June 4 - 10

June 4 - 10

Issues

JIRA
  • waiting to hear back from Athena Reynolds regarding offer for leading an information/question-answer session for budget and payroll IT teams the week of July 5

Confluence
  • authenticated access for the service was unavailable from 9:08 a.m. to 2:38 p.m.

    • caused by upgrade to the uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED)

    • IAM directory service team placed an entry in the LDAP access control list (ACL) for the Wikis service which solved the issue

Accomplished tasks

UTForge
JIRA
  • meeting w/Jordan discussing service including tasks to be accomplished, most common tasks requested by users, infrastructure

  • made sure I could still log onto both instances, did some reconnaissance on the VMs

Maps
  • meeting w/Jordan discussing:

    • filtering library in Python (~60% done)

    • Django project (~10% done)

    • HTML interface (not started)

  • gaining permissions

  • setting up machine with:

    • Inkscape SVG editor

    • Python 2.6

    • additional required Python libraries

  • exploring repository, reading Jordan's notes, experimenting with Inkscape and Python filtering library

Confluence
  • generated new key, certificate signing request for production instance

    • CSR sent to its-certs

    • current cert expires on 07/09/2010

  • assisted IAM directory service team with testing LDAP ACL change on wikis development server

  • troubleshooting additional user-assumed authentication issues

    • checked through the logs, one individual had an LDAP response timeout the other used an incorrect password – there do not seem to be any lingering issues with LDAP authentication (or LDAP timed out responses for that matter)