Engineering Systems Administrator Group
Minutes February 14, 2002
Prepared by Erick Engelke
Present:
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Erick Engelke, Engineering Computing
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Bruce Campbell, Engineering Computing
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Ray White, IST
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Dave Walsh, Engineering Computing
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Mahindra Sangara, Systems Design
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Dennis Herman, Chemical
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Bernie Roehl, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Steve Hitchman, Mechanical
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Mike Herz, Civil Engineering
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Paul Ludwig, ICR
Regrets
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Hon Tam, Engineering Computing
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Hector Budman, Associate Dean For Computing, Faculty of Engineering
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Martin MacLeod, Engineering Computing
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Paul Martin, Management Sciences
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Richard Scott, Civil Engineering
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Pete Routledge, Mechanical Engineering
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Eric Praetzel, E&CE
Discussion:
Retirement of Polaris and Nexus Server
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(Dennis) raised the issue of a retirement date so old servers can be decommissioned
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(Bruce) don't bother consolidating servers, leave them running, it's less
effort
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(Bruce) estimate 8 months after EC totally converted (labs, Year1, Dean's
office), probably around May 2003
Inexpensive Hardware Upgrade Options
Windows Terminal Server Client for Unix and Linux
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(Dennis) There is now a Unix / Linux client for Windows Terminal Services
available at http://www.rdesktop.org/
. The documentation suggests it is still being refined.
Supernetting Subnets
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(Bruce,Erick) Not technically possible because RIPv2 is not used everywhere
(Bruce has done the research), and because IST does not allow it
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Erick will ask for clarification at CNAG
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(all) DHCP reduces the supernetting issues especially for laptops.
Extreme (and Cisco) routers support DHCP forwarding.
Nexus Topics
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(Dennis) workstation disk quotas appear to be set in the folder redirection
GPO.
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(Ray) will investigate this with Hon.
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Dennis has not had success getting GPOs to work on XP, Ray has had better
luck.
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Dennis would like to move to XP ASAP, EC is starting to test XP on a few
machines
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General discussion clarifying XP and 2K licensing. We are in good
shape for XP licensing.
ICR Issues
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Paul outlined ICR Hardware's crisis, it may fold in 8 months due to lack
of funding
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E&CE may be able to absorb 2 people, but Paul feels there is work for
4 or more
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Math and CS reorganization is happenning at a bad time, as ICR needs commitment
soon
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work of four people, 600 - 800 work requests per term
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disbanding ICR Hardware would affect workloads of other departments