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 servers.