NCSU OIT Integration Services

We haven't had a chance to migrate the content off of this site, so I don't think we'll be docommissoning it on the first of January.    It's good to set specific goals, but it's also good to let them slide when the project isn't on any criticial paths.

 We'll figure out in the new year how we'd like to prioritize integrate.oit's demise. :-)

Folks,

Our newest, hopefully permenant home has been established at http://xteams.oit.ncsu.edu/iso

We haven't been know as "Integration Services" for at least two re-orgs now, and it was either time to move, or allocate some more attention to this site's backend and disaster recovery.

I'm proud that this was the first drupal site in OIT, and I think our successful example paved the way for all the Drupal projects that are now moving forward or on the drawing board.

Working with Maria Pater of HR Payroll, I updated and rebooted ACSKRON at 7:15am this morning.  The Kronos server now has the latest service packs and is working fine.   ACSKRON was back online by 7:30am.

Wade

Last week nds02ps crashed a bit, and had trouble crashing on automatic restart.  I think the issue was that when the ndps broker and manager were loading too soon after startup, we ran out of memory or cpu or karma and the box would crash.

 I've added the command DELAY 120 just before loading the broker/manager, so we should wait 2 full minutes after a reboot to actually start the print system.  Hopefully, this delay will help the box survive a reboot.

It's not the most popular method of navigating around in ACSAD, but there is a DFS root at

\\acsad.ncsu.edu\dfs

Most folks go in through CFS directly, but the DFS root has been there all along, nonetheless.

I've made a link here, "Unity" which will link back to \\unity.ad.ncsu.edu\dfs .  The plan is that whatever AD you usually log in to, you should be able to get to everything with only a single drive letter mapped.  So far, it's worked for Jamie and I, but not Wade.  Please post your own experiences! 

Well, I'm finally getting some of my promises kept.  The live account management scripts, hot off scripts02 can be found at

https://svn.unity.ncsu.edu/svn/shs-general/acctmgmt/trunk

Both Wade and Joe have mentioned that subversion isn't working for them -- I'm still checking on that. :-) 

Folks,

Since effective today OIT has a new logo, I've poked it onto this site to show our solidarity.

Joe J and I have added most of the servers that he manages certificates for to the monitoring tool at: 

https://sysnews.ncsu.edu/tools-bin/sslkey-status

This is NOT nagios, but a seperate app that will send an e-mail starting 60 days from when a cert expires.   The whole team can add, remove and manage the host lists.

There were several hosts that we couldn't reach from the sysnews servers to monitor them. including:

Muhahaha.  Out evil plans take a step forward with the creation of a Subversion Repository.

 The URL is https://svn.unity.ncsu.edu/svn/shs-general/

It's private, so you must log in with your Unity ID, and be one of the cool shs-general kids.

Folks,

 I've moved the last remaining dregs from the "microsys" paging group and into "shs-general"  Most servers still in there were just waiting to be surplused and in non-production mode.