Mar MAR
[WIN] F5 Load Balancing: All of the F5 LTMs (2 test and 5 production) are online and available for use. Mark Dycus and I spent a couple of day in the test lab trying various configurations. We were able to duplicate the loop and broadcast/multicast storm issues that we were experiencing. We were able to create a configuration that met are needs but also did not degrade to an unstable state if a connection dropped. The Hill and Stevenson LTMs are scheduled for a minor configuration change.
Sun Identity Management: All of the ELDAP and CLDAP VMs are now online. I am working through verifying connectivity to each VM and service point. I have also been alerted to some latency issues with the LTM, and I am in the process to debugging this. I have reconfigured the secondary LTM in a slightly different configuration for comparison testing. The best working configuration will a synced over the the other peer.
ITS Website Redesign: This project is on track. All of the content is being reviewed for accuracy and relevance. Some minor presentation issues are also being addressed.
PHP5/MySQL5 Upgrade: All of the customers for this migration have been identified. The specifications for each servers are also being collected so that each service pair is appropriately sized.
Exchange 2007: I am working with the primary project resources to ensure that the new Exchange 2007 services are available via the LTMs. This configuration is slightly different from our preferred architecture. The new Exchange servers are not directly behind the LTM, and the connections are being proxied over to the servers. This implies some additional configuration to get the connection to go through. The only deteriment to this configuration is that the source client IP address is lost due to the source NATing that takes place.
Shibboleth Rebuild: I am working with the primary project resources to ensure that the new Shibboleth servers are available via the LTMs. I have recommended that the recently built test Shibboleth server be moved behind the test LTMs to ensure that testing procedures are valid.
Unix Team Cross Training: The Unix team has expanded our weekly one hour meeting from our typical status updates and info distribution. We are now attempting to work in cross training, technology demos, and team project support. During our last meeting, we covered the basic UltraSeek admin tasks, OSSEC capabilities and agent install, DiamondIP zone creation, and patch administration. This is an effort to eliminate operational bottlenecks that develop when the primary admin is the defacto expert for a particular technology.