NWC Day 0
09 Jul 2006 08:44 PM Filed in:
NWC
I am calling this day zero. It is the
first day after the move but before everyone is slated to return to
their spaces at the NWC. (I should say report to their spaces since
they have never really been at the NWC before tomorrow.) I plan on
being at the NWC around 7:30-45 in order to be available to help
folks and to start the process of getting everyone setup and
connected. We have set up those machines that we have helped take
apart. We will be available to assist those that have taken apart
and are putting together their own machines. Many are moving to
behind the firewall while others will still be on the SEC network.
By the middle of the fall term, we should be nearly 100% behind the
or just in front of the NWC firewall.
Today was a relatively quiet day. Brian, Sam and I met with the NOC folks while Kevin G. was setting up his and his fellow grad student machines. His group has a work deadline and so their office as well as that of their advisor are at the top of the list on getting up and running. The meeting with the NOC personnel was to help set priorities and pinpoint trouble areas. At this point, they know the top needs of SoM and hopefully can respond fairly quickly. Right now, the SoM front office is set to go. All connections and computers are ready for their return. The director's phone is still not ready, but is one of top of the phone list "to-dos".
I called the A&GS and CAPS sysadmins to give them an update. They should have a good feel for how the weekend move went. There are a few issues regarding the shared file space that SoM uses that Courtney will take the lead. However, he will also be busy since he is helping program all the door locks and I am am sure there will be problems in that arena. CAPS graduate students for the most part are ready to go. OCS grads have moved their own machines and so I cannot comment on how well they will be until they are in their space. Most of their space has some connectivity. Which brings me t one of the more surprising problems that I have encountered: Not enough ports in a room. Strange that one can look at the room assignments, see that 5 people are to occupy the space and yet only have one DAP and 3 cables ready. Not sure why that was not caught earlier. I know that I have been pretty consistent with the number of connections per room to various people when asked. Now this problem has occurred primarily in the smaller rooms that with 4 or 5 people are tight on space. The larger rooms have more of an issue that a computer is too far from the DAP and the cable is a bit tight (easy fix, longer cable but the longest that we have been given is 25 feet).
At the end of today, I feel mostly ready for the next couple of days. I have a feeling that I may wish for the weekend again, when it was just busy, but I did not need to deal with all the faculty, graduates students and staff.
Oh and I almost forgot, the Oklahoma Weather Lab (OWL) HOOT Project machine is back up and running. The old SEC network was extended to their area for now in order that we can keep the site up and running. Well, check it out: OWL HOOT Project
mjl
Today was a relatively quiet day. Brian, Sam and I met with the NOC folks while Kevin G. was setting up his and his fellow grad student machines. His group has a work deadline and so their office as well as that of their advisor are at the top of the list on getting up and running. The meeting with the NOC personnel was to help set priorities and pinpoint trouble areas. At this point, they know the top needs of SoM and hopefully can respond fairly quickly. Right now, the SoM front office is set to go. All connections and computers are ready for their return. The director's phone is still not ready, but is one of top of the phone list "to-dos".
I called the A&GS and CAPS sysadmins to give them an update. They should have a good feel for how the weekend move went. There are a few issues regarding the shared file space that SoM uses that Courtney will take the lead. However, he will also be busy since he is helping program all the door locks and I am am sure there will be problems in that arena. CAPS graduate students for the most part are ready to go. OCS grads have moved their own machines and so I cannot comment on how well they will be until they are in their space. Most of their space has some connectivity. Which brings me t one of the more surprising problems that I have encountered: Not enough ports in a room. Strange that one can look at the room assignments, see that 5 people are to occupy the space and yet only have one DAP and 3 cables ready. Not sure why that was not caught earlier. I know that I have been pretty consistent with the number of connections per room to various people when asked. Now this problem has occurred primarily in the smaller rooms that with 4 or 5 people are tight on space. The larger rooms have more of an issue that a computer is too far from the DAP and the cable is a bit tight (easy fix, longer cable but the longest that we have been given is 25 feet).
At the end of today, I feel mostly ready for the next couple of days. I have a feeling that I may wish for the weekend again, when it was just busy, but I did not need to deal with all the faculty, graduates students and staff.
Oh and I almost forgot, the Oklahoma Weather Lab (OWL) HOOT Project machine is back up and running. The old SEC network was extended to their area for now in order that we can keep the site up and running. Well, check it out: OWL HOOT Project
mjl