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Administration This section covers those areas that are (were) typically handled by the CSCF Administrator Accounts Accounts top level collection of notes...
AFF Codes used by CSCF Activity Name 100 Administration 500 Research 800 Teaching...
After Hours Support Email As described in http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/about/after hours support, there is a mailing list for urgent after hours problem reports...
Software/Applications Installation This documents (extra) information about the installation of specific applications. When the page gets too big, we`ll make per application...
Authentication Task Group Purpose The purpose of the authentication task group is to determine directions for authentication services within the School of Computer...
CS DFSc Working Group Mandate Design/Setup/Deployment Notes https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CFPrivate/DFSC DFSC Agenda Template CsDFScWgMeetingYYYYMMDD...
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...
Cfengine Introduction Cfengine stands for configuration engine and is a tool using declarative language to configure computers. Setup in CSCF Cfengine is being used...
Clusters This page will collect the information/tools for building and administering clusters Building Clusters UndergradCluster Ed`s notes on building ugster...
The Course Evaluation Database is stored on postgres165.cs.uwaterloo.ca aka postgres.odyssey under user course eval ui and schema course eval . It also uses...
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 OFIS Testbed OFIS testbed lives on cscfpc19.cs.uwaterloo.ca. Currently running lighttpd and fcgi php. Does not currently contain OFIS clone; OFIS db is configured...
Thin Client Environment in CS Current System see Standards and Procedures web pages. Proposed New Systems What we need We require a low cost, easily maintainable...
CSCF Access to Public Data In general, access to data that is public (to whatever extent), is best mediated by some system. E.g. it`s not considered ideal to provide...
CSCF Data Point of Contact The data describing the Points of Contact is maintained in three places. Research For research, the data resides in the Subscriptions...
Database Services provided by CSCF Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database Management System Database Management Systems operated by CSCF IBM...
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...
Documentation Standards 2022 A lot has changed since the original creation of the DocumentationStandards Those `standards` were never fully adopted and agreed upon...
Documentation Standards Note: this is a proposed set of standards for documentation within CSCF and should not be considered official at this time Comments...
Support of the Teaching Computing Environment Here we`ll document maintenance information for the cs teaching `region`; the environment that uses the common student...
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 Hardware Lab DC2560G (THIS PAGE NEEDS UPDATING) Documentation in process of being updated The CSCF HARDWARE LAB consists of four areas: storage, workstations...
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...
MikeGore 2014 06 20 Server Setup tools Summary Autmatically setup a new DNS/TFTPBOOT/NFS/Liveboot server with utilities Web Page: https://cs.uwaterloo...
Infrastructure Services This page includes CSCF developer`s notes, references and links on the School`s IT provided services Accounts/Authentication Management...
Installing Perl Modules as a non root user in one`s homedir The problem, as identified: there wasn`t an xhier package for a particular set of modules; and a user would...
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...
Lab Renovations CSCF Workflow (THIS NEEDS UPDATING) The CS Space Committee is to be involved whenever the look, feel, or use of a space, or the potential for that...
School of Computer Science shared Library the Distributed Library Project (DLP) CSCF`s DLP: http://dlp.uwaterloo.ca (no longer exists this project is no longer...
Licensed Software Work In Progress We don`t license a lot of software, so this page should be an adequate place to record it all. Filemaker Adobe Acrobat Pro Microsoft...
Math Faculty Computing Facility (MFCF) Purpose We have talked numerous times about having a collaborative document repository, and what type to use, and where to...
Adrian Pepper`s Quick Start Guide to Mailman List Moderation (rendered for `` list) Preface I was actually hoping to find a link to someone else`s description...
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...
Mozex a Mozilla Extension to configure an external editor for textboxes 2009 8 13: apparently Mozex doesn`t work with `current` versions (ie v3) of Firefox, so...
NetApp Filer Active/active configuration An active/active configuration is two storage systems (nodes) whose controllers are connected to each other either directly...
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...
News items of interest to MFCF/CSCF staff (OBSOLETE) Seminars 2006/03/02 High Availability Networks with ProCurve Networking by HP Conferences 2005/...
OpenBSD in CSCF (obsolete) CSCF`s ability to support OpenBSD is very limited. In mid 2007, CSCF starting looking at OpenBSD for low cost network load balancing using...
