Project Start Date: Sat 1/1/05
Project Finish Date: Wed 10/3/07
| ID | Project_Major_Class | Project_Source | Prioritization | Task_Name | Notes | Percent_Complete | Priority | Start_Date | Finish_Date | Resource_Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kmstrojn.Published | 53% | 1000 | Mon 11/8/04 | Fri 3/11/05 | |||||
| 1 | Security | DCS Internal | Int | EERC Basement Card Reader System | Wiring for Squadron controller | 67% | 100 | Mon 11/8/04 | Wed 2/2/05 | |
| 8 | Security | DCS Internal | Int | EERC Basement Cameras | Install security cams in IT department facilities | 35% | 100 | Mon 1/31/05 | Fri 3/11/05 | |
| 10 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Enterprise Camera Maintenance | Address maintenance issues & requests that arose in enterprise camera implementation | 79% | 100 | Mon 11/8/04 | Tue 2/1/05 | |
| 14 | Install remaining dorm cams | 7/24 - getting quotes; 8/17 received shipment | 32% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||||
| 18 | Install cams at new round of dorm locations | promised for 9/30; 7/17 some of these are ready to go; 7/26 need to order more cams! 8/17 done | 56% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||||
| 34 | Install elevator cams | 4 in Wads (1 redo), 2 in McNair; due 8/11/06; finished 8/10/06 | 100% | 100 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||||
| 36 | Install cams | 5 new installs + 1 re-install; scheduled for 3nd week of July; 7/13 re-install complete | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||||
| 54 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Camera monitoring | Automate monitoring and update of cameras around campus | 27% | 100 | Mon 11/8/04 | Tue 2/1/05 | |
| 58 | Administrative | DCS Internal | Int | DCS Workshop | Clean & organize shop area to use as workshop & staging area for h/w projects | 90% | 100 | Mon 1/31/05 | Tue 2/1/05 | |
| 60 | Security | DCS Internal | Int | Plan/Purchase/Install Optical Network Splitters | Upgrade network security monitoring capabilities by implementing splitter | 0% | 100 | Mon 1/31/05 | Thu 2/17/05 | |
| 3 | dan.Published | 13% | 1000 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |||||
| 1 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext | FFR Security Camera Replacement | Replace current analog dvr/cameras with ip based POE. | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |
| 3 | Services | Campus Committee | Install Outdoor Main Campus Cameras | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |||
| 5 | Services | Campus Requests | Int/Ext | Outside Camera Project | Locate, purchase, and install outdoor cameras for Public Safety | 40% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |
| 5 | tcpiket.Published | 16% | 1000 | Thu 3/3/05 | Fri 10/27/06 | |||||
| 1 | Services | External Requirements | Web Hosting | In order to serve Student Organizations and, possibly, other departments better DCS is looking into providing a web hosting service. | 50% | 500 | Thu 9/14/06 | Wed 9/27/06 | ||
| 4 | Services | Campus Requests | Int/Ext | Student Organization Server | Upgrade services provided to student organizations | 28% | 100 | Wed 7/26/06 | Fri 8/25/06 | |
| 11 | Services | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | MTU Identity Management Planning | Review our current identity flows and determine more flexible and robust mechanisms to incorporate all identity types used at Michigan Tech. | 3% | 500 | Wed 5/10/06 | Fri 10/27/06 | |
| 12 | Services | External Requirements | Int/Ext | Identity Management System | The university is in desparate need of a system it can use to provision its users based on their role, type, category, etc. within the university. Who determines what the user has access to though? Who has the ability to grant privileges or authorize... | 0% | 500 | Wed 5/10/06 | Fri 5/12/06 | Todd Piket |
| 16 | Services | Campus Committee | Int/Ext | Current Entitlement System | Are we going to use this or not? I would like to change the current entitlement system to work more closely with the NID. Currently the entitlement piece consists of three Oracle tables, NZRENTL, NZRENTLMGR, and NZRENTLMAP. The first consists of log... | 0% | 500 | Fri 5/12/06 | Fri 5/12/06 | Todd Piket |
| 20 | Services | External Requirements | Int/Ext | NID Rewrite | There are many aspects of the current NID that are "broken," no API, use of RPC interface, obscure code, difficulty of modification, reliance on Banner PIDM, etc. | 0% | 500 | Mon 5/15/06 | Tue 5/23/06 | Todd Piket |
| 24 | DCS_Internal | External Requirements | Int | Rewrite enterprise directory synchronization process | This process is already extremely complicated with many interoperating components. Each component should be identified and looked at to make sure it is doing its job effectively and as quickly as possible. Any component that is retrieving data from a... | 0% | 500 | Fri 5/12/06 | Fri 10/27/06 | Todd Piket |
| 30 | Services | External Requirements | Int | Look into Shibboleth and Federation | Shibboleth is a very popular central authorization system that supports cross realm authorization and/or federated authorization. It will allow us to collaborate with other universities and vendors via the web easier if they too are "Shibbolized." | 75% | 500 | Mon 6/26/06 | Thu 7/27/06 | Todd Piket |
| 33 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext | Reduce visibility of published directory information | OSRR requests, on behalf of students, that students be allowed to grant and restrict access (via the web) to elements of the online directory. Users would check and uncheck boxes for each item in the directory which whould then hide them in certain con... | 44% | 60 | Mon 5/15/06 | Wed 10/25/06 | Todd Piket |
