[comm] [Alma-comms] Minutes of meeting, task list

[Patrick P Murphy]

FYI... goings-on of the ALMA COMMs group.  Salient minutes extracted
with [my comments to NRAO comm group thus]:

News for the COMMS team

   * Nicolas Ovando (did I get name right? - PPM) hired as Network
     Engineer (Santiago).  [We should invite/add him to our comm list
     and possibly meetings]

   * IP Traffic prioritization when phones used at antennas: test to be
     done at AIV/OSF [concern is that phone usage will interfere with
     ALMA Software IP traffic; can we tweak the Cisco (managed) routers
     to lower the normally high QoS for VoIP?  Do we need to?]

   * Investigate cable downspouts height in AOS Computer Room...
     [concern is that ceiling too low for originally specified racks,
      2.4 meters; also concern about logistics of installation and
      maintenance on gear that high in a rack].
      * High racks originally specified to allow for enhanced airflow,
        cooling; is this a concern, given that rack-mounted units are
        typically solid on the top and bottom, with airflow going from
        front to back? 
      * Rule of thumb: half the air density, half the gear in a rack.
     [we're going to buy about 12 equipto racks imminently, for AOS]

   * Pat to think about opening up the COMMS Wiki, and only protecting
     individual topics/pages as needed [This will make it easier for
     more NRAO people to peek at what's going on in ALMA COMMS].

   * http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/bin/view/SE/ALMAIPAddressing

   * http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/bin/view/SE/DNSNamingConvention

 - Pat

> Greetings, all.   Please review my notes on the COMMs meeting of last
> Friday here:

>   http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/bin/view/COMMs/COMMsMeeting20070608

> and check for errors, omissions, etc.  If you find any, either edit the
> wiki page yourself (and notify me) or point out the necessary change to
> me.  

> The next COMMs meeting is tentatively set for Friday, July 6, at the
> same time as last Friday's meeting (8am Mountain, 10am Eastern and
> Chilean, 4pm Garching, 11pm Mitaka).

> Here is the task list for the next meeting, sorted by first name:

>    * Christian: Investigate cable downspouts height in AOS Computer Room
>    * Christian: Take over OSF Network Diagram
>    * Pat: invite Peter Ramirez and Paola (and/or Nicolas or Justin?) to
>           the COMMs list [Done, and Stefano is our ITS guy]
>    * Pat: Create AOS Computer/Network diagram (like OSF one), hand over
>           to ChristianSaldias. 
>    * Pat: ensure EDM Computer Standards document gets updated with 4GB
>           Server standard. 
>    * Pat: Make sure there is one HardwareStandards page
>    * Pat: Send ChristianSaldias the draft list of servers etc., for high
>           altitude testing at AOS. 
>    * Pat: Continue discussion of DNSNamingConvention (and move
>           discussion to SE, not COMMS) 
>    * Pat: Ensure HardwareStandards is prominent on the SE page
>    * (Placeholder) ALL: ALMAIPAddressing (after Chile Network Guru hired
>                         ~August 1)

>  - Pat

> -- 
>  Patrick P. Murphy, Ph.D.   Senior Software Engineer, ALMA Computing IPT
>  NRAO Computing Security Manager       Head, NRAO WebAdmin Working Group
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