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February 28, 2006

28. Februar 2006 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Created requested blog
  • LDAP - flowchart existing process

February 27, 2006

27. Februar 2006 -- Montag

Admin

  • PeopleSoft HRINT064 implementation/testing starts
  • LDAP Update Process... start making some changes...
  • Waterman Power... got hold of IBM project manager for VT State Blade Center and had the PDU changed to the single Phase version

February 24, 2006

24. Februar 2006 -- Freitag

Admin

  • PeopleSoft -- Privacy Flag discussion ...
  • Calendar -- SDK semaphore issue...
  • Team Audit
  • 1000 processor computer for $100K
  • Discuss separating the identity management and white pages update functions in the nightly LDAP process
  • Warthog is dead! We killed it! One down -- 45 to go!
  • "recover" mail folders that were stranded in a user's "mail home" directory when their mail client was reconfigured to point at mail/ as the imap root directory

February 23, 2006

23. Februar 2006 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • Sendpage is still acting funky... moved back to the Courier and updated the phone number twice and raised the baud rate to 9600 and modified the init string to include &D3&A0... maybe this time!
  • Calendar SDK appears to be working today.. must be Thursdays/Fridays are magic days...ARGH!
  • Downloading and burning Oracle Collaboration Suite 10.1.2.0 DVD's and CD's...
  • Oracle revised their response -- the fix is going to be in 9.0.4.2.13...
  • Wes found an item on the Calendar SDK Forum which described a partial workaround by increasing the number of semaphores available and periodically pruning back the old ones... I've increased the number available, need to research the pruning part

February 22, 2006

22. Februar 2006 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • Oracle SR 5170268.992 updated by Oracle to say that the CAPI_STAT_API_POOL_NOTINITIALIZED error is a known issue and it is fixed in 10.1.2.1 -- So, how does one get 10.1.2.1?
  • Annouce to the team that the ldap wiki pages were updated yesterday
  • Copy some mail folders between accounts for members of the CATalyst team
  • Upgrade Openldap on the CATalyst test ldap server (and repair a busted database too)
  • LDAP -- updating the wrong entry problem caused because SIS added the SSN to an entry (created in August 2005) that matched an employee record (from 2003). Fixed by adding the SIS info into the HRS entry and deleting the duplicated ID (which had never been used for email, web, or file space)
  • SendPage -- locked up again... appears (from talking with Contact) that it is a local modem issue.
    • Power cycling the local modem cleared the hang...
    • Investigating....
    • Aha! The Courier E.everything does not support the L command to set the modem volume! Having removed that command from the various init strings, testing appears to indicate the problem is resolved!
    • Aha! It's still broke....
    • Well... the Sportster defaulted to X4 and the Courier defaults to X7... perhaps adding X4 to the modeminit string will fix it...
    • Nope...put the Sportster back in...
    • Nope...that locked up too... same symptoms...
    • Call Contact again... oh, they're seeing something strange with ONE of the modems in the bank...
    • They'll look at their modem and get back to me....
  • BB - bb-ldap.sh was bastardized in 2003 to not time out and kill off the ldapsearch... I was stupid back then. It has been repaired now, so if yesterday's problem happens again, we will get paged about it!
  • Conversation with ServerTech salesman... nice product... expensive [sigh]

February 21, 2006

21. Februar 2006 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Renew SSL certificate for Primary LDAP server
  • Answer Oracle questions about why "Require TLS" should be an option
  • scripts.uvm.edu calendar (CAPI) interface broken... wtf didn't we break when we moved scripts?
    • Rebuilt the missing Perl-CAPI connector (per Wes' instructions)
    • Wes later checked things out and they "magically" started working -- neither of us is sure what really fixed it.
    • Bah! It's not fixed... intermittent problem of unknown derivation
    • Opened SR 5170268.992 with Oracle on this issue.
    • The Oracle supplied "calendar.c" demo program fails with the same error
    • Oracle doesn't support the Calendar SDK with the normal methods... FORUMs only...
    • Posted to the "Calendar SDK Forum" on the Oracle Technology Network site...
  • OpenLDAP slapd mechanisms... mech_list in the slapd sasl file!
  • Meeting about CE/Extension non-credit courses in WebCT and how to manage the netid's

February 20, 2006

20. Februar 2006 -- Montag

Admin

  • webct OS upgrade -- 1 hour
  • mail server ldap upgrade -- 30 minutes
  • OpenLDAP 2.3.20 build/test -- 1 hour

On Call

February 18, 2006

18. Februar 2006 -- Samstag

Admin

  • Install Red Hat's gd and gd-devel RPMs on the scripts machine to allow the counting software to work

