In the server room...

I was looking for something to do in the server room, something that would get me more involved in COSI. At this point in time, Phoenix bit the dust, and I helped recover the files, and then spent many hours with Graham Northup trying to repair the hardware into a state that would operate. Eventually, we found this state, and were able to get it back up and running. We called it Felix after this, since it means "lucky" and "successful" in Roman.

During the Jakening and other events, I helped assure that essential services were up on both Bennu, and Felix.

During the Unjakening, I helped assure that essential services were up and also repaired network configurations on many servers.

On a regular basis, I try to streamline the VM states, by making efficiency changes to configurations without affecting the operational status of the VM's. By doing this, we were able to reduce the amount of RAM usage on Bennu from 2/3 of the ram used down to 1/3 of the ram used, without negatively affecting any VM's. I also contacted some VM maintainers and asked if they could also remove unnecessary services from their VM's and that helped as well. Additionally, I have been re-sparsify some of the VM images that have either grown large and then shrunk back, or VM's that were accidentally copied in the wrong way and became desparsified.

I also recommended getting a physical thermometer for the server room. It allows us to monitor the state of the server room.

I maintain the battery backups, checking them for error codes and also load balancing the hardware, which helps lengthen the lives of the battery backups.

I also have been helping set up new mirror.

In COSI...

I am in COSI very often, almost every day. I attend all of the meetings I can, and have only missed a small handful due to obligations, however whenever I am not obliged to be somewhere I am at the meetings.

I try to help people whenever I can. I helped a few CS141 students at the beginning of the semester with understanding g++ errors, and have also helped other people with installing different linux distros to their laptops. Some people I do not have enough experience to help, and I always try to direct them to the person in the labs that I think can best help to find a solution, and I make sure that they got what they came for après sa.

I also helped with events, such as Science Olympiad. I attended the event in COSI, cleaned the room, and then helped grade the projects at the end, providing important feedback.
I also helped Alan set up for an Impetus event, and came up with a network map for that to make effective use of the ethernet cables we had.

I came up with the idea to put COSI tags on COSI flash drives so that we would not loose any flash drives as has happened in the past. This way, people don't mistake our flash drives with their own.

I also make sure that the room is generally clean, and try to tidy whenever I can, especially on Sunday nights and when we have events upcoming. I have noted on multiple occasions that people notice how clean the room is when people walk in, and they tend to praise how clean it is when it is cleaned.

Open Source Projects

management

This project I started at the beginning of the semester. I was told that it was not a necessary project, but after making some good progress and creating a live page with stats, we have considered it to be helpful. Since it is still in active development, it is not always up, and there are some minor bugs that I am working on. In the end though, this will be a great project and will be important in lab maintainence.

management-server and management-client.

New Mirror

I created a git issue for some small thing on the new website. Might as well mention it.