WNAG Report to UCIST April 2004

Presented by

Bruce Campbell

Engineering Computing

WNAG Activities

• Nexus – labs, active directory, etc

• Mywaterloo – web based e-mail, file transfer etc.

• Xas – common printer accounting system

Nexus

• Over 2400 computers• About 1000 OUs to group users, computers, etc• 49 registrar rooms with Nexus podium.

Simplifies management, offers environment similar to what the students are using. Wide array of managed software available.

• Undergraduate labs• Chemical Engineering faculty on Nexus• AHS moving faculty to Nexus

Terminal Server

• Increased use of terminal server, available through wireless and off campus

• Access to Nexus applications

• In Engineering, average about 100 users per day.

• Plan to start advertising more

Cerberus Project

• Checks vital signs, detects evidence of breakin.

• Deployed on many servers.

• Engineering Computing and AHS investigating deployment on clients.

Windows 2003 server

• Many servers moved to Windows 2003

• Requires more ram, disk and faster CPU.

• Has many improvements (and a few new bugs)

• WNAG members are ironing out issues and sharing their experience.

Engineering mmlab

• 120 stations

• Can be used for exams with firewall lockdown feature (prevents many possible avenues of cheating, while allowing access to the UWone website (or others as requested))

Engineering File Server

• Upgraded from Network Appliance file server to FreeBSD/samba last Fall.

• Separate profile and home file servers.

• We used “enterprise” quality hardware, Intel SC5200 chassis, SCSI, etc, and we have a spare server.

Future Lab

• Tim Farrell of IST is talking with the Office of Persons with Disabilities about converting their 8 station lab to Nexus.

• Desire to have the lab similar to what students are using in the rest of campus.

mywaterloo

• Web based e-mail, file transfer, etc

• Approximately 14,000 regular users

• 125,000 sessions per week

• Server upgrade in progress. Upgrading from dual AMD 2000+ to dual 3 GHz Xeon.

Xas

• eXtensible Accounting System• Used by Engineering, AHS, Science and

the villages.• Steve Carr of IST has been instrumental in

encouraging site wide deployment.• IST, ES, Arts, Math all have plans to

convert to xas.• Some extensions to xas required to handle

terminal services, grants, etc.