| 43 | Services | Campus Requests | Int | Quota tool for EMC storage users | This tool is needed by those who have purchased storage from us so they can set individual and/or group level quotas for their users on the EMC. I'm not entirely sure how we're going to do this, but meeting with Steve et al. should clarify the require... | 13% | 500 | Mon 6/12/06 | Wed 6/21/06 | Todd Piket,SJC |
| 47 | Security | External Requirements | Digital Certificates Purchase | We need to look into the purchase of digital server certificates again. The ones we purchased 2 years ago will begin to expire in December. | 0% | 500 | Tue 9/26/06 | Tue 9/26/06 | ||
| 51 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | Directory Server Statistics | Gather statistics continuously and in a manner that allows useful graphing and comparison over time. | 2% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Mon 8/28/06 | Todd Piket |
| 58 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Dovecot Mail Transfer Plugin | Develop a plugin for Dovecot 1.0 that transfers mail from /var/mail to a user's "inbox". This is to replace the temporary Perl wrapper we are currently using so that the held mail area is checked every time the user checks mail, logs in, expunges mail... | 0% | 500 | Fri 5/12/06 | Fri 5/12/06 | Todd Piket |
| 60 | Services | DCS Internal | Upgrade OpenLDAP | As the backbone of most ISO traffic and directory services, OpenLDAP needs to stay current for security and performance reasons. This allows for a more stable, protected, and robust foundation.... | 0% | 500 | Wed 7/12/06 | Wed 7/12/06 | ||
| 66 | Administrative | External Requirements | Ext | Compliance with MTU Banner/MTU Logo | The university web group is willing to create new banners for web sites that comply with current... | 17% | 500 | Wed 5/3/06 | Fri 6/16/06 | Todd Piket,CJM |
| 72 | Update status.it.mtu.edu | Text logo has been updated, but I feel this could be a lot better. | 0% | 500 | Fri 5/12/06 | Fri 5/12/06 | ||||
| 7 | ddh.Published | 69% | 1000 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 3/14/05 | |||||
| 1 | Campus Requests | Int | Pure Message Upgrade | In order to respond to newly created viruses and spamming techniques, we need to implement new versions of our virus/spam-control software. This upgrade will help us achieve this goal. | 51% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Thu 2/17/05 | David Hale | |
| 7 | Security | Campus Committee | Ext | VPN Coordination/Rollout | Coordinateness implementation of campus Virtual Private Network. This would allow for the access to secure campus information and systems such as Banner, home directory space, printers, etc. from unsecured networks. Most internet networks (read charter... | 97% | 80 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 2/28/05 | David Hale |
| 13 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext | VPN Lecture Hall / Classroom Application | Do to increasing need for faculty to access their departmental computing resources from lecture halls, classrooms, and other locations (off campus), we need to create a safe environment for this to occur. ... | 40% | 60 | Mon 2/28/05 | Mon 3/14/05 | David Hale |
| 15 | Security | Campus Committee | Ext | Security Web Pages | Design and implement online information about campus IT security. This campus website is part of the original Network Security Task Force recommendations. The pages would maintain the latest security information, user education materials, downloadable ... | 85% | 100 | Mon 11/8/04 | Mon 1/31/05 | |
| 19 | Security | MTU Sysadmin Council | Vulnerability Scanning Cluster | The vunerability scanning cluster will allow System Administrators to monintor their network for vulnerabilities. This software will cover Kevin Raber's top-10 list item for deployment of more scanning nodes | 72% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 25 | Security | External Requirements | Compliancy Group | The University is out of compliance with various privacy laws and acts. This group is working on making sure that MTU is compliant. | 70% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 27 | Security | Campus Requests | Work with telcom on resnet self reg/quarantine | Work with telcom to make sure that the self reservation system for resnet will be able to automatically quarantine users that have been compromised or have a critical vulnerability | 41% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 32 | Security | DCS Internal | Patch Compliancy Testing | Develop a method to scan for machines that are not patched and alert their administrators | 27% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 36 | Security | Campus Requests | Bi-Directional Firewall for AuxTech | Work with AuxTech to establish a bi-directional firewall to limit their networks exposure to the outside world | 41% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 42 | Services | Campus Requests | Macintosh Meetinmaker issues | Meetingmaker has a file naming issue with Mac OS X machines on SMB networks | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 9 | scamps.Published | 43% | 1000 | Mon 1/31/05 | Thu 9/7/06 | |||||
| 1 | Stroage | External Requirements | Int/Ext | Multi Protocol Files System | Configure Celerra files systems to support both NFS and CIFS users | 25% | 500 | Tue 5/9/06 | Thu 6/22/06 | |
| 3 | Internal testing | 83% | 500 | Tue 6/20/06 | Wed 6/21/06 | |||||
| 9 | External Testing With WECN | 0% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Tue 6/13/06 | |||||
