Network Services Team (NST)

Meeting Minutes 6/14/95

• Meeting Goals for today
• What's Important to accomplish by next week?
• Status Reports
• Planning

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



1. Next meeting:  Monday, 6/19 @ 3pm


2. Meeting Goals for today:


   - Review minutes/assignments made last week (6/9)
     
       * Establishing a new seed router (FastPath?)  (Bob/Justin)
 
         Justin will send a FastPath over to Bob to look at as a possible
         seed Router.


       * Checking w/ NYNEX to ensure they have parts in the event of another
         component failure (Brenda)
   
         NYNEX has placed 2 power supplies in their T3 multiplexer (the
         equipment that had a power failure last week).  They will also keep
         a spare at their central office in Potsdam.  They have alarmed the
         multiplexer so that if it experiences another failure, it will alert
         the NYNEX office.


       * Sheet of instructions for using x4000 (data entry), x2884 (recording 
         messages for this HOTLINE), x2888 (for reporting problems to the 
         Brenda/Karen). (Brenda)

         Brenda distributed her documentation for using/recording messages.
         She will work with Bob to simplify the instructions as well as
         incoroporate a list of numbers for reference during a network 
         failure.


       * Setup meeting w/ Bob, Dave, Justin to discuss Unix services/support
         (Bob)

         Bob will set up a meeting in July with Dave and Justin re: this
         issue


   - x4000 Data Entry Report.  Brenda presented a report on what we have to 
     date from entries called into x4000.  There have been 23 log entries to
     date.  This seems to be working.  Bob and Justin will design an entry
     form so that the logged information can be entered into our 4D database.
     This will allow us to cross reference decal #'s with our database file
     of computing resources.  Brenda will continue to enter the log entries
     into her Excel spreadsheet until the 4D form is ready to use.



   - Vacations/Coverage.  

     Carm/Justin - NJ training Weds 6/21, Thur 6/22, Fri 6/23
     Bob  - vacation Friday, 6/23 and Mon 6/26 - Fri 6/30

          * Dave will be the technical coordinator; Brenda will be the
            Information Clearinghouse coordinator (reminder!  see our
            6/9 minutes for a description of these 2 roles)

     Carm - vacation last week of July
     Dave - vacation July 3 and July 7
 

   - SUNYNet weekend coverage.  We will make this our top
     agenda item for our 6/19 meeting.


   - Wiring the "dorms" project.   Status report.  (Bob)
         
        Will meet on Friday, 6/16 @ 1pm to discuss this.
        AGENDA
           * Cabletron visit report.             (Carm/Garnet)
           * Cost estimate to wire Bowman South  (Carm/Garnet)
           * Feasibility of wiring this summer
           

   - Other items:

     Discussed the feasibility of consolidating all of our telecommunications
     and networking resources in Kellas Hall for centralized management
     and to ease our task of working with all of the equipment at times when
     there are problems.  We even talked about relocating the switch, but
     that was deemed impractical at this time.

     Carm will consider renovating the TV control room as our
     Network Services Center (to consolidate our servers, modems and other
     resources).  We will try to move the Wellfleet router to Kellas as well.
      

     Bob, Brenda and Carm will get together and review Carm's "Dorm Damage
     Report" in preparation for Brenda's meeting with the Residence Life
     department.


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

    Wiring-the-dorms meeting on Friday, 6/19.

    Plan for moving Wellfleet to Kellas.


4.  Status Reports:

   - Checking phones in the residence halls.  Carm

     All done.

   NEXT Meeting:

   - Feedback card ("How are we doing?")    (Brenda
   - Shiva LANRover problems/update.  (Bob/Justin)
   - 2Gb drive for News server.  (Dave) 
   - Flagg Classroom update.  (Dave)



5.  Planning

   - Important goals for 95-96:  (Bob)
       *  IMAP email server before 9/1/95 
       *  Moving VMS email users to our Unix mail server.
       *  28.8 modems for LanRovers.

   - "Intuity" proposal.     (Brenda)

   - Our roles for network problems and how/when
     to alert campus of problems with network services:    

       * 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)