Core Services Cumulative Monthly Report, January 2003
Overview
In January, we wrapped up the remaining production server upgrades and
installed the new LMS development server.
- Refining and Improving Core Infrastructure
- New storage model.
- Nov/Dec: Marsh and Snavely continued to collect information
on NAS and SAN related technologies for our upcoming storage needs and
new storage model.
- Redundant web services.
- Production server replacement.
- Nov/Dec: Marsh replaced DLPS1 with a new Sun 280R server,
dlps8, and coordinated the transfer of services.
- Nov/Dec: Marsh and Snavely coordinated the removal of
failing storage equipment from dlps4.
- Jan: Marsh replaced DLPS3 with a new Sun 280R server,
dlps9, and coordinated the transfer of all services with the exception of
Pictures of Record pending a DNS registration change.
- Development server replacement.
- Nov/Dec: Marsh prepared and ordered configurations for
replacement servers for fizzie and kukicha.
- DHCP services.
- Image and OCR processing workflows.
- Nov/Dec: Snavely began planning work for the LLMC project
with Bonn and Stephenson.
- Jan: Snavely, in coordination with Stephenson and Pagliere,
made a small modification to the DLXS Pageview table to allow the handling
of companion contone page images.
- Digital object integrity.
- Cost model.
- Nov/Dec: Snavely developed a provisional model for tracking
server administration costs and began to apply the model to generate several
cost estimates.
- Documentation.
- Technology trends awareness.
- Nov/Dec: Snavely began receiving subscriptions of several
IT publications.
- Support and Development for Access Systems
- Library management system implementation.
- Nov/Dec: Marsh, Snavely, and Prettyman researched server
configurations for the LMS development server. Many different configurations
were explored and many sales quotes generated. An eight-processor Sunfire
4800 with two attached 400GB disk arrays was chosen and ordered.
- Jan: Marsh, working with Sun staff, installed and configured
the LMS development server in room 10.
- Production OAI harvesting.
- Nov/Dec: Marsh and Snavely coordinated a meeting with
data preparation staff and developed a plan to run data preparation and
OAI harvesting on the same (new) server. Funds for the server will be supplied
jointly by the OAI grant and Core Services.
- Institutional repository initiative.
- Collaborating with Other Areas of the Library and the University
- Library/Core Services coordination.
- IT Commons.
- Nov/Dec: Snavely contributed heavily to the Authentication/Authorization
and Directory working groups to help prepare final reports, due at year's
end.
- Jan: Snavely continued work at a slower pace in both
working groups on various tasks in follow-up to the final reports.
- CHEF/DLXS integration.
- Nov/Dec: Snavely participated in a joint meeting with
other DLXS staff and the CHEF group to help provide a better understanding
of the DLXS system.
- Integration with campus authentication.
- Nov/Dec: Snavely joined the COSIGN co-design group and
attended his first meeting to get an overview of the COSIGN system architecture
and workings.
- Miscellaneous/Unplanned
- Nov/Dec: Marsh, working closely with DSS, reorganized space
in room 10 to consolidate space usage and accommodate new servers.
- Nov/Dec: Marsh applied OpenSSL and sendmail upgrades to
resolve security vulnerabilities on several servers.
- Nov/Dec: Marsh upgraded Perl from 5.6.1 to 5.8.0 on all
systems not scheduled for near-term retirement.
- Jan: Marsh, in coordination with Blanco and Simpson, began
an iterative problem-solving process with ESRI to address several problems
with the ArcIMS system.
- System Performance
- Central Campus server environment
- betty.umdl (MedSearch server): No down time
- coffee.umdl (Oracle server for access control): No down time
- hank.umdl (Library Web Server): No down time
- myrna.umdl (MIRLYNWeb server): No down time
- opal.umdl (SilverPlatter server): No down time
- North Campus server environment
- dlps1.umdl (non-public collections): Taken offline
- dlps3.umdl (Image Services): No down time
- dlps4.umdl (primary web server for DLPS and public collections): No
down time
- dlps5.umdl (library proxy server): No down time
- dlps6.umdl (Oracle server for access control and usage statistics):
No down time
- dlps7.umdl (Numeric Data server): No down time
- dlps8.umdl (non-public collections: No down time
- dlps9.umdl (Image Services): No down time