ISG News has posted a new item, 'Computer support during christmas holidays'
The ETH Zurich will be officially closed between Tuesday, 24th of December 2013
and Friday, 3rd of January 2014. 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.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2013/12/23/computer-support-during-christmas-…
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Schmid Patrick
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ISG News has posted a new item, '2013 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 2013:
New apprentice: As of August 14, Anastassios has started his apprenticeship with
us and is already deeply involved in a complex PHP/Ajax/PostgreSQL project. Keep
it up!
Mailserver: This year saw a massive increase in spam and especially phishing
attacks. They're getting more and more sophisticated and now include valid logos
and even personal names. We were forced to tighten email policies and further
fortify our mail server in order to battle those waves.
Backup: For the data on our file servers we provide one month of nightly
backups. Now our powerful backup system based on COW BTRFS snapshots allows us
to extend this period to up to one year in exponential intervals for most file
systems. Note that anything beyond 30 days is best-effort only and we might have
to cut back again in single cases. A new web frontend shows the status of all
backup runs.
Windows server: Several Windows server installations have been moved to a new
powerful virtualization server and the Active Directory setup has been
improved.
Printer portal: All information regarding our printers can now be found on one
website. You might want to check there if you have issues with a particular
printer or just to get an idea about printing volume.
Portal for managed workstations: Our new Chic! frontend shows the software
status of our managed Windows and Mac workstations and allows you to request
additional software packages. This service will be officially announced in
January 2014.
GitLab: We run a GitLab instance to facilitate collaborative programming
projects and sharing of code. Get in touch if you'd like to use it.
System upgrades: 2013 brought another round of OS upgrades, also for our
servers. We updated most servers silently and combined all critical systems into
one migration on September 11 in order to minimize downtime for our users.
Windows XP exile: As reported previously, Windows XP will be end-of-life in
April 2014. Since there's still a substantial number of XP machines out there
(most of which cannot be upgraded due to soft- or hardware constraints), we'll
provide a locked-down exile network that will allow a limited and
well-controlled survival of those machines under certain conditions. We'll post
an announcement when the system is ready.
IPv6: This year we laid the groundwork for the slow migration towards IPv6
connectivity in our networks. In particular, we got our monitoring system
IPv6-ready and prepared a NFSv4 rollout. We'll keep you posted about our IPv6
progress.
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 2014!
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2013/12/18/2013-in-review/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Software Upgrades on the D-PHYS Webserver on
18th Dec. 2013'
Starting on Wednesday, the 18th of December 2013 in the late afternoon, we will
start upgrading the operating system as well as many web applications on the
primary D-PHYS webserver. While we'll try to keep the downtimes as short as
possible, some temporary service interruptions can't be avoided and are hence
expected.
Potential issues with specific websites hosted on the D-PHYS webserver will be
tackled in the days after the upgrade.
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