In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (aaron t porter) wrote: >Clayton L. Hines ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >: I plan on finishing up a TACACS-checking process either today or >: tomorrow. Once that's done, we'll keep logs of response times from the >: NDS servers, and set alarms for when the NDS servers don't respond quickly >: enough. > What kind of hardware is used and how distributed is this task? >One would think that this is a rather critical point in the operation of >the system. MU-Net isn't worth much if you can't log in reliably. I'll tell you to the best of my knowledge, limited as it is. We're using three Novell NDS servers. I believe that they're dual-Pentium machines, from some well-recognized vendor. There's one on each of the Oxford, Middletown, and Hamilton campuses. They're each running a TACACS NLM, and they're configured for some kind of redundancy. I believe that it's just the TACACS NLM that hasn't been completely reliable in the history of MUnet. I haven't heard, anyway, of any major problems with the NDS servers themselves, although Boyd is really the person to talk on this subject. Clayton L. Hines [log in to unmask] Unix Software Specialist Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA