Committee meeting - June 22

Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
June 30, 2017

Present: 

Steven Bourque (acting Chair),  Darren Bondy (Secretary), Trevor Bain, Colin Bell, Andrea Chappell, Don Duff-McCracken, Erick Engelke, Lawrence Folland, Dave Kibble, Robyn Landers, Andrew McAlorum, Paul Miskovsky, Jason Testart

Guests:

Mike Gaspic, Sean Mason, Connie van Oostveen, Andrew Ward

Regrets:

Bruce Campbell (Chair), Adam Savage

Agenda

  1. Identity and Access Management project update (Jason Testart, Sean Mason, Mike Gaspic) [30 min.]
  2. Chair’s remarks [5 min.]
  3. Approval of the minutes of the meeting of June 8, 2017 [5 min.]
  4. Other Business [5 min.]
  5. Roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]
  6. Next CTSC Meeting

[Will be held Thursday, July 6, 2017, at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 1021.]

Identity and Access Management project update

Mike Gaspic, Sean Mason and others presented on the IAMNG project. Topics included:

  • What we’ve done
  • Where we are
  • Where we are going
  • Updates and demonstration

Sean Mason provided a brief demonstration of Grouper. The project team will provide updates as the project progresses.

View the full presentation on the IAMNG project (PDF).

Chair’s Remarks

  • Bruce Campbell away on vacation until mid-July.

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting

The minutes from the previous meeting were accepted as distributed.

Other Business

None.

Roundtable Reporting

Applied Health Sciences (Trevor Bain)

  • Renovations in BMH begin next week; includes asbestos removal.
    • The issue we have is that there is a network closet in the area of the removal which we will not have access to for a length of time so if something goes down we cannot get to it. Have been in discussions with IST’s networking team to determine a solution.

Client Services, IST (Andrew McAlorum)

  • On the recent outages in the WCMS:
    • Planning to migrate to MySQL and shared the original plan/timeline with WAC.
    • After the most recent outage we have decided to accelerate the migration due to continued instability of the database.
    • Will begin with pilot sites, then production sites in stages.

Environment (Don Duff-McCracken)

  • Have been working more with MatterMost and it has been going well.

Math (Robyn Landers)

  • Hoping to resolve an issue of power in one of our networking closets; one someone plugs a kettle into an outlet in the adjacent room it trips the circuit breakers and takes out half of the switches in the room.
    • IST has put in a request with Plant Operations to add more outlets and a UPS to support the closet.
  • Still getting things in order before switching over to RT.
  • Aiming to move the rest of our subnets behind the firewall at the start of July.
  • A new director for MFCF/Associate Dean of Computing has been appointed; Stephen Vavasis will replace the current director, Marek Stastna.

Instructional Technologies and Multimedia Services (Andrea Chappell)

  • Have been working on surveys for instructors:
    • Learning spaces survey (being sent out to instructors next week)
    • Learning technologies feedback survey (still work to do before sending out).
  • Thank you for responses to the Video Storage and Delivery project email may reach out again in the future.

Science (Paul Miskovsky)

  • Moving release of eValuate 2 to the fall.

Information and Data Management, IST (Colin Bell)

  • Contract for acquiring the integration platform has been fully executed; will bring more information about it at a future meeting. 

Next meeting

The next meeting will be held on July 6, 2017 at 1:30pm, in EC2 1021.