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Windows NT at DESY
Status report
4th-8th
HEP NT
October 1999 SLAC
The Domain DESYNT
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Single Domain spanning Hamburg and Zeuthen
~2000 registered users in 55 groups
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Groups are more or less based on DESY administrative structure
Group administrators are responsible for
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Configuration and installation
Support for the users
Account maintenance
Computer accounts
About 1400 active nodes
~1050 workstations online per day (900 in parallel)
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Growth rate is flatting out
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Workstations Online per Day in
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Users in DESY NT Domain
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The DESY WindowsNT Infrastructure
PDC
Application
Cluster
BDC
WINS
Home directory
Cluster
DFS
DESY Hamburg LAN
SQL
HUB
SMS
Data Replication
4 MBIT
Leased
Line
Print Cluster
Web Cluster
File
Server
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BDC
WINS
DESY Zeuthen LAN
Terminal Server
Print Server
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Clusters
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Most central services are based on clusters
DEC Cluster Solution
Application
Homedirectory
Microsoft Cluster
Printservice
Windows load balanced Service
WebService
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NetInstall Application Cluster
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Digital WNT Cluster
Digital Server 3000, 266 MHz
Dual Pentium II,
128 MB memory,
1 shared differential SCSI bus
DEC RA310 RAID array
25 GByte disk space
RA310
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Home Directory Cluster
45GB
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Digital WNT Cluster
DEC Prioris MX6200,
200 MHz Dual Pentium II,
256 MB memory,
3 shared differential SCSI bus
RAID 3/5 stripeset with parity
In total 265 GB HD
152GB
68GB
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MS Cluster for Printing
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Print jobs are spooled over NT printserver to the central UNIX
print server
Print service runs on a Microsoft Cluster now
Saving the configuration
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Registry keys: HKLM
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SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Ports
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares
Copy drivers %SystemRoot%\system32\spool\drivers
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DESYNTCLUF
External SCSI
Harddisk
External
terminator
Standard PC’s
External
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SCSI Bus
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The DESY WindowsNT WEB Services
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Windows load balanced service (WLBS)
Standard PC’s
Mirrored IDE Harddisk
2 network interfaces
IIS
Scalable up to 32 nodes
SWITCH
HUB
PC 1
PC 2
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Management
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Application support
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NetInstall V4 in production since May 1998
About 50 applications in 13 software groups
Migration to Version 5  Ch. Trachimow: “Application support”
Administrative tasks
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Web Based Domain Management WBDM  H. Bartels: “NT
based WebServices & Web based domain management”
Scripting  Ch. Trachimow: “ A scripting host for domain
automation tasks”
Not only a replacement of the TEM – more functionality
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AntiVirusSoftware
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VirusScan V4.04 from Network Associates
Start with an Antivirus test domain in June
Scanning on access (default)
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Private scan schedules are possible
Management Edition
Real time software distribution system
 Doesn’t meet our demands
 Only one database
 Frequently disk access – Network Monitor Agent (10 sec.)
 API’s unknown and not documented
 no script support for management possible
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Messages to GA’s and AV Admin when virus found
 First distribution via NetInstall package
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Outlook
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Migration to NetInstall V5
Terminal Server investigations
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Configuration
Scalability and Load balancing
Access protocols (RDP, ICA, X)
Groupware
Windows 2000
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Still at the very beginning – no migration concept
Small NT test domain with Beta3 RC1
IP test domain with DDNS between Hamburg and Zeuthen
(Bind8 server – waiting for tests)
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