July 26 - 28

Accomplished tasks

Lansa

• installed SSL certificates on the capps.its VM
  • we required two certs:
    • one for the general capps host name – includes applications for BMIL (plastic, plasticmm, fakescar), Gone to Texas, TxReadability
    • the other for the UTeach portfolio application
  • there are a few ways to install multiple certificates on a single machine:
    • use Server Name Indication (SNI) so that the client requests the domain name before the server commits to a certificate or have multiple IP addresses
    • SNI requires Apache v2.2.12, the Lansa stack currently has Apache v2.2.11
    • as a result, I requested a second IP address with portfolio.uteach as the resolving host
      • set up the Apache with a mixed name-based and IP-based virtual host configuration
      • currently capps.its.utexas.edu is set up as 146.6.100.153 and the IP address for portfolio.uteach.utexas.edu is 146.6.100.156; they both forward all port 80 http traffic to https on port 443

JIRA

• meeting with Jason regarding ECS instance
• correspondence with Rich Janes related to ECS instance, roles and responsibilities of stakeholders
• additional user support and correspondence – Budget and Payroll offices, FIS

UTForge

• user support and correspondence – ITS

Confluence

• reset the administrative account for the ISO to use for CAT-I reconnaissance
• meeting with Jen Jobst of OCSM regarding wikis SLA
  • OCSM beta service allowing project leads to modify SLAs, control drafts, publish efficiently
• discussion with Tom related to the results of the ISO scan
  • we need to update a number of packages on the server including Apache, Tomcat and OpenSSH
  • also need to either upgrade to the latest Confluence version (3.3.x) or apply security patches to the existing version
  • a few other Apache config issues

Miscellaneous

• reviewed and discussed resumes and cover letters for individuals applying for the open software engineer position in the hosting sub-group