Linux Working Group

Meeting Date

• TEAMS: 2021-03-09

Invitees - Attendees

• Dave, Anthony, Adrian, Clayton, Guoxiang, Fraser, Lori, Nathan, Devon

Review and accept previous meeting minutes.

• Move to next meeting to give people time to update from their notes.

Agenda Items

RT #936510 : sssd vs nscd (sssd replacement of nscd requires sssd validation)

• Anthony will be point on getting this ticket resolved by end of March.

RT#1142517: MC Power Outage - Saturday, March 20, 2021 7:30 to 17:30

• NO information from MFCF yet on their shutdown/restart schedule (Robyn was on vacation so is just starting to work on this).
• Preliminary Shutdown schedule:
  • Friday morning: reduce DNS round-robin of linux.student.cs
  • Saturday @6:00:
    • Shutdown OpenEDx - Ask Todd to inform clients
    • Ugsters (Computer Security and Privacy course) - Fraser to inform client and take care of shutdown
    • Filemaker database server (Grad office and Barb D's courses) - Devon to inform Barb and Grad office.
    • mx.student.cs (ie course email services) so this possible 10 hour (ie > 8 hours) could result in timeout, retry message for incoming mail.
    • MC linux.student.cs, mc-3015-2*.cloud.cs nodes - Guoxiang to shutdown.
    • MC linux.student.cs, mc-3015-4*.cloud.cs nodes (DFSc and SQL) - Guoxiang to shutdown
    • MC VMware Services - Clayton shutdown.
    • Test being able to configure Icinga to deal with this room outage?
  • Saturday @18:00
    • Dave to be on site to power on systems.
      • Mac server - hit power on button (check sticky button)
  • Saturday @20.00
    • Add MC servers back to DNS round-robin of linux.student.cs

Interesting new? Admin tools

• glances (enhanced htop)