1. Technology Update TSAG Meeting 11/13/03

2. Rollout of Portal and SOLAR https://www.csun.edu/portal (https://my.csun.edu) Portal and SOLAR are part of the CMS project (Common Management System) New system with a whole set of new challenges: technical and non- technical. (Patience is needed!) Things to Note:  Registration Starts Monday  New Interface for students  Grading must be performed by faculty  ~1000 faculty don’t have e-mail accounts  Servers are in Utah  (Standard) One week change-management cycle  Refrain from submitting DARS requests  Training for Faculty starts on Monday.

3. Packeteer Network Engineering has deployed a packet shaper called “packeteer” We can prioritize different types of traffic  CMS traffic: high priority  Kazaa traffic: low priority We need to get more information from the local units on which network traffic should be prioritized, etc.

4. End of Life: IPX and Appletalk Original Announcement of Intent:  TSAG Meeting, Nov & Dec 2002 Proposed Last Date of support:  Friday June 4 2004 (Last day of academic year) Reasons for the End of Life on Campus  To reduce load on and to simplify management of Network Services IPX is 20% of load for 5% of population  To reduce the load on NetWare/NDS® servers  Novell and Apple have adopted pure IP Your tasks:  Migrate Novell/Apple services off of IPX/Appletalk Need Netware 5 or above Need Mac OS 8.1 or above  Provide early feedback on problems and concerns Sources: http://www.novell.com/info/collateral/docs/4621162.01/4621162.html http://www.novell.com/info/collateral/docs/4621162.01/4621162.html http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30822

5. Email Quota being put into Effect! Enforcement is underway for:  All new accounts  All student accounts (to be complete by Dec 15) Faculty/Staff maximum email storage limits:  400 MB by Dec 1, 2003  300 MB by Feb 1, 2004  200 MB by March 1, 2004  100 MB by April 1, 2004 Plan to send individuals e-mails those above 400MB (22) Yearly review of quotas by ATC is underway

6. SSL for All E-mail Protocols: Recap Intent to require SSL for all e-mail protocols:  September ‘02: intent to require SSL announced  May ‘03: original date to require by Oct 1 (on campus)  Oct 15-22: phased-implement enforcement Problems:  IMAPs and POPs enforcement (Oct 27)  Certificate problems  Eudora (and other clients)  Notification of Emeriti  Your thoughts?

7. SSL Next Steps Block all inbound “telnet” and “ftp” connections Original Proposed Dates:  1/1/04  10/1/03 (for ECS) Your tasks:  Provide feedback on an appropriate date  Update web pages and documentation (e.g., campus search: telnet ecs)

8. Desktops Standards Greg Nicols proposed a TSAG committee to develop a set of Desktop Standards Overwhelming number of volunteers (This is a good thing!) Committee might want to subdived into affinitiy groups, e.g.,:  Administrative Desktops  Faculty Desktops  General Purpose Student Laboratory Desktops  Patch Management First meeting is Nov 18th POC: Greg.Nicols@csun.edu

9. Patch Management Stability of the Campus Infrastructure is highly dependent on Desktop security patches being applied timely. Units are exploring Microsoft SUS as a possible approach  ITR (Barry)  Library (Bruce)  COBAE (Kelly)  SBS (Tim)

10. ITR’s Approach to Patch Mgt. Focus on just “critical” OS-level patches Apply Non-Emergency patches weekly  Obtain updates from MS  Test for N days in specific machines  Authorize deployment at next cycle. (Desktops will automatically pull updates.) Apply Emergency patches as needed  Obtain updates from MS  Test for N days on specific machines  Push updates to desktops

11. Architectures for SUS Single Enterprise-Level SUS Hierarchal Enterprise-Level SUS Individual Units may either  Join Hierarchal SUS server  Install Local SUS server  ??