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Inspace
Description: To commission the IT and AV kit used in Inspace
Deliverables: LCFG controlled Macs allowing university wide logon and ideally allowing access to informatics afs filespace
DICE machines capable of driving the AV Projectors.
Content management system capable of displaying multimedia contnent
Customer: The school and ACE
Case statement: This is required in order to commission Inspace itself.
Status: work started before project proposal produced.
Timescales: something usable for start of term, classes start using the AV equipment by term 2 so
Priority: high
Time:
Proposal:
Resources: Infrastructure unit for networking support.
Various bits of IS to provide the MDPMac solution
Technicians for some hardware install/repositioning
some consultancy with Simon about cross-realm afs tokens.
Plan: Use IS's LCFG controlled MDPMac LAB solution to roll out initial service, add additional software packages by ACE and install the AFS client to allow access to AFS filespace. Then respond to initial tester/user feedback
Dependencies: MDPMac from IS
Content Management system from ACE
AV from Electrosonic
Risks:
Milestones
Proposed date | Achieved date | Name | Description |
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2009-08-24 | 2009-08-20 | mdpmac | Install a basic MDPMac machine |
2009-08-25 | 2009-08-30 | AFS client | package the OpenAFS client for Macs and ship via IS content management |
2009-09-01 | 2009-09-01 | Tech meeting | Meet with IS and ACE to discuss level of integration required |
2010-04-26 | Install | Install all macs associated with the project | |
2010-05-14 | Inf AFS home | configure the Macs to provide as seamless as possible access to Informatics AFS home directory space. | |
2010-06-30 | Feedback | Feedback from the users and respin. | |
2010-04-20 | write inspace-c | we need a component to manage the client side script that Henrik has developed for Inspace. | |
2010-04-20 | securenet | WE need to secure the networking part of the trunking cabinet and also reconfigure the switch to prevent people from playing silly buggers. |