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ACTION 1 on Fresia: to send Marius contact info at Stockholm university.

SUNET

Wiki MarkupFresia informed about the redundancy project of the SUNET main site in Stockholm, a second site in Stockholm is being installed so that the main backbone site will have redundancy.
As SUNET is now offering more major services than a network service they have had to develop new routines for handling problems. For the network services there were already functioning communication ways from the end-user to the NOC. But for these new services the NOC have had to develop new routines. A system administrator role has been created to act as a connection between the end-users and the NOC. The model can be viewed in more detail on the SUNET website\[1\] (in Swedish). One part of this work has also been to start using external community tools\[2\] to get a more transparent interaction between the people operating services and the end-users.
Early spring this year SUNET started offering Adobe connect as a video conferencing and e-learning service and SUNET is now in the middle of setting up a central spam filter service for the universities.
There is also a project hosting a Adobe connect setup to UNINETT.
SUNET noticed a bug with the Ciena 4350 that made them crash after a certain uptime. This has caused alot of problems. There is a workaround but SUNET is trying to get a more permanent solution.

NORDUnet

The NOC have had to implement changes in their procedures due to the fact that they now also support other major services for SUNET than the network services.
NORDUnet is working on a project to federate login to several of their services. The first services to get federated login will be the NORDUnet portal and the NORDUnet issue tracking system. To start with the Kalmar federation will be supported.
A handover procedures for new services have been developed for the NOC.

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NORDUnet Network Inventory presentation

Wiki MarkupJohan made a presentation of the NORDUnet efforts to create a network inventory (NI) using a graph database\[3\] (non-relational database). The reason NORUDnet have chosen a graph database is because of the fact that NORDUnet found it was very complicated to create a common datastructure representing a hybrid network with active/passive physical hardware and logical connections using a standard relational database. Johan explained the datastructure in the graph database that consists or nodes and relationships. Each node and relationship can have extra attributes. The network inventory tool will use the Django framework\[4\] to visualise the information. The network inventory will be published on the NORDUnet GIT server \ [5\].

All other NRENs where interesting in following the progress of the NI development. Johan will setup a test instance of the current prototype of the network inventory that has been developed.

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The meeting decided to keep follow the NORDUnet effort creating a Network inventory.

TF-NOC update

Wiki MarkupStefan gave a short update about the current work in TF-NOC. The goal of the first official TF-NOC meeting was to discuss how to organise the task force and which topics to focus on in the close future. The next step for the task force will be to define a template for NOC presentations. The idea behind this is to try to define what kind of information that is interesting to know about a NOC. Party to be able to compare relevant information when discussing the NOC topology. More information can be found on the TF-NOC homepage\[6\].

Federated service support discussion

Wiki MarkupThere was a discussion about the NREN service list\[7\] and the federation options.
The meeting participants would appreciate a clarification what the federation options mean. Does federated login mean that only that users from that NREN can login to the service or are other NRENs included in the federation login. Does it only mean that users are able to login with their accounts or does it also indicate that users from other NRENs can use those services?

ACTION 7 on Stefan: to discuss the federation options with Jörgen to try to clarify their meaning.

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TT-integration discussion

Wiki MarkupThe initial information\[8\] about the use of ticket systems in the different organisations are still valid.

In average there are about 5-20 updated ticket for each organisation each day.
There are between 10-100 tickets open on average in our organisations.

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Next meeting will preliminary be the 14-15 of February.unmigrated-wiki-markup

\[1\] http://www.sunet.se/Om-sunet/Policyfragor/Forvaltningsmodell.html \
[2\] http://community.sunet.se/sunet \
[3\] http://neo4j.org/ \
[4\] http://www.djangoproject.com/ \
[5\] http://git.nordu.net/?p=norduni.git \
[6\] http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-noc/ \
[7\] https://portal.nordu.net/display/NORDUwiki/NREN+Services+map \
[8\] https://portal.nordu.net/display/opsforum/090603+NORDUnet+Operational+meeting