A brief description of the School's Network
The
school has invested in technology as the path to the future and the
school network has expanded quickly as funds have been diverted into
technology hardware. It is administered by the HT TAS with release from
face to face teaching of one class. Since May 2005 an additional 'outside'
expert has been employed one day a week to help in maintaining, what is
by any account, a large and complex system.
The curriculum network
server at Seven Hills High is
based around a Pentium 4 2.8 processor with 2gbmb memory,
210gb
of SCSI drives, Raid 5 redundancy. The
server remotely backed up daily to a Windows 2003 mirrored server. The server is
also mirrored
to an identical server which gives a third level of redundancy. In
addition, staff and student data is copied to another workstation every
evening. A windows 2003 server handles the Symantec and Windows
updating. It also runs an intranet web server for students and staff
using the open source program, Plone. School Administration is via a separate Oasis Server.
 TAS
Computer Lab.
The school is cabled throughout,
(100mb & gigabit), with
two links per classroom, except for the computer labs which have
separate 10/100/1000 switches. Students
have access to over 130 computers, (& a 20mb home directory), throughout the
school and login under their own user name. There are 35 computers in
the library, 31 computers in the computer lab107, 31 Computers in
lab 1 and 24 computers in lab 14 (TAS). An additional Lab is
on the drawing boards late 2006. All staff rooms & administration areas
have access to at least two computers. There are six HP4x printers attached to the network
for student/staff use, plus all staffrooms have a
printer. most printers in the school run under Novel iPrint. Canon Photocopiers have recently been networked to
selected access points
All the computers in the school are
connected to the internet via cable and the DET secure internet browsing
proxy.
The server software is Novell Netware 6.5 plus management is via Zenworks
7 with Microsoft Windows XP being the main operating systems on workstations
at present. Every computer in the school runs the same image of
software.
During August 2005 all workstations capable of running XP will be
converted over to the XP operating system and older workstations retired. Workstations are managed with a combination of Zenworks &
Zen imaging. Antivirus software includes Symantec Corporate Antivirus. Microsoft
Office 2003 is the predominant packages used across the school.
Turbocad is the CAD package used for Graphics and PhotoshopPro the software used by
Creative Arts. Computer Labs each have 31 computers.
TAS computer lab 24 computers
 Maths & Computing Studies computer
lab 31 computers 
Library
computer lab 31 computers 
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