1. Owen McShane Northgrid systems manager Christmas talk Dec 2006

2. Slide 2 owen@hep.man.ac.uk Owen McShane Christmas talk Back-end servers DNS (name servers) DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Mail Nagios (Monitoring service) NTP (Network Time Protocol)

3. Slide 3 owen@hep.man.ac.uk Owen McShane Christmas talk Hardware Diagnosing/fixing/swapping out systems as and when they fail

4. Slide 4 owen@hep.man.ac.uk Owen McShane Christmas talk Web sites Wiki (https://wiki.tier2.hep.manchester.ac.uk)https://wiki.tier2.hep.manchester.ac.uk RT (Request Tracker. A ticketing system that accepts emails, or web based input): (https://rt.tier2.hep.manchester.ac.uk)https://rt.tier2.hep.manchester.ac.uk

5. Slide 5 owen@hep.man.ac.uk Owen McShane Christmas talk Backups Dirvish (Backup software which uses rsync over ssh)

6. Slide 6 owen@hep.man.ac.uk Owen McShane Christmas talk Next year Maintaining/updating/improving existing systems Get more involved in grid software implementation