplussing equipment, check to see whether it can be re used. See StoredResearcherEquipme...
CSCF Goals by Term Winter 2018 2018 Term Goals (frozen version) all groups ( CSI, TOP, RSG) Fall 2017 TermGoalsFall...
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,...
Tetherless Networking Lab (Keshav) DC3556ShutDownProcedures: see DC3556 Nabeel Ahmed`s project Old: NabeelAhmed`s project Desktop client systems...
Thinking Ape Mobile Devices 2012 As described in ST#86622, the SCS has acquired 60 mobile devices, as shown below. Ongoing support and maintenance of this set of devices...
Network Training and Tutorials (This page is Obsolete Do Not Migrate) Over time Dan and Trevor will be creating a set of tutorials and training documents pertaining...
CSCF Linux Configuration Management Purpose The purpose of this project is to deploy a functioning BCfg2 server and associated infrastructure elements in order to...
Replace MC3003 lab computer Purpose As part of the CSCF overall evergreening process ... Plan From: Edward Chrzanowski To: Trevor Grove CC: David Gawley , `snickers...
CSCF Printing Infrastructure Renewal Purpose Provide a modern reliable printing infrastructure to replace our legacy CUPS and LPD services. Development plan (as...
CSCF Printing Infrastructure Renewal Purpose Convert SE lab to linux. Implementation target: Sept 1, 2012 Development plan (as of 2012 3 1) develop linux...
Using Ubuntu in the School of Computer Science, at the University of Waterloo. (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) CSLinuxWorkingGroup meeting notes, mailing list info...
The CSCF User Support Group Meetings User Support Group Meeting Notes (in CFPrivate) Operations Resources for PoCs which should aid them in managing software...
VLAN and IP address space information (Do Not Migrate) This page documents established network assignments (that is manually maintained). For the definitive list...
GordBoerke 21 Feb 2013 VMware License Process Faculty License Agreement VMware licenses are available for Mathematics Faculty, Staff, and Students only for the purposes...
MikeGore VMware Workstation setup Downloads Workstation Downloads look for `Get Free Trial` you will be prompted to enter the license key in the...
Vault file service: User Documentation Nextcloud User Manual https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/user manual/ Overview This service provides a `DropBox...
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...
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...
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...
Work Organization Our goal is to better organize our work for its presentation and planning. We currently have an overwhelmingly large collection of detail. That`s...
NetBSD`s pkgsrc has been ported to many operating systems we care about Darwin (Mac OS X), IRIX, Linux, Solaris, the other BSDs, and more. Can we integrate it with...
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