Subject: NPAC Transition Plan

From: Roman Markowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 09:32:33 -0400

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 NPAC, in its current form, will cease to exist in June 30, 2000. 
 Below, you will find a plan related to the closing procedure.
 If you have any concerns please contact:
 - Dave Bernholdt (students going to FSU, PET collaborators)
 - Nancy McCracken (students taking courses)
 - Wojtek Furmanski (Translet collaborators, students working with
Wojtek)
 - Dave Warner (Mindtel collaborators, students working with Dave)
 - Roman Markowski (WebWisdom.com collaborators)
 - Geoffrey Fox (everybody else, Infomall, external collaborators, etc.)

 1. by May 15 
   - students must  remove their private stuff, like mail
     repositories, illegal copies of software, inappropriate
     images, etc. from their home and project directories
   - students must inform systems where their email should be
     forwarded
 2. by May 25
   - students must remove their private stuff 
     and vacant their  cubicles/offices and return keys to NPAC  
 3. May 25
   - close all students' offices and labs: 3-221, 3-228, 3-226,
     3-211, 3-201, 3-210  (semester is over)
   - shutdown and remove all students' and public computers
   - collect keys
   - close all student's  accounts (no matter what! no exceptions!)
   - no support for classes or students who are late with homeworks
 4. by May 31
   - all PLs must remove their private stuff, like mail
     repositories, illegal copies of software,  etc
     from their home and project directories
   - PLs must archive and save contents they need for future work
 5. May 31
   - close all accounts in Unix and NT domains (no exceptions!)
     After May 31 people will have access to Internet using local
     passwords on their workstations or PCs; 
     all local resources will be frozen
   - disable access to home and project directories, nothing 
     can be changed  on disks
   - close dialup access to NPAC resources
   - close print services completely
 6. by June 15
   - transfer Oracle from mira to one of Ospreys
   - Transfer Oracle from carver to ECS, if still needed
   - shutdown mira, carver, vega (ready to go to FSU)
 7. June 15
   - Transfer 2 DNS servers, mail server, infomall server and 
     npac web server to ECS (including hardware running these
     services) for future support
   - shutdown all unix services: NIS servers, LDAP, FTP, etc
   - shutdown backup servers
   - shutdown all NT domain controllers
   - shutdown all file servers
 8. by end of June
   - transfer equipment to final destination: FSU, ECS, etc
   - some equipment (mainly desktops) will be purchased by WW.com,
     Translet and  Mindtel
   - Network infrastructure will stay to support CASE companies:
     WW.com, Mindtel and Translet

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