[940] in I/T Delivery
WinAthena Project Status Report as of 31 Oct, 2002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas L. Thornton)
Tue Nov 12 20:05:06 2002
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:00:08 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200211130100.UAA03688@the-rim.mit.edu>
From: "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@MIT.EDU>
To: delivery@mit.edu, integration-ptl@mit.edu, dennis@mit.edu,
ganderson@mit.edu, rar@mit.edu, vkumar@mit.edu
Cc: pismere-team@mit.edu
Project Name: WinAthena Delivery, Integration
Team Members: Joe Calzaretta, Qing Dong, Paul Hill, Wael Hishmeh,
Dave Tanner, Tom Thornton
Report Date: 12 Nov, 2002
Submitted by: Tom Thornton
URL: http://web.mit.edu/winathena
Accomplishments in October
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The number of WinAthena AD containers increases, including the
Treasurer's office. Other metrics indicate an exponential growth in
use. As of 2 November, we see about 80 active machines per day and
over 100 unique logins per day, averaged over the month. Compared to
September, this is a significant 20% increase, although the IT
Partners container may account for some of this growth.
DUSP - no news.
BioMicro - Patrick Paul has an Intel1000 driver under test. For his
NetApp server, Paul plans a visit there.
SMA - Chad will take it up after 37.
Building 37 - over twenty Intel machines are set up with two
installed. There is varying power and net connectivity. ArcGIS is
manually-installed and Daniel Sheehan will test it. Chad gets a small
domain-accessible directory for scripts. Theresa works on the 10 Mbit
net.
The W89 pilots problem with instloop gets a test workaround, since we
now can build the Krb 1.2.6 import and a new pismere MSI.
We expect to increase the satisfied participation of OSP, and begin
plans to allow the Treasurer's Office to join.
We begin work with the Windows Domain/Server delivery project.
We present several hours of WinAthena details at IT Partners.
We conduct the third monthly Container Admins meeting, a very
productive forum. Most of the conclusions from this meeting involve
new documentation and web forms.
We request IBM test domain servers.
Asanka finds several bug fixes to AFS, notably on XP SP1.
Joe deploys SP3 to pismere-* and other test containers. His new
instloop appears to work in 37 and W89. He fixes renew and ports
stanley.
Qing and Dave install new incremental and perform a bulk load to take
advantage of new Moira machine container fields. Qing's
delete-machine and password web pages are under live test. She
compiles the source tree under VS7, maintains the winlog database and
researches OSAM.
Richard deploys an Intel1000-capable RIS image. He and Wael test SP3
MSIs. He begins creating an ASO test center and works on docs and
training Cana.
Wael tests the StorCase disk unit, cleans out some old domain accounts
and with Qing restarts the DNS comparison service.
Dave works on the LPRng klptray, redirector and lpspooler, getting
them to use Krb 4 and 5 and fine-tuning the property pages.
Tom revises web pages, but we expect Support will use them on the
deployment web site.
Next Community Milestone
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- The Building 37 cluster will be used around Thanksgiving.
- Continue Container Admin meetings, presenting GP auto hot fix
process.
Goals for November
----------------
Our top priority is now the Treasurer's Office. We shall add
containers for them to the domain and begin instructional meetings
among a swat team of some Pismere, some W2K Dom/Srvs, Bill Hecht and
Doug Olander.
We will plan and publicize an IAP presentation.
We need to order replacement test domain servers.
As last month, we still have three other priorities:
1. Install user apps;
2. Maintain and account for DC sysadmin;
3. Deploy with transition to Support and Service teams.
Item 1 includes supporting DUSP, SMA, Bldg 37 and CCR, hoping to get
help building user apps in AFS. Apps include ArcGIS, Maya, MatLab and
ProEngineer.
For Item 2, we believe the new Windows Domains and Servers team will
assist in documenting administration and automated event log
processing.
Item 3 relates to discussions with Support and ITLT, defining the
user-visible products we shall deliver and focusing on how best to
deploy them. Here we concentrate on Bldg 37.
Specifically we want to:
- Get BMC's NetApp server running.
- Deploy delete-machine and change-password web forms.
- Deploy SP3 and a new pismere.msi across the domain.
- Continue transition of WinAthena Tomcat to Service.
- Test ArcView 3.2 and 8.
- Work through the remaining SMA problems. Paul works on printer
drivers and Netscape.
- Danilo intends to write:
Kerberos work, especially KfW 2.2
WinZephyr final
DHCP & RIS
Build
- Test XP, especially AFS, in the domain.
- Get schema OID from Tom C.
Longer Term Goals
----------------
- Continue to design a web pages allowing container maintenance and
joining student machines to the domain.
- Sync our AFS code with OpenAFS via CMU.
- Get help from Garry and TomC to put non-null Kerberos instances into
Moira.
- Do further work to populate AD attributes, such as white pages info,
from the MIT data warehouses.
- Work with MS and HP to customize RIS.
Issues
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- With no Windows system programmer, we stretch Joe awfully thin.
- Providing a collection of licensed enduser apps will be the primary
difficulty in making Pismere machines useful.
- Cluster administration takes too much from our developers and
admins. We hope to make this easier in order to get help from the
Service and Support processes.
- We await HP project reports, and could really use those features in
deploying packages.
- Win2K domain questions and PSS bugs take much of Paul's time.
- NetOps needs several requests before answering.
- When does the AUI Dash & gnome require Pismere revision?
