-+Discussion+notes,+May+10th+2011

May 10, 2011

Recording of the meeting, []

Notes from meeting: 1. Updates a. Calle - Tero will not be teaching his course next spring. We need to find somebody else to do that.. b. Arne B. will be preparing material for the course on IT operations in Fall and be giving it Spring 2012 c. Janis - will be uploading assignments during the week. He`s aslready done with quite a bit of the translation. d. George have just finished delivering a course on Managing Distributed Technology (ISQA ....)

2. Description of lab - Chad Spence, for Steve Nugen, see slides.

Remote access. STEAL-4 is a virtual lab. Virtualized on a VM cluster in the servier. VPN used there to secure connection.

UiA connects remotely through VPN.

Instructor following what students do TightVNC gives student ability to log into a machine; similar to KVM. At same time, instructor signs into instructor machine and connect to the machine and listen on the VNC. Can watch, though not necessarily interact (but could if there were issues).

Are the physical machines really necessary? Not in the virtual lab. Are evaluating whether thin clients might be used instead. The physical machines provide a backup in cases where students have messed up their configuration to the point where they need to switch to a new system.

3. Next meeting of the group - Friday 10 June at 7 am Omaha/1400 Kristiansand

4. action items Peter will post link to recording in wiki space and email