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May 31, 2006

31. Mai 2006 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • Oracle DBA root scripts
  • Remove old HRS information from LDAP
  • Fix AD feed error
  • full filesystem, moved a large user to gain space
  • Apple Roadmap presentation

May 30, 2006

30. Mai 2006 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Create several blogs from requests that came in overnight
  • rebuild ImageMagick rpm with JPEG-2000 support
  • Sun CASE 65032845 and 65034147 closed -- failed disk drives replaced
  • Restore the Report.Abuse@uvm.edu abuse email alias

28. Mai 2006 -- Sonntag

Admin

  • On Call -- no calls

May 26, 2006

26. Mai 2006 -- Freitag

Admin

  • SUN: another solaris system with a dead drive ... called it in.. case 65034147
  • SUN: Case 65032845: -- FE dispatched to replace failed drive..
  • Oracle: Root script run for DBA
  • LDAP: Transportation and Parking questions answered
  • FootPrints: new group html file installed for AFS

May 25, 2006

25. Mai 2006 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • LDAP: Banner removed the 2,872 graduates and changed 10,809 others and with all the new approx indices, the 31,054 changes took an hour and ten minutes to process (ldapmodify)! Yikes.
  • Sun: called in the failed disk drive Case 65032845
  • Documented the meta* commands in the TSG Wiki for Solaris Volume Manager

May 24, 2006

24. Mai 2006 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • LDAP: Update refused to create entry based on PeopleSoft claim of STU class -- found in student information system and combined new information with existing record.
  • Lab system -- more fibre channel zoning fun
  • LDAP: PeopleSoft's use of SSN 999999999 causes another broken account... I really need to fix this

May 23, 2006

23. Mai 2006 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Monitor ldap servers from 6:30 to 7:30am to verify they handle the early onslaught
  • Verify/Recommend changes to the nagios check_ldap/check_ldaps options
  • Research RDAC for lab machine
  • Create new printer definition on Telcom machine
  • Prepare maintenance for Lab Server
  • Create new indices for LDAP

May 22, 2006

22. Mai 2006 -- Montag

Admin

  • ldap.uvm.edu -- deadlock and poor performance. Emergency upgrade to 2.3.23 and recreation of the substring index that was removed over the weekend and should not have been. -- 8 hours...
  • AD update -- duplicate group names... need to determine why the expired group was not reclaimed

May 19, 2006

19. Mai 2006 -- Freitag

Admin

  • Restart the TRPTD service on tru -- printing broken by update???
    • printing now works... but only fragments print on the printer...
    • lpr is able to send the file to the printer and print it correctly...
    • Vendor says "upgrade is incompatible" ... WHAT????
    • TRPTD is able to print to other printers....
    • What is it with this product and canon printers...
  • Reduce space footprint of LDAP on rw server -- needs bigger disks
  • POC -- telephone directory extract from LDAP
  • start talks with HR about what should be extracted
  • provide POC extract to HR for review

May 18, 2006

18. Mai 2006 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • Telephone Directory LDAP extract planning
  • Lab machine storage, fibrechannel switch config and storage config
  • TREO: SyncML purchase
  • NetReg - redefine printer static address for the summer

May 17, 2006

17. Mai 2006 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • LDAP Update broke
    • Mike had to deal with it because I slept through the pages :(
    • PeopleSoft sent an entry with two jobs one of which did not include an affiliation code
    • scrubbing code updated.
  • SSL certs for scripts and footprints updated
  • RHEL4 maintenance applied to test LDAP machine
  • Maintenance applied to WebCT system
  • install snmp server on WebCT system and configure cricket to go read it
  • filesystem filling up -- 97%

May 16, 2006

16. Mai 2006 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Adjust firewall on Telcom test system
  • Install firewall on Telcom system
  • Install OS maintenance on Telcom system
  • Work with LDAP group names to prevent case from being a factor
  • Research LVM2 vs SystemImager (SISuite) 3.4.1
    • Solution: mkswap /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
  • Install J2SDK on Telcom system
  • Oracle root work
  • More work on the Department Name groups for AD/PeopleSoft
  • renew ssl certs for three services

May 15, 2006

15. Mai 2006 -- Montag

Admin

  • AD nightly update problem
  • Final warning to 6478 accounts that will be "removed" on June 1
  • Remove chwb1 from big brother monitoring
  • filesystem full problem: rack1a
  • filesystem full problem on giraffe
  • LDAP Entry privacy update
  • OAS machines LVM messed up
  • AD peoplesoft groups conversion tested
  • Telcom system upgrade planning

May 10, 2006

10. Mai 2006 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • LDAP index changes prevented connectivity problems overnight... continue to monitor
  • Generate department name changes for AD folks -- only one conflict -- we can work with it.
  • Retrieve latest SUN Solaris recommended patch sets
  • Retrieve (newer) OpenSSL and NetSNMP packages for Solaris9 -- webct monitoring

May 9, 2006

9. Mai 2006 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • Respond to COM question about power outage and UPS battery runtime to help explain why their machine was the only one that shutdown
  • Examine and adjust the privacy flags on an account for HR
  • Examine and respond to a question about tru's OS level

May 4, 2006

4. Mai 2006 -- Donnerstag

Admin

  • LDAP/PeopleSoft -- test new BUSN addresses

May 3, 2006

3. Mai 2006 -- Mittwoch

Admin

  • Oracle App server firewall updates for DBA
  • WebCT performance issue... why was it hung??? dunno... it broke free on its own.

May 2, 2006

2. Mai 2006 -- Dienstag

Admin

  • LDAP update generated a two character userid this morning which was legal everywhere except on the mail servers. Update the code to prevent userids fewer than three characters to be created
  • Footprints Project 36 Issue 1964 -- retiree's and department names in peoplesoft

May 1, 2006

1. Mai 2006 -- Montag

Admin

  • Examine and attempt to reproduce the ldap update problem from Saturday morning. The step that took almost an hour to run Saturday runs in eight minutes using the copy of the database that was backed up two hours before the run. Theories include memory shortage and large insertion of entries from the grey-listing function on the mail servers
  • Electrical room overheating. Condensor for the A/C unit is malfunctioning. Notified by building supervisor of the heat and looking at the graphs, it appears it broke at the same time as the power outage last Thursday evening. Institute cron job to monitor heat and email at 25 (degrees C) and page at 30.
  • Reboot test calendar server (hardware raid card screwed up last Friday late in the day). Unfortunately, a unidbfix was running ... open a SR with Oracle to see how to get the system to realize that unidbfix is NOT running so I can in fact run it...
    • In /tmp there lives a file named .mutex.CALSERV.35629.oracle.006.023 (or probably something similar) which needs to get removed for unidbfix to be able to run!
  • Send out third notice to accounts that will be removed in July.