1. Lisa Giacchetti AFS: What is everyone doing? LISA GIACCHETTI Operating Systems Support

2. Lisa Giacchetti Current Production Status u Servers: u Platform u AFS distribution and version u Clients: u Platforms u AFS distribution

3. Lisa Giacchetti What are you testing? u Servers: u Platforms u Linux? u AFS distributions and versions u Clients u Platforms u OpenAfs on Solaris, Irix,etc… u AFS distributions and versions

4. Lisa Giacchetti Support u Local support structure u Number of people compared to size of cell u Does you site actively participate in OpenAfs u If so how many FTEs does this take u Does your site provide local management tools u IBM Transarc support u Are sites still using it? u Extended support? u Third party vendor support?

5. Lisa Giacchetti COMPUTING NEWS: FARMS u Farms team building various utilities to manage large numbers of worker nodes *NOTE: More detail in talk presented 04/04/00 u Several other organizations looking into Linux Farms u QCD: 1000+ nodes u BTeV: 5000+ nodes u CMS: analysis/build linux “cluster” and compute farms u Need to investigate racked integrated 2U systems

6. Lisa Giacchetti COMPUTING NEWS: AFS u Stability is the key: u AFS services continues to be very stable u 4Q99 upgrades: u Hardware upgrades to several servers u AFS 3.5 u Solaris 2.6 u Hardware Raid deployed u Distribution of AFS for desktops increasing u Utilizing central login and products service u Linux client available in standard release of FRHL 6.1

7. Lisa Giacchetti COMPUTING NEWS: E-MAIL u Migrating off FNAL e-mail gateway u Migrating to Sun systems (off VMS) running PMDF u Systems just arrived u E-mail list service migrating to NT using LISTSERV software u Many options to this software make it good/bad u A few lists have been migrated already and rest to be done by end of April u 3 IMAP servers deployed and stable u Deploying sendmail UPS product to provide continuity across the UNIX OS’s we support

8. Lisa Giacchetti SECURITY: Status Strong Authentication u Pilot project close to successful conclusion u CDF now using SA in daily life u Offsite users from LBNL and Oxford u Cron authentication working and being incorporated into a somewhat user-friendly package u Issued 16 Cryptocards (out of 125 users) u Jan 14, 2000 export law changes mean overseas hosts can use UPD to install FERMI kerberos package

9. Lisa Giacchetti COMPUTING NEWS: MISCELLANEOUS u Computing Division is investigating backup utilities u Eval of freeware product Amanda underway u Eval of Legato underway (especially interesting for Oracle) u What are others doing? u Computing Division is investigating LabView for Linux. (Is anyone else doing this?)