Campus Network Engineering Meeting Notes - Getting rid of the 2511RJ and 2511 Cisco terminal servers
Full history of meeting notes on the agenda item "Getting rid of the 2511RJ and 2511 Cisco terminal servers".
- 14JUN21: We discussed getting rid of the 2511RJ and 2511 term servers. The reason is that we have no 2511's left to replace the hotspares. Consensus is to install our newest model of terminal server at csc. This will allow us to remove the last two 2511 terminal servers (t-animal-122a-1-mgmt and t-csc-101h5-1-mgmt). t-animal-122a-1-mgmt is only needed because of devices supporting t-csc-101h5-1-mgmt. Currently we have 4221's at DET datacenter, Jeremy Clark thinks we should use 4331 terminal servers that the WAN team is using. Jeremy is going to ask Paul Nazario how well they are working. Dennis will not order until it is decided if we are going with the 4331 or 4221. Leaving on agenda.
- 21JUN21: Ran out of time.
- 28JUN21: Ran out of time.
- 19JUL21: Ran out of time.
- 26JUL21: Ran out of time.
- 02AUG21: Ran out of time.
- 09AUG21: Jeremy did send an email to Paul Nazario, but has not gotten a reply. Consensus it to go with the Cisco dual power supply terminal server model ISR 4431. Dennis said we can proceed with ordering 5. Dennis will proceed with order when Jeremy sends the necessary information. Mark Tinberg created JIRA NS-5097 to add support to config builder and menu builder tools for the ISR 4431.
- 16AUG21: Jeremy needs to have a conversion with Chris Dahlke regarding licensing.
- 23AUG21: Ran out of time.
- 30AUG21: Jeremy heard back from Chris. The licensing should be fine. Jeremy let us know that there is a new model replacing the ISR 4400 series with ISR 8000 series. Consensus is to go with the ISR 4431 with 2 power supplies. Jeremy will get a hard count for how many old terminal servers to replace plus hot and cold sparing needed for placing an order with Dennis. JIRA NS-5097 was created to update the existing terminal server menu and config builder tool for ISR 4431. Jeremy will work with Mark Tinberg on the changes needed for the new terminal server ISR 4431.
- 20SEP21: Tom Christie is working on refactoring the current 2900 terminal server builder tool and then he will work on the 4431 terminal server builder tool. Jeremy has sent the 4431 part request to Dennis this morning.
- 27SEP21: Dennis has the parts list and is creating the order. After the gear arrives Jeremy and Tom Christie will work on the tool.
- 04OCT21: Dennis let us know that the order is being worked on. Review in a month.
- 08NOV21: Review after the first of the year when the order arrives.
- 31JAN22: Review in late March.
- 28MAR22: The Cisco order got pushed back again.
- 11APR22: New order date is the end of September.
- 26SEP22: Dennis said we are expecting to get 8 4431’s by the end of this week. Check again next week.
- 10OCT22: The 4431’s are not here. We discussed adding ssh to the serial ports. Jeremy confirmed that yes adding ssh is planned. Check again in a month.
- 21NOV22: The 4431’s are here. Jeremy has not had a chance to work on them. There are 7 in inventory. A Netbox entry needs to be completed. Review in a month.
- 23JAN23: Jeremy said this is now in progress. Jeremy is working on the template and then will work with the tools team to get a tool for the 4431’s. Review in a month.
- 27FEB23: Jeremy has the 4431 in the Techlab. Review in 2 weeks.
- 27MAR23: Jeremy needs to go in to continue the work. Check back in 2 weeks.
- 10APR23: No updates. Check back in a month.
- 05JUN23: Jeremy is going to work on them this Wednesday. Check back next week.
- 12JUN23: Jeremy let us know that the terminal server in the Techlab is connected and he is finalizing the configuration. Jeremy will work with the tools team after the configuration is finalized.
- 26JUN23: Jeremy has finished the configuration. Jeremy is working on getting the configurations to the tools team. Jeremy has created more equipment requests for replacing the 2511 terminal servers with the 4431’s. Review in 2 weeks.
- 10JUL23: Jeremy has a 4431 prepped for Animal. Jeremy is waiting for the builder tool to be updated. Tom Christie said it is on the next sprint. Review in 2 weeks.
- 31JUL23: Jeremy let us know that Tom Christie continues to work on the builder tool. Jeremy has ordered 2 more 4431’s to work on. One is for the hotspare and one is for CSC. Review 2 weeks.
- 14AUG23: Jeremy let us know that more work is needed for the builder tool. Review in 2 weeks.
- 28AUG23: Jeremy is meeting with Tom Christie to finalize the builder tool and will work on replacing the ones he has configured. Review in a month.
- 25SEP23: Jeremy created tickets for animal and CSC term servers. These can go away versus being replaced when the 4500X radial is replaced by James; so the tickets/work does not need to be done to replace those term servers. Last remaining ones are lab, hotspare and b116 term servers. Of those only the lab one needs to be replaced. Review in a month.
- 30OCT23: Jeremy has the hotspare ready to go. Review in a month.
- 27NOV23: No updates. Review in a month.
- 08JAN24: We discussed replacing the Cisco 2500 term servers in B116. Consensus is to look at a different vendor like Opengear. Jeremy will get part numbers to Dennis to order some Opengear devices for testing. Review in a month.
- 12FEB24: Paul Nazario reached out to see if we want to test the Cisco 1100 terminal server. Jeremy might have time to look at this in June. Consensus is to proceed with the demo to see if it will be better than Opengear. Review in June.
- 17JUN24: We are waiting for CSC 4500X switches to get upgraded and t-csc-101h5-1-mgmt to be decommissioned. James is working on CSC. The other 2511 is t-animal-122a-1-mgmt. The hotspare is on Jeremy’s desk waiting to be racked and cabled. Review in September.
- 14OCT24: Once the CSC 4500X is replaced with 9300X switches then the last 2511 term servers can be decommissioned. The CSC migration for the VA portion is coming this Thursday. Review in a month.
- 27JAN25: Jeremy is going to follow up with CDW to get demo units in the next couple weeks. Review in a month.
- 03MAR25: The Opengear equipment is arriving this week and will be installed in the Techlab on Tuesday in rack B4. Review in a month.
- 05MAY25: Testing is in progress but is on the back burner due to 400Gig projects. Review in 2 months.