ISG News has posted a new item, 'Hardware failure'
Severe hardware failure on one of our core infrastructure servers. We're working
on it.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/02/09/hardware-failure/
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Christian Herzog
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Mail Server Upgrade Part 2 on Thursday, 9th of
Februar 2012'
On Thursday, 9th of Februar 2012, starting at 16:30, we will upgrade the
operating system on the remaining servers of our mail server cluster. This will
result in temporary unavailability of most e-mail related services we provide:
sending and receiving e-mails, mailing lists and webmail access.
Due to the maintenance e-mails may have some lag and arrive a few hours later
than usual.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/02/02/mail-server-upgrade-ii/
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Axel Beckert
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'File server migration'
In order to solve our recent file server problems, we schedule another migration
on
Wednesday, January 25, starting at 17:00 and lasting for several hours.
During this time, you will not have access to your home or group directories,
and also email will only work intermittently. Please stop all running jobs and
log out prior to the migration.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/01/24/file-server-migration/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Emergency file server migration'
On Jan 5, after weeks of thorough planning and rigorous testing, we performed a
migration of the home directories and group shares to our new SAN system. Soon
afterwards, the first phone calls started coming in. The initial problem was
very exotic and affected very few people (that's why we had no chance to detect
it during the testing period), but the action we took to address it
unfortunately caused a cascade of consecutive faults that led to the
instabilities you had to endure for one week now and for which we are truly
sorry. We now know how to fix the underlying problem, but we cannot operate on
the running server. That's why we have to schedule an
emergency file server migration on Sat, Jan 14, starting at 07:00 and lasting
well into the afternoon probably.
During this time, you will not have access to your home or group directories,
and also email will only work intermittently. Please stop all running jobs and
log out before Saturday morning.
We apologize for the suboptimal performance since Jan 5. You have every right to
expect better, but this caught us completely off guard. Thank you for your
understanding.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/01/12/emergency-file-server-migration/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'new ISG staff member'
It is my pleasure to welcome Thomas Berchtold into our team. He joins us from
isginf and will strengthen our Windows support. His employment marks the
beginning of our collaboration with IGP of D-BAUG.
Welcome Thomas!
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/01/03/new-isg-staff-member-2/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Emergency downtime of D-PHYS mail server
today'
There will be an emergency maintenance downtime of the D-PHYS mail server later
today (Tuesday, 27th of December) due to unexpected hardware issues.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/12/27/emergency-downtime-of-d-phys-mail-…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Migration Home Directories'
In order to gain more flexibility and performance, the home directories will
move to our new SAN setup.
This will be done on Thursday, 5. January 2012, between 18:00 and 22:00.
During this time the home directories (winhome, machome, unixhome), the mail
services and some websites will not be available.
To protect you from losing or corrupting any of your files, we strongly
recommend you close all open files on the home directories before the
migration.
Since we have switched to generic names for our services, the home directories
will still be accessible the same way as before after the migration is over, so
you don't have to change anything.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/12/22/migration-home-directories-2/
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Schmid Patrick
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Computer support during christmas holidays'
The ETH Zurich will be officially closed between Monday, 26th of December 2011
and Monday, 2nd of January 2012. 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/2011/12/22/computer-support-during-christmas-…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Network Interruption Today from 7pm to 8pm'
Today, the 7th of December 2011, around 7pm, there will be a complete network
interruption in the whole Department of Physics for about one hour. The central
ETH IT Services (“Informatikdienste”) will replace the hardware of the core
router to the HPx network zone (includes the HIT building).
Wireless LAN should not be affected, but as the servers will be offline, too,
you won't have access to files or mails on the servers, i.e. don't expect to be
able to work during the network downtime. The technicians will reconnect the
servers first, so access to the servers from the outside of the Department or
via WLAN will be restored earlier than 8pm. Workstations and printers will get
network access back afterwards.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/12/07/network-interruption-today-from-7p…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'plompy terminal server: unscheduled maintenance
reboot'
Today at 13:00 we had to reboot plompy, one of our LTSP terminal servers. We're
sorry for any inconvenience. In order to prevent those terminal servers from
clogging up memory in the future, we hereby announce the following maintenance
reboot schedule:
plompy: first Sunday of each month, 02:00 am
plimpy: third Sunday of each month, 02:00 am
There will always be one functioning terminal server and upon login your thin
client will choose the right one. Please don't forget to save your data when
leaving for the weekend before those two Sunday dates (that's always a good idea
anyways).
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/11/04/plompy-terminal-server-unscheduled…
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