ISG News has posted a new item, 'Mail Server Maintenance Downtime this Evening'
For some hardware and other maintenance we schedule a downtime of our mail
server today (Fri, 13th of April 2012) evening after 6pm.
The downtime will likely take less than one hour. During the downtime you will
neither be able to access your mails on the server nor to send mails via our
server. Mails which are sent to the Dept. of Physics won't get lost, but will
have some lag.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/04/13/mail-server-maintenance-downtime/
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Best regards,
Axel Beckert
beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Temporary SMB access restriction'
Last night a security problem was detected in the SMB server software we use for
our group and home shares. In order to protect your data and our systems, we
temporarily restrict access to our group and home shares to the ETHZ IP address
range
until security updates are available. If you're outside the ETH network and need
to access your data, use VPN. We expect the updates to be released later today
or tomorrow and will then go back to world wide access.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/04/11/temporary-smb-access-restriction/
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Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Migration of Home Directories'
In order to restructure the filesystem of the home directories, we schedule a
migration on
Wednesday, 28. March 2012, starting at 17:00 and lasting for several hours.
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/2012/03/16/migration-of-home-directories/
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Schmid Patrick
schmid(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'HIT Building: Network Interruption next Friday
Morning, 9th of Mars'
ID-Kom plans to upgrade the access routers of the HIT building next Friday
morning (9th of Mars) between 6:00 and 7:30am. This causes a network
interruption for about 15 minutes during this time in the HIT building.
All D-PHYS Servers located in HIT D 13 are not affected by this interrupt and
are reachable from outside the HIT building at any time.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/03/06/hit-building-network-interruption-…
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thomber
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Short maintenance downtime on Sun, Feb 12'
Yesterday's outage could be traced to a flaky voltage controller on one of our
RAID adapters. We schedule a short maintenance downtime on
Sunday, Feb 12, around 13:00
in order to replace the faulty controller. Most services will be affected.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/02/10/short-maintenance-downtime-on-sun-…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Hardware failure'
Severe hardware failure on one of our core infrastructure servers. We're working
on it.
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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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Christian Herzog
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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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Christian Herzog
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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!
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2012/01/03/new-isg-staff-member-2/
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Christian Herzog
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