ISG News has posted a new item, 'Computer support during christmas holidays'
The ETH Zurich will be officially closed between Monday, 24th of December 2012
and Monday, 2nd of January 2013. During this time, we can only provide limited
support. Please follow these rules to save us from superfluous work:
Switch off printers
Switch off your personal workstation and notebook except for the following:
Do not switch off our managed Linux workstations.
We will try to follow our e-mail, but you may also have luck and meet some of us
in our IRC channel.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/12/20/computer-support-during-christmas-…
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Schmid Patrick
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ISG News has posted a new item, '2012 in Review'
This post is meant to give you a short overview of what has been accomplished in
D-PHYS IT by ISG this year. We've been hard at work to further improve and
extend our services for you, our customers. Some highlights of 2012:
Integration of IGP's IT into ours: as you might recall, our coworker Thomas is
actually paid by D-BAUG's IGP institute in exchange for us providing our IT
services to their users. For the last 12 months, we have migrated their servers,
data, users and software into our setup so that in future we can all profit from
a unified solution
File servers and backup: after some difficulties earlier this year our file
server and backup infrastructure is now rock solid and ready for the fast growth
in data volume that we expect in the next years. All disk backends have been
intregrated into our SAN setup and are connected via either Infiniband or 10G
ethernet for maximum speed. Just yesterday we passed the 1 PB mark in file
server disk space. Yes, that's 1024 TB.
Mail server bottleneck: also in spring, the sporadic performance bottleneck on
our mail server could be found and fixed. The server is now running on full
steam again
Personal user groups: probably completely unnoticed by our customers, all user
D-PHYS accounts have been migrated to personal user groups this year. While this
has been the standard behavior on modern Unix systems for many years now, our
LDAP directory dates back to SunOS which combined all user accounts into one
''staff'' group. Not a big deal for you, but makes life much easier for us.
Group share reporting: in order to provide a better overview of space allocation
and usage on our group shares, we introduced a periodic report email containing
the link to an interactive usage graph.
Mac OS X 10.7: the Mac workstations have been migrated to OS X 10.7, building a
unified setup to facilitate software distribution
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: the Linux workstations were upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, a
long-term support (LTS) version that benefits from an extended support cycle.
Apart from these highlights, of course there have been numerous small projects
and improvements to our setup, making both your and our life easier.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my whole team for their hard and
dedicated work all year long.
Happy Holidays and see you in 2013!
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/12/19/2012-in-review/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'ISG Helpdesk Service Interruption'
On Thursday, December 20, ETH facility services will conduct extensive power
network tests in the HPT building, where ISG (and hence the helpdesk) is
located. We were told to expect at least one power cut lasting at least 15 min,
possibly longer. During this time we will not be able to answer the helpdesk
phone or work on your tickets. We'll post an update when power is back.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/12/17/isg-helpdesk-service-interruption/
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