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RAL PPD Site Report

RAL PPD Site Report. RAL Particle Physics Department Overview. About 90 staff (plus ~25 visitors) Desktops mainly Windows LINUX servers Grid Tier2 (Part of SouthGrid). Staff: Departmental Unix plus Tier 2 etc. 1.5 Departmental Windows etc: 2 (currently plus 1 ‘Year in Industry’ student).

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RAL PPD Site Report

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  1. RAL PPD Site Report

  2. RAL Particle Physics DepartmentOverview • About 90 staff (plus ~25 visitors) • Desktops mainly Windows • LINUX servers • Grid Tier2 (Part of SouthGrid). • Staff: • Departmental Unix plus Tier 2 etc. 1.5 • Departmental Windows etc: 2 (currently plus 1 ‘Year in Industry’ student)

  3. Windows Systems • Desktops (total of ~120 systems) running Windows XP. Systems cloned from a master system. • NT4 domain controllers. CLRC domain is updated to Windows 2003, PPD will do the same. • Windows 2000 member servers (including web servers running IIS – note use of central support for these.) • Xerox Docushare repository • Citrix terminal server (Canvas; Illustrator, Framemaker, AutoCAD Lt…) • Pool of 7 laptops for loan. (Windows 2000, migrating to XP). • UpdateExpert for Desktop updates; SUS for laptop updates; • Sophos anti-virus. • Backup to tape autoloader (ADIC Scalar24 with SDLT).

  4. UNIX services • Currently RedHat 7.3 • File servers and Web server (also CVS server) • Needs hardware and software upgrades… • Possibly move to rack mounted systems • Scientific Linux ? • LINUX on desktop • Currently not encouraged, self-managed. • RAL looking at central rpm repository used with yum • Possibility of standard PPD configuration, with yum for updates, and yumit monitoring. • Looking to ‘discourage a bit less’

  5. Tier2 • Currently offering to LCG: • 21 dual-CPUs (mix of 1.4GHz PIII and 2.4GHz Xeon, (along with 8 infrastructure nodes) • 500GB disk • Just (about) delivered: • 24 dual 2.8 Xeon • 4TB disk • Plan future expansion in racks • Looking at space / power / cooling in computer room.

  6. Networking and VMS • Gigabit fibre to router – possibly adding second gigabit link for Grid. • Gigabit switch central to networking. 10/100 to ports in offices • Gigabit over copper in server room. • Possibility of separate link from site router for GRID. • VMS expected to be turned off soon now……. • Financial information for budget holders being provided in another way.

  7. Security • May 2004: Possibly a CVS exploit. System re-installed anyway. • Nov 2003: Did have a scare on Windows server when user directories vanished. Believe it was a false alarm, and really caused by a program running awry. • Scanning: • Lab scanning from ‘outside’ firewall • Microsoft HFNetChk – Windows patches • Nessus learning to identify false positives. • Just starting to look at running some spyware detection.

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