ITS UCO group project and task list

UCO group member priorities for the week of 11 November 2002

• software licensing-related tasks with Suleyman
• account culling - guest accounts - dregs
• account culling - summer - almost done
• account culling - staff/faculty/postdoc/visitor
• ITS web site maintenance - content fixes
• new ITS web site transition execution - content development

• Unix/Windows "phase 1" account management scheme implementation - writing to AD repository via LDAP
• Henge new server software configuration
• new backup scheme hardware testing
• MAC address registry database implementation
• /ccovol to /software transition new compilation
• UCO group security audit

• new Petros machines software configuration
• new Petros machines switchover planning
• Jingmai "dessert first" virus/spam checker planning
• Jingmai planning for task assignment among UCO group members
• Mozilla installation for cluster

Task list

• General cluster:
  • Exisiting documentation review / update
  • Solaris 8 deployment planning
  • Solaris 8 Jumpstart configuration for cluster member machines
  • UCO systems statistics monitoring planning
  • UCO systems statistics monitoring implementation
  • UCO systems statistics monitoring analysis
  • verifying that we don't have "exploding log" type situations on our systems
  • /ccovol to /software transition new compilation
  • /ccovol to /software transition dependency scanning
  • setting up automatic checks for new versions of software
  • process log analysis for interactives, lab machines, house machines
  • Patching UCO systems planning
  • Patching UCO systems execution
  • Finer-grained localization scheme setup
  • NSS_LDAP/NIS phaseout planning
  • NSS_LDAP/NIS phaseout implementation
  • new lab machines software configuration
  • new lab machines hardware installation
  • Digi/Conserver system machine migration planning
  • Digi/Conserver system machine migration execution
  • Digi/Conserver system digimon interface planning
  • Digi/Conserver system digimon interface implementation and documentation
  • Oracle database rationalization (tuning, indexing, etc.)
  • syslog setup audit
  • 800 number dialup charge system firming of production status and documentation
  • Resolution of status of jumpstart server(s)
• Account management:
  • account creation
  • account culling
  • Account management audit trail implementation
  • Guest account management for hosts implementation
  • Web-based account_status planning
  • Web-based account_status implementation
• Security:
  • ssh-via-web client installation
  • turning off telnet planning
  • turning off telnet execution
  • turning off insecure POP planning
  • turning off insecure POP execution
  • turning off insecure IMAP planning
  • turning off insecure IMAP execution
  • turning off insecure FTP planning
  • turning off insecure FTP execution
  • UCO group security audit
  • UCO group security incident response planning
  • UCO machines root password changes
  • Tripwiring UCO systems planning
  • Tripwiring UCO systems execution
  • Automated authentication failure analysis planning
  • Automated authentication failure analysis implementation
• Authentication infrastructure:
  • implementing web password change scheme
  • new Petros machines switchover planning
  • new Petros machines software configuration
  • new Petros machines switchover execution
  • Unix/Windows "phase 1" password/account management scheme implementation
  • Unix/Windows research on Kerberos as authentication backend
  • RADIUS server documentation
  • Petros documentation
• Cluster services:
  • Samba audit and documentation
  • CAP audit and documentation
  • FTP server audit and documentation
  • NNTP server documentation
• Email:
  • automatic spam block remover implementation
  • spam fighting research
  • SpamAssassin documentation
  • Jingmai rollout planning
  • Jingmai software configuration
  • Jingmai rollout execution
• T-Reqs:
  • T-Reqs documentation
  • T-Reqs performance enhancement
• Backups:
  • new backup scheme hardware testing
  • new backup scheme planning "backup philosophy"
  • new backup scheme implementation
• Web things:
  • new ITS web site transition execution
  • ITS web site maintenance
  • WebDAV planning
  • WebDAV implementation
  • Classes server planning
  • Classes server implementation
  • ITS search system acquisition
  • ITS search system integration planning
  • ITS search system integration execution
  • A/V services web site transition planning
  • Archives/CEFCU web site migration planning
• Calendar things:
  • Henge maintenance
  • Henge new server software configuration
  • Henge new server migration execution
• Miscellaneous cross-system integration things:
  • NI/UCO cluster unification planning
  • NI/UCO cluster unification execution
  • Unix/Windows research on common storage access
  • MacOS X / UCO integration research
  • MacOS X / UCO integration implementation and documentation