Proposed date: 23 October 2006. Meeting: 2:00pm-3:00pm

Present: Daniel, Dave, Mike, Christopher, Fraser, Phil

Agenda

• pre-announce: fe102.cs & fe104.cs
  • try and break, folks.
• network: (anyone seeing problems with linux/nfs?)
  • dave would like hardware info
    • timber: hp switch; dell poweredge running fedora core..
    • gl: a few drop connection then refuse to mount.
  • monitoring/nagios
• centralized management of debian/ubuntu packages and their configs
  • systemimager for xhiered systems ? pro's, con's?
  • cfengine? pro's, con's?
• accounts: cf. ST#55559 vs LDAP (MikePatterson)
  • https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/request/UpdateRequest?55559
• Jason's question about procedure for others adding packages
  • proposed: (mail tg-linux-cscf & post to uw.cscf.changes)
    • announce tomorrow at CSCF staff mtg.
    • tg-linux-cscf:cscf-mgmt,dlgawley,drallen,gxshen,mpatterson,pbeldowski,wtautz
    • what about mfcf? ...ccalzone would be interested. so, to tg-linux
    • tg-linux:tg-linux-cscf,tg-linux-mfcf@mfcf.math

• accounts: Dave will pick up championing renumbering low-uid clients.
• daniel is addressing lock problems in lab.

• fyi: MFCF is eventually setting up linux front-end, once they have LDAP auth? also replacing www.student.math with redhat box.

• if nfs down: send to syslog: date, uptime. or nagios? & then mount.

• nagios (watcher202): would need proper logic for: if switch down, don't bother notifying about hosts on the switch... mikep just got a book on it.
• but what about fixing the problem (nfs down, etc).
  • linux implementation of NFS had bad reputation? what about now?
• heartbeat s/w as part of HA linux?

* batch dispatcher for cpuservers? mike thinks this would be useful. though, wait until we have linux cpu servers, as far as this group goes.

* building cscf .debs: we may want to offer new debs for students' machines that aren't xhiered. such as nfs-mounter?...

-- DanielAllen - 23 Oct 2006