Technical infrastructure checklist

Resources on this list should be checked regularly to see that they are in working order.

During "walkthrough"

Services

italicized text is checked on a per room basis

Software and Systems

• mailing list moderation
  • reply to subscription requests to determine sentience
• Check each server up and up-to-date? http://monitor/nagios2 look at tactical overview.
  • HINT: A report is also emailed to asswatch every night at midnight. If you want to use the command line, there are three scripts: list_problems (lists everything that has a problem, and what that problem is), down (lists down servers), and needs_upgrading (lists servers that need to be "aptitude dist-upgrade"ed). These scripts live on monitor.
• web services administration (wiki, todo, lessons, area, dev/svn, dev/projects, web, web/mail, www, others...)
  • integrate this with nagios? Ryan will look into what can and needs to be integrated.
• check if there are any open security announcement tickets.
  • HINT: Search for open RT tickets created by ass-security@our_domain. If you like the command line, then you can use this (mainly self explanatory, just run it) script: ./ass/scripts/security/show_security

Servers & Security

• Security cameras
  • Software set up correctly and running.
  • pointing in correct direction
• visual inspection
  • look for things like bad fans on servers
  • dust/vaccuum servers, switches
  • look dangerous cable tangles, stress/tension on punched-down cables
• UPS check
  • Tests successfully
  • Balanced load
  • Battery installation within 3 years

Phones

• Outgoing Phone Message
• All listed phones working

Printers

Ryan will integrate the "on and ready" and "stalled jobs" into nagios.

• Are all printers on and ready? http://scribble:631
  • are there stalled jobs?
  • are there paper jams (walk around)
  • are they free of non-standard paper

hubs/switches/networking

• check network ports around room
• check for bad fans

Rooms

Meeting Room

• Projector and computer
• Network hub (plugged into wall correctly)
• Phone (plugged in?)

Classroom

• All terminals
• Printer
• networking around room
• Wireless access point

Reception

• Printer (toner low? paper?)
• Terminals and monitors functioning well?

upstairs and downstairs office

• terminals
• networking
• phones

Production

• Advanced testing
  • lots of networking
  • testers functioning
• build (+mac +laptop +enterprise)
  • networking
  • terminals and images.

Taken care of by somebody/something else

• watch all of the asswatch scripts, and makes sure that they are working. (Ryan does this)
• rootmail cleanup/checkup (Ryan)
• check each server is listed in purpose (asswatch)
• backups working on each server (asswatch)
• check each server with maintenance notes and script, check rootmail is working (Ryan does this every so often, probably doesn't need to be done often)