February 17, 2006

17. Februar 2006 -- Freitag

Admin

  • LDAP: upgrade ldap.uvm.edu to OpenLDAP 2.3.19 -- again
  • Rescind the request for power in Waterman machine room until we straighten out which PDU's we will be using.
  • Create samba account/disk service for employee per request from AIS
  • Preplace the Solaris maintenance files on the WebCT server for Monday's upgrade
  • investigate ssh failures from new machine... oh... .ssh2 directories from ssh.com and openssh installed on the new machine... hmmm....
  • Another problem with MAC Labs authenticating with the new version of OpenLDAP... turns out I mistyped a keyword in one of the configuration files so one of the three machines was still offering people SASL mechanisms that were not implemented. Fixed now
  • Full filesystems... It's definitely Friday!

February 16, 2006

16. Februar 2006 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • Announce ldap.uvm.edu upgrade to 2.3.19
  • Handle a "Student Employee" error in the nightly LDAP update -- Banner did not feed the NID of a student who is now a temporary employee and the NID is the ONLY identifier HR had to send.
  • Open ORACLE SR 5156603.992 to address inability to REQUIRE TLS support with imap and smtp servers in the outlook connector product
  • Move the scripts.uvm.edu name to the new server making it possible to remove power from the old server
  • Install the Oracle Calendar 10.1.2.0.0 clients for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh on the software download page as the latest ones.
  • Power requests for Waterman machine room
  • TSG Team Meeting
  • Perseus problems because of .htaccess files... Assist Scott in decision on how to fix

February 15, 2006

15. Februar 2006 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • in-mailgw issue last night caused the replication process to hang on the primary ldap server. Clean that up and fix the replica database on the in-mailgw machine that hosed itself
  • Remove calendar designation for an employee from calendar of an ex-emloyee
  • Work with WrightLine installers to relocate 24" rack from Waterman to Mann, and then install it there
  • PeopleSoft ldap schema definitions
  • CATalyst approves schema ... roll it out and allow them to cache the schema
  • Open SR with Oracle about outlook connector not allowing the setting of the "IMAP server directory" value.
  • File ITS with OpenLDAP for a control OID that got typo'd in the ldap.h file

February 14, 2006

14. Februar 2006 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • DNS entry updated for com
  • Verify the LDAP fix yesterday that worked for Panther works for Tiger as well
  • IM meeting concerning CATalyst usage of LDAP
  • ERP Consultant updated for AD provisioning
  • Home directory movement script updated to abort if the copy fails
  • Notify known MAC lab owners of impending OpenLDAP 2.3 deployment

February 13, 2006

13. Februar 2006 -- Montag

Admin

  • Assist Geoff with a Windows server problem that required local touching
  • Research Mac OS/X 10.3 ldap authentication issue
    • Problem is the SASL failure for not being configured has changed from 0x50 to 0x31, which means instead of internal failure, it is now Invalid Credentials -- so the Mac thinks the password was invalid when in reality, SASL is just not configured.
    • Found setting of sasl-secprops to disable all SASL mechanisms other than GSSAPI
    • Works for Panther
  • Install Solaris maintenance on Telcom test server

February 10, 2006

10. Februar 2006 -- Freitag

Admin

  • Footprints change to replace the addressbook associated with project 28 did not work. Project 28 is unable to create new issues. Waiting for UniPress to supply next suggestion.
  • Team conflict resolution meeting
  • UniPress provides solution to Footprints problem -- running the 6.0 to 6.5 conversion tool... huh??? oh well, it worked
  • Customer responds that the (FP Issue 18130) calendar upgrade worked great using the cal_win_9042.exe installer
  • Roll OpenLDAP 2.3.19 out to remainder of ldap.uvm.edu servers
  • Back off OpenLDAP 2.3.19 (back to 2.2.30) because the LAB Mac's are unable to authenticate against it

February 8, 2006

8. Februar 2006 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • Updated footprints attachment directory size to allow more room for CATalyst attachments.
  • Download latest Solaris 8/9 recommended plus security patch sets
  • Work with Geoff developing check_syncrepl for nagios
    • Install perl's Net::LDAP bundle on test machine
  • Initiate quote for switched power strips
  • Make cal_win_9042.exe (9.0.4.2.469) installer available again to help folks who are having problems upgrading to calendar version 10
  • Inform Oracle it "fixed" the problem.

