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[ISG News] 2016 in review
by Christian Herzog 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

ISG News has posted a new item, '2016 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 2016: New team member: Sven Mäder joined ISG this year to replace Axel in our Linux server team. Account expiry: you might have heard that D-PHYS decided to phase out old accounts in the future. We spent the last year laying the technical groundwork for a smooth and painless implementation of this policy change. One first visible result is our new account portal. Printing: in summer we integrated student printing into the pia printing system which means that we now have a comprehensive printing solution for the whole department. The D-PHYS print server will be shut down in early 2017. Storage: in 2016 the disk space occupied by data and backup grew from 929 TiB to 1.3 PiB, again increasing the yearly growth rate. We are now using 60-disk toploader chassis to maximize storage space-per-volume. Outages: we scheduled two maintenance windows, on April 14 and September 5, in order to perform hardware and system upgrades. Together with a network upgrade by Informatikdienste on September 15, these were the only noteworthy downtimes in 2016. Docking network: in fall 2016 we migrated most of the department's network sockets to the 802.1x-enabled docking network. While there is little immediate benefit for most of us, this is a prerequisite for future network projects like the upcoming Unified Collaboration & Communication (UCC) project. Wifi: in early 2016 we developed and installed a portable wifi probe that eventually led to the discovery of one of the underlying problems causing ETH's wifi woes. Since then, wifi has been much more stable. OS upgrades: 2016 brought new OS versions for almost every system: the Windows 10 rollout picked up steam, Sierra arrived on the Macs and Ubuntu 16.04 on the Linux workstations. Cluster: we built and deployed a new high-availability cluster setup for our virtual servers this year. Core services: a lot of infrastructure work has happened in the background to ensure smooth operation and seamless growth of our services in the future. Examples are: new ActiveDirectory servers for our Windows users, migrating our webserver certificates to Let's Encrypt, a facelift for most of our websites to match the AEM design and an upgrade of our iPXE boot screen. IT security: we participate in and support the ETH-wide IT security initiative and also worked hard to make the mandated n.ethz password change as humane as possible. 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 2017! You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2016/12/16/2016-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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[ISG News] short maintenance downtime of astrogate on Monday, Dec 12, starting at 07:00
by Christian Herzog 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

ISG News has posted a new item, 'short maintenance downtime of astrogate on Monday, Dec 12, starting at 07:00' We schedule a short (~30 min) maintenance downtime of astrogate on Monday, Dec 12, starting at 07:00 in order to replace a network card. During this time no access to the astro SAN data will be possible. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2016/12/09/short-maintenance-downtime-of-astr… 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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