| 12 | Configure for test based on test plan | 0% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Tue 6/13/06 | |||||
| 18 | Configure backup | 0% | 500 | Tue 6/20/06 | Wed 6/21/06 | |||||
| 20 | Deploy | 0% | 500 | Wed 6/21/06 | Thu 6/22/06 | |||||
| 24 | Stroage | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | Implement NDMP Backup Protocol for the Celerra | The current backup server used to do all NAS backups is suffering from a bottleneck issue. This issues causes our backups to take longer than they could because this server cannot transfer data as fast to tape. NDMP will coorect this issue by moving ... | 71% | 500 | Tue 5/9/06 | Thu 7/20/06 | |
| 29 | Initial Testing | 90% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Fri 6/16/06 | |||||
| 47 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Investigate TELCOM routing performance issues | Work with Shane/Jeff to solve performance issues through main campus router. | 50% | 500 | Tue 5/9/06 | Tue 6/13/06 | |
| 50 | Stroage | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | 12 TB SATA Disk Expanstion | Disk Space needed for Security Video System and University Drive | 27% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Tue 6/13/06 | |
| 62 | DataCenter | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | Install Second Data Center UPS | Finish Data Center Power Design by Installing Redundant UPS | 36% | 500 | Tue 5/9/06 | Thu 9/7/06 | |
| 74 | DataCenter | DCS Internal | Move Tape library Off-Site | Investigate moving Tape Library Off-Site to insure all datacenter data in in two locations | 63% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Thu 9/7/06 | ||
| 86 | DataCenter | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | Install One-Off Cabinet In data Center | Cabinet for Systems that don't meet network or power requirements for B50 | 70% | 500 | Tue 5/9/06 | Thu 9/7/06 | |
| 92 | DataCenter | DCS Internal | Raise Ladder Rack over row 300 in Data Center | Colo racks are tall than standard racks. | 50% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Tue 6/13/06 | ||
| 95 | DataCenter | DCS Internal | Dry Pipe Sprinkler for Data Center | Investigate Installing a Dry Pipe Sprinler System for B50 | 0% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Tue 6/13/06 | ||
| 98 | DataCenter | DCS Internal | Leak Detection/Leak Mitigation for Data Center | Investigate Leak Detection/Leak Mitigation for Data Center | 9% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Tue 6/13/06 | ||
| 103 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Build Second Domain Controller | DCS is currently running on a single Widows Domain Controller | 17% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Tue 6/13/06 | ||
| 110 | Administrative | External Requirements | Ext Fixed | Plan for EERC power outage | Firm up date(s) with facilities for EERC Basement outage, plan for outage | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |
| 11 | mpbuss2.Published | 27% | 1000 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 2/21/05 | |||||
| 1 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | DHCP Email Notification | Implement email notification when the DHCP server encounters a bad configuration file and has to recover from it | 38% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 5 | Security | External Requirements | Ext Fixed | Credit Card Storage Security Requirements Document | Develop a document detailing the security needs in order to comply with Visa CISP, NACHA, GLBA, FERPA, etc. | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 10 | Services | Campus Requests | Proposed | Central Web Hosting Service (LTAP/Others?) | Investigate and possibly implement a secure, relatively static central web service, similar to the SOS system, for other campus departments and orinizations | 10% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 13 | Services | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | Bring Admissions IM service into production | Currently Admissions and Financial Aid use test9.mtu.edu for their IM service talking with potential students online through a web form. This needs to move outside the sandbox and into production with a production name - impublic.mtu.edu | 93% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 17 | Security | External Requirements | Int | Noc/Datacenter Security Plan | The NOC/Datacenter area, in order to accommodate the presence of credit card information and to comply with Ferpa and GLB guidelines, must meet a stricter code of security. To accomplish this, we must install new security systems that monitor physical... | 80% | 500 | Thu 2/17/05 | Mon 2/21/05 | David Hale,Matt Buss |
| 19 | Services | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | Fix Huskymail Redirection for the Avenue | Architect a solution for how huskymail redirects back to the avenue without modifying huskymail code | 5% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 23 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | Install and Configure New Nagios Server's) | With current nagios resources becoming constrained, another server is needed to keep up with new and ever changing services such as security and web cameras. This project is aimed at architecting a multiserver solution to keep up with demand. | 47% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 29 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | F5 Load Balancer Replacement | Implement the new production and sandbox load balancers from F5 | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 31 | Services | Campus Requests | Int/Ext | Research how WebCT can interact with SCORM Data for LTAP | With LTAPs need to use SCORM data with Adobe Breeze, it