June MAR 2009
June 29th, 2009
Google search appliances arrived and were setup. Public Affairs is working with the appliances now to ensure appropriate spider settings and also customize the user interface. Failover testing and a more open community test will be done in early July. Production date is scheduled for the second week of July.
AmCom came on-site to perform the replacement OSIS server installations. The vendor decided that they would prefer a clean install versus upgrading he current systems. Using their software specifications, 4 new servers were built and turned over to the vendor. Upgrades went smoothly once a few minor software dependency problems were resolved. The vendor continues to work on client-side application upgrades. Production is planned for the middle of July.
The web pages for supporting IP/DNS requests for subnets which have been migrated to the DiamondIP appliances have been re-written and are ready again available for use. The perl API supplied by the vendor stopped functioning after a recent update. The vendor was disinclined to support the perl module which they supplied because it is not part of their standard support package, so a new solution was found using their CLI API which is supported. The pages which utilized the perl API have now been rewritten in PHP and should be supported by future updates.
LISTSERV began to exhibit performance problems. Worked with the email team and the vendor to troubleshoot the issue. Neither the vendor nor ourselves were unable to identify a definite root cause of the performance problems. The vendor suggested that we try using their High Performance Option (HPO). After obtaining a trial key and testing to evaluate the performance differences it was decided to place the key on our production host. At the same time a new PHP login page was activated to replace the previous perl CGI script, which will give more feedback to users.
Work and testing continues on the SMTP replacements. So far we have had successful tests of inbound, outbound, and vacation routing and delivery. We hope to be ready for a production SMTP replacement very soon.
Still no tasks for me from the GMail for Life project. IDEV are continuing to work on their solution.
PBX Pager project will have some tasks for me soon as the iDEV group draw closer to being ready for production. Testing on JTEST1 continues and is going well.
The Nagios replacement has been put on hold due to higher priority projects. There are still some issues with getting the logging agent to correctly connect and log to mySQL.
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