Systems Acceptance Testing on the General Session Server

Starting on Sunday, November 16, 1997, through Wednesday, November 19,
1997, Systems Acceptance Testing was performed on the Central UNIX
General Session Server.  This testing was performed to test the Session
Server (the system where users actually login named "polylog1"), under
actual load conditions at the hardware specification the vendor
originally recommended in response to Cal Poly's RFP (Request for
Proposal) for the Central UNIX replacement systems.

Other systems such as OpenMail/OpenTime, the system Fileserver, and UNIX
Mail Server remained configured as they had been.  These other systems
were, at the worst, marginally effected by the tests.

This Systems Acceptance Testing was designed by ITS staff, provided for
review to Hewlett-Packard, and approved by Cal Poly ITS management and
the Instructional Advisory Committee on Computing prior to its
implementation.  Users were not informed of the testing to prevent
biasing the results of the test by users avoiding the system during the
test period.

For more detail on the tests and the observed results, see the web page
at "http://www.calpoly.edu/~ias/hp-unix-system/971116ev.htm".

We are sorry for any inconvenience that this Systems Acceptance Testing
may have caused.