Network Managers Meeting Minutes

April 4, 2002

 

Minutes recorded by Joe Dance – send corrections or comments to dancejoe@moore.sc.edu

 

 

Vicky Mathis opened the meeting

 

Barbara Koski: Bulk Purchase of Ghost

• Asked if anyone else was interested in the bulk order of Ghost
• Agreed to postpone action for one week
• Current Price $8.04, with approx 848 seats ordered
• At a quantity of 2000, price drops to $7.04

 

 

Elizabeth Mathis: Email Satisfaction Survey

• Planning an Email Satisfaction Survey
• Provided a tentative list of topics
• Requested feedback and additional topics
• Users will be asked which email package they use
• Focus is on the email client
• One comment was that users should also be asked which email server they use
• Survey will be anonymous
• Not sure about the intended use of the survey results

 

 

Dwaine Wagner: Groupwise Statistics and Current Status

§         Since 1999, users have grown to 5625

§         Disk capacity has grown from 20 GB to 88 GB and is expected to reach 180 GB by 2003

§         USC has a site license - no cost to departments

§         No hardware costs to departments hosted at CSD

§         2.8 Million internal messages per month

§         1.3 Million external messages per month

§         0.04% are infected with a virus (3468/mo)

§         0.02% downtime, Sep 2001 - Feb 2002

§         Downtime due to virus attack: 0

§         Data loss in last year: 0

§         Client supports multiple accts

§         Client supports POP, IMSP

§         Client supports multiple signatures

§         Caching mode

§         Secure Internal mail

§         Improved usability

§         Supports LDAP address book

§         Newsgroups support

§         Cluster aware

§         Improved web access

§                     Load balanced and clustered

§                     Proxy access

§                     Rule management

§         Supports multiple clients

§         Web based monitoring

§         Capability to limit mailbox sizes

§         Client reported to provide good performance over a connection as slow as 28.8 dial ups

§         Groupwise is independent of NDS

 

 

Ken Sallenger: Security Announcements

§         Recent rash of systems being compromised all across campus, mainly desktops and lab systems

§         Network managers should:

§         Check for user accounts with no passwords

§         Check for user administrator with no passwords

§         Registrar has warned that student data is not to be kept on computers in departments, but only in the appropriate, official database

§         Some recent attacks have been of the fragmented packet type

§         Network scans have also been detected

§         IP redirects have been stopped by upgrading software on all routers

§         Distributed firewalls are being considered for possible future use

§         There was a general discussion of Kazaa/Morpheus, an ongoing issue because it consumes extreme amounts of bandwidth whenever it breaks out

 

Dan Gallagher: SONET Ring

 

§         USC has been using a donated OC3 to connect to SCNet for the last two years

§         That donation is about to expire

§         Computer Services began considering options about two months ago

§         An OC12 Backbone SONET Ring is being planned to connect Computer Services at 514 S Main St., the Hampton St. building and the Central Office at 1701 Senate St., providing full redundancy, full SLA's, economy and scalability

§         USC would be first state agency to use such service

 

Joe Dance: The WAN Videoconference Group

• Presented draft report
• Final report will be placed online for those interested

 

 

Vicky Mathis closed the meeting.