Frank's Activity Log

Admin

• EchoVermont.org -- web server switch
• Accounts -- Another account that has the password encoded wrong
• Accounts -- Audit finds 8 other accounts with similar problem... fixed
• Accounts: dcecp replacement scripts
  • deactivate_account
  • reactivate_account
  • set_expdate_account

On Call

• cat301 - nuisance pages (flapping)
• copperhead - ipf failure
• groundhog/ldap - disk filled up

Posted by at 8:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• LDAP: Notify CatCard that the feed file is stale again
FootPrints: Clean up a lingering issue that appears to have died
• Monitoring: Naupy testing
• LDAP: re-notify Registrar's office and HR office about National ID differences in three people's entries

Posted by at 9:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Admin

• Calendar: SR 5564690.992 -- respond to Oracle's suggestion
• FootPrints: Issue=20139 Proj=4 -- No real idea of what happened?
• Calendar: Experiment with smtpmailprogram and smtpmailpath options to prevent the test server from sending out meeting notice emails
• Mail: research mail delivery problem -- missing file... search for file
• FootPrints: work on closing out old issues

Posted by at 7:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• LDAP: new group management to catch HR renaming departments
• LDAP: notify catcard office that the feed is broken
• Calendar: 10g install work

Posted by at 1:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• FootPrints: review the oldest issues and see if some of them can be closed
• LDAP: New retiree file from HR
• LDAP: groups/department names changes
• IDs: talk with Georgetown rep about 1.0 and 2.0
• LDAP: test jobcode=0999 removal from PS feed

Posted by at 8:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• LDAP: no drips no runs no errors! YAY
• SSL: jabber cert expired ... oops... installed good one

Posted by at 9:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• LDAP: several uid issues to merge/fix
• LDAP: Consultants -- do we really still have 81 consultants working on ERP?
• DISK: Saturn's got one slice of a disk that claims to be bad... tell metastat to shut up and reuse that slice... works ok so far...
• ACCOUNTS: expiration of lifetime accounts meeting

Posted by at 9:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• lab server reboot to rearrange filesystem mounts and samba shares...
  • Two reboots required because one of the fibre disks changed its path again
• HR - Affiliated Org Employee issue

Posted by at 8:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• Calendar 10g -- RHEL4 installed, upgraded, and required extra rpm's installed

Posted by at 8:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• LDAP: PUA and VIS employee classifications defined from PeopleSoft
• Web: allow safemode_gid on a directory for cess. Oops... didn't restart right, web slow for a while
• OCS 10g... reading install guide

Posted by at 2:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• SecurID server fails a hard drive (for the second time) -- replace with a cold spare.
• Oracle Calendar
  • 5579086.993 - Affine encryption not offered
    • Update the SR again with the answers that this is affecting ONE (1) installation and that no version of 10.x client will install and work correctly.
• Update the CATalyst FP ISSUE=2600 again asking HR to tell me what PUA and VIS employee classifications are
  • HR doesn't know -- they don't see the three letter codes -- they have a 10 character field that has the PeopleSoft expansion of the three letter code that is stored... back to the CATalyst folks
• LDAP: update several entries by hand as Banner assigned a new PIDM for a student and PeopleSoft generated workstudy student positions that needed to be manually searched

Posted by at 7:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• Oracle Calendar
  • SR 5579086.993 - Affine Encryption
    • Bug 5388320 has been opened -- but is generic enough, it's just a stalling tactic
  • LDAP entries renamed because people are shifting responsibility of calendars...
• LDAP: multiple PS non-authoritative entries to create
  • Found matches for three of the four.
  • Contacted the Registrar and Payroll to look at the remaining one which has a likely match but isn't perfect

