Core Services Cumulative Monthly Report, January 2007

• Content/Web infrastructure
• Primary objectives
  
• Finish migration of DLPS web services to redundant networked storage.
• Dec: Marsh installed new storage on the Hatcher storage server, and Snavely began batch synchronizing ETS and Image Services content to it.
  
• Replace web load-balancing system.
• Increase scalability of ingest/processing/validation processes with multiple front-end servers and/or SSI clustering.
• Dec: Marsh and Snavely installed a new blade server chassis that will be used to house multiple new servers, some of which will be dedicated to content ingest and processing.
• Apply automation and processes created for MDP to local Digital Conversion workflows.
• Migrate to new web statistics system.
• Dec: Feeman began running the new stats system side-by-side with the old starting in December and ported all non-title-level legacy statistics from the old system to the new. Because title-level statistics data were stored in the old system in a non-portable way, and because the new system provides this information in the form of COUNTER-style reports, title-level data was not ported but instead the web pages for title-level stats were harvested and will be made available alongside the new system.
• Finish transition to CoSign authentication.
• Secondary Objectives
  
• Develop web-based authorization management system.
• Dec: Feeman and Snavely developed an ordered list of bug fixes to address and new features to be developed for the authentication and authorization management system.
• Migrate Library Web Services to networked storage.
• Continue work with ITCS on Shibboleth origin pilot.
• Dec: Snavely contacted the people who expressed interest in a Shibboleth pilot with ProQuest to determine their level of interest and readiness, and received one or two enthusiastic responses; ProQuest remains somewhat on the fence about implementation. Snavely sought information on other service providers currently supporting Shibboleth from Internet2 and consulted with Dennis and Folger on preferences.
  
• Migrate all web service to Apache 2.
• Storage
• Primary Objectives
  
• Migrate to new Pillar Axiom SAN in ALDC.
• Dec: Marsh discovered and resolved a Solaris problem relating to the mapping of SAN LUNs to OS devices.
  
• Finish MDP RFP process and design and install sustainable, large-scale storage solution for MDP project.
• System administration
• Primary Objectives
  
• Finish transition of production services to TSM backup service and upgrade existing backup system for development servers.
• Dec: Snavely upgraded the current development backup server to new hardware to increase performance and reliability.
  
• Improve remote access capabilities to server resources using serial console servers, network KVM (for blades), and VPN device(s).
• Replace production and development servers as scheduled.
• Standardize and document system administration processes.
• Transition to Gigabit Ethernet service in room 10.
• Secondary Objectives
  
• Begin to develop centralized system administration mechanisms.
• Transition to ITCS-supported DHCP.
• Security
• Primary Objectives
  
• Complete security planning and perform TBD high-priority tasks.
• Dec: Marsh, Munce, Snavely, and Syrigos completed a first draft of a security plan.
  
• Secondary Objectives
  
• Investigate virtual firewall service and request/implement as appropriate.
• Initiatives
  
• Support integration/rearchitecture/massive scaling of locally-developed content systems (Deep Blue, DLXS, MBooks).
• Delve deeper into SSI clustering and server virtualization; build proof-of-concept for virtual servers on an SSI cluster with an eye toward centralized server resources for sharing among all LIT units.
• Explore centralized storage for sharing among all LIT units.
• Miscellaneous, routine, or unplanned activity
• Dec: Snavely met with CAS and ITCS staff to discuss the dissolution of ITCS WATS and plans for transitioning application support for a WATS-developed e-commerce system for ILLiad to Core Services; Snavely discussed this work with Feeman, who began examining the application and developing local documentation.
  
• Service Availability
• Arbor Lakes Data Center
• ethel.umdl (ARC): No down time
• ezra.umdl (Verde): No down time
• gracie.umdl (Aleph): Down on Sunday, December 15 from 8:00am to 9:00am for scheduled maintenance on a storage subsystem.
  
• hiram.umdl (Zebra): No down time
• tequila.umdl (Metalib and SFX): No down time
• Hatcher Server Room
• belle.umdl (Library Web): No down time
• coffee.umdl (Oracle): No down time
• cowmilk.umdl (MySQL): No down time
• merlot.umdl (DLPS public text collections and MBooks): No down time
  
• sambuca.umdl (Deep Blue): No down time
  
• quik.umdl (Survivors of the Shoah cache): No down time
• ting.umdl (library proxy): No down time
• Duderstadt Center Machine Room
• dlps6.umdl (Oracle): No down time
• dlps7.umdl (Numeric and Geospatial Data): No down time
• dlps10.umdl (DLPS public text collections): No down time
• dlps11.umdl (DLPS image and non-public text collections): No down time
  
• dlps12.umdl (DLPS image and non-public text collections): No down time
  
• soymilk.umdl (MySQL): No down time
• Data Loading/Archival Statistics