would be useful for them to use this within a WebCT course. This project is to see if this is feasible. | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 33 | Services | Campus Committee | Int/Ext | Build WebCT 6.0 in Test Environment | Download and install WebCT version 6.0 in a test environment | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 35 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | Server Audit | Audit our physical servers in the data center with what services they are running against the DCS Tracker database | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 37 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | Implement Additional Web Servers | Install and configure the additional web servers | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 39 | Services | Campus Requests | Int/Ext | Implement New DHCP Service | Research and implement an LDAP configurable DHCP service for Telcom | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 41 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Evaluation of Online Customer Service Software | Evaluate the Spark FastPath Software Suite as a candidate for customer service over IM | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 43 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Research how MTU could utilize SMS | Research the ability for MTU to have its own SMS server's) in the same way Google utilizes theirs | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 45 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext | Implement TouchNet and iModules | Implement Alumni's iModules service with our TouchNet payment gateway for use with credit card transactions as well as ACH transactions. | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 47 | Services | Campus Requests | Int/Ext | Automate the Installation of Bank Routing Numbers for the Payment Gateway | Currently, the installation of an updated list of routing numbers is done with a manual process. This would be much more efficient done programmatically. | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Matt Buss |
| 13 | don.Published | 0% | 1000 | Mon 1/31/05 | Fri 2/4/05 | |||||
| 1 | Services | Campus Requests | Int | Backup/Restore procedure | In order to provide a better backup and restore service for those clients that use our backup system, we need to revise/rewrite the policy by which this is done. | 0% | 500 | Tue 2/1/05 | Fri 2/4/05 | Don Close |
| 15 | cjmacdon.Published | 96% | 1000 | Mon 1/31/05 | Wed 10/3/07 | |||||
| 1 | Campus Requests | Ext | Move Biology to Central Email Server | Coordinate the move of all Biology faculty, staff, and students to the central email system | 99% | 500 | Mon 5/1/06 | Wed 10/3/07 | Cynthia McDonald | |
| 7 | Services | Campus Committee | Update Meeting Maker to 8.5 | keep on schedule with vendor improvements | 94% | 500 | Tue 8/1/06 | Wed 9/27/06 | ||
| 18 | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | Replace list server | current list software is not longer updated | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 30 | MTU Sysadmin Council | Int/Ext | Implement server side mail filters | allow users to filter mail to folders | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 35 | DCS Internal | Int | Campus mail aliases move to LDAP | aliases no longer in NID, aliases in LDAP structure | 0% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 40 | Campus Requests | Int/Ext | Alumni Email Service | Implement "email for life" for MTU Alumni | 3% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Fri 6/16/06 | ||
| 17 | 0Proposed.Published | 43% | 1000 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 5/15/06 | |||||
| 1 | Services | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | DNS for Telcom | Work with Telcom to architect a solution for DNS | 30% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 10/25/04 | |
| 3 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Proposed | Define our email client support | I don't think we can continue to support every email client that our users try to use. I further believe that we should choose not only the email clients we support, but the version we support and the operating system(s) we support them on. For insta... | 0% | 500 | Mon 5/15/06 | Mon 5/15/06 | Dan deBeaubien |
| 19 | ZComplete.Published | 99% | 500 | Wed 7/28/04 | Wed 9/27/06 | |||||
| 1 | Security | DCS Internal | Int | Upgrade monitoring hardware and software | With an increase of network traffic on campus and the ability for this traffic to move ever faster, we must upgrade our network monitoring stations to accommodate this change. The current technology used is quickly becoming more problematic and strugg... | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 2/21/05 | David Hale |
| 7 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext | Central WEB RT | Implement centralized web based trouble ticket system available for all of campus. Many departmental IT and administrative staff have some form of web-based email tracking systems. Most are useing WebRT (a free, open-source product). This project would... | 100% | 100 | Wed 7/28/04 | Tue 2/22/05 | David Hale |
| 18 | DataCenter | Campus Requests | Install Rukus Servers | Install necssary power, network, and storage equipment for the Rukus Servers (music sharing) | 100% | 500 | Wed 6/29/05 | Wed 6/29/05 | ||
| 22 | DataCenter | DCS Internal | Int | DataCenter Power | With the NOC/Datacenter power and environment systems finished and stabilized, telcom hardware needs to be moved to utilize this utility allowing for comercial interruptions to power while not having to accommodate for this disruption. | 100% | 500 | Mon 2/14/05 | Thu 4/7/05 | Steven Camps |
