Windows NT at DESY Status report HEP NT 4 th -8 th October 1999 SLAC

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke2 The Domain DESYNT l Single Domain spanning Hamburg and Zeuthen l ~2000 registered users in 55 groups n Groups are more or less based on DESY administrative structure n Group administrators are responsible for : Configuration and installation : Support for the users : Account maintenance : Computer accounts l About 1400 active nodes l ~1050 workstations online per day (900 in parallel) n Growth rate is flatting out

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke3 Workstations Online per Day in DESYNT

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke4 Users in DESY NT Domain

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke5 DESYNT The DESY WindowsNT Infrastructure BDC WINS DESY Zeuthen LAN 4 MBIT Leased Line Data Replication DFS SQLSMS PDC BDC WINS DESY Hamburg LAN Home directory Cluster Print Cluster Terminal ServerPrint Server Application Cluster Web Cluster HUB File Server

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke6 Clusters l Most central services are based on clusters l DEC Cluster Solution Application Homedirectory l Microsoft Cluster Printservice l Windows load balanced Service WebService

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke7 NetInstall Application Cluster l Digital WNT Cluster l Digital Server 3000, 266 MHz Dual Pentium II, l 128 MB memory, l 1 shared differential SCSI bus l DEC RA310 RAID array l 25 GByte disk space RA310 DESYNTAPPS1

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke8 Home Directory Cluster l Digital WNT Cluster l DEC Prioris MX6200, l 200 MHz Dual Pentium II, l 256 MB memory, l 3 shared differential SCSI bus l RAID 3/5 stripeset with parity l In total 265 GB HD DESYNTFILES1DESYNTFILES2 45GB 152GB DESYNTCLUADESYNTCLUB 68GB 92GB173GB

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke9 l Print jobs are spooled over NT printserver to the central UNIX print server l Print service runs on a Microsoft Cluster now l Saving the configuration n Registry keys: HKLM : SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Ports : SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print : SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares n Copy drivers %SystemRoot%\system32\spool\drivers MS Cluster for Printing DESYNTCLUEDESYNTCLUF External SCSI Harddisk External terminator SCSI Bus Standard PC’s

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke10 The DESY WindowsNT WEB Services l Windows load balanced service (WLBS) l Standard PC’s l Mirrored IDE Harddisk l 2 network interfaces l IIS l Scalable up to 32 nodes H U B S W I T C H PC 1PC 2

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke11 Management l Application support n NetInstall V4 in production since May 1998 n About 50 applications in 13 software groups n Migration to Version 5  Ch. Trachimow: “Application support” l Administrative tasks n Web Based Domain Management WBDM  H. Bartels: “NT based WebServices & Web based domain management” n Scripting  Ch. Trachimow: “ A scripting host for domain automation tasks” è Not only a replacement of the TEM – more functionality

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke12 AntiVirusSoftware l VirusScan V4.04 from Network Associates l Start with an Antivirus test domain in June l Scanning on access (default) n Private scan schedules are possible l Management Edition n Real time software distribution system n Doesn’t meet our demands n Only one database n Frequently disk access – Network Monitor Agent (10 sec.) n API’s unknown and not documented è no script support for management possible l Messages to GA’s and AV Admin when virus found ý First distribution via NetInstall package

DESY 10/4/99DESY WNT-PG Helga Schwendicke13 Outlook l Migration to NetInstall V5 l Terminal Server investigations n Configuration n Scalability and Load balancing n Access protocols (RDP, ICA, X) l Groupware l Windows 2000 n Still at the very beginning – no migration concept n Small NT test domain with Beta3 RC1 n IP test domain with DDNS between Hamburg and Zeuthen (Bind8 server – waiting for tests)

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