News - Mar 2004

Mar 25 2004 - Tigger will be down THURSDAY MARCH 26, 6:00PM-12:00 Midnight to upgrade the Operating System from AIX 4 to AIX 5. This longer time window is to insure that we have complete backups before we change anything.

While tigger is down, incoming email will be held and will be delivered when the system is back up. If you still have a tigger-only password, you will be unable to use it for Bluestem authentication, such as to use the dialup lines. You can avoid this problem by setting a new Common Password now at http://passwords.accc.uic.edu . Personal Web pages hosted on tigger of the form http://www.uic.edu/~netid will be unavailable. Departmental web pages of the form http://anything.department.uic.edu will remain available, except those that use many cgi scripts, such as formmail, pbupdate, and others, which will be unavailable.

Roger Deschner
ACCC Basic Systems Group

Mar 24 2004 - The Blackboard system is being upgraded to version 6.1 on Wednesday morning, 3/24, between 5am and 9am.

This time window is also set aside as the ITL maintenance window, so future downtime of our