ISG News has posted a new item, 'Short-term maintenance downtime'
As a probable aftermath of last week's power outage we are experiencing some
issues with the file system on our home directory server which can only be
repaired offline. We therefore schedule a maintenance window
Today, Monday Feb 2, 2015, starting at 22:00
The duration of the downtime cannot be estimated but should not exceed two
hours. During this time you will not be able to access your home folder or
receive new D-PHYS email. All incoming mail will be queued for later
processing.
Thank you for your understanding.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2015/02/02/short-term-maintenance-downtime/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'new ISG staff member'
It is my pleasure to welcome Christian Ringger into our group. He joins us to
replace Thomas Berchtold in the Windows team.
Welcome Christian!
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2015/01/08/new-isg-staff-member-3/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Maintenance downtime for group share and home
directory fileservers'
In order to upgrade the operating system on serveral servers, we schedule a
maintenance downtime on
Sunday, 4th January 2015, starting at 22:00.
Schedule:
22:15 start working on the home server (mail services disabled, incoming mail
will be queued)
22:20 start working on the group share servers (windata & astrogate)
~ 22:45 home directories and mail services should work again
~ 00:00 group shares will incrementally come back during the night
During the downtime you can access readonly backups of your data of the night
before, take a look at our readme.
We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this service interruption might
cause.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/12/19/maintenance-downtime-for-group-sha…
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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 Wednesday, 24th of December
2014 and Sunday, 4th of January 2015. 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/2014/12/19/computer-support-during-christmas-…
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ISG News has posted a new item, '2014 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 2014:
eXile: in order to be able to keep Windows XP machines that cannot be upgraded
connected to the network, we have created the exile system of dedicated virtual
firewalls. Currently there are 57 computers safely hidden in this network.
Security flaws: 2014 saw the disclosure of three rather severe and widespread
security problems in quick succession: Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle. We
patched all affected systems within hours of the announcements and also scanned
the network for hosts that had been overlooked. If you're managing any networked
machines (not just servers!) yourself, please make sure those are not
vulnerable.
Outages: we had a major incident on August 27 due to a failure of the server
room cooling system. Fortunately we were able to repair the damage within hours.
Other than that, our systems have been very stable in 2014 and we only had minor
issues.
Storage: in 2014 the disk space occupied by data and backup grew from 535 TiB
to 685 TiB, further increasing the yearly growth rate. Another 120 TiB are
already in the pipeline.
Printing: in cooperation with Informatikdienste we prepared and introduced the
new ETH printing system in D-PHYS. Several groups have migrated already, the
rest of D-PHYS will follow in 2015.
IPv6: during the last 12 months we prepared the D-PHYS network for dual stack
(IPv4 + IPv6) operation. The biggest step towards a working IPv6 infrastructure
was the deployment of an IPv6-ready DHCP server. Beginning next January we will
incrementally hand out IPv6 addresses in the D-PHYS network. Later on, we'll
make our services IPv6-ready.
Brain drain: two ISG group members decided to take on new challenges this year.
In November, Thomas Berchtold left us after 3 successful years to become the new
Head of IT of D-BAUG, and Elmar Heeb, the founding father of ISG D-PHYS, will
start his new job in Informatikdienste in February. We thank both Thomas and
Elmar for their dedicated work and contribution to the team and hope to stay in
regular contact with them in the future. Christian Ringger will replace Thomas
in January, while Elmar's succession is still work in progress.
Happy Holidays and see you in 2015!
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/12/18/2014-in-review/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Join us for the new printing system'
Together with our colleagues at Informatikdienste we have adopted the new ETH
printing system in our department. Read about the many advantages of the project
in our documentation. On October 15 we have migrated the first Institute (ITP)
where people now can benefit from various features like pull printing and
automatic toner supply.
So who's next to join us? We have printers in stock, so if your group is
interested, we can accommodate you on very short notice. Just get in contact.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/10/16/join-us-for-the-new-printing-syste…
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Severe server failure'
complete loss of cooling in the server room. We have yet to assess the damage.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/08/27/severe-server-failure/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Major server room remodeling'
All of D-PHYS's important servers (and services: mail, homes, SAN, web) reside
in two water-cooled racks in HIT D 13. On Wednesday, August 20 those racks will
have to be retrofitted by our colleagues of Informatikdienste since certain
spare parts are no longer available. We have an elaborate plan how to externally
power the servers while the racks are offline that schedules a 5-minute downtime
that most of you won't even notice. However, there is a small chance that this
external power supply does not work as expected which would lead to a longer
interruption. Unfortunately we have no influence on the date, time and procedure
of this modification and can only try our best to minimize potential
consequences. So if something should go wrong next Wednesday, please don't
panic, we'll be hard at work to fix it ASAP.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/08/13/major-server-room-remodeling/
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Server Maintenances this Week: E-Mail and
BackupPC'
We have scheduled a software maintenance of the D-PHYS mail server for tomorrow,
Wednesday, the 18th of June 2014, starting in the late afternoon around 5pm. A
downtime of all D-PHYS mail services during the evening will be part of the
maintenance. The downtime is expected to take approximately 15 to 30 minutes.
During the downtime sending and receiving e-mails will not be possible and the
web mail service will be not available. Incoming mails during the downtime will
be delayed.
Additionally there will be a downtime of our "BackupPC" backup service for
laptops and lab PCs due to server relocation on Thursday (19th of June 2014)
starting around 9am.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/06/17/server-maintenances-this-week-mail…
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Axel Beckert
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Keep in Mind: Windows XP reached its
End-of-Life one Month ago'
Microsoft provided a final bunch of patches for Windows XP in April 2014. Since
then no more security and stability fixes are going to be released. This means
that still running Windows XP machines conflict with the ETH Bot (Acceptable Use
Policy for Telematics) which requires that every computer connected to the ETH
network must be fully updated and secured.
The central IT security group of ETHZ continuously inspects the network streams
for signatures of XP computers. In the D-PHYS public networks they still detect
around 15 Windows XP based computers. If you have a running XP machine connected
to the public network, please migrate the operating system to a newer version
i.e Windows 7.
In case you are forced to keep Windows XP up and running, you can migrate the
machine to our eXile network. Simply send the required information to
isg(a)phys.ethz.ch after you've read and understood the eXile Terms-of-Use, so we
can prepare the machine for the eXile network.
If you have any questions or need help please do not hesitate to contact the ISG
D-PHYS Helpdesk
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2014/05/22/keep-in-mind-windows-xp-reached-it…
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Thomas Berchtold
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