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title: Brainstorming

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# Brainstorming
Date: 25/6 - 21

* Topology of Cyclone etc
* Topology of key persons
    * Idar -- GFI contact
    * Morten Christian Bernson -- storage (ITA)
    * Saerda -- Previous guru
    * Alex -- Ancient sage (?)
    * Oskar -- Current sysadmin
    * Marco -- Current sysadmin
    * Dhanya -- Software support
    * Hedda -- IT department systems engineer, account wizard

* Meeting on Fridays after the 9 o'clock reporting meeting
* To be migrated/decommissioned?:
  - `/vol/Cyclone{1,2,3,4}` (if tape backups fine; now the users backup doesn't always finish)
  - `/shared/home` is still on Lustre (original idea was for performance; maybe also money reasons?)

## Areas that deserve immediate care
* [Login practices](https://git.app.uib.no/sc/internal-documentation/-/issues/10)
* [Hardware monitoring](https://git.app.uib.no/sc/internal-documentation/-/issues/13)
    * We could decide on which to start with and do them as time permits
* Backup space consumed
    * Restoring backups risks overwriting files with empty files, i.e deleting them

## Long term low urgency issues
* [Documentation](https://git.app.uib.no/sc/internal-documentation/-/issues/16) is always a necessity and can be worked on slowly over time
* [LDAP to AD](https://git.app.uib.no/sc/internal-documentation/-/issues/8)
    * ~~Figure out if we can still access petri when LDAP has been phased out~~ This should not be an issue; LDAP will still be used for `petri`.
    * I'll ask Hedda to do the user authentication migration to AD on `bout` in week 33.
* Review policies

## Service plan going forward
* Oskar will dedicate Fridays until lunch for local hpc work
* Suggestion: Once per month we could dedicate more time to focus on some issue that has been neglected for too long

## Bullet points not yet categorized
* delete /shared/projects/gfi/met_backup
* /shared/projects/gfi/users does not always complete
* /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys is where to configure backups
* /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/adsm.include.exclude is where we can include or exclude file extesions and more