[826] in I/T Delivery
Pismere Project Status Report as of 30 Jun 2002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas L. Thornton)
Sun Jul 14 20:06:40 2002
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:06:38 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200207150006.UAA14924@magic-pi-ball.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, redelson@mit.edu
Project Name: WinAthena Delivery, Integration
Team Members: Joe Calzaretta, Qing Dong,
Paul Hill, Wael Hishmeh, Dave Tanner, Tom Thornton
Report Date: Jour Bastille, 14 Jul, 2002
Submitted by: Tom Thornton
URL: http://web.mit.edu/pismere
Accomplishments in June
-----------------------
We interview for a (partial at best) Danilo replacement. ASO welcomes
a WinAthena server admin, Richard Edelson, who begins well. Students
here for the summer are Davie, Robert and Asanka.
Provide three-day course from Wise and another from MS PSS.
Paul, Joe and Wael participate in the W2K Server Discovery team.
Dave has lpng partilaly working with the spooler.
We pursue planning with ITLT on the first Support-ready cluster in a
high-performance room in Building 37, as well as general IS Win
strategies.
Wael and Richard work on a IBM Intellistation driver which needs to be
installed using RIS.
Tom finds libsasl works with the new CT client.
Garry puts oucheck into Moira. Therefore, Joe removes the old oucheck
client. We work on list-to-container mappings and hidden lists,
continuing to look into Data Warehouse feeds, like office and phone
numbers.
Paul asks PSS for an estimate for Kerberizing the Exchange Server.
Danilo's equipment moves to Joe's office. We find, and NetOps fixed,
a problem in the building 68 network. Wael and Richard work on
restoring to a hot spare.
Tom reviews new software purchases - Office XP, Wise for Windows, and
Package Studio.
Asanka is creating an OpenAFS branch in the source tree.
Next Community Milestone
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- For MIT users, we again hope to have a final WinZephyr binary ready
for packaging by SWRT. When group security on Moira is deployed,
users will have LDAP-invisible lists.
Goals for July
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Our top priority is replacing Danilo.
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, Building 37 and CCR, hoping to
get help building user apps in AFS. Apps include MatLab, ProEngineer.
For Item 2, we make little progress in documenting administration,
source code tagging and automated event log processing. In the short
run we will be interviewing candidates. Later, we expect to build new
utilities to scan a machine for local integrity.
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.
Specifically, in July we want to:
- Test ArcView 3.2 and 8.
- Get another WinZephyr binary.
- Work through the remaining SMA problems. Robert works on Real
Player. Paul works on printer drivers and Netscape.
- Danilo intends to write:
Kerberos work, especially KfW 2.2
WinZephyr final
DHCP & RIS
Build
- Test XP in the domain.
- Test group security on Moira.
Longer Term Goals
-----------------
- Continue to design a web page allowing student machines to join the
domain.
- Sync our AFS code with OpenAFS via CMU.
- Get help from Garry and TomC to put non-null Kerberos instances into
Moira.
- We need to do further work to populate AD attributes, such as white
pages info, from the MIT data warehouses.
- Continue planning post-pilot work, especially in Service and
Support.
- Work with MS and HP to customize RIS.
Issues
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- Providing a collection of licensed enduser apps will be the primary
difficulty in making Pismere machines useful.
- When does the AUI Dash & gnome require Pismere revision?
- Paul and Tom expect to allocate some portion, but not half of, their
time to the HP project reports, even after June, so may need help with
team efforts.
