Email Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila
E-mail Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila September 13, 2006
E-mail server outages Intermittent problems continued with red cluster throughout August n Cluster de-configured by Sep 1 st n Plan: re-build cluster on new hardware and simulate heavy load n Work with Sun to address QFS issues n
UMCal Hardware Upgrade Plan: upgrade DR server, switch over n Hardware upgraded to Sun V 440 9/13 n Due to shared home FS, full testing was limited to off-hours n Unexpected write-protection forced SAN reconfiguration n Next step: DR server upgrade n
Miscellaneous n n n Running near capacity on MX servers; will be reconfiguring servers to gain capacity Decreased maximum per-host SMTP connection limit from 10 to 5 Added a 3 rd Gopher. Mail server Now monitoring IMAP response time Upped max clients from 96 to 150 on www. umn. edu servers 8/22 Migration to Data. Center network at WBOB
Top 9 mail clients (9/11) n n n n n Thunderbird (3453) Microsoft Office Outlook (3041) Apple Mail (1778) Microsoft Outlook Express (1585) QUALCOMM Windows Eudora (1427) Oracle Connector for Outlook (673) Microsoft Outlook (617) Microsoft Entourage (584) Mozilla (556)
Bits ‘N Bytes The polisci. umn. edu domain is now handled by central e-mail servers n Work continues on Dovecot evaluation n
‘Till next month… n n Chris Bongaarts cab@umn. edu n Steve Siirila sfs@umn. edu n 612 -625 -1809 n 612 -626 -0244 n
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