August 13 - 19

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
  • major issues (aside from aforementioned XSRF) from ISO vulnerability assessment:
  • 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