Technical Coordinators Meeting Steve Siirila Chris Bongaarts Feb 13, 2008

Outages diamond – –Limitations of 32-bit code on Solaris – –Short term fix: offloading users – –Long term fix: recompiling software garnet – –Increased usage by existing users – –Starting to offload users who don’t use interactive features

Web Permissions Problem Patched servers on 2/3 “Fixed” a problem interpreting umask (default permissions for new files) Changed default permissions on files uploaded with SFTP/SCP to be inaccessible via web Fixed as of 3pm 2/12

AutoFiling Converting from IMAP namespace to symlink for all users to work around client problems Found solution to client hangs during autofiled server outages Autofiling will resume in about a week

UMCal Archiving Started archiving old (> 18 mo.) calendar entries as of 2/1 EXCEPT: Crookston users scheduled for 3/1 Anecdotal evidence: performance is better now

Self-serve password reset Rolling out to a couple thousand students per day User is asked during login to set up secrets to enable future password resets Still tweaking interface as we go

Bits ‘n’ Bytes M Keys: over 3,000 distributed (rolling out to Peoplesoft users) Testing new RADIUS service to support new wireless network

‘Till next month… Chris Bongaarts Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila Steve Siirila Internet Services Internet Services