Wish List

Revision as of 03:10, 17 April 2010

This page aims to list current improvements we would like to make to the cluster.

Mail System

See Mail Improvements

64-bit shellserver image

• Set up mathematica, matlab
  • Update mathematica, matlab scripts to use configurable (/etc/whatever) locations
• Check everything

Automatic group creation/management

See ugcs groups

Large file hosting

Set up NFS space that users can use to store large files -> Done, see NFS Servers Now, we want users to be able to access these files via web.

Large file web hosting

Set up an alternate http server on apollo to serve large files that are stored there (either from NFS or AFS).

One of the reasons behind this is the course capture program, which delivers about half of their content through us. Right now, it goes apollo -> posiedon -> user. This puts extra load on poseidon, and since it requires no special processing (no scripting, etc) it'd be nice to cut poseidon out. A solution should be devised that solves this problem.

Account creator / password reset

• Re-work as necessary to ensure robustness
• Add exception reporting system (email to sysadmins)
• Write full test suite to ensure quality

Network

• Write a system that shows us mac/ip/port number
• Add port mirroring to charon for deseriable traffic
• Improve firewalls
• Enable switch port security

Hardware

• Move dionysus to higher-performance machine

Web hosting

• Add a failover web server

Global login records

We need to implement some stuff with ldap so we have global login records

Documentation

• We need a printed-out copy of critical wiki stuff
• We need to make more documentation about our services for disaster recovery.
• We need to update all of the core server pages with correct disk setups and currently running services.