Posted by at 8:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• Black Box quote forwarded for pre-approval approval
• IdM work
• Oracle SR's
  • 5580865.992 GARBAGE FILE NAMES
    • Problem is dbconv writes to a log file before it is opened...
    • Why is universion calling dbconv every time it runs?
  • 5584043.993 DATE/TIME SUGGESTION
    • Bug 5382125 is visible...
    • backport would take until September!
    • Ok... we can wait until 10.1.3...
• FP ISSUE=20426 PROJ=4
  • Unable to delete messages in spam folder from webmail
  • no locks...
  • looks like spam folder was successfully accessed at 0639 this morning
  • Outlook holding folder open when webmail is accessing it?
  • Oh! the logs say that OutLook is using POP! So, WTF????
  • The logs don't show any reason for this problem
  • customer is using IE v7 Beta 2 -- javascript is not working!
  • close ticket... beta code not working correctly :(
• FP ISSUE=2600 PROJ=36 -- Undocumented Employee Classification Values
  • Report use of 389 PUA's and 72 VIS's in this morning's feed
  • Get told to go ask HR
  • provide obnoxious response
  • get private response explaining direction to ask HR -- people home sick should not be updating FP entries!
  • Post explanation that the employee classification is used to determine the services the employee is entitled to use at UVM and that having undocumented values means we have employees who we do not know what services they are entltled to.
• Meeting with CatCard about changing the feeds between LDAP and CatCard

Posted by at 8:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• Three new echovermont.org virtuser entries created
• Request for quote sent to BlackBox.com for part CBCA197370
• Argue with Oracle about three of the four open SR's...
  • 5579086.993 - Affine encryption
    • Oracle requests that the server be modified to not require encryption...
    • YEAH, RIGHT. NOT!!!!
  • 5584043.993 - Suggest Date/Time broken on Mac client
    • Oracle says this is bug 5382125 and will be fixed in client version 10.1.3
    • The bug doesn't show up in searches and no time given for when 10.1.3 will be released
    • Oracle says the bug is visible now but no word on when 10.1.3 will be released
    • I still can't find the bug by doing a search based on the bug number...
  • 5580865.992 - universion generates garbage files in .../ocal/bin
    • Oracle says this is a known issue in the 9.0.4 server and is fixed in 10.1.2
    • What's the bug number?
    • Oracle says they can't tell me because it was reported by a different customer and therefore is confidential
• Open issue 2600 in CATalyst Issue Log to determine what the Affiliation "PUA" means
  • CATalyst redirects the issue to HR
• Update the PeopleSoft_Engine.pl module to complain when Affiliations without translations are found
• Transfer the PeopleSoft_Engine.pl module update to the IdM Separation project version

On Call

• 0238: 6 nsrexecd's running on a backup server -- nagios configured for 2-4, more or less is a critical error
  • Why?
  • Hmmm... discussion results in reconfiguration for warnings and only critical (page) if less than 1 or more than 25 are running

Posted by at 8:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• Open SR 5584043.993 with Oracle because the Mac OSX desktop client 10.1.2 has a broken "Suggest Date/Time" function -- it always selects times that are outside the search window
• Install RHEL4 on mink to test Oracle Calendar 10g...
• download and burn RHEL4-U3-i386 iso images
• Set activation dates for 1633 more accounts, leaving 5997 "unactivated" accounts

Posted by at 8:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• track down why eduPersonPrincipalName isn't populated all the time ... adduser on Moose
• Track down why new users didn't get put in AD... ooh... no posixAccount at that time... fixed
• Index the eduPersonPrincipalName for the Shibboleth testing...

Posted by at 9:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• LDAP: PeopleSoft sends a Student Employee with confused data -- manual intervention required to find and combine it with the Banner entry.
• Set up the Account Removal/Reactivation scripts for next summer's run
• Create the uvmEduActivationDate attribute and push it out to all the replicas with appropriate ACL's

Posted by at 4:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• Work with Continuing Education to list the old and new department names to help them get back on their feet after the changing of the department names was reflected in the Active Directory Groups and caused them to lose access to the departmental data

Architect

• RFC for uvmEduActivationDate floated to team for comment -- this is revised from the original sent out on Sunday

Posted by at 10:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• account removals finished at 2am
• Manually run the AD update script
• discover a bug in the code, fix it and run the AD update script again

On Call

• cat400 filesystem filled up at 11:38
  • Unable to get a response on the CATalyst pager
  • Tried a CATalyst team member directly -- no response
  • Called CATalyst team lead at home
  • Followed directions of team lead to
    1. Disable the paging
    2. Send a note to the CATalyst team explaining the problem and ask that they clean up the filesystem
• rmxcreds segfault 11 at 5:50am Monday morning -- no clue about problem -- no repeat performance

Posted by at 10:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Admin

• Remove accounts 6377
• Discover that HR is renaming departments again... open Footprints ISSUE=2484 PROJ=36

On-Call

• No activity

Posted by at 10:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)