February 2015 - Core-students - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

[CELS Sysadmins] Security Meeting
by Craig Stacey 28 Feb '15

28 Feb '15

Reminder that on Wednesday we're scheduled to have the group security meeting. This meeting should go ahead whether I'm available or not. Take some time now to look over your items in scavenger: https://webapps.inside.anl.gov/scavenger/index.php Knock out what you can now. At the meeting on Wednesday, plow through the remaining items and let's get the count of open items as low as we can. Thanks!

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Service Now Weekly and Monthly Report 2/27/2015
by Henderson, Martino S. 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

The monthly reports are for all of February but we were only on Service Now for half of the month. - Martino Henderson Help Desk / System Support Office: +1(630) 252-1692 Argonne National Laboratory Computer, Environment, & Life Sciences 9700 South Cass Avenue Building 240 - 2.E.18 Argonne, Illinois 60439 United States [ANL_Logo]

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Looking for something to read 3 1/2 inch Floppys
by Stanton-Piersanti, Tina Joy 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

William Parker of LCF is looking for something to read 3 1/2 floppys on. Does anyone have anything he can borrow? Tina

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[CELS Sysadmins] Network Maintenance tomorrow at 0600hrs
by Schmitz, Corby B. 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

All: With your kind permission, I would like to shut down the iBGP infrastructure between MCS/SDN equipment and the border routers. This will not interrupt traffic, only create a fairly static path to the border (it will automatically flip between border routers in the event of an outage). In the past, the MCS/SDN gear has been selective about optimizing the path to the outside world, as we move to a full internet routing table of 500K+ routes, these devices will know less and less about the best path. With advances in link speed and hardware, there would be a 200-300microsecond latency hit for traffic using one of our commercial provider links instead of our ESNet primary internet path. This is a small price to pay for simplicity. In addition, it will take a memory load off of both boxes. We can still stand up optimizations for certain paths on a case-by-case basis, but there is no clear reason to keep the current implementation. I would like to do this work at 6am tomorrow morning. I will be on-site to test and validate proper operation. Thoughts/concerns? -- corby

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[CELS Sysadmins] Service Now documentation
by Stacey, Craig J. 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

I started the documentation on Service Now for CELS here: https://collab.mcs.anl.gov/display/CELS/Working+in+Service+Now Please feel free to edit/add/improve, etc. -- Craig

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[CELS Sysadmins] New Groups in Service Now
by Stacey, Craig J. 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

It's becoming clear we'll need some more granularity in Service Now in terms of groups. In RT we could maintain separate queues, but the right model for Service Now is making groups instead. We can keep the main "CELS" group, but I feel like we want some smaller groups for more targeted ticket ownership and groups working together. This can help fine tune notifications from SNOW (ugh, I hate that abbreviation) to make them more meaningful. One obvious set of groups are the ones that already exist in the new org structure: Cloud team (Dan, Ryan, Chris) HPC team (Ti, JohnV, JohnR, JohnB) IT Team (Craig, Max, Linda, Tina, Martino) I can also think of Accounts team (Tina, Ti, JohnR) Thoughts on others? Suggestions on changes in the above? I've made a confluence page here: https://collab.mcs.anl.gov/display/CELS/Service+Now+Groups Mark up, use comments, whatever. After we've reached some consensus I'll put in requests to create the groups. -- Craig

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[CELS Sysadmins] where's Linda 2/25
by Linda Winkler 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

WFH this afternoon lw

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[CELS Sysadmins] Linda as an IHW IT admin
by Leggett, Torrance I. 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

Just a heads up that I made Linda an IT admin of the ANL:MCS:Systems org in IHW since it's useful for her to be able to modify records in the child orgs from time to time.

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mobile server cabinet in the store room
by Henderson, Martino S. 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

A server rack/cabinet was given to us by Thomas Uram for excess. It is currently in the 3rd floor storage room It is about 4.5 feet tall on its wheels. If anyone needs it please claim it; otherwise, it will be going out with the rest of the excess equipment. - Martino Henderson Help Desk / System Support Office: +1(630) 252-1692 Argonne National Laboratory Computer, Environment, & Life Sciences 9700 South Cass Avenue Building 240 - 2.E.18 Argonne, Illinois 60439 United States

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[CELS Sysadmins] FW: Per our conversation - Talena Hadoop Data Protection Solution to forward
by Stacey, Craig J. 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Let me know if you're interested in a demo on this, and feel free to share with others you think may be. -- Craig ________________________________ From: noreply(a)salesforce.com [noreply(a)salesforce.com] on behalf of Andoni Panici [info(a)talena-inc.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:20 PM To: Stacey, Craig J. Subject: Per our conversation - Talena Hadoop Data Protection Solution to forward Hello Craig, Nice connecting with you today and thanks for taking the time to share more details about your Hadoop environment! As we discussed, I am forwarding additional information regarding Talena that you and your team will find useful. Talena has developed a unique data lifecycle management solution for Hadoop and we are reaching out to Hadoop users to get feedback on the product as we continue to add functionality to serve the needs of Fortune 500 clients. Talena offers a fully automated and policy-driven solution to address common challenges faced by Hadoop users. These include: 1. Disaster Recovery 2. Copying data for test, development & research including: a. Masking PII (Confidential Data) b. Data Sampling 3. Backing-up Critical Data 4. Archiving Old Data I'd like to set up a demo with you and potentially your team to discuss how our solution can be used to address your Big Data challenges and get your feedback. Please let me know the best time to reach you to discuss specifics. If you are not involved in working with Hadoop, perhaps you'd be so kind as to offer an introduction to someone who could benefit or give us feedback? Thanks! Andoni Panici Account Executive, Talena Inc. 415.455.9956<tel:415.455.9956> office 415.378.2247<tel:415.378.2247> cell PS: Please fill out this survey and receive $10 toward a Starbucks purchase! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C92WZT9 [http://na23.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?oid=00DG0000000lK0Y&…]

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