Timeline
Event 7 (30,000 record test load) has been approved, pending some small cleanup items. Event 8 (full test load) is now underway. The bibliographic/holdings portion of the load is complete. Circ transactions are scheduled to be loaded tonight. The conversion itself (not including the extract phase) has taken slightly less time than expected, including the sysadmin/setup work performed by library staff. The scheduled completion of Event 8 is Jan 23/98. The cataloguing function will be live in mid-March, with circulation (the last module to go in) live in the last week of April.
Webvoyage Setup
Bill to speak with Ernie on Monday regarding the images questions. We have requested information from Tom Owens regarding running the service for multiple databases. Ernie needs to look at such items as the /etc area and work with Endeavor on that issue (probably in early January).
Backups
A full system backup will be done this Sunday. It is proposed that we do a similar backup weekly until such time as the production backup strategies are in place. Neil will be able to do the "hot" testing during the January period and the "cold" on a "negotiated" basis until event 8 is complete. This cold work depends on space availability, mirroring and a software addition. After Jan 23, additional work on restores can commence. In general, we'll assume that Sundays are available for backup/infrastructure/IST related needs.
Terminal Emulations / Login
Bill Oldfield has mentioned some problems with emulations on the ascii opac; Ernie will push the local configuration information to l1. We'll also investigate the restricted shell/ no password options for the opac.
DNS / Load Balancing
It is unlikely that Endeavor will have resolved the IP client issue, even with 97.2. Further discussions will be needed on what access configuration will suit best. Dave will track down some additional information from the safire group (Penn/Syr/Roch). Web response is of the most concern.
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