Wish List
This page aims to list current improvements we would like to make to the cluster.
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Mail System
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- 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. See NFS servers Now, apollo needs dedicated space for this to be set up correctly.
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.
