December 2014 - ISG-news - lists.phys.ethz.ch

[ISG News] Maintenance downtime for group share and home directory fileservers
by Schmid Patrick 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance downtime for group share and home directory fileservers' In order to upgrade the operating system on serveral servers, we schedule a maintenance downtime on Sunday, 4th January 2015, starting at 22:00. Schedule: 22:15 start working on the home server (mail services disabled, incoming mail will be queued) 22:20 start working on the group share servers (windata & astrogate) ~ 22:45 home directories and mail services should work again ~ 00:00 group shares will incrementally come back during the night During the downtime you can access readonly backups of your data of the night before, take a look at our readme. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this service interruption might cause. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/12/19/maintenance-downtime-for-group-sha… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Schmid Patrick schmid(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Computer support during christmas holidays
by Schmid Patrick 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

ISG News has posted a new item, 'Computer support during christmas holidays' The ETH Zurich will be officially closed between Wednesday, 24th of December 2014 and Sunday, 4th of January 2015. 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/2014/12/19/computer-support-during-christmas-… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Schmid Patrick schmid(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] 2014 in review
by Christian Herzog 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

ISG News has posted a new item, '2014 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 2014: eXile: in order to be able to keep Windows XP machines that cannot be upgraded connected to the network, we have created the exile system of dedicated virtual firewalls. Currently there are 57 computers safely hidden in this network. Security flaws: 2014 saw the disclosure of three rather severe and widespread security problems in quick succession: Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle. We patched all affected systems within hours of the announcements and also scanned the network for hosts that had been overlooked. If you're managing any networked machines (not just servers!) yourself, please make sure those are not vulnerable. Outages: we had a major incident on August 27 due to a failure of the server room cooling system. Fortunately we were able to repair the damage within hours. Other than that, our systems have been very stable in 2014 and we only had minor issues. Storage: in 2014 the disk space occupied by data and backup grew from 535 TiB to 685 TiB, further increasing the yearly growth rate. Another 120 TiB are already in the pipeline. Printing: in cooperation with Informatikdienste we prepared and introduced the new ETH printing system in D-PHYS. Several groups have migrated already, the rest of D-PHYS will follow in 2015. IPv6: during the last 12 months we prepared the D-PHYS network for dual stack (IPv4 + IPv6) operation. The biggest step towards a working IPv6 infrastructure was the deployment of an IPv6-ready DHCP server. Beginning next January we will incrementally hand out IPv6 addresses in the D-PHYS network. Later on, we'll make our services IPv6-ready. Brain drain: two ISG group members decided to take on new challenges this year. In November, Thomas Berchtold left us after 3 successful years to become the new Head of IT of D-BAUG, and Elmar Heeb, the founding father of ISG D-PHYS, will start his new job in Informatikdienste in February. We thank both Thomas and Elmar for their dedicated work and contribution to the team and hope to stay in regular contact with them in the future. Christian Ringger will replace Thomas in January, while Elmar's succession is still work in progress. Happy Holidays and see you in 2015! You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/12/18/2014-in-review/ You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Christian Herzog daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch

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