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Dr. Petr Zimak

 

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URZadmin

Development and operation of the central identity management of the University of Basel.
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  • Managed objects: persons (students, staff, faculty, guests), organizations (university and external institutions), roles, accounts (UNIX, LDAP, RADIUS), mail addresses, mail lists, mail services (auto reply, spam filter, etc.).

  • Integration (provisioning) of UNIX / Linux servers, LDAP servers (OpenLDAP), Livingston und Radiator RADIUS servers, sendmail und PMDF mail servers, mailman und PMDF mail list servers, procmail und maildropfilter mail processors.

  • Data exchange with SAP Campus, data exports to SAP HR and to other systems.

  • Various interfaces:

    • URZadmin: full administrative web interface

    • viaWEB: self services for user specific settings and services.

    • perssearch: white pages of the University of Basel

    • SMILE: mail address selection and activation for new students.

    • periodic jobs (control of mail services, suspending, activating and aging accounts and mail addresses, data exchange with SAP, UNIX serves, LDAP etc.) and UNIX command line tools.

  • Implementation in Perl: easy portability to various platforms.

NOC: Network Operations Center

Development and operation of a Perl application for network monitoring, reporting and configuration changes over telnet and SNMP.

  • Inventory of active IP addresses, report structured by subnet.

  • Discovery of new IP addresses and of clients with incorrect IP settings.

  • Periodic scans of network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, access points, etc.) device configuration backup, alerts on configuration changes and when the active configuration was not saved on device.

  • Discovery of new network devices using routing tables and CDP (for Cisco devices).

  • Real time device monitor (display of uptime and number of active interfaces).

  • Execute Cisco IOS commands on selected network devices.

  • Display bandwidth usage (MRTG/RRD Tool).

The first version of NOC was released 1994 as one of the first applications using a web interface (NCSA Mosaic).

 

Media releases of the government of Basel-Stadt

Management of media releases, departments and administrative users, authorizations and news letters (http://www.medienmitteilungen.bs.ch)

 

2007-08, info@zimak.ch

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