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Minutes November 28, 2023 Discussions:
Terms of Reference
Fred presented suggested Terms of Reference and there was input given
Suggestion: look at Educause for suggestions on Email usage
Email should be limited to two messages per topic before considering other strategies
Client Only Subnets
We should move quickly to convert remaining locations to Client-Only Subnets before they are imposed on us
Means workstations cannot serve public Web pages, but can still serve to campus (wifi, wired and VPN machines)
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Engineering IT Standards
Draft For Consultation DRAFT: November 2, 2022 (Minor edits Nov 28, 2023) These standards will apply to all IT winthin the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo after a third discussion at ESAG (Engineering System Administrator’s Group) in September 2023, chaired by the Director of Engineering Computing. Previous discussions raised no objections, but minor wording changes have improved clarity, and WCAG added.
Very frequent security alerts (due to unidentified machines we have to find) result in inefficient use of resources while exposing us to risk.
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Engineering Applications
Group Title URL contact Conrad parking hidden erick EC internal Icinga url ray EC Internal Audit Inventory url delattre EC Internal environmental sensors url j4truong EC Internal netdiscovery url erick EC interal wifitester erick EC internal Blox (IPAM) url erick EC internal wakeonlan url sempson EC internal tuque software distribution url erick EC internal tuque-audit software in labs lever erick EC/Campus Online Profile Builder url erick EMS Shop engmachineshop request system url erick EMS Shop storefront url j4truong Engineering Computer enhanced classroom Scheduling url delattre Engineering Dean Faq url erick Engineering EASE (faculty appointments) url erick Engineering ecresearch signup url erick Engineering engfunding url erick Engineering enggrades grade processing url m3griffi Engineering englabs (computer labs) url erick Engineering facultycareer erick m3griffi Engineering facultysafety url erick Engineering surveyor url erick Engineering uri url erick Engineering zoomcart url erick Enginering Computer Lab Schedules url delattre IST building stats url NS IST netstats core url IST VITA Qualys url IST VITA S1 url IST VITA root url UG advisor url Erick UG Eng undergrad grades url m3griffi WOrld endoflife url international international url m3griffi
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Linux Systems
Linux:
eng-eugo-mms0 (marmoset main) -eng-eugo-mms1 (marmoset clients) eng-eugo-mms2 eng-eugo-mms3 pi (temporary gpu server) pi-oven (likely going to be retired ARM build server) IoT:
bridgeinfo-e5-5 eng-ec-gpsntp1 eng-ec-gpsntp2 enginfo-cph-candd enginfo-cph-multimedia-1 enginfo-cph-multimedia-2 enginfo-cph-pulley enginfo-cph-wedge enginfo-e2-fulcrum enginfo-e2-lever enginfo-e2-servicedesk enginfo-e2-undergrad-1 enginfo-e2-undergrad-2 enginfo-e2-weef1 enginfo-e2-weef2 enginfo-e2-wheel enginfo-e3-axle enginfo-e3-machineshop enginfo-e5-foyer enginfo-e5-gear enginfo-e7-1a enginfo-e7-1b enginfo-e7-2a enginfo-e7-2b enginfo-e7-3a enginfo-e7-3b enginfo-e7-4a enginfo-e7-4b enginfo-e7-5a enginfo-e7-5b enginfo-e7-6a enginfo-e7-6b enginfo-e7-7a enginfo-e7-7b enginfo-e7-conrad enginfo-e7-helpdesk enginfo-e7-ideas enginfo-e7-pitch enginfo-rch-helix eng-sensor-civil-test eng-sensor-cph-1325 eng-sensor-cph-1346 eng-sensor-cph-1346a eng-sensor-cph-2367 eng-sensor-cph-4360 eng-sensor-dwe-2513t eng-sensor-e2-1762 eng-sensor-e2-1779 eng-sensor-e2-1782b eng-sensor-e2-1783 eng-sensor-e2-1792 eng-sensor-e3-1101 eng-sensor-e5-2108 eng-sensor-e5-3039 eng-sensor-e7-1302 eng-sensor-e7-1427 eng-sensor-e7-1427b eng-sensor-phy-1002 eng-sensor-rch-108 engsocinfo-cph-1 engsocinfo-cph-2 engsocinfo-dwe-1 engsocinfo-e2-1 engsocinfo-e3-1 engsocinfo-e5-1 engsocinfo-e5-2 engsocinfo-e7-1 engsocinfo-e7-2 engsocinfo-rch-1 engsocinfo-rch-3 mansci-cph-01 syde-e5-ds1 syde-e5-ds2
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Workstation Setup
BIOS Setup ‘F2’ to boot to Bios Boot config
Uncheck ‘Onboard NIC’ X2 Storage
Set to AHCI
Enable SMART
Connections
Disable WLAN Security
Data Wipe on Next boot Power
AC Behaviour
‘Power On’
Password
System Management
Auto On for Weekdays @6am Select Apply
Confirm Data Wipe on next Reboot
OS install Reboot to USB drive - Press ‘F12’ and Select ‘USB 3…’
At Prompt go to ‘D:’ type ‘1’ then press TAB.
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Backups and Restores Engineering Computing mostly relies on Unix (FreeBSD and Linux) servers, but also has a Windows Server component, particularly for maintaining our Chorus active directory.
ZFS Snapshots on Unix Engineering Computing makes extensive use of ZFS file systems on Unix with their online snapshots of the live file systems, and network backups.
User Restores on N: Drive Users can restore their own files at any tmie using the Previous Versions of their File Explorer in Windows.
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Mac install for Engineering Legend:- to indicate the path to a command, I will use the syntax: ‘ProgramName > MenuCommand > MenuSubCommand > MenuSubSubCommand > etc’
Author : Marlon
Modified:-
Created:- Thurs. 2022-09-01
Assumptions pristine mac with basic OS no accounts on the system Create the Engineering Computing admin account turn on the mac
follow the intro screens to setup the first account
select NO or ’not now’ for the Apple services, i.
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