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Monthly Activity Report
June 2008 

1. AIMWorX – Supported all AIMWorX users varying requests.  Copied all SMDR and CDR backup files to CDR for archive.  Processed the weekly update of cost centers and student information.  Ran a monthly process to remove any duplicate calls from the database prior to a billing cycle.
2. MA4000 project – MA4000 service stopped working sometime during the week of 6/16/08.  Working with NEC to resolve problem.
3. Virtual snapshots — Setup automatic snapshot service for VULS and VUSM.  VULS has 5 snapshots created on Sunday evenings and VUSM has one snapshot created Sunday mornings.  Created a one time snapshot of colo server ‘Flanders’ for Owen prior to them upgrading software on the server.  After the upgrade and Owen was satisfied the upgrade worked properly, the snapshot was removed.
4. Virtual Desktop project — Spent many hours researching & meeting with different vendors solutions for a virtual desktop.  The project team met with representatives in person or over the phone of Dell, Microsoft, Sun, VMware and HP.  Also met with OGSM and reviewed their VMware VDI installation.  We are in the process of setting up a pilot of the Sun virtual desktop solution.
5. Virtual ESX server — Completed setup of ‘Mammoth’ ESX server (its-hcvm12.an).  Setup ESX cluster between its-hcvm11 & its-hcvm12.  Removed all virtual servers from its-hcvm01 and reloaded ESX software using its-hcvm03-ts host name.  This server was placed in the development ESX environment.
6. Virtual Servers — Created 9 virtual servers in support of the following projects: UC2K7, Sharepoint, & Virtual Desktop.
7. AIMWorX & VPD — The AIMWorX alarm client stopped working for VPD on 6/2/08.  Worked with Terry Cavendar to make firewall changes to correct this problem.  Terry found encryption errors between the ITS and VPD firewalls that needed correcting.
8. DOAWeb — Attempted to convert the DOAWeb physical server to a virtual server.  Multiple attempts failed from the 194 network and the App Hosting Admin network.  Currently researching the error that caused the failure.
9. Operator Services — Every July the Medical Center has hundreds of new residents & clinical fellows that have to updated/added to AIMWorX.  This year they requested an auto load into AIMWorX.  I created a Perl script to read the file and populate AIMWorX accordingly.  This script will be run in the production database the morning of July 1.
10. AWAPI update — MIS moved the files used to update AIMWorX to their new secure ftp server.  The ITS firewall was changed to all the AIMWorX server access to this server without the use of Secure Remote.  Also, the automatic Perl script was changed to login to the new server and download the new files.
11. New AIMWorX Server VLAN — Move AIMWorX3 server to the new VLAN for testing prior to the production server move.  Had problems with WINS not being updated with the new IP address but was resolved once the firewall rules were changed to allow the WINS ports outbound traffic.  However, outside the VU IP range access does not work.
12. Windows Server 2003 sp2 upgrade to Magic-DB2 server.