Current activities

From Syscore

Contents 1 Development 2 Operations 2.1 Oracle upgrade 2.2 HA Database 2.3 Server Consolodation 2.4 Turn Off The SGIs 2.5 Turn Off Linux

Development

• Align password policies with Federal e-authentication guidelines

• Enhanced security for web services

• Enterprise wide privilege management with Signet and Grouper

• MyUMBC 3.0... or is it 4.0... meh.... myCollier.umbc.edu?  ;)

• New Mail System based on CMU's Cyrus.

Operations

Oracle upgrade

Move GL Oracle Instance to Oracle10 running on grimm.umbc.edu

HA Database

Oracle RAC & MySQL clustering for core-managed DB instances

Server Consolodation

Move smaller services to newer, beefer machines in Solaris Zones.

Turn Off The SGIs

IRIX must go. But did you know, we now manage MORE production IRIX servers than Linux servers!?

Turn Off Linux

Like that would happen. But it's a nice idea.