| 29 | DataCenter | DCS Internal | Int | Genset Install | While disruptions to campus power have been lessened with the campus upgrade to its power systems, power outages still happen. This generator install will greatly decrease the time central services are offline do to these disruptions. | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 3/14/05 | Steven Camps |
| 33 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | MS Project | Microsoft Project is the means by which DCS has been able to prioritize, and track its various projects. We are now able to better track resources, personnel, and actual time spent on particular projects, as well as manage and communicate more efficie... | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Wed 6/29/05 | Steven Camps |
| 39 | HW_Infra | DCS Internal | Int | Remove Darkstar | Darkstar is a storage server run and managed by DCS and utilized by ETS for their streaming service. With the installation and management of our enterprise storage solution, we wanted to decommission this antiquated hardware and offer a faster and mo... | 100% | 500 | Wed 12/1/04 | Tue 3/8/05 | Steven Camps |
| 43 | HW_Infra | DCS Internal | Int | Backup System | The current backup server used to do all NAS backups is suffering from a bottleneck issue. This issues causes our backups to take longer than they could because this server cannot transfer data as fast to tape. To correct this issue, a faster server ... | 100% | 500 | Wed 12/1/04 | Thu 4/7/05 | Steven Camps |
| 47 | HW_Infra | Campus Requests | Int | SAN Storage Increase | The current storage space utilized by Admin Computing is vastly approaching its limits. This storage needs to be expanded giving ACS room to grow as their business needs dictate. They will not only be increasing the amount of disk space to their syst... | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Tue 2/22/05 | Steven Camps |
| 53 | HW_Infra | DCS Internal | Int | Data Center Cooling | Due to the distribution of servers currently in the datacenter, different climates are appearing in different areas. Thus, in areas where server density is high, these areas tend to be hotter than when server density is low. To correct this , differe... | 100% | 500 | Wed 1/12/05 | Wed 4/13/05 | Steven Camps |
| 61 | HW_Infra | DCS Internal | Int | Correct AC Freeze Ups | Upon installation of the environmental controls within the datacenter, a miscalculation occurred in the mixture of coolant allowing the coolant to get too cold during the winter and thus operates outside the normal temperatures of the cooling systems. ... | 100% | 500 | Tue 1/11/05 | Tue 6/28/05 | Steven Camps |
| 72 | DCS_Internal | MTU Sysadmin Council | Ext | Public Nagios Monitoring | DCS has done extensive work to monitor the health and performance of servers and the services they run. Many of MTU's sysadm group have asked to have a view into this system which could greatly reduce the time to solution for problems as well as alert ... | 100% | 200 | Thu 3/3/05 | Mon 3/28/05 | Matt Buss |
| 76 | Campus Requests | Ext | Huskymail Husky | Implement Husky Icon in Huskymail for "official" campus email. This option would place a small MTU Husky Icon next to official emails within HuskyMail. This will allow for the University to "flag" important email and hopefully lead to a better chance o... | 100% | 300 | Mon 10/25/04 | Fri 10/29/04 | Matt Buss | |
| 80 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext Fixed | MTF Touchnet | Currently the Michigan Tech Fund (MTF) uses an online system to collect credit card information to process donations at a later date. By implementing touchnet for use with the MTF, they will be able to receive online donations instantly with less over... | 100% | 500 | Sat 12/25/04 | Mon 3/28/05 | Matt Buss |
| 95 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext Fixed | TouchNet | Architect and implement a enterprise campus-wide credit card processing system that allows for online payments of student bills and other transactions. This may one day lead to being used with the Rosza Center, MTU bookstore, or the Michigan Tech Fund... | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Thu 3/3/05 | Matt Buss |
| 101 | testing | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 10/25/04 | David Hale | ||||
| 108 | Kiosks | 100% | 500 | Fri 11/12/04 | Mon 1/31/05 | David Hale | ||||
| 114 | Setup Test Environment | Get a testing environment setup up for testing future apps without using a real CC processor... | 100% | 500 | Mon 2/14/05 | Thu 3/3/05 | Matt Buss | |||
| 118 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext | Investigate Meeting Maker Upgrade/Replacement | Upgrade Meeting Maker to Meeting Maker Millennium (1800 licenses). The current version of this software is several years old and will not be updated or patched. The next version (millennium) is a major upgrade and will require careful planning. The upg... | 100% | 300 | Tue 2/15/05 | Wed 2/23/05 | Matt Buss |
| 122 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Replace Streaming Servers | The campus streaming hardware and software are becoming antiquated. New releases of software have become available and the hardware it is running on has become obsolete. An upgrade is in order to make sure that we are utilizing the technology availab... | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Thu 2/17/05 | Matt Buss |
| 130 | Services | DCS Internal | Ext | IT Service Monitoring | Produce public views of critical IT systems to augment the status page and IT hotline. (this project has been merged with "Public Nagios Monitoring"... | 100% | 200 | Thu 2/17/05 | Wed 2/23/05 | Matt Buss |
