- Review of previous meeting's minutes
- State of ACCIS Projects/Action List
- Active Directory - Wendy D.
- CIT SLAs & policy comments
- Calendaring - Heather H.
- Central Authentication - CSAC, Aaron A.
- Computer Rooms Project - Jim V.
- Directory Services - Aaron A., Lana S.
- Electronic Mail - Aaron A., Mark U.
- FTP - Aaron A.
- Software Management - Pat W.
- Standardized Documentation - Jim V.
- New - Software Licensing - Pat W.
- New - Remote Services Evaluation - Anne-Marie
- New - UDrive Structure and Format - Wendy D.
- New - SLAs Required, Formatting, and Definitions - Jim
V.
- ITC Sub-committee Coordination/Communication
- New Projects Discussion
- Future Agenda Items
- Action List
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Attendance:
- Mesa Lab
- Lana Stillwell-SCD
- Brandon Slaten-EOL
- Terry Murray - DIR
- Jim Van Dyke - NETS, Chair
- Mark Uris-SCD
- Joan Fisher - Recorder
- Center Green
- Wendy Derman - F&A
- Heather Harris - F&A observer
- Tim Fredrick-ACD
- Foothills Lab
- Pat Waukau-MMM
- Mic Stremel-NSDL
- Ann Marie Tarrant-RAP
Project / Action Item List-
- Active Directory - Wendy D
- The ITC would like to see a rewrite of the CIT SLA with
the new format.
- The other two policies are ready for ITC review, all 3
SLA's will be sent to the CIT together.
- No word from COMET or UNIDATA on CIT issues.
- Calendaring - Heather
- The test server for Meeting Maker 8.5 is ready. All
ACCIS committee members have been added as test users.
- ACCIS volunteers to test 8.5; Jim VanDyke, Terry
Murray, Mic Stremel, Pat Waukau, Ann Marie Tarrant, Heather Harris. The
password is - accis
- The purpose of the web client is to see if it is worth
losing the solaris client. Heather will send out testing information.
- RAL to test on terminal server.
- Tim, Herb Poppe, and Jon Frudeger will test on the mac
and html client.
- Belinda Housewright will test client and window's side.
- One month to do testing and then license runs out.
- Update on the testing results will be given at the
April meeting.
- Any testing problems should be emailed to ACCIS so
duplicate efforts are not happening.
- Central Authentication - Lynda McGinley
- The new gatekeepers are up, would like more real users
for testers. One user from each division would be ideal. Tim has
volunteered to test for ACD.
- Store and forward is being worked on and is moving
along well.
- All users have been added. Ideally it would be nice to
have individual sys admins add future users.
- The time frame for this project is about 3 months, some
of this will have to be contracted out.
- Central kerberos time frame? On the list but no time
frame outlined, still in the planning phase.
- The people who use gate would be the ideal candidate to
test, start now and run for 6 weeks to make sure there are no problems.
The testing is to verify users can log in and have access to the
machines, but since the store and forward is not ready there are
limitations to the actual testing.
- Computer Room Project - Jim
- Each computer room has been set up on the wiki, one
room per page.
- The idea is to use the pages for collaboration; PPS
will put in power capacities, Jim will put in the networking
compacities.
- One page to centrally connect the computer rooms.
- Please review pages and send comments to Jim. This is a
draft, as changes happen the wiki should be updated.
- Divisions should complete their portion of the computer
rooms by the next meeting.
- The question was asked if rack specific software
currently on the market has been looked at. Not aware of anything at
this time, but research should be performed.
- Ann Marie will send out a spreadsheet from Dell power
management tool.
- Directory Services - Lana
- The project hit a format and collaboration snag that
has now been worked out.
- A smaller core group has been put together to work on
the initial core document. The document is on the wiki.
- Need to start surveying different divisions on
different user needs. List the various records and then ask for
suggestions.
- Actual interviews may also take place.
- Electronic Mail - Mark Uris
- Currently in production and all SCD users have been
moved over.
- Mark and Pat are working together on the migration of
MMM to the server. A few people from MMM will be involved in the
testing before moving everyone over.
- Expect a couple of months for this step to take place.
- FTP - Mark Uris
- Reviewed the DIG report, most of the prior methods
happened before the big security problems.
- The ftp and proxy service is being looked at.
- It may be possible to bundle with the web services.
Although this could put a few users on the outer edge of the security
perimeter.
- Suggest setting up a task force to review FTP servers
as a whole. Interested in the groups that havetheir own large data FTP
servers.
- Need to have a overall review of where we should go and
what needs to be covered, including security.
- Mark will chair,
send email if you are interested in joining the task force.
- Software Management - Pat
- The software management presentation was given to
contracts.
- Formal comments were received from Rob Gocke along with
concerns about a central maintainence contracts.
- Suggested that Soft Choice be contacted to sit down and
put all the issues on the table, hope to do that in April.
- Need to identify divisional use of software and
maintenance contracts.
- A rough draft report has been done, but would like to
meet with Soft Choice before making the report public.
- Standardized Documentation-Jim
- The SLA hierarchy and approval process have been
finished.
- A project activity list should be created providing an
up to date list of where projects are, including current actions of the
committee. This would allow the ITC and other subgroups to see what we
are currently working on. Please send comments to Jim.
- Communication, approvals, and a strawman document will
be created and added.
- SLA format;A small group will review the common terms
used amongst the documents and define a standard format. Hope to have
it out by next meeting time.
- Terms and definitions will be defined so SLA's are
consistent.
- Email retention policy was approved by the ITC and will
be added to the UCAR policies.
- Software Licensing Server-Mark
- History, Pat requsted a central place to manage
software and compilers. This was put on file server and worked well. As
it became apparent that more people were using compilers it became
apparent more was needed.Decided to use old mscan nodes and create a
triad dedicated to license management,allowing us to move nodes without
crashing the system.
- In the process of installing the systems, and hope to
have Fedora Core 3 installed within the next 3 weeks. Then install
actual license management, test, put in production. It is on the wiki
if you want an outline of the actual project.
- Pat, Tim, and Mark Moore will be the initial testers.
- Remote Services-Ann Marie
- Scope;Survey divisions on their current telecomuting
hardware support.
- Goal; Determine the range of current support and
provide the information to ACCIS.
- First task force meeting will take place next week. Ann
Marie, Mic, Joan, Karl, and Carol are the current members.
- Process; The draft of the survey was shown to the accis
group. A few changes were suggested. Once the task force meets the form
will be updated and discussed at the April ACCIS meeting.
- Risk; Remote working is at the discression of managers,
and divisons based on employee work and individual situations.
- The current HR policy is very open ended, and leaves
the discretion up to the division.
- UDrive Structure and Format-Wendy
- This is currently tabled.
- ITC Sub-Committee-Jim
- Need to have better communication between the ITC
sub-committees and internal committees.
- Will ask other ITC committees to consider being
included in other committee's alias lists. Suggest accis_all be used
for the ITC subcommittees as a means of communication.
- An ITC subcommittee document will be created and
discussed at the April meeting.
- New Projects Discussion-Jim
- Need to have better communication between the ITC
sub-committees and internal committees.
- Should create a more formal way to let managers know
their people have signed up for projects.
- Will be addressing how projects get added to the list
and more formally how projects will be managed.
- Future Agenda Items-
- Updates from the projects.
- Figure out how to get COMET and UNITDATA added to the
AD. If no response by the next meeting someone above Wendy will need to
step in.
- Action Item List-
- Project updates
- Documentation to be writte.
Meeting adjourned.
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