Attendees:
| Daniel Delattre Applied Health Science (AHS) | Tim Farrell Information System and Technology (IST) |
| Nevil Bromley Arts | Ray White IST (Chair) |
| Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing | Jim Johnston MFCF |
| Erick Engelke Engineering Computing | Stephen Sempson Science (Secretary) |
Regrets:
| Hon Tam Engineering Computing | Trevor Bain Environmental Studies (ES) |
| Bernie Roehl ESAG Representative |
Submitted items:
Q: (Nevil) The software installation directory structure, would it be possible to have something like 'Program Files/Arts'
A: (Erick) Polaris is planned to be alive till September 2002. Q: drive is getting low, with less than a Gig free on all the servers. The Q: drive is generally for low use software. I would like to motion to include a 50 Gig hard drive in all the Appservers. We would have the ability later to use as a Win2000 Q: drive.
(Bruce) Agreed then, a 50 Gig drive and a late migration to Windows 2000.
(Erick) Yes, and also admins should watch when upgrading, in that the user'sshould be notified of temporary disruptions.
(Bruce) Then, it is ok with a September 2002 deadline for Polaris95? We need to get people thinking about this so we can firm up the deadline.
(Nevil) I would like to confirm that people agree to follow the Q: drive directory structure when installing to the local C: drive software and program files directories as shown below:c:\program files\faculty\department (optional)\software title
Q: (Nevil) Printers on Watstar servers are not currently turned off?
A: (Bruce) Yes, slowly we have been converting over.
(Nevil) we have almost finished the last September deadline on this.
Q: (Tim) What has been the problems with Q:\utl in the path.
A: (Ray) Yes, there has been a problem, this is in relation to adding the Q: drive to the path when it is infact not there. It is there, the Q:\gen\utl and everyone has R/W access to this directory in \\engshare\system-copy.
Q: (Bruce) Has there been any advantage to using Windows 2000 server to the clients?
A: (Nevil) Only problems in still dealing with Win95 clients.
(Erick) Performance may be worse, since it updates file the file access info. Currently, with Samba, we have it off, so it could be worse as there will be an increase in the file activity.
Information items:
(Jim) I have seen the posting of the end of availability to the Netapp's 720, if upgrading it may be too late now. See the Netapp 720`s web site which describes the platform, spares kit, and power/cabinet lose of availability and the migration available to them.
(Bruce) EC has already topped up EngFile. If anyone else is looking at upgrading with another array, they should be ok for another 5 years. Other products are approaching the capabilities of the NetApp, but the biggest set back is the price of the NetApp. For instance, he NetApp disk's to Seagate's is three times price difference.
(Erick) This is a comparible price to pay for the performance and 'free' replacements.
(Jim) One should consider getting a quote soon if thinking of upgrading their servers.
(Ray) In Polaris95, a sysctl update will be happening at the end of the term. This is to contain an Eudora update, which will fix some of the problems that have been plaguing users.
(Tim) Thanks to Bruce for the DNS Web tool
(Bruce) This tool is fully automated from our end. Nancy has been extremely supportive of it, as it standardizes and alphabetizes the inputs to her.
Created by: sempson@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca 2001/04/18
Revised by: sempson@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca 2001/04/18