| 133 | Campus Requests | Email server filters | provide end user filters on server | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 10/25/04 | |||
| 135 | Campus Requests | MTU list management | choose and plan migration to new mailing list software | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 10/25/04 | |||
| 137 | Campus Requests | Ext | MTU EMAIL system upgrades | 100% | 120 | Tue 2/1/05 | Tue 3/28/06 | Cynthia McDonald | ||
| 144 | Services | External Requirements | Int/Ext | Increase userid namespace structure | By the Fall of the 2005/2006 school year the following will be possible:... | 100% | 100 | Wed 6/15/05 | Mon 8/15/05 | Todd Piket |
| 151 | Services | DCS Internal | Ext | Replace mbox with maildir | The current email system with regards to how email is stored on the servers is flawed. We have seen this with file locking problems as well as end users and resources not being able to check their email with two clients at the same time. Occasional c... | 100% | 150 | Mon 1/10/05 | Tue 3/29/05 | Todd Piket |
| 158 | Services | Campus Committee | Ext | Guest Access to University Network | There is a ever increasing need to allow for MTU campus visitors the ability to use university resources such as the wireless network or on-line library resources. Currently this access is restricted to that of the MTU community (students, faculty, an... | 100% | 100 | Thu 3/3/05 | Thu 3/3/05 | Todd Piket |
| 160 | Services | DCS Internal | Ext | SOS Server | In order to provide a more robust student organization server for USG, we have agreed to provide a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that defines the relationship between USG, DCS, and Student Services. This SLA will go through revisions until it is accep... | 100% | 250 | Mon 3/21/05 | Tue 6/6/06 | Todd Piket |
| 166 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Remaining AuthN documentation | Minor things for Todd Piket to work on which remain from the old authN project.... | 100% | 500 | Mon 2/14/05 | Tue 3/29/05 | Todd Piket |
| 172 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Implement more secure web servers | Since most of the central web services run by DCS are running concurrently on the same set of servers, we need to implement newer strategies for containing these services to operate within their own bounds. This allows for a more secure environment in... | 100% | 500 | Thu 3/3/05 | Tue 4/5/05 | |
| 175 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | Migrate from unique member to member | During the conversion from the Sun directory server to the open source OpenLDAP directory server, the type of attribute used was preferred by Sun while another was preferred by OpenLDAP. While OpenLDAP understood this attribute, it could not fully uti... | 100% | 500 | Thu 3/3/05 | Fri 3/4/05 | Todd Piket |
| 181 | Services | Campus Requests | Int | Improve MTU ISO Security | The current MTU ISO system is flawed and needs to be patched and improved. The design for this new ISO system has been completed and the architecture has been implemented. Some applications have been converted but others still need conversion which w... | 100% | 5 | Thu 1/20/05 | Tue 4/12/05 | Todd Piket |
| 193 | Services | Campus Committee | Ext | ISO System training | Since the redesign of the MTU ISO system, departmental system administrators need training in how to utilize this system in their own departments. | 100% | 500 | Mon 2/21/05 | Thu 3/24/05 | Todd Piket |
| 196 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | Replace CVS with Subversion | While we already have versioning capabilities with source code and documentation, CVS (our current tool for this job) falls short with some file types. Subversion, as a replacement for CVS, gives us the ability to do versioning with all document types... | 100% | 500 | Fri 3/11/05 | Mon 4/11/05 | Todd Piket |
| 201 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Kerberos Migration and Upgrade | Utilize updated version of the ISO password repository. It is important that the ISO password be protected with the latest software version available in order to best safeguard it. | 100% | 500 | Wed 1/26/05 | Thu 2/10/05 | Todd Piket |
| 204 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Digital Cert Replacement/renewal | As server certificates begin to expire, we need to convert these certificates to the new cost effective, longer lasting certificates. These certificates allow for secure communication between client and server. | 100% | 40 | Mon 10/25/04 | Tue 3/1/05 | Todd Piket |
| 209 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | DATACENTER Database | With an ever increasing amount of hardware to track, DCS has implemented a database in which to answer this problem. This database not only allows us to track what hardware we have but also where it is, how it is connected to the datacenter and what s... | 100% | 500 | Sat 1/1/05 | Wed 2/23/05 | Todd Piket |
| 214 | DCS_Internal | Nagios | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Wed 10/27/04 | krcalhoo | |||
| 219 | Administrative | DCS Internal | Int | Find Storage Space | We need to locate physical storage space for parts and equipment relevant to DCS. This space needs to be located near DCS offices and the NOC/Datacenter for optimum use. This space allows for a clean work environment in both the NOC/Data center and t... | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Dan deBeaubien |
