ISG News has posted a new item, 'Major outage due to water ingress'
This morning around 03:00 a water ingress in our HIT server room shut down most
of our essential infrastructure servers. As soon as power was back around 08:00
we started to bring our services online.
Please let us know if you still experience any problems. We apologize for
the inconvenience. I guess water and servers just don't mix very well.
Status 12:14 apart from the BackupPC server everything should be working
again.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/07/05/major-outage-due-to-water-ingress/
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Christian Herzog
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Plimpy maintenance reboot'
Our terminal server plimpy (uptime: 47 days) is slowly clogging up with runaway
processes, eating up memory and CPU. Since we cannot tell apart good processes
from bad ones, we schedule a maintenance reboot for the Weekend, Saturday night
June 19th in order to give the system a fresh start. We ask all users to save
their data and log out of their thin clients.
BTW: Users of second generation thin clients (named tc00xx) are kindly invited
to test our new ubuntu based terminal server plompy. If you're interested to
give it a try, please let us know and we will configure your client.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/06/18/plimpy-maintenance-reboot-2/
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Katiuscia Joerg
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'No more Mailman password reminders in the
future'
Since the monthly password reminders of our mailing lists software Mailman have
caused more confusion and unnecessary work than they seemed to help, from now on
they are globally disabled on our mailing list server.
If you lost or forgot your password for the subscription of any of our mailing
lists, you can always go to https://lists.phys.ethz.ch/listinfo, choose the
appropriate list, scroll down to the bottom of that page, enter your e-mail
address, click on "Unsubscribe or edit options", and then click on "Remind".
Your password will be sent to your e-mail address.
Additionally, the next generation of Mailman doesn't seem have password
reminders anymore, anyway.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/05/12/no-more-mailman-password-reminders…
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Axel Beckert
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Homeserver Maintenance Downtime'
Because of performance problems on our Homefileserver we need to reboot the
server tomorrow Wednesday, 28th of April 2010. This will cause a downtime
between 07:00 and approximately 07:30.
This will result in a short service interruption for the home directories!
To protect you from losing or corrupting any of your files, it is best to close
all open files on the home directories.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/27/homeserver-maintenance-downtime/
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Schmid Patrick
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Printing problems'
Printing currently doesn't work on most Macs. We're still trying to find the
source of the problem.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/19/printing-problems/
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Christian Herzog
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance Downtime of IDL License and Condor
Master Server on 14. April, 5 pm'
Because of hardware problems with one of our infrastructure servers we couldn't
perform the planned software upgrade on the IDL license server and Condor master
server during the big maintenance downtime last week.
Those hardware problems are fixed now and so we will install the software
upgrade on the IDL license and Condor master server tomorrow, Wednesday, 14th of
April 2010, starting at 5 pm. Duration of the maintenance downtime will be
approximately two hours.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/13/maintenance-downtime-of-idl-licens…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'New computation node plumpy'
In order to relieve our Terminal Server plimpy of some of its computational
burden, we assigned it a new sidekick specifically targeted at number crunching
tasks: plumpy.ethz.ch
So if you've been using plimpy to perform calculations in the past, please ssh
into plumpy from now on and do your work there. This should make both you and
the plimpy users happy. Thank you.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/08/new-computation-node-plumpy/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance Downtime of all Services on
Wednesday, 7th of April 2010'
On Wednesday, 7th of April 2010, starting at 6pm and lasting until
approximately 9pm, there will be several maintenance downtimes for nearly all of
our services due to several software upgrades and relocation of servers.
So if you're using one of our managed workstations or thin clients, or use data
residing on group drives, please save all your work and preferably log
out/disconnect before Wednesday, 6pm. And even if the services seem back after
the first short downtime, don't expect to be able to work again from that point
on since we will have several short but also some not so short service downtimes
in a row.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/01/maintenance-downtime-of-all-servic…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Nearing End of Life support for Windows 2000
and Windows XP SP2'
On July 13th 2010, Windows 2000 Server/Professional and Windows XP Service Pack
2 will no longer be supported with security updates by Microsoft.
Machines running these operating systems should be upgraded to newer versions
like Windows 7 or Server 2008 if they are directly connected to the D-PHYS
network.
The IT Use Policy of ETH does not allow systems without an active patch cycle
to be connected to the ETH network.
Please make sure that all computers running any of the affected operating
systems have been migrated by July 13th 2010. The same also applies to even
older systems like Win 9x or NT 4.0 of course.
More information about Microsoft Support Lifecycle can be found here.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/03/08/nearing-end-of-life-support-for-wi…
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Patrick Frei
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Mail Server Migration Part 3: Webmail'
On Thursday, 4th of May 2010, starting at 5pm we will migrate our webmail
service to the new mail server. Since there are no version upgrades of the
webmail applications Roundcube and Twig, it will be a smooth transition and you
shouldn't even notice the migration. The only thing which can happen is that you
get logged out of webmail if you use webmail while the DNS entry changes to the
new server address.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/03/01/mail-server-migration-part-3/
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