Network Services Team (NST)

Meeting Minutes 7/5/95

• 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:  Wednesday, 7/12 @ 9am


2. Meeting Goals for today:


   - Review minutes/assignments made last week (6/19)
     
       * Moving Wellfleet router to Kellas/Kellas Control Room.
         We decided to hold a special meeting to discuss all the issues in 
         establishing a location for our networked servers, the Wellfleet, etc. 
         [Network Control Room meeting - 7/5/95]


       * "Dorm Damage Report".  We reviewed Brenda's email message
         that summarized her meeting with the Residence Life staff regarding
         damage to telephone and television equipment.  This meeting also
         addressed other issues such as instituting a media/technology fee
         for residents to cover telephone equipment, television programming
         and infrastructure and wiring the residences for access to the campus
         network.  [Brenda's 6/23/95 message]
        
         Carm pointed out the need to have at least two students trained to do
         residence inspections the week after school ends.  He will need to
         hire them during the school year to train them in preparation for 
         this.

         Bob will need to contact Ron Hammond about participating on
         a wiring-the-rooms team, but will wait until students arrive before
         holding the first meeting so that we can get student participation.

         The survey of students for computing resources must be ready by
         8/1/95 in order to printed and ready to go to RAs by 8/21. 


   - Other items: 

       * Report on Justin/Carm's trip to New Jersey for Network Troubleshooting
         workshop:

         TO DOs
         we should increase our AppleTalk network range from 1 - 9, to 1 - 20.
         we should consider making all of our routers "seed" routers in order
           to avoid problems with our current slow start-up seed router.

         Carm and Justin will outline what we should do to be more proactive
         with our network management what we should use/do for network
         troubleshooting.


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

     Shiva LanRovers - work with Shiva rep per notes below.

     Meet to discuss network control room needs.




4.  Status Reports:

   - Establishing a new seed router.  Have not heard from Shiva
     engineers on their recommendation.  Eric Wilson suggested that we not
     use a FastPath 4 or a converted FastPath 5 router for this function.


   - Shiva LANRover problems/update.  Justin has been working with a 
     Shiva Tech Support person to evaluate this unit.  We will be sending our
     unit in (LanRover 2) and it will be replaced with a new one for testing
     purposes.  Justin will handle these arrangements.

   - 2Gb drive for News server.  Dave reports that the 2Gb drive
     will not work with the new Sun system, therefore we will need to replace
     or return this drive.  Dave will talk to the company about exchanging it
     for a Sun-compatible drive or perhaps something else we could use instead.
 
   - Flagg Classroom update.  Dave reports that they are still
     working on renovating the Flagg room and that he and Mike Nuwer will work
     on IP addressing/routing when that is completed.

   - x4000 Data Entry Form  Bob and Justin have not 
     completed the task of creating a 4D form for data entry.  

   - Wiring the "dorms" project.  (see notes above on 
      6/21 meeting with Residence Life)



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.