1. Technology Update
TSAG Meeting 12/11/03

2. Outage Dec 20 Saturday 10:00PM --> Sunday 12:00PM
PPM will be replacing electrical panel in the MDF
The MDF will have limited power during this time
Affected systems:
All inter-building network connectivity
All Internet network connectivity
Hence all non-local (via subnet) services will be unavailable
Telephone systems will be operational
Intermittent outage just at the beginning and at the end of the outage window

3. Holiday Operations Coverage
Dec 25 & Jan 1:
On-call operator
Dec & Jan 2-4:
On-duty operator: 8:00am - 5:00pm
On-call operator: during other times
Standard Off-hours (Network/Systems) Analysis Support

4. Email Quotas are being Applied
Enforcement is underway for:
All new accounts
All student accounts (to be complete by Dec 15)
100 MB limit for all accounts below this limit
Over quota == No !
Faculty/Staff maximum storage limits:
400 MB by Dec 15, 2003
300 MB by Feb 15, 2004
200 MB by March 15, 2004
100 MB by April 15, 2004
s those above 400MB (22 43), 25 still over quota
Yearly review of quotas by ATC is underway

5. TII Close-out Summary: Lessons Learned What remains
Stage 1: wiring, Stage 2: electronics
One of three campus within Phase 1 that are completed
Lessons Learned
Course Knowledge on Cisco Equipment
Exchanged one-set of bugs for another
Interoperability of Enterasys and Cisco
What remains
Return Enterasys equipment
We are short hubs to comply with our trade-in agreement (~500 ports)
Give us your old, broken, worn huddled hubs!

6. Post TII Activities CENIC (phase out of 4CNET) Wireless Enhancements
Packeteer and Dragon
Intracampus Network ACLs
Classifying Subnets, e.g.,
Student Lab subnets
Administrative subnets
Open Area subnets (live jacks)
Authenticate to the wire (802.1X) ??

7. End of Life: IPX and Appletalk
Original Announcement of Intent:
TSAG Meeting, Nov & Dec 2002
Proposed Last Date of support:
Friday June (Last day of academic year)
Reasons for the End of Life on Campus
To reduce load on and to simplify management of Network Services
IPX is 20% of load for 5% of population
To reduce the load on NetWare/NDS® servers
Novell and Apple have adopted pure IP
Your tasks:
Migrate Novell/Apple services off of IPX/Appletalk
Need Netware 5 or above
Need Mac OS 8.1 or above
Provide early feedback on problems and concerns
Sources:

8. Campus IT Status Page Provides:
Summary information from Big Brother, MRTG, Spectrum, etc.
Provides:
Summary status of Enterprise systems
Pending Maintenance Announcement (if any)
Black Lists:
Spammers messages blocked
“Irresponsible” ISP or Host Internet connectivity blocked
“Compromised” Computers (ports disabled) Network connectivity blocked
Consult as part of IT diagnosis process

9. Registry of Computer Labs
ATC requested Campus-wide Lab Schedule
Intent: To allow students to more easy locate IT resources
Information Needed:
Location of Lab Purpose of the Lab
Provided Equipment (e.g., 24 Windows XP, …)
Supported Users (e.g., only COMP 100 students)
Hours of Operation
Restricted Access
Open Access
Contact point for more info (e.g., URL)
We need you to provide the information

10. FISMA Audit Preparation
Financial Integrity and State Manager's Accountability (FISMA)
Focus has been on “Mainframe” type of operations
Higher focus on Client/Server types of operations (e.g., CMS)
Some Emphasis this year:
Account Lifecycle
Access Controls: Vendors, Passwords, Audit, Review, …
Confidentiality Protection
DRP and BCP
Non-Enterprise level operations (more coming in the future)
We will starting preliminary discussions with local IT units

11. Proposal Blocking Administrative Lists
We have three types of lists
Department/Official Lists
Class Lists
General Purpose Lists
Goal: to prevent spam on “Administrative” lists
Tested with (thanks Peter!)
Ramification:
Only individuals with a campus accounts can send to Administrative Lists
Home users: use Webmail or configure client to use SMTP.csun.edu
But “whatif” I don’t want my list blocked!
Transform your list to a -g list (e.g.)
Set up your list to “Reply-to” the owner