Wish List

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

Contents 1 Software 2 Small fixes 3 Mail System 4 Automatic group creation/management 5 Large file hosting 6 Account creator / password reset 7 Network 8 Hardware 9 Web hosting 10 Global login records 11 Documentation

Software

Fix mex (matlab compiler)

Add support for distributed Mathematica on mortals

Small fixes

Small things that need to be fixed across various services/machines:

• Email heartbeat
• Hestia SSL cert
• Change kabta back to ssh keys after Alex/Raymond add theirs
• Find the sysadmins PGP key
• Fix the backup schedules to something sensible

Mail System

See Mail Improvements

Automatic group creation/management

See ugcs groups

Large file hosting

Almost done! See NFS servers Server is running and exporting things correctly. All we need now is disk quotas.

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
• Fix switch names

Hardware

• Set up hestia to take over for dionysus - in progress
• network card flip: put one of the single gigabit cards into charon, and move its two-port gigabit cards into poseidon and persephone

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.