Section 4.9.9 MurdochNet Administrator
To facilitate the administration tasks related to
MurdochNet, the Office of Information Technology Services shall assign a person
the role of MurdochNet Administrator. Some areas of responsibility associated
with this role may be shared with other designated staff within the Office of
Information Technology Services.
The MurdochNet
Administrator shall be responsible for:
(1) the operation and support of the MurdochNet Host
(2) the operation and support of designated Central MurdochNet
Servers
(3) ensuring that adequate security measures are in place to
prevent unauthorised access to the computers, and their associated software,
used to run designated Central MurdochNet Servers
(4) ensuring that only they, or persons authorised by them, may
install software, upgrade operating systems, run or modify applications, tools
and other programs on computers used to run designated Central MurdochNet
Servers
(5) ensuring that the Content and software on a computer used to
run a Central MurdochNet Server is backed up independently and that backup
tapes are stored in a secure physical location that is also a separate physical
location
(6) ensuring that appropriate procedures are in place for recovery
and restoration of Content to a Central MurdochNet Server in the event of the
loss or corruption of files or data due to system failure
(7) assigning tasks associated with the installation and
configuration of Server software to designated staff within the Office of
Information Technology Services
(8) assigning tasks associated with the development and
maintenance of applications, tools and utilities to designated staff within the
Office of Information Technology Services
(9) creating appropriate user groups to facilitate the management
of user accounts for Content Providers
(10) providing an environment where only authorised Content
Providers may add, modify and delete files hosted on the Central MurdochNet
Server used to provide a Content development environment
(11) ensuring that access to the process for copying files to the
MurdochNet Host is restricted via the Murdoch Authentication &
Identification System (MAIS)
(12) ensuring that access to the process of deleting Content from
the MurdochNet Host is restricted to authorised staff responsible for the
administration of MurdochNet, and when required, to Content Providers assigned
the appropriate MAIS Authority Type
code
(13) providing advice to Web Administrators on the selection,
installation and configuration of Web Server software
(14) providing advice to Web Administrators on the use of Secure
Servers and the process of registering a Server for a Digital ID/Certificate
(15) providing a program to monitor the availability of MurdochNet
Servers and Affiliated Web Servers and to alert Web Administrators re Server
problems
(16) providing a Server Registration System to be used in the
registration process and authorisation process for Web Servers
(17) providing a Web Server
Alias Redirection Service to ensure that HTTP requests to secondary aliases are
re-directed to the primary or preferred alias maintained in the University’s
DNS
(18) liaising with staff responsible for the support of strategic
application systems when such systems utilise a Web interface and require
applications to be hosted on a Central MurdochNet Server
(19) providing application support for designated applications
hosted on a Central MurdochNet Server.
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