What's new in the ITS Private Cloud? (2025-06)

We are excited to announce the following features and improvements to the ITS Private Cloud and Billing services - all designed to enhance your experience and streamline your computing needs:

1 Artificial Intelligence
- 1.1 ITS Private Cloud Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
2 Announcements
- 2.1 Ubuntu Pro Renewal
3 UTORrecover Enhancements
- 3.1 Commission Request
- 3.2 UTORrecover Troubleshooting scripts (experimental)
  - 3.2.1 UTORrecover Checker
  - 3.2.2 UTORrecover Client Firewall
4 How-to articles

Artificial Intelligence

ITS Private Cloud Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server

We’re excited to launch the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for seamless AI integration with the ITS Private Cloud Virtual Server Service, available now at https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1998454851 .

Announcements

Ubuntu Pro Renewal

Ubuntu Pro support has been successfully renewed and is now active across all four ITS Private Cloud domains (FD1–FD4). Just run ”sudo pro refresh” to update your Ubuntu Pro license. Read on https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/blog/2025/06/13/1996980250 and https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1996881958

UTORrecover Enhancements

Commission Request

We are excited to introduce a new method for commissioning your virtual or physical hosts. This updated process enhances the onboarding experience by integrating Echo/Connectivity Requests with the UTORrecover Commissioning Request. For more details,. Read on here: https://eis-vss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VSSPublic/pages/1975550025

UTORrecover Troubleshooting scripts (experimental)

To enhance the onboarding experience, we have developed a set of scripts designed to assist you in troubleshooting NetWorker issues and firewall configuration challenges.

UTORrecover Checker

The utorrecover_checker.sh script runs a few checks to validate your host is ready to be on-boarded.

curl -s https://backups.eis.utoronto.ca/static/scripts/utorrecover_checker.sh | bash

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Successful output

UTORrecover Client Firewall

This set of scripts configures firewalld and ufw to allow bidirectional communication between the NetWorker Client and UTORrecover backup servers.

curl -s https://backups.eis.utoronto.ca/static/scripts/utorrecover_firewalld.sh | bash

curl -s https://backups.eis.utoronto.ca/static/scripts/utorrecover_ufw.sh | bash

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