Systems Administrator - acmumn/officer-resources GitHub Wiki

You make the computer science club function - make sure it functions well!

Duties

Your duties include:

  • Maintain the door access lists.
  • Maintain the servers in the server closet
  • Maintain the computers in the room that are available
  • Maintain the internal network for members
  • Monitor and log the network, make sure people are not torrenting or using our infrastructure inappropriately -- otherwise we will lose it for sure.
  • Help with network design and setup for SDC, MinneHack and LAN Parties

Your duties do not include:

  • The Website -- we have a webmaster for this

Door Access

New method:

Send an email to [email protected] (his name is Aaron Connor) and CC [email protected] with a space-seperated-values text document containing:

  • Full Name
  • U Card #
  • Student ID #
  • x500

Old method:

Going via HelpDesk can be a huge PITA... they are slow and sometimes apply the wrong list

Send an email to [email protected] and CC [email protected] with the updated members.txt and a message of the following format.

Hi Operator,

I have added more people to the door list for 2-204.

Thanks,

Your Name, System Admin, ACM

SDC

TODO

There's pretty much nothing doing here.

MinneHack

TODO

  • Try and get money for fallback APs for MinneHack

LAN Parties

TODO

Networking

We are given a subnet within the U of M's network and effectively allowed to do anything we want.

What we cannot do, and will be caught as we are behind Keller's packet inspection:

  • Tor Exit Node
  • Email Server
  • Torrenting
  • Any sort of large, consistent uploading

There is an "ACM Network" folder in the "ACM Files" Google Drive. Within there, there is an "ACM Network Addresses & HW Inventory" spreadsheet that shows the mappings between external IPs, DNS names, internal IPs, network services, and physical machines.

Irene Jacobson is the liaison between ACM and Keller Hall IT. She has helped defend our right to have a subnet over time, and helped us repeatedly with equipment and networking over the years. Be nice to her.

There's more info in the keybase team acmumn.devops about the precise boring details of how the network is set up.

Hardware

There's info in the keybase team acmumn.officerish for hardware inventory.