Technology Infrastructure Services
Technical Support and Operations
Technical Support is a unit in the
Technology
Infrastructure Services department of Information
Technology. This group is composed of systems
administrators, systems programmers, systems analysts,
and operations staff who install and maintain the
university's central servers. The unit is organized into
the following groups:
Jerold Hargis, Assistant Director
Operations
Bill Bennett, Coordinator
This staff of six provide nearly 24x7 support of
computer operations and scheduling for all central
servers as well as network status monitoring and first
response troubleshooting.
Unix System Administration and Security
Chris Hanna
This section provides server configuration,
installation, and ongoing maintenance for all Unix-based
servers. Primarily these machines support instructional computing
(BlackBoard, WebCT), administative computing via Banner,
webserving (www.indstate.edu and many other domains),
the MyISU portal, faculty and student webs, DNS/DHCP,
mail gateways and listservs, student mail, account authorization,
network monitoring and security, and streaming media.
Novell
Services
This staff of four provide server configuration,
installation, and ongoing maintenance for all
Novell-based servers. These machines support lan-based
file storage and backup, network-based printing, shared
file space, network access authentication, campus-wide
email, specialized software distribution.
Windows Server Administration and Security
Stephen McCloud
Technical Support also supports several application
specific Windows-based servers that are managed by one
staff member who configures, installs, supports, and
attends to their security needs. We use Windows-based
servers for remote access to Windows desktop software,
native Microsoft IIS webpage publishing, automatic virus
software distribution, and other application-specific
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