ATN Web Systems

Introduction

Our primary mission is to maintain server hardware, install and maintain critical software, maintain security, provide Tier III support for the ITRC and plan for future growth and developing technologies.  While our primary customers are students, faculty and staff, our web systems have a state, nation and international interest.  ATN Web Systems serves the core web services for UNC-CH.  However, there are web servers scattered all over campus--too many to mention.   Think of www.unc.edu as the main hub that links to all web services on campus.  One of our biggest customers is the Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) hosting hundreds of courses online and growing rapidly.  Departmental and personal pages are also served up from here.  HTML content is maintained by their owners directly.  We have numerous pages installed on local disk, but we are moving rapidly to have all web pages stored and served from AFS space via the DCI Group.  Using DCI we can easily scale our web services to multiple servers.  Users with AFS clients may easily mount their HTML space locallly on their PC for editing.  Any changes made are almost instantly published through the main web server.

Here is a sample of the content we serve up:

Who We Are

First, there is Joe Morris who is the Web Systems Manager.  Joe is responsible for the overall operation of these systems.  This includes maintaining the overall health of each system, ensuring security and adapting to changing technologies.

Linda Jen is the Web Systems Assistant Manager.  She is primarily responsible for analyzing our current systems for performance, maintaining backups, handling requests via Remedy, keeping operationg systems and applications patched and providing system programming development and support for various cgi-bin applications.

Sid Stafford is the Web Systems Applications Programmer.  He is focused on working with UNC-CH departments and organization integrate various web applications into our infrastructure. Most common is Java, PHP and our Blackboard application.

Technical Specifications

Our core services depends on the following hardware and software:

Projects