Present: William Dougherty-NI&S, chair and scribe; Ricahrd Quintin-DBAA; Karen Herrington-IMS; Roy Vickers-SMT/NI&S; Brian Long-SETI QA; Jean Plymale-CTSSR; Bill deWindt-TLOS; Brian Jones-CNS; Flex Vaughn-UC/VTOC; Kimberley Homer-NI&S QA; Susan Brooker-Gross-IT Management.
DBA: We will be installing a Financial Aid patch on Sunday, August 18. This is fairly routine. We're asked to do it several times a year. See here (https://apps.es.vt.edu/ons/event/view/1259?date=2013-08-18) for details.Travel & Expenses upgrade 6-10am also on August 18th.
SETI:CAS deployment and Middleware deployments this morning for bug fixes. Both went without a hitch.
Aug 17 M:SIS - VDWS & SAN maintenance: 5am-9am patching MS bug fixes. SAN down 6am-12noon.
https://groups.google.com/a/groups.g.mail.vt.edu/forum/#\!topic/calendartest/0ukrv98fZVI
Aug 28 SIES (PKI Group) - replace VT Global CA with VT Qualified CA: 5pm-6pm. This will effect creation of new certs only.
https://groups.google.com/a/groups.g.mail.vt.edu/forum/#\!topic/calendartest/o4_x8fMQn3g
ITRA: Reminder that IT Risk Assessments are due by 09/01/13. Jean asked about the split web page in place during core and border.
SMT: IBM DCSS 9550 has been out for last two days. Both controllers were replaced and now file systems are being rebuilt; do not believe data has been lost, but are not yet sure.
August 20th, maintenance is scheduled. This involves only SGI equipment; firmware upgrade, GPFS update. Consultant from IBM will be onsite to assist.
EMC VNX providing surveillance camera data is showing a fault light; reboot has been recommended by vendor. One production DB (for Warehouse) is stored there so coordination with DBAA will be required.
TLOS: Starting tomorrow at 5am 'til 8am standard roll-up of code for Scholar. Bug fixes mainly. No other issues to be addressed until reorg is stabilize.
CNS: Point of interest, since the new core in place 22 hours sustained transfer at Gigabit speeds between Univ. of New Mexico and HPC equipment.
NI&S QA: Zabbix review from SS UAS; looks very promising. Zabbix is in use now by CNS Facilities and is being considered for improving the certification renewal process.
Winter term mentioned as a potential support issue to face this year that hasn't existed in the past. Some logistics will be needed related to enrollment and continuity between Fall and Spring.Term codes may need to be updated or reviewed as access could be curtailed during the Winter.