WINS Monthly Meeting

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http://events.internet2.edu/index.cfm10/05/2006

Agenda• Introductions• Summer Activities• Nortel Upgrades• Fortinet Upgrade• Bluecoat Upgrade• Cisco Upgrades• Technology Committee Update• Question & Answers

Introductions• Name• Title• Location

• John Jefferson left William Penn• Sunni Jennings left Chester Upland moved to William Penn• No one at Chester Upland• Don Ash retired from Marple• Mary Ann Davidson retired from Haverford• Jane Greenspun moved into Mary Ann’s position• Rob Anderson left Marple moved to Haverford• Rich Oliver started at Interboro• Tom Carnwath no longer at Widener ( CIO search started )

Summer Activities• Go around room and have each district talk

about summer projects that kept them busy!!! A time to share success, failures, and surprises.

• In hindsight, I should have _____ .

Nortel Upgrades• Nortel 8600 Software Upgrade to 4.0.5

• Started on July 10th, ended Aug 3rd

• No problems!

• Thank you for your cooperation!

$0.00

Fortinet Upgrade• Upgraded Software on 3600 from 2.80 to 3.0 on July 5th

• Added second 3600 for redundancy

• Problems :– Existing 3600 would not go into HA mode ( turned off DHCP )– Issues accessing Mail Web interface with Active – Active mode– OSPF Multicast required policy in Transparent mode– Outbound AV Scan caused Internet performance hit

All issues resolved with configuration changes$35,000

Bluecoat Upgrade

• Added new Bluecoat Cache Server Model 8000-2

• Tested Web Load Balancing in Mid-August

• Removed Web Load Balancing when content filtering issues were discovered

• Manually configured Load Balancing by creating a Primary and Secondary for WINS, Widener Academic, Tech Park, and Widener Dorms $55,000

Cisco Upgrades• On Aug 25th while investigating sluggish Internet performance on the

SNIP ISP, Cisco support noted that CEF ( Cisco Express Forwarding ) was not running. Due to the over 300,000 BGP routes, the 256 MB of RAM on the Cisco router was saturated and CEF was not possible. Cisco could only recommend a hardware upgrade.

• The YIPES router had been upgraded in March to allow a GIG interface to be added. We called CNI to get an upgrade for the SNIP and Internet2 routers to the same processor and RAM as the YIPES router.

• On Aug 31st the SNIP and Internet2 routers were upgraded. Kevin Lynch of CNI performed the upgrades. ( Excellent Job! )

• Sluggishness fixed!! CEF now working well! Internet Smoking!! $35,000

Technology Committee Update

• Dr. Moleski to discuss status of “ownership” investigation and update on committees.

Priceless

Questions & Answers

• Next Meeting Nov 3rd