• Meeting Minutes
• 2014-02-04

Meeting minutes 2014-02-04

• Administrivia
  • Budget Meeting with JFC Rep
  • Elections scheduled
    • don't worry it's not for a while
    • April 21st
    • a reminder will be sent
• Operations
  • Storage Move
  • Networking Chaos
    • the network a splode
    • floor crawling will happen Saturday
    • we should buy flashlights (cpreseau)
    • color-code cables
    • will be scheduling possible downtime for re-cabling
  • power chaos
    • we need to understand this and we do not
    • rack 5 and 6 need monitoring
    • can holodeck become a vm?
      • certainly it should lose UPS because it's colo
      • should move to a "retro" rack
  • Freenode DDoS
    • ISO blackholed the IP
      • we believe were the last man standing in the US
    • people hate joy
      • freenode put up more of a fight than the superbowl (sports!)
    • blackhole lifted ~1 hour ago; hubbard re-peered
  • UPS Batteries
    • we should have a good case for special allocation
    • file special allocation for rack 0 (shelby)
    • yell at batterywholesale for rack 5 (scgruber)
      • aliruu/stroucki: explanation of what's wrong
  • New shelving unit
    • Proposal to replace two gray shelves with four rolling shelves
      • rolling shelves have higher weight capacity
      • workstation to workbench
  • New machines
    • More 2950s
      • blocks on cleaning up the room ("reasonable" by Jeff Wagner)
      • need to fix cabling crap from this weekend
      • get inspection next week
    • Citadel stuff
      • 5-10 1.5-year old nice machines
      • somewhere between 2950 and 12-core 96GB monstrosities
      • we are getting a piece of a larger bundle going to CMU
      • we will need to rack these *immediately* on reception
    • 1650s
      • have "good scsi controllers"
      • we should look into PCI scsi cards so all of these can die
      • certainly de-rack the spare-parts 1650s
  • Something about account creation
    • Please file useful bug reports
    • resolution "needsinfo" has reluctantly been created
• Projects
  • CCVMS
    • still no working network
    • rumors tell of a group in GHC that has a deployment on ubunut
  • Network routing topology map
    • possible saturday session on how to ios?
  • GIT REPOS
    • DNS config already in
    • not bidirectional (yet!)
    • should have instructions (step 1: learn git, etc.)
  • FreeIPA
    • rharwood/sbaugh will claim 2950 in top of rack 0
      • will install libvirt/kvm here
      • samariamU
  • Wheezy mailserver
    • any use stories?
    • thanks kbare!
• Events
  • Kerberos and OpenAFS is tomorrow night
    • Kerberos Play
    • cpreseau is in charge of pizza
      • Remember to save receipt for Catherine