Network Services Team (NST)

Meeting Minutes 5/31/95

• Old Business
• New Business
• What's Important to accomplish by next week?
• Discussion on our roles for network problems
• AGENDA for next meeting

Present:  Garnet Barrigar, Brenda Bennett, David Brouwer, Carmen Casolara, 
           Bob Jewett, Justin Sipher



1. Next meeting:  Friday, 6/9 @ 8am


2. Old Business:

   - Shiva LANRover problems/update. LanRover 2 will not boot up at all.
     Bob and Justin will call Shiva.


   - Network ADD for Juliana Degone/Mark Stoddard, Mental Health/Van Housen.
     (See proposal 5/26/95).  Carm will
     coordinate this project and will contact Dave when the wiring
     is completed so that the NIC and software can be installed.
       

   - x4000.  Brenda is entering these recordings into an Excel spreadsheet.
     She will present a report on what we have to date at our next NST meeting.


   - Updating our Chipcom EMM management modules.  Carm will talk to Chipcom
     when they visit our campus (soon) about the management module update.


   - Wiring the "dorms" project.  Justin shared a document from Hamilton 
     College which addresses their student network services project (wiring
     student rooms for service).  He will send a copy to Dave, Carm and
     Garnet (could we post this in our NST "wiring project" page?)


   - Site visit w/ Cabletron (Thursday 6/1).  Joe Garbus (SUNY Potsdam
     alumni '86) will visit us for a site survey.


   - Power outage on Sat/Sun 6/3-6/4.  (See 5/16 NST minutes.)  After considerable discussion, we settled on the following
     plan of action:

     1. Brenda will prepare a broadcast voice-mail message to be sent on
        Thursday 6/1 and Friday 6/2.  (Click here for content of message.)

     2. Bob will send a message to the brown-bag techology sharing session
        announcement list. (Click here for content of message.)

     3. Dave will take our Unix hosts down at 10pm on Saturday, 6/3.

     4.  We will leave our SEED router and our LanRover 1 ON.  

     5. Brenda will update our Network HOTLINE (x2884) to indicate
        that network services will go "down" at 10pm, Saturday, 6/3 and
        will not be back "up" until 8am, Monday, 6/5/95.

     6. Tony DiTullio will notify Bob when power is restored.  He will
        check the network and call Dave to bring our Unix-based services
        back up.  He will call Justin and/or Carm only if there are problems
        with our network services after power is restored.

     7. Justin will make sure Rob Best is available to help on Monday with
        any network-related problems due to the power outage.

     8. Bob/Justin/Brenda can be contacted in Syracuse (STC Conference - 
        Sheraton Inn, Liverpool) by calling 457-1122.<- PHONE!


   - Checking phones in the residence halls.  Carm has prepared a spreadsheet
     report for Residence Life that outlines the repairs and replaced 
     equipment for Bowman, Draime and Van Housen.

     Could we post this information to our www?  
     Justin/Carm--let me know, ok? (jewettrj)




3. New Business:

   - coverage set up for upcoming STC conference (Bob, Justin, Brenda, Karen,
       will be away)


   - SUNYNet weekend coverage.  (Bob)  [tabled]


   - backup for Dave Brouwer's responsibilities  [tabled]


   - Flagg Classroom update.  (Dave)  [tabled]


   - 2Gb drive for News server. News failure over the weekend (5/27 - 
       5/28) and status report on 2Gb drive.   (Dave)  [tabled]


   - Important goals for 95-96:  (Bob)  [tabled]
       *  IMAP email server before 9/1/95 (need to do IMAP testing this summer)
       *  Moving VMS email users to our Unix mail server.
       *  28.8 modems for LanRovers.

   - Voice services. "Intuity"  (Brenda)  [tabled]


4.  What's Important to accomplish by next week?

   - Plan of action for the power outage as defined above.

   - Cabletron site visit - 6/1



5.  Continuation of discussion on our roles for network problems and how/when
     to alert campus of problems with network services:    [tabled]

     - backup role for Justin's role and David's role.


     - Brenda's role as information clearinghouse and her backup.


     - how to program (record messages) for the HOTLINE (x2884)




6.  AGENDA for 6/9 meeting:

     - Items "tabled" above