Present: Mike Moyer–NI&S, substitute chair and scribe;  Jeff Kidd-CNS PR; Steve Cox-CCS; Brian Long-SETI; Karen Herrington-IMS; Richard Quintin-DBAA; Brian Jones-CNS; Wanda Baber-NI&S SMT; Joyce Landreth-ITEE; Bill DeWindt-TeLOS; Laurie Zirkle-CNS;

 

TLOS (in case you missed it on techsupport):

Our Lecture Capture system (Echo360) will undergo a hardware and software upgrade from Thursday May 12th to Tuesday May 17th. Echo360 will be offline and
inaccessible during the upgrade, which is scheduled between the end of final exams and the beginning of Summer I, so we expect a minimal, if any, impact.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Lee Doughty.

I'll talk more about this on Wednesday but a quick summary is that we're moving Echo from Ubuntu to CentOS and onto newer hardware as we prepare to move
more services to the clouds.

*Added: not announced to Scholar or Canvas*, but sent to 4-HELP. Joyce does not know what that means. Bill will check with Lee.

 

CNS PR:

Wireless network changes eff. May 17th: Connect-to-VT-wireless and VT-Wireless go away. VirginiaTech SSID provides new guest access via captive portal.
EduRoam takes over for VT-wireless.

 

ITEE

May 17th - ServiceNow upgrade. Should be transparent.

 


NI&S Data Center:

Generator load bank testing and UPS PMs next week. Should be transparent.

 

Middleware:

1. Put CAS shut-down on calendar for June 1. (CAS the service [aka auth.vt.edu] is going away, but the protocol will continue to be implemented by Shib.)
Auth.vt.edu is going away. Middleware is aware of current users and is working with them.
2. Monday the 16th: Middleware will use maintenance window to remove 2FA application from Login. Was initially used for people to sign up for Duo.
Management will be in the same iFrame as Duo auth.
3. ED-LDAP directories are moving behind F5 (from SI) on 5/16 between 5-7AM. DNS restart required: Laurie has confirmed the DNS restart is locked and loaded.

 


DBAA:

May 22nd: quarterly PSU patches for Oracle.
June 5th: Banner summer upgrade.


NI&S Applications Management:

Patched production Nemisys this morning. Will be scheduling COLA down-time. Patching Kestrel: most folks outside of SAMS don't care, except will affect
voice password resets (self-service password resets for PID password).

Pre-discussed VT alerts maintenance.

 

CNS:

Nothing specific/major.  Normal ongoing network upgrades, edge and core equipment. Rolling, announced to DNET.