[853] in I/T Delivery
Pismere Project Status Report as of 31 July, 2002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas L. Thornton)
Mon Aug 12 12:00:35 2002
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:00:32 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200208121600.MAA29150@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, redelson@MIT.EDU
Project Name: WinAthena Delivery, Integration
Team Members: Joe Calzaretta, Qing Dong (on leave),
Paul Hill, Wael Hishmeh, Dave Tanner, Tom Thornton
Report Date: 12 Aug, 2002
Submitted by: Tom Thornton
URL: http://web.mit.edu/pismere
Accomplishments in July
----------------------
We continue to interview for a (partial at best) Danilo replacement.
We had a good MS PSS AD workshop for the W2K Server Discovery team, on
which Paul, Joe and Wael participate.
Paul asks PSS for an estimate for Kerberizing the Exchange Server, for
info on hidden lists and for permission to be in the Rapid Application
Adoption program for .NET.
Tom verifies WfW 4 works with the build.
Dave has lpng partilaly working with Kerberos.
We pursue planning with Intel and 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 include an IBM Intellistation driver in RIS.
Richard's writeup for PSS should go to Microsoft as a Knowledge Base
article candidate. Richard and Tom extract this into a RIS FAQ
section.
Wael and Richard obtain new Veritas licenses and tackle sevral Veritas
backup issues such as needing a domain admin account and working as a
redirected restore. They test the Intel Pro100 NIC.
We advise Biomicro on file space and GP tools.
Asanka continues building and testing OpenAFS.
Joe deploys a new Pismere.MSI, including new drivers and the new
msi2xml.
Robert has Real Player and Acrobat Reader installers.
Qing writes a self-registration design using Apache and Tomcat.
Qing sends a domain-join design to Joe and Paul for review.
Qing extends Moira to use the public flag, and works on schema
queries. She handles needed changes in the Moira MMC and Joe handles
adcontmgr.
Joe debugs a printer script hanging on cscript in spoolerconfig. He
writes a document on building a RIS image, rishow-to.txt. He and Dave
work with Garry on machine lists.
Joe and Paul fix the Krb build with a new graft.
Joe writes a container-creation document.
Davie tests SFS and heads off to Palo Alto. We shall miss him.
Next Community Milestone
-----------------------
- For MIT users, we 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 August
---------------
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.
- 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 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
-----
- 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 of their
time to the HP project reports.
