ISG News has posted a new item, 'Mailling list for software updates'
Our managed workstations (especially the ones running Linux) feature a very
wide range of software packages. Most of these programs are supplied directly by
the distribution (Debian, Ubuntu), but some others (most of them proprietarily
licensed) have to be manually maintained by us. Sometimes, upgrading one of
these software packages to a new major release might cause problems for expert
users of that program - for instance if they rely on a function specific to one
version. In order to prepare those pro users for upcoming major upgrades, we
have created a new mailing list on which we'll announce these updates.
So if you're heavily using programs like Maple, Matlab, Mathematica, IDL, the
Intel C and Fortran compilers or DS9, please go to
https://lists.phys.ethz.ch/listinfo/software-updates
and subscribe to this mailing list.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/08/18/mailling-list-for-software-updates/
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posted.
Best regards,
Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'File server maintenance on Wed Aug 4, 22:00'
A firmware update on the RAID controller of our file server requires a reboot
of this server. We schedule the reboot on Wednesday August 4, at 22:00. The
downtime should take no more than 30 min. Please make sure all your data has
been saved at that point.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/08/02/file-server-maintenance-on-wed-aug…
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Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Short maintenance downtime of LDAP server on
Mon Aug 2'
On Monday, August 2nd, starting at 18:00, we need to modify our LDAP user
database to incorporate structural changes needed for a new service we're
currently setting up. This will cause a downtime of about 1 h, probably even
shorter, that will affect user logins, email and file server access. We will
post an update when things are back to normal.
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/2010/07/29/short-maintenance-downtime-of-ldap…
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Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Short downtime for plempy, plompy and plumpy on
Monday Aug 2'
On Monday, August 2nd, starting at 07:00, our terminal server / computation
nodes plempy, plompy and plumpy will be moved into the water-cooled racks in the
HIT server room. This will cause a downtime of said machines of about 30 min. If
your thin client connects to plompy or if you're performing calculations on
plempy or plumpy, please make sure your data has been saved by Monday morning.
After the move, the trio will enjoy the amenities of our most advanced server
room that only another thunderstorm could disrupt.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/07/27/short-downtime-for-plempy-plompy-a…
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Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Home Directories Outage'
For reasons still unknown our home directory server fulen stopped serving any
files via NFS at about 5:20 pm. This stopped most active Linux logins. In order
to restore functionality we had to reboot the file server. As of 5:35 pm fulen
is again functioning.
Unfortunately, due to the necessary reboot we cannot fully assess the reason
for the incident. It follows a history of poor performance that we have been
investigating intensly for the last couple of weeks. We are still trying to find
the ultimate cause.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/07/22/home-directories-outage/
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Elmar Heeb
heeb(a)phys.ethz.ch
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.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/07/05/major-outage-due-to-water-ingress/
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Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch
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
kati(a)phys.ethz.ch
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
beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch
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
schmid(a)phys.ethz.ch
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.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/04/19/printing-problems/
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Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch