Present: William Dougherty–NI&S, chair and scribe; Kimberley Homer-NI&S QA; Jeff Kidd-CNS PR; Tim Rhodes-NI&S UAS; Steve Cox-CCS; Brian Long-SETI; Karen Herrington-IMS; Richard Hach-NI&S; Richard Quintin-DBAA; Brian Jones-CNS; Wanda Baber-NI&S SMT; Scot Ransbottom-Deputy CIO; Jeff Kidd-CNS; Joyce Landreth-ITEE; Brad Tilley-ITSO.
From TLOS-SNO:
Overnight what started as an annoyance with the TLOS NAS arrays which support Echo360 and other production applications turned into a problem that must be addressed so I'm working the problem with John and won't be able to make the monthly meeting this morning.
From TLOS I can summarize our activities for the minutes as follows:
The usual end-of-semester activities have been working successfully as always for SPOT and it will be opened up on schedule.
Expansion and increased usage of canvas is still ongoing with good results as more and more faculty make the move off of Scholar for their summer term classes.
Scholar is still set to reach end of life in the summer of 2017, being only available after that point in archive mode by TLOS staff.
Replacements for NLI, ePortfolio and SPOT are still being researched with no firm decisions made yet to the best of my knowledge.
There are no planned upgrades or outages for the next month now that all of the TLOS applications have been successfully upgraded to support 2FA which was one of the last things on our list.
Please feel free to direct any questions or comments to Myself or Brian and we'll be happy to answer them. Have a great day and enjoy the meeting!
NI&S Applications Management:
A notice has been sent to Michael Mulhare and Andrew Marinik requesting a change to the currently established maintenance window for VTAlerts from Tuesday/Thursday 5am-7am. The change would be to Wednesday/Friday 5am-7am (due to established network maintenance window of Tue/Thu 5am-7am). No change is expected to the (at least) one-week notice before scheduling maintenance.
A notice has been sent to Michael Mulhare and Andrew Marinik regarding a new version of the VT Alerts code that is ready for deployment. This code will remove the OpenFire component for use during emergency notifications, reducing the complexity and enhancing the availability of the system. Requested deployment date is Wednesday, April 20th, from 5-7am.
The NI&S Applications Management Group is now responsible for the maintenance and deployment of new code to the service.
Work is progressing on the integration and rebranding of the Project Wiki, the NI&S Wiki and internal.cns.vt.edu, along with the migration of some NI&S WIki spaces to the Enterprise Wiki.
A departmental notification will be distributed in the near future when several related items have been completed.
ITSO:
Bad Block exploit may be overblown, but patching should be done as soon as practical.
UAS-ARC:
April 26-28th, Lustre reinstall will take BlueRidge users offline for about 30 minutes to 1 hour, but Lustre will remain down for a longer period.
GPFS performance issues still occurring, but have improved. An upgrade will occur to increase monitoring levels.
SMT:
Dates needed to finish migration of NAS storage; two weekends needed April 24th and May 1st is requested. Either Saturday or Sunday; two 6 hour windows needed. Move to new hardware and new OS. OS upgrade should allow for reduction in this sort of downtime requirement and provide for on-the-fly movement of data for performance issues.
ES-DBAA:
TimeClock Plus security update going in tonight at 10pm.
CNS:
Wireless service enhancement announcement; On May 17th, two SSIDs will vanish--VT-WIRELESS and CONNECT-To-VT-WIRELESS. EDUROAM will take over. Also an enhanced guest service will also be available. SMS gateway questions may arise due to the use of Bulletin as a company for use of bulk purchased messages.
ITEE:
ServiceNow upgrade (Fuji to Geneva) due perhaps by May 18th/target date.
NI&S QA:
SAMS Calendar issues; how to make private. Mark it as private, and all SAMS members have write access so they can see it. We need to create a non-privileged user to consume the calendar so the publicly consumable items can be viewed by everyone, but members can still view all events.