| 221 | Administrative | DCS Internal | Int | MacAfee Pricing | Recalculate MacAfee Virus Scan Campus Pricing due to contract changes. MacAfee has significantly changed the way that they offer their campus license agreements, and we need to rethink our chargeback rates. | 100% | 500 | Wed 11/10/04 | Tue 2/1/05 | Dan deBeaubien |
| 225 | DataCenter | MTU Sysadmin Council | Int | Server Room Pricing | In order to provide a co-location service or a datacenter location for non-IT servers/services we must calculate service and server pricing that covers HVAC/Genset maintenance, as well as the parts and equipment that go into providing datacenter space... | 100% | 400 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 1/31/05 | Dan deBeaubien |
| 229 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext | Investigate Digital Imaging and Scanning Services/Equipment | Work with Account (Mike Hendricks) to identify a vendor or service provider to digitally archive large volumes of campus records currently stored in various non-secure locations around (and off) campus. | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | Dan deBeaubien |
| 231 | DataCenter | Campus Requests | Write SLA/Finalize Pricing for Chem. Server Cluster | Set up server/service agreement with chemistry to house server cluster. | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 234 | Services | Campus Requests | Int/Ext | Install PC Based Digital Video Recorder (DVR) for Public Safety | Set up server, hardware, and software, to hold streamed output from IP based video cameras for Public Safety. There is a strong pressure for many new cameras in residence halls, and we are looking into the same hardware for the EERC datacenter. | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |
| 237 | Services | MTU Sysadmin Council | Ext | Central software and license coordination | Put together a project plan, resource requirements, and implementation timeline for the development of a more comprehensive central campus software coordination office. This would include a rough estimate cost savings, service description, cost redistr... | 100% | 160 | Mon 1/31/05 | Wed 2/9/05 | Dan deBeaubien |
| 240 | DCS_Internal | Campus Requests | Web Page Header Replacement | 80% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 10/25/04 | jlkurre | ||
| 247 | Campus Requests | Email Vacation Messaging | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 5/2/05 | Cynthia McDonald | |||
| 251 | DCS Internal | Move Email.mtu.edu to new load balancers | 100% | 500 | Tue 12/28/04 | Fri 1/14/05 | Matt Buss | |||
| 255 | Security | DCS Internal | Block inbound port 25 traffic | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 10/25/04 | David Hale | ||
| 259 | HW_Infra | DCS Internal | Storage Move | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 10/25/04 | Steven Camps | ||
| 262 | HW_Infra | DCS Internal | Load Balancer Maintenance | 100% | 500 | Fri 11/19/04 | Tue 11/23/04 | Matt Buss | ||
| 265 | Services | External Requirements | NEWS Removal | Remove and replace Internet news with web based product | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Tue 10/26/04 | Todd Piket | |
| 271 | Services | Campus Requests | Int/Ext | Deployment of Enterprise Security Camera System | Install Analog and IP base video survaillance system for various users around campus | 100% | 500 | Mon 10/25/04 | Mon 10/25/04 | Dan deBeaubien,Katherine Strojny,Aaron McPhal |
| 276 | Services | External Requirements | Int | Web interface for campus dialup | This tool is needed to delegate to Telcom Customer Service the ability to give out/remove GlobalNet and 800 number access to the campus dialup system to those who request it. Currently this tool resides on it's own page. Essentially, this is an entit... | 100% | 500 | Fri 5/12/06 | Mon 6/19/06 | Todd Piket |
| 280 | Services | Campus Requests | Int | Automate Ruckus Authentication | Implement automated portion to the synchronization process we have established between MTU and the Ruckus network. | 100% | 500 | Tue 6/13/06 | Fri 6/16/06 | |
| 283 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Int | Password File Generation | Password file generation program that will run on each machine that needs a password file generated for it. The password file this generates acts as a data cache that gets used by getpwnam calls to cut down on the amount of LDAP traffic. Without the ... | 100% | 500 | Wed 5/3/06 | Wed 5/24/06 | |
| 288 | Services | MTU Sysadmin Council | Ext | Programmatic API to the NID (removed) | Departmental system administrators, in an effort to automate processes, are asking for an API to the NID, the campus database for coordinating userids and email addresses access departments. This will allow them to write programs that interface with t... | 100% | 700 | Mon 3/21/05 | Mon 4/18/05 | Todd Piket |
| 291 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext | Publications and photo services Webcam | The current campus web cameras are having both performance and stability problems. In late 2003, IT did much work to keep them running, but they continue to have problems. A stable, secure and expandable system for the support of live web video needs t... | 100% | 300 | Mon 1/31/05 | Fri 2/18/05 | David Hale |
| 298 | Services | MTU Sysadmin Council | Ext | Windows AD Forest Node | In mid-2004 the college of engineering installed several servers to handle the central windows domain services needed as part of the campus central authorization project. These servers are to be installed as part of the central DCS IT server clusters a... | 100% | 100 | Mon 1/31/05 | Fri 2/25/05 | David Hale |
| 303 | Services | MTU Sysadmin Council | Ext | Provide Servers to aid in security scanning | Provide at our (MTU Departments) expense a server on our subnet, controlled by the security officer, to aid in the monitoring and detection of security issues. | 50% | 1000 | Wed 2/9/05 | Tue 3/1/05 | David Hale |
