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Open Lab Futures
Debbie Carraway / John Klein
Information Technology
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Some Brief Announcements
• David Ladrie / Susan Klein (ITD Computing Services)
• More information will be available at the next open meeting, where we respond to what we hear from you today.
• Other issues of General Interest? (ITD people, be quiet, you had your chance to be on the agenda)
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That was then…
• Open meetings in March, 2000 to discuss what ITD should do to improve its “Open Lab” offerings
• Follow-up meeting in April laid out plans which we’ve subsequently followed
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Major issues from those meetings
• Easier/Faster Application Deployment & Maintenance
• Client Diversity• Education• Auditing• Universally Accessible File System• Workstation Maintenance (ties with 1st
bullet)
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How we responded
See http://www.ncsu.edu/mtip/notes/April-5-2000/ppt/
Several issues not addressed in that meeting:– Client Diversity– Education– Auditing– Universally Accessible File System
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Client* Diversity
• Windows 95/98 now supported • Windows 2000 lab deployment “in progress” • Complete secure LDAP access to NDS from all
platforms (Solaris/Mac/Linux/more)• ConsoleOne for Solaris almost ready• Mac AFP/IP in beta test here at NC State
* Client software, not client “people”
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Education
• Training classes in CALS lab last March (Zen 2)
• Training classes in AFTC last November (workstation registration/preparation)
• Targeted for content, not polish• Framework on which
documentation web pages are built
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Auditing
• We purchased (a site license) for “AuditLogin” software which tracks usage server-side.
• Zen 2 has automatic workstation inventory, which we are using in the ITD Unity labs.
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All your Base, are belong to Us!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,100525,00.html
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Universally Accessible File System
• Zip 250 drives on new ITD purchased lab machines.
• “Profile” quota now at 10 MB
• Several projects still under consideration.
• Did we mention we have Zip disks now?
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Issues Raised over E-mail
1. Reliability
2. Collaboration for “Faculty/Staff” application development
3. …
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Reliability
• Current, real time status of all ITD fileservers on the web for your review:
http://www.ncsu.edu/mtip/zen/labs/itdservers.htm• All new print servers• All new profile servers (NSS)• All replica servers now equipped with 1 GB of
RAM
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Collaboration
Good idea! We’ll present some options next meeting!
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So, what now?
• What are the major consumers of your time and energy in providing “open” labs for students?
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So what? (now)
• What processes does ITD need to put into place to smooth routine operations?
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So, WHAT? Now!
• What features do you want developed in your labs over the next year?
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So… what now?
• What topics would you like covered in short courses?
• Are there topics that should be taught regularly/on what schedule?
• What are your top priorities for web documentation?
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Open Lab Futures
Debbie Carraway / John Klein
Information Technology
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Don’t be surprised in May
• ITD* will drop support and decommission critical support servers for the NCSU GINA on May 18, 2001
• After that date, your NCSU GINA machines will not function if you take no action.
• Announcement was made 9 months in advance. Reminders go out monthly.
* ITD is not NCSU
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“Name that group” competition!
• We’ve reorg’d so much, we have no name!
• Currently answer to “Microsys”, “MTIP”, and (our current favorite) “NuTS”
• All submissions must not violate the Unity guidelines prohibiting profanity.