AFS: What is everyone doing?

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AFS What is everyone doing?

• LISA GIACCHETTI
• Operating Systems Support

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Current Production Status

• Servers
• Platform
• AFS distribution and version
• Clients
• Platforms
• AFS distribution

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What are you testing?

• Servers
• Platforms
• Linux?
• AFS distributions and versions
• Clients
• Platforms
• OpenAfs on Solaris, Irix,etc
• AFS distributions and versions

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Support

• Local support structure
• Number of people compared to size of cell
• Does you site actively participate in OpenAfs
• If so how many FTEs does this take
• Does your site provide local management tools
• IBM Transarc support
• Are sites still using it?
• Extended support?
• Third party vendor support?

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COMPUTING NEWS FARMS

• Farms team building various utilities to manage
  large numbers of worker nodes
• NOTE More detail in talk presented 04/04/00
• Several other organizations looking into Linux
  Farms
• QCD 1000 nodes
• BTeV 5000 nodes
• CMS analysis/build linux cluster and compute
  farms
• Need to investigate racked integrated 2U systems

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COMPUTING NEWSAFS

• Stability is the key
• AFS services continues to be very stable
• 4Q99 upgrades
• Hardware upgrades to several servers
• AFS 3.5
• Solaris 2.6
• Hardware Raid deployed
• Distribution of AFS for desktops increasing
• Utilizing central login and products service
• Linux client available in standard release of
  FRHL 6.1

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COMPUTING NEWSE-MAIL

• Migrating off FNAL e-mail gateway
• Migrating to Sun systems (off VMS) running PMDF
• Systems just arrived
• E-mail list service migrating to NT using
  LISTSERV software
• Many options to this software make it good/bad
• A few lists have been migrated already and rest
  to be done by end of April
• 3 IMAP servers deployed and stable
• Deploying sendmail UPS product to provide
  continuity across the UNIX OSs we support

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SECURITYStatus Strong Authentication

• Pilot project close to successful conclusion
• CDF now using SA in daily life
• Offsite users from LBNL and Oxford
• Cron authentication working and being
  incorporated into a somewhat user-friendly
  package
• Issued 16 Cryptocards (out of 125 users)
• Jan 14, 2000 export law changes mean overseas
  hosts can use UPD to install FERMI kerberos
  package

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COMPUTING NEWSMISCELLANEOUS

• Computing Division is investigating backup
  utilities
• Eval of freeware product Amanda underway
• Eval of Legato underway (especially interesting
  for Oracle)
• What are others doing?
• Computing Division is investigating LabView for
  Linux. (Is anyone else doing this?)