February 7, 2006

7. Februar 2006 - Dienstag

Admin

  • Update test scripts to feed correct data to test ldap servers for daily testing
  • Calendar
    • Oracle response to yesterday's information re SR-4947672.993 (UVM FP Issue=18130 Proj=4) is "Thanks, we'll get back to you"
    • Found the cal_win_9042.exe on the original Calendar 9.0.4.2 client CD and installing that found it to be the correct version.
    • Sent a note to the customer requesting that they try to install this version and let me know if that works
    • If it works, I'll place this version back in the software repository with appropriate comments so other people can find it to do an upgrade to version 10
  • Request for nagios script to check that (delta-)syncrepl results in pointers to hobbit monitor
  • attend nagios presentation at CATalyst offices
  • Upgrade first ldap replica to 2.3.19...took 30 minutes
  • CATalyst fills up their FootPrints project attachment directory... of course it's a global configuration option which means to increase their available space requires that I do it for all the other projects as well...working with vendor...
  • Schedule upgrade of TRU test machine OS for Monday morning

February 6, 2006

6. Februar 2006 -- Montag

Admin

  • LDAP - Active Directory Feed
    • The 30% file size difference caused the feed to abort this morning. However, the number of DN's was almost identical
    • Discover that the two AD.ldif files are naturally about 30% different in size because of AD attributes that come along and get ignored
    • Change code to count the number of DN's in each version of the file and abort if the new one has less than 80% or more than 120% of the number of DN's in the old one.
  • sendpage modem continues to have problems... is it our modem or Contact's modem bank?
  • IM discussion with FootPrints support concerning an issue open with them
  • Configure LDAP entry for another CATalyst consultant so the account can be provisioned in AD
  • calendar 9 installation issue...office visit... FP Issue=18130 Proj=4
  • Roll out uvmEduPeopleSoft schema onto ldap.uvm.edu servers

February 5, 2006

5. Februar 2006 -- Sonntag

Admin

  • Discover and report that the nightly update of information from OpenLDAP into ActiveDirectory deleted all 50480 DN's in Active Directory.
  • This was caused because slapcat used to retrieve the information out of OpenLDAP was using the default LDAP "database" and that was no longer the correct one. The code was updated to specify which LDAP "database" to retrieve on the slapcat command.
  • Update the shell script that actually performs the update to abort the process if the file size of the new AD.ldif file is more than 30% different from the file size of the original (AD_old.ldif) file.

February 4, 2006

4. Februar 2006 -- Samstag

Admin

  • Upgrade LDAP primary (Read/Write) server to OpenLDAP 2.3.19 and PeopleSoft schema
  • Oops... the monitor backend changed the way the threads are reported. Update the measurements gathering perl script to cope.

February 3, 2006

3. Februar 2006 -- Freitag

Admin

  • PeopleSoft -- working to build the local schema to hold data as well as obtain the official PeopleSoft extension schema
  • Working with WrightLine (email exchange) to get 24" rack moved to correct building
  • Obtain newest syncprov fix from HEAD for inclusion in OpenLDAP
  • Rework the local uvmEduPeopleSoft schema and send off to Catalyst project for blessing
  • Work up the presentation for this afternoon's session with HelpLine/Walk-in staff

February 2, 2006

2. Februar 2006 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • Oracle SR 4947672.993: Accept appointment for 2:30 Monday to work on UVM FP Issue=18130 Proj=4
  • Footprints issue with converting to LDAP addressbook... updating Issue with UniPress
  • Provide information back to WrightLine about rack that was delivered last year to the wrong building
  • rack1a 97% full page...
  • zoofiles samba logs remove three years worth to get space back up to 342M instead of 26M
  • Meeting with UVM InfoEd user/developer to work on mapping out the LDAP interactions
  • Answer question about emeriti professor who is no longer showing up in LDAP
  • PeopleSoft -- LDAP ... schema...
  • TSG Team Meeting
  • Catalyst backup hardware meeting

February 1, 2006

1. Februar 2006 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • Three "Student Employee" errors with graduate students -- all foreign nationals... Sure would help if we had a World Wide Human Identification Number... but all we have is the various National Identification Numbers and the US Government seems to be quite slow at assigning those to foreign nationals who arrive here for classes -- perhaps there is another reason why this particular scenario keeps happening...
  • WebCT course recovery -- working around a problem with the legato backup system
  • Update the hourly sql check script to save the information locally on the system and only mail if there are errors in the data gathering
  • Post announcement of Saturday morning LDAP server upgrade
  • TRU unable to print to Southwick Canon 3000 printer today... apparently, windows machines were upgraded with new software to print to this thing yesterday and something was changed on the printer to make that work -- but no one remembers what.... Recreated the printer definition as a proper network printer instead of whatever magic it was originally defined with. lpset is my friend.
  • FootPrints... a project wants to convert their address book to use LDAP... and I've forgotten the steps... open an issue with the vendor
  • mail issue...