The University’s VPN concentrator is now configured to allow connections from PPTP, L2TP, or L2TP/IPSec clients. Because of this reconfiguration, the Microsoft VPN client can now be used to connect to the University’s VPN. Encryption will be required when using these protocols.
Because of IPSec’s superior encryption methods, the use of an IPSec VPN client is still the recommended way to connect.
BJP Changes to Production
3 changes have been moved to production today:
1-bug fix to kill job routine
2-bug fix to calling of runrep commands
3-support for duplex printing
BJP Modification
A bug was fixed in BJP to allow users to kill jobs.
BJP Modification
BJP Ridge has been modified to enable the killing of a process whilst still parsing PCL.
7/5/2007 Bug found in redirector application
The redirector web application at http://webmail.ups.edu/redirector was found to fail with a user’s full name containing an apostrophe. Refactoring is underway.
Things performed during PM, 06/13/2007
Rebuilt web_session_variable table.
Implemented Crm11ip listener security.
Cleared logs from Whidbey server.
Recent Ingeniux issues and actions
Thursday, May 10
I Installed version 5.250 on webserver2. Barbara and I subsequently tested the current Macintosh client against this version and found that a significant number of our issues were resolved.
The design-time server was serving the admin client to all users. Recycling the app pools in IIS restored the serving of the author client.
Thursday, May 17
I performed the stop IIS – delete dependency graphs – start IIS – full site publish sequence. The entiresitepub folder contains 8218 objects.
Friday May 18
The CMS was sluggish in responding to page check out and in. There was an error on the server, which I restarted.
Week of May 21
System continues to be unresponsive at times. Simply restarting IIS seems to resolve the issue.
May 24
Some pages were returning a 500 error on the live site. Restoring from the backup on webserver2 was ineffective as the same errors were replicated there. The error-clearing sequence mentioned above resolved the issue, although it took somewhat more than an hour to fully resolve.
$dbprocedure
The dbprocedure DCL command has been altered to continue processing the standard output after an error is encountered.
BJP Bug Fix
Today I pushed out a small bug fix to the $SQLLOAD DCL command. The bug caused the name of the datafile to not be passed correctly to Oracle’s SQLLDR executable.
Wireless Access coverage in Howarth Hall
Wireless coverage has been expanded to cover all of Howarth Hall.
04/18/07 – Wireless deployed througout McIntyre Hall
We have now deployed wireless coverage throughout the entire building at McIntyre Hall. We believe we have good coverage to all rooms and auditoriums within the building.
Printing Changes
Pushed BJP printing changes to production today at 11am
Full publish on CMS
At 8:41 this morning, in response to some errors in the igxcsapi log, I deleted the dependency graphs and performed a full publish.
Banner Modifications
This week 2 modification were to scripts running Banner. These modifications were necessary to hide the password passed to gurjobs, fgractg, and forappl when listing the process list from the OS command prompt.
Executed full publish on CMS
I executed a full publish after deleting the dependency graphs. News items on the main page had not been publishing correctly. This generally will be a weekly task.