Minutes Waterloo Polaris Advisory Group February 20, 2002

Attendees:

Hon Tam Engineering Computing
Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing
Erick Engelke Engineering Computing
Stephen Sempson Science
Tim Farell Information System and Technology (IST)
Jim Johnston MFCF
Nevil Bromley Arts (Chair)
Daniel Delattre Applied Health Science (AHS) (Secretary)
Trevor Bain Environmental Studies
Dan Hergott Math

Regrets

Ray White IST
Bernie Roehl ESAG Representative

Agenda

1) NTFRS
Domain Information is being distributed through NTFRS to the DC's. Changes to the DNS might have caused the Sysvol to fill up on Nausicaa and eventually take down the server.
DNS is up to date now and synchronized so all servers are back up and running. Nausicaa is the only GC, consistent on all DC's. GPO's are stored at every DC.
RIS is not working properly any more, so we should start using SYSPrep.

2) AHS - Ahsfile and Nexus
Netapp in AHS is doing okay, we put on SP2 for workstations and login runs smooth and fast.
EngComp is moving to the same environment and Samba share will support Polaris for accessing the N-drive.
Engfile will have only one (1) Ethernet card.

The end of Polaris set for May 1, 2003 or 8 months after EngComp has 100% moved over from Polaris to Nexus, which ever is the latest. This will be announced in the Daily Bulletin.
Printing is moving to Samba and LPRNG. Bruce will develop a new system for the watcard swipers.

3) Alternate solutions to NetApp
Experiments with big farm disks (RAID/SCSI) are being done by Bruce.

Created by: delattre@uwaterloo.ca 2002/02/28Revised by: delattre@uwaterloo.ca 2002/03/06