defining emergency response for college it mike osterman whitman college
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Defining Emergency Response for College IT
Mike OstermanWhitman College
slide 2CLAC 2006
• Hanford Nuclear Reservation
• Umatilla Chemical Weapons Depot
• Local fault line• Wildfires• Floods• Mt. St. Helens
WALLA WALLAWashington
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Institutional Planning
• Emergency planning exercises
• Systems/telecom an afterthought– Assumed to “just work”– Easy to set up
• Low budget priority for emergency infrastructure
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Ready for small-scale problems
• 2 server rooms– Separate power grids– Sufficiently distant
• Tape backups– 3 off-site locations
• Redundant paths to Internet
• Most servers have remote backup
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Previous “attempts”
• Overly ambitious– Commercially co-located
server– Hours of backup power– Too costly to justify– Poor follow-through
Tulane University
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Refocusing
• Key technology goals– Provide information to the outside– Ability to locate people– Contact information for family members
• Personnel concerns– Where is the information?– Who is responsible?
• CLAC Survey
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City-wide mass casualty exercise
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First pass
• Emergency information web sites– http://emergency.whitman.edu– http://emergencyblog.whitman.edu/– Basic hosting with commercial host
• DNS authority to ISP– Web-based DNS admin– Geographically distinct infrastructure
• No ERP solution in place– Text file to USB drive
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Where we’d like to be
• Co-located server at peer institution(s)
• Easier means for updating emergency page
• Better ERP solution
• Identify staff at peer institutions for IT help
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Survey on reciprocal hosting
• What does emergency hosting mean?
• What do you already have in place?
• Where would you like to be?
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Survey Results
• 12 respondents• Desired solutions
– Emergency Information– Mirrored ERP system– Email accounts
• Conclusions– No “one size fits all” solution– Grouping will be challenging– Define different levels of partnership– Security & liability issues
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Where do we go next?
• Consortially coordinated effort
• Peer to peer pairing
• ?
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