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OIT Technology Meeting - May 2006

Announcements

Josh Hogle, MSSG
The University's site license for McAfee antivirus software expires June 30, 2006. The University is switching from McAfee to Trend Micro. Trend software has features that are not available in the McAfee software. The Trend firewall is built into the antivirus software instead of an additional product. It has better anti-spyware features. It also uses much less CPU than McAfee. Trend does not have a product for Mac OS, so MSSG is recommending the use of ClamXAV, which is a GUI written around ClamAV, an established Unix/Linux product. ClamXAV is available for free. There are products available for Windows, Exchange, Netware, Red Hat and Suse Linux, and Solaris. Available products include antivirus, spam prevention and content filtering.

RADS will be updated for Trend. The new RADS 4.0, which is still in development, will uninstall existing antivirus software and install the Trend software. RADS 4.0 will be available for faculty, staff and students, on both University and personally owned equipment.

All McAfee products must be removed by July 1, 2006. RADS 4.0 will be available by June 5, 2006. In addition to an exe version, an msi version will be available for those wishing to deploy via Active Directory. A beta version of the install is currently available, though not all features are complete at this time. It may be downloaded from ftp://software.rutgers.edu/pub/rutgers/rads/4.0/SetupNT-BETA1.msi. Documentation can be found at http://mssg.rutgers.edu/documentation/antivirus/. Additional documentation will continue to be added. Questions may be sent to antivirus_support@rutgers.edu.

Dr. Charles Hedrick, OIRT
The IP address of ldap.rutgers.edu will be changing in June. Those pointing to it using the hostname do not need to do anything. The change should be transparent. Those using the current IP address should switch to using the hostname.

Presentations

IT Strategic Plan
Michael McKay, VP for IT
The IT Strategic Planning Committee (ITSPC) has released a draft of the University's IT Strategic Plan. The plan was worked on by a committee of 50+ faculty, staff and students. There are committees for Teaching and Learning, Research, University Life, Business and Enterprise Services, and Governance. Budgeting has been an obvious challenge, and suggestions for ways to save money are welcome. The plan lists five goals and 17 recommendations. There is a forum in Sakai for public discussion. The final report is due in the summer. The report is available from http://oit.rutgers.edu/strategicgoals.html.

LSS Offerings/Overview
Al Vasquez, LSS
Lan Support Services (LSS) is managed by Al Vasquez and includes Jen Merz, Ray Hu and Kris Corso. LSS consults on firewalls, general security, network transition, risk assessments, network support and monitoring. Services include both free and fee-based offerings. The LSS website has a variety of tools available for public use, and additional tools available for clients. Clients can also monitor project progress on the LSS website. LSS works with TD, IPS and MSSG as needed.
LSS website

Break-out Session

Using the University's LDAP
Dana Price, OIRT
Dana held a break-out session covering the basic aspects of enabling mod_auth_ldap in an Apache webserver, and configuring search filters utilizing Rutgers-specific schema. The presentation is available in PowerPoint format.