UNIX Systems

UNIX Systems

CaTS System Services maintains over 40 UNIX systems in the Library Annex. There are many general purpose UNIX systems that all students, faculty, and staff can access and there are some special function systems for dedicated services.

Main Application Server

The main general purpose UNIX system is a Sun Sparc Enterprise E-250 with:

- 2048 Megabytes of memory

- 45 Gigabytes of fiber-optic RAID 5 disk storage

- 2 400 MHz CPUs

- over 20,000 user accounts

- Solaris operating system

This system has many applications such as Matlab, Mathematica, Word Perfect, SAS, spss, email programs, compilers, and many other public domain tools that are used by people throughout the university.

University Mail Server

The university mail server is a SunFire v490 with:

- 16 GigaBytes of memory

- Over 600 Gigabytes of fiber-optic RAID 5 disk storage

- 8 1500 MHz CPUs

- Solaris Operating System

This system delivers approximately 90,000 mail messages per day to and from all university clients. It also serves those messages to all university mail clients using email programs such as Pine, Mac OSX Mail, and Netscape Mail, as well as to our web-based email accessible through our WINGS portal.

Near the mail server is an Enterprise-450 system used for account generation, helpdesk programs, and serving all of the user home directories to the application servers. This system is also used for authentication for modem and other access.

University Web Server

The university web server is a Sparc Enterprise E-250 with:

2048 Megabytes of memory
26 Gigabytes of fiber-optic RAID 5 disk storage
2 - 400 MHz CPU's
Solaris Operating System

This system is Wright State University's primary presence on the World Wide Web. Some departments run their own web servers, but this is the primary web server for WSU to communicate with the community, as well as to promote WSU to prospective students.

Special/Dedicated Function UNIX systems

There are several dedicated UNIX systems with the following functions:

A group of servers that host our Banner implementation

A group of servers that host our Campus portal (WINGS)

An Oracle / IS applications server

An Oracle Database server

A proxy server

The Campus Firewall

A Distance Learning Server that we maintain for the Center for Teaching & Learning

Backup servers to be brought online quickly if needed

Several systems for testing major changes before applying them to the production environment

UNIX Systems

Main Application Server

University Mail Server

University Web Server

Special/Dedicated Function UNIX systems

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