Darren Bondy
Secretary to the Committee
March 5, 2018
Present:
Steven Bourque (Chair), Darren Bondy (Secretary), Erick Engelke, Robyn Landers, Andrew McAlorum, Keith McGowan, Paul Miskovsky, Jason Testart
Regrets:
Trevor Bain, Colin Bell, Andrea Chappell, Daryl Dore, Marko Dumancic, Dave Kibble, Omar Nafees, Adam Savage
Agenda
- Chair’s remarks [5 min.]
- Approval of the minutes of the meetings of February 8 [5 min.]
- Windows event management (Erick Engelke) [10 min.]
- Implementing email recommendations (Steven Bourque) [10 min.]
- Other Business [10 min.]
- Roundtable discussion – all [20 min.]
- Next CTSC Meeting
[Will be held Thursday, March 8, 2018, at 1:30 p.m., in EC2 1021.]
Chair’s Remarks (Steven Bourque)
- No remarks
Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
The previous meetings minutes were accepted as distributed.
Email recommendations follow up (Steven Bourque)
As a follow up to the email recommendations discussion from a meeting in 2017:
- Revisions were made to “Recommendations B” regarding the outbound SMTP being restricted to port 25.
- We are looking at getting the initial group back together to begin discussing how we start implementing these recommendations.
- Steven will send out the list of original group members to this committee; please review and decide if you would like the same person in the group or someone different (can also add additional people).
- This item will be discussed at the next CTSC meeting as well, as several members were unable to attend today’s meeting.
Chorus logging (Erick Engelke)
Erick Engelke presented on network computer event logging and machine intelligence. Topics included:
- Reporting problem
- Problems
- Inspiration: Eric Praetzel
- Starting small
- Growing the system
- A word about Bayesian analysis
- What we found?
- What is a SIEM?
- What we desire?
- Where are we heading – short term?
View the full presentation on Chorus event logging (PDF).
Other Business
Note: Members discussed the agenda format regarding Other Business and Roundtable Reporting.
- Members suggested adding all types of topics (big or small) to the agenda so that they know ahead of time if certain topics are being discussed.
- Other Business is intended to be used as follow up to items previously discussed, items that require discussion/input from other members.
- Roundtable Reporting is intended to share what is happening in member’s respective areas.
Lab usage follow up
- Thanks to members for filling in the info on the CTSC wiki site. We have collected the information that we needed.
Roundtable Reporting
Science (Paul Miskovsky)
- Starting to move some of our production servers for eValuate and MarkBox over to IST servers.
- We need to be able to send lots of individual emails (not bulk) for eValuate, is there a tool that can do that?
- Steven Bourque will look into the bulk mailer capabilities and report back.
Math (Robyn Landers)
- Last term CSCF started looking into tools for better monitoring of efficiency of machines in server rooms.
- Started to develop a proposal on what we could do to improve the overall efficiency of our server rooms.
- For those interested in this type of thing, please reach out and we can share notes/discuss.
Client Services, IST (Andrew McAlorum)
- eCampus Ontario has given us the go ahead to announce that Lynda.com is now free for all undergraduate students; will be sending out an announcement soon.
Technology Integrated Services, IST (Steven Bourque)
- Mike Borkowski is retiring and tomorrow is his last day. Matthew Verlis will be acting manager until the position is filled.
Arts (Keith McGowan)
- We were looking at Papercut to handle printing/copying but it does not looking like it is going to work in that form. We are now looking at installing a separate instance of Papercut that is not connected to Retails Services.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held on March 8, 2018 at 1:30pm, in EC2 1021.