Standard Procedures for all Operating System Updates We`ll document some standard procedures, mostly just reminders, for some of the things we do when planning for...
Professional Development The Approach The Approach describes how we allocate professional development resources as fairly as we can. DLP Collection of CSCF Books...
Puppet: System Configuration Management Framework Puppet is a tool that allows one to manage many systems via a central master node. Tasks that Puppet can do In this...
Research This page includes notes and references to pages of primary interest to the Computer Science Research Support Group (RSG) Research Support ResearchGroups...
Research Subscriptions Web Application About the Application The Science Computing Facility (CSCF)`s Research Support Group (RSG) bills its services to faculty and...
CSCF Service Tracker Some notes about working with the ST service tracking system. RTEmailGateway utility for processing emails into ST RTDirectContentEditing...
Scanning (OBSOLETE DELETE) Setting up a Xerox MFP for Scanning There are currently 2 models of Xerox Multi function units in service in CS, the Workcentre...
Security in CS (This page needs updating) Jump off page for security related stuff. LabSchedule listing of possible rooms Opening and Closing SecurityAlerts...
SharePoint Support Accessing Sharepoint Documents Directly http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/howto/sharepoint The Visual Upgrade The above contains a hint for...
Sharing (Critical) Information There are several things in common in the approaches taken for critical situations and ongoing work; both of which can affect our clients...
Software Developer Documentation For systems we use and develop or modify ourselves, we have this template for needed documentation. Whether each of the following...
Space Planning for Change Any work that will change the appearance of any space or is part of a School project that involves alterations to space or...
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...
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...
Task Groups A task group is a group of individuals who are responsible for a well defined area of computing support (e.g. support of a particular OS, an application...
Technology Deployment Requirements Whenever we introduce a new (instance of a) technology to the environment, we`re obliged to do at least the following: document...
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...
Twiki notes for CSCF and MFCF staff TWIKI Add On Products Add On Products TWIKI Editors and Plugins integration Edit Plugin Java 1.1 applet text...
USG Documentation Process and Standards This page is intended to document USG members` criteria and preferences for documentation as well as the process used to create...
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...
Ubuntu LTSP Under Construction SettingUpLTSPserver Notes on how to set up the server PhilipBeldowski 24 Sep 2010 LTSPtopology.odg: Topology of...
The CSCF User Support Group Meetings User Support Group Meeting Notes (in CFPrivate) Operations Resources for PoCs which should aid them in managing software...
Video conferencing Video conference systems available on campus VideoConferencingICR notes specifically relating to ICR`s videoconference unit VideoConferencingIST...
Video Conferencing ICR (Obsolete) 2016 10 28: Note ICR`s Video conference system has been retired
Installation and Configuration of Virtual Machines Introduction Wikipedia (virtual machines) states that a virtual machine is a software implementation of a machine...
Staff Visibility The following discusses why and how we maximize staff visibility. Why If someone goes to the effort of visiting in person, their reason is likely...
MikeGore 2013 12 02 WatITis 2013 talks WatItisNetworkImaging2013 Mike Gore`s talk on Network Imaging December 3rd 2013 in QNC
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When We Work The following is intended as an elaboration on the topic of work hours as given in job descriptions: In general, working hours are flexible, as circumstances...
Who Can Read and Write the CF web Read anyone in the world, including Google Write CSCF staff MFCF staff LawrenceFolland 07 Mar 2006
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...
Windows Task Group See: WindowsWorkgroup Purpose Membership Mailing List Email alias for group: tg windows #64;cscf.cs Book It Group: CSCF tg windows...
MikeGore 19 Mar 2013 WatRISQ Guest Wireless Access Administrator Notes WatRISQ has 10 IDs and Passwords and #9 has been dedicated to Mary Flatt for her MQF...
About How We Work Workflow Time Management How to balance time across competing work Management Principles and Insights Job Information
MikeGore 2015 09 23 Adding users to ICR Xerox 8355 printer Open web page: http://172.19.33.18/ with a web browser. Jean or Vera have the userid and...
ZFS Storage Pool and File System ZFS uses storage pools to manage storage devices. A storage device could be a whole disk or a slice of a disk. ZFS prefers to...
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