Kevin McDonalds Blog

One of the ITS System Administrators has put together a very nice environmental diagram of the ITS Storage environment. Here it is saved as a JPG file.

Last week, we presented our findings to Matt Hall on the responses for SMTP delays this summer. You can read the report here. SMTP Response Delays Fall/Winter 2006-2007 So far, we have executed the following recommendations:

• Applied Proofpoint Performance Related Patches (#343, #406)
• Replaced Mailgate03 with P800 hardware (with 4G RAM) on Friday, January 19th, 2007
• Planned install of memory for mailgates on Wednesday, Jan 31st, 2007
• Scheduled the enforcement of SPF (client side) change for Feb 7th, 2007.
• Started recommended operational changes.

Additional Notes:

Jan 23, 2007:     It is recommended that we apply a configuration setting for the conversion daemon to stop core dumps.

Jan 24, 2007:    The memory expansions for all mailgates arrived today.  Gary Howard is in possession.  

Jan 25, 2007:    Ryan and Nifin from Proofpoint met with the Vanderbilt team onsite today.