August 13 - 19
Accomplished tasks
University Wiki Service
- upgraded test environment to Confluence 3.3.1
- tested for issues, seems to be cool de-la
- they have addressed the cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the 3.3.x line
- fortunately for us, Atlassian accelerated their minor revision timeline due to a security vulnerability that was introduced in 3.3.0
- tested for issues, seems to be cool de-la
- major issues (aside from aforementioned XSRF) from ISO vulnerability assessment:
- https://issues.its.utexas.edu/jira/browse/CONF-107
- https://issues.its.utexas.edu/jira/browse/CONF-108
- discussion with Tom regarding these issues
- all security related patches released by the vendors are backported to the versions we currently run – Apache 2.2.3 and OpenSSH 4.3 – and should address the issues outlined in the referenced issues
- communications with ISO regarding all of the above
- enabled trusted connection between JIRA and Confluence
- the system clocks are off by between 30 and 90 seconds and, as a result, the connection does not get properly established
- user support, correspondence
UTForge
- created new RPM specification file for Subversion (version 1.6.12)
- updated Satellite server with new RPMs
- tested out new packages ahead of next Tuesday's maintenance window
- meeting with Oliver regarding future direction of UTForge
- user support, correspondence
JIRA
- assisted SIS with retrieving Tomcat logs from their (issues.reg.utexas.edu --> jira02.austin.utexas.edu) instance
- assisted ECS with loading their new license key
- other user support, correspondence
Lansa
- troubleshooting for capps.its virtual server
- runaway OpenSSL process was using 99.9% of the CPU – process was promptly killed
UT Mobile
- meeting with Mic regarding PHP-WURFL inefficiencies
- we will have a test run next Wednesday, August 25 to determine whether we need to use a caching library and if it should be in the x86 environment
ECO experiments
- meeting with Jason and Dr. Stahl regarding a contract opportunity with the Economics department supporting Dr. Stahl's research
Miscellaneous
- made sure that all of the hosting team's services were running following the network maintenance window on Sunday, August 15
Issues
UWS
- need to schedule maintenance to upgrade production environment to 3.3.1
- waiting to hear back from the ISO regarding second application scan on the upgraded test environment
UTForge
- maintenance Tuesday evening August 24, 9 - 11 p.m.
College of Education
- update production PDS application to use ITS centralized MySQL db
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