| 306 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | F5 Load Balencer Replacement Plan | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 310 | Services | Campus Committee | Int | Oracle Calendar 10g | Research Oracle Calendaring products | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |
| 315 | DCS Internal | Int/Ext | Move Campus Email Gateway | decommission sun 450 servers | 100% | 500 | Mon 4/3/06 | Wed 5/10/06 | ||
| 320 | Services | External Requirements | Web Replacement for local news groups | Replace MTU News groups with web based service. | 100% | 1000 | Wed 1/26/05 | Fri 1/28/05 | Todd Piket | |
| 323 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Restructure OpenLDAP | As the backbone of most ISO traffic and directory services, OpenLDAP needs to stay current for security and performance reasons. This allows for a more stable, protected, and robust foundation. Currently, our directory server is not, strictly, RFC co... | 100% | 200 | Mon 4/24/06 | Mon 7/10/06 | Todd Piket |
| 329 | Services | External Requirements | Senior Nationals Web Site (www.seniornationals.org) | Put up a web site hosted by MTU for www.seniornationals.org. | 100% | 500 | Wed 7/12/06 | Wed 7/12/06 | ||
| 335 | Services | MTU Sysadmin Council | Int | Switch Email Authorization | Currently, access to use the central email service is granted on whether or not the user is in a particular group. This was needed during the conversion period when email was being centralized. This group now has greater than 95% or all MTU users in ... | 100% | 500 | Thu 7/20/06 | Mon 8/7/06 | Todd Piket |
| 341 | Services | Campus Requests | Ext | iTunesU Authentication | The university has signed an agreement with Apple to use their iTunesU service. Essentially, Apple will house pod casts for MTU and make them available for free or pay on their web site via the iTunes interface. | 100% | 40 | Fri 6/2/06 | Fri 8/25/06 | Todd Piket |
| 345 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Update MichNet Radius Server | Check to see if we are running the latest version of the Radius server provided by MichNet/Merit. | 100% | 500 | Wed 7/12/06 | Wed 9/27/06 | ||
| 351 | DCS_Internal | DCS Internal | Meeting Maker LDAP Gateway | This is what will allow a new install of MeetingMaker to use the ISO password for authentication as well as the enterprise directory for grouping users and resources.... | 100% | 500 | Wed 7/12/06 | Fri 9/15/06 | ||
| 356 | Services | External Requirements | Int | Enterprise camera rollout | Install security cameras in DHH, Wadsworth, McNair, Library, Lot 21 | 100% | 100 | Mon 1/31/05 | Fri 4/22/05 | |
| 358 | Services | MTU Sysadmin Council | Ext | Redhat License Purchase Coordination | Renew Redhat subsription, reevaluate license type | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |
| 362 | Administrative | External Requirements | Int | CORE data survey | Update CORE data for current year | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |
| 364 | Security | DCS Internal | Int | Noc Upgrade | An upgrade to the EERC NOC will allow DCS to function in a more cohesive manor when tasked with emergency measures. Monitoring and console stations will enable DCS to interact in a safe and secure environment. | 100% | 500 | Wed 2/16/05 | Mon 2/21/05 | David Hale |
| 367 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | WebCT Upgrade | WebCT, our enterprise campus course management system, needs to be upgraded both with hardware and software. Recently, our trend analysis shows that while WebCT is being more and more utilized, the server is getting more inadequate as it handles more ... | 100% | 500 | Thu 5/5/05 | Tue 7/19/05 | Matt Buss |
| 368 | Purchase/Acquire New Equipment | Spec, get quotes, and submit POs for new server equipment | 100% | 500 | Thu 5/5/05 | Thu 5/26/05 | Steven Camps | |||
| 374 | Install and Productionize New Equipment | Receive new equipment, rack it, stack it, track it, install OS and network | 100% | 500 | Fri 5/27/05 | Thu 6/2/05 | Steven Camps | |||
| 388 | Services | MTU Sysadmin Council | Ext | Enterprise instant messaging server | Develop IM service for use by students, faculty, and staff campus-wide. this service should be based on a standards compliant software such as Jabber, and should use the ISO system for authentication. ... | 100% | 160 | Mon 1/31/05 | Wed 2/23/05 | Matt Buss |
| 396 | Services | MTU Sysadmin Council | Ext | Support for bulk email | Create tools and policy to facilitate the mass mailing of HTML mail. Currently almost every systems administrator sends some quantity of bulk email; some of them send many, many bulk emails. ... | 100% | 240 | Thu 2/17/05 | Wed 2/23/05 | Matt Buss |
| 399 | Services | Campus Requests | Int/Ext | Implementation of ACH with the Epayments system | Incoorperate ACH transactions for use with the epayments system used by the Tech Fund and other non-tuition paymenets | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | |
| 408 | Administrative | External Requirements | SSN Conversion project | Eliminating the SSN as the default Tech ID # | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 | ||
| 412 | DataCenter | External Requirements | Int/Ext | Install Colocation Cabinets in Data Center | Telcom (Shane) Requested colo cabinets for Merit and other clients | 100% | 500 | Tue 5/9/06 | Thu 7/20/06 | |
| 422 | Services | DCS Internal | Int | Speak at Ease upgrade | Install new hardware and software for the campus automated attendant system (487-1885) | 100% | 500 | Mon 1/31/05 | Mon 1/31/05 |