Impact on IS Service
Pismere is intended to have a major impact on the user community at MIT
while having a minimal impact on IS Service. We intended to achieve that by
introducing as few new services as possible. For most service teams, the
impact of Pismere will be an increase in demand on existing services. We do
not expect most teams to have to acquire major new skills or personnel.
Traditionally IS Service has been able to ignore Microsoft operating
systems. They have not had to run many NT servers, or provide file services
for Windows. Project Pismere will change this. However, Pismere, unlike
other NT domains will require a minimal number of NT servers to be run. We
do not expect Service to run and support NT file servers, print servers, or
application servers. Service will be responsible for the operation of the
NT Domain Controllers, e.g. the Active Directory Service. Service will
continue to manage most of their operational data via Moira. However, this
data will need to be replicated to the Microsoft servers.
Existing services that are provided are expected to experience a higher
demand. For example, we will be adding a significant number of AFS clients
to the MIT network. Also, more users will be printing through the lpds
managed by Athena Operations.