Present: William Dougherty-NI&S, chair and scribe; Lucas Sullivan-ITEE; Russ Fenn-ES/DBAA; Matt Serr-NI&S NII; Ted Leinhardt-CCS; Wnada Baber-NI&S; Phil Norman-NI&S; Tim Rhodes-NI&S; Brian Jones-NI&S; Brad Tilley-ITSO; Brian Long-SIS

Data Center Management: 

A couple of items of note for the SAMS group (I will miss the next meeting on the 12th, and by then these may be already done).

 

  1. The batteries on the A-feed UPS (the newest one, Eaton 1000KVA) will be replaced on July 10th and 11th.  These will be done during the day.  Unlike the other two AISB units, this UPS does not have parallel battery strings, but it is modular: the batteries will be replaced one module at a time, and we should maintain at least N+1 redundancy at all times.  Read: should be transparent to end users. Was in fact!
  2. During the power outage on June 30th, our UPSes, generators, and transfer switches all worked perfectly to take over the load in the absence of utility power.  However, one transfer switch failed to transfer back to utility power automatically.  This is, in all likelihood, a bad fail-back timer.  But to troubleshoot, we will likely need to perform some transfers when a technician can be available to observe operations.  We will be dependent upon the technicians for timing on this: but it will be a very low-risk operation.  I will update once I can get this arranged.
  3. One 20 ton DC AC unit was replaced with a 30 ton unit already and a second one will be done soon. 

SIS: 

1.  From Middleware:  January 2, 2018 - tentative/proposed date  for required 2FA ED Auth access; STILL UNDER DISCUSSION. An ITSO project; adjunct for non-CAS/non-Windows project. Access to ED auth will be curtailed, but early adopters are welcomed. Meetings with DoIT departments to identify issues. A new piece (JSON Web Token) will be available to users on July 31st, 2017.

2.  Account Creation Process / Google SAML migration.  To be done together, and we need a date.  Proposing Monday, January 22, 2018, during the normal Middleware maintenance window.  These changes incorporate password complexity (including length; see attachment), PID length increase to 16 (may impact limitations that could be encoded in apps), potentially other changes. Major update; will affect guest accounts and alumni accounts. PIDs will be used by alumni to access Google Apps and 2Factor will be enforced. 

 

CCS: 

Patching due this weekend; important Exchange patch available. Probably Saturday; will alert SAMS group. Little to no notice by users due to cloud and new configuration of front-end servers for redundancy. 

 

DBAA:

ODA in two sites; AISB and Cassell. Cassell due next Monday. 

And DC Ops; Joker will be replaced tomorrow morning. 

 

ITEE: 

Everyone in the new VTOC; includes all the student employees from Gateway Center, including Get Connected. 

 

NI&S NII: 

Batteries in UPS units in Cassell, Shanks, Hillcrest, and AISB switchrooms will be replaced in Aug

 

DC Operations: 

ARC/HPC Research computing outage scheduled for GPFS maintenance and consulting on Monday, July 24th, 2017. 5 days scheduled; clusters will be released for use as they become available, but Cascades is likely to be out entire period.