Wish List

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

Contents 1 Mail System 2 64-bit shellserver image 3 Account creator / password reset 4 Network 5 Hardware 6 Web hosting 7 Global login records 8 Documentation

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

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.