Peter Woods

New Position: I have recently been promoted to Senior System Administrator. As part of the transition, I am moving out of my operation role, and I am transferring those duties to the rest of the Unix team. I’m now supporting each of the AppHosting teams in my new role. I’m already diving into a couple of issues on the Windows platform, which is something I’ve not been heavily involved with for a while.  As such, I’ll be trying to absorb as much information as possible in the near future.

Exchange 2007 Support: I have been tasked with several items supporting the Exchange 2007 environment.

Sun Identity Management [SIDM]: The new SIDM LDAP services are live, available, and in-use by the general Vanderbilt community. The team is in the process ensuring that all clients are properly migrated to the new service.  Only a few clients are still connecting to the Solaris-based service, and we are working with the owners to move them over.

Enterprise Linux Reference Platform [ELRP]: The team has produced a server build with minimal packages to use as the base system.  We are in the process of determining the proper configuration for the installed packaging.

[WIN] Sun Identity Management: The new Epassword LDAP service went into production this morning. This new service offers LDAP service on new geographically-diverse Linux systems which are load balances by our F5 LTMs. The new LDAP service is more resilient in the event of a server outage. It also allows ITS to decommission some aging Sun hardware.

[WIN] F5 Disaster Recovery Test: Prior to the cut over to the new LDAP service, we performed a full disaster recovery test to simulate loss of service in the Hill Center.  Our tests were successful, and we did learn a few new things about the behavior of the LTMs. The successful disaster recover test validates the architectural planning the went into the services deployed behind the LTMs.