ISG News has posted a new item, 'Printer Statistics'
We developed a real-time monitoring of the number of pages printed in physics
department. We keep track of the printed pages on each printer and the total for
our two servers (cups and winprinter). The results are plotted on our printer
homepage printer.ethz.ch. Clicking on the upper graph shows you more details, as
well as the statistics over the last 30days. Moreover you can click on the
little "Stats" icon next to each printer, to see its individual statistics.
These statistics not only help us to monitor and debug our printers, but should
also make everyone aware of the large amount of pages printed in D-Phys, namely
that more than 5000 pages are printed every single workday.
Please be eco-friendly and print only when you need to.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/04/27/printer-statistics/
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Claude Becker
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'New SSL certificates for some ISG D-PHYS
managed services'
We just deployed new SSL certificates for some of our services. Sending e-mails
via our mail server no longer requires the import of our root CA certificate
beforehand, but may require a restart of your e-mail client. Internal websites
(like account management and password changing) or websites which are hosted by
us and don't end in .ethz.ch got new certificates signed by our new root CA
certificate. To avoid annoying and irritating warnings, we recommend you import
our root CA certificate into your web browser.
The new root certificate will be installed in the web browsers on our managed
workstations within the next days, too.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/04/13/new-ssl-certificates-for-some-isg-…
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Axel Beckert
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Status of printing, one week later'
Now that the dust has settled a bit, we would like to give a status update
after the print server migration. Somewhat contrary to popular belief, the
overall situation with printing has improved quite a lot. Most combinations of
operating systems, client programs, file formats and printers work very well,
with two notable exceptions:
Macs: printing PDFs from non-Adobe programs on Xerox Phaser printers (and only
those) fails. We're working on a solution. Either use Adobe Reader/Acrobat or
print on any other printer
Macs: the LPD way of printing (readme) currently does not work. Again, we're
working on it. Use CUPS in the meantime.
As a reminder, please let us know immediately if apart from the
above-mentioned cases you still experience printing issues.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/04/12/status-of-printing-one-week-later/
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Christian Herzog
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Printing - again / still / whatever'
The new print server solved many of the problems that were troubling you (and
us) in the past. Unfortunately, it seems it also introduced a couple of new
ones. In order for us to be able to address them, it is very important that we
know about them in the first place. We hadn't seen those issues in our
months-long tests, otherwise we wouldn't have deployed the new server. So,
pretty please with sugar on top, call us immediately if your print job does not
come out as expected. A problem description like "it hasn't been working for
weeks" does not help anyone. Please call us, we're working hard to find and
eliminate those issues. Thank you.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/04/08/printing-again-still-whatever/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'DHCP Server Upgrade on Wednesday 5pm'
On Wednesday, the 6th of April 2011, starting around 5pm we will upgrade the
operating system on the two D-PHYS DHCP servers. This should not cause any
interruptions for computers which are already online, but computers which
connect to our network between 5pm and 6pm may not get an IP address assigned
immediately. As these computers mostly will be mobile devices, we suggest to
switch to the wireless network instead for that evening.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/04/05/dhcp-server-upgrade-on-wednesday-5…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'New print server'
We know printing is not always fun, and we hear your complaints. During the
past few months we have been busy setting up a new print server that should
solve most of today's problems (hopefully). We will deploy the new system on
Monday, April 4, at 07:30
The only change for you should be faster and more reliable printing. If you do
experience any problems when printing, please let us know immediately so we can
fix it.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/04/01/new-print-server/
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Christian Herzog
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