Systems Officer: UMIST/MCC Support Unit ('87-'91)

• Administration, use of and user support for a Sun UNIX fileserver and cluster of workstations, for the ECF and UMIST, including:
  1. General systems administration.
  2. Kernel configuration and maintainence, especially for networking.
  3. Bug reporting, liaison with manufacturers and software authors.
  4. General user support, problem tracking and report generation.
  5. Documentation, manuals, course contributions, proof-reading.
• Management of junior colleagues, liaison with senior management and policy committees, general administration.
• X-Windows support; a major evaluation of a number of X-Windows packages for Sun workstations, and performance testing of several X-Terminals.
• I.C. design software enhancements under ESPRIT funding.
• Central systems (VM/CMS, VM/UTS) user support for MCC/USU.
• PC and Novell support and administration for MCC.
• Support of the Joule Library's software and services on the UMIST Prime 9955.
• Applications support and advice: word processing, databases, DTP, etc.
• Miscellaneous Systems and Support work.
• Much systems-level network-related work, including:
  1. TCP/IP and related Internet protocols for the JNT's Shoestring project, running IP over X25.
  2. Responsibility for new network connections: software installation and configuration, and, where appropriate, hardware installation.
  3. Overseeing the day-to-day operation of network hardware and software, fault-finding and reporting.
  4. Usenet News administration; several local UKNet news feeds and a mail-to-news relay fed from Kyushu University (Japan).
  5. UNIX mail administration and development, in addition to Campus Email Server.
  6. Mail routing from X.25 to TCP/IP for several UNIX machines.
  7. Mail routing from TCP/IP to Novell, using Charon.
  8. Mail user interface evaluation and support.
  9. Providing ``Postmaster'' support to colleagues both locally and internationally.
  10. DNS, BOOTP and RARP services for UMIST.