OIT Technology Meeting - November 2006

Announcements

Mary Ann Chianelli, MSSG
OIT is still committed to, and is actively pursuing, the Microsoft Campus Agreement. Funding options are still being evaluated. As soon as there is news, an anouncement will be made.

Armen Varjabedian, MSSG
MSSG will no longer sell Red Hat Network (RHN) entitlements through the software portal. The reasons MSSG started acting as a reseller no longer exist. Entitlements can be purchased directly through the Red Hat academic reseller, DLT Solutions. As departments purchase new entitlements or renew existing ones, they must re-register their systems into their own RHN account. Vendor information and re-registration instructions are available on the RHN Proxy Server site. The Proxy Server is not affected by this change.

Ed Humphrey, NBCS
New Brunswick Central Systems will perform an upgrade of their NetApp on 11/16/2006 from 3:00 am to 8:00 am. During the upgrade window, Eden, Mailman, RAMS, Sakai, RULink, and WebCT will NOT be available. RCI and LDAP should not be affected by the downtime. The upgrade is meant to improve performance and reliability.

Tom Grzelak, OIRT
OIRT still has demo systems from HP (dual-core, dual Intel Woodcrest cpu) and Dell (new AMD cpu). They are available until the end of November. If interested, contact oirt@rutgers.edu

Presentations

Recent Migration to Mailman
Ed Humphrey, NBCS
Ed Humphrey discussed the recent migration of the public mailing lists from the Listserv software to Mailman. Please see the Information Handout for details on the presenation.


Master Lease Agreement for IT
Galen Work, OIT
Galen Work discussed the ongoing work for the creation of a Master Lease Agreement for IT resources. Please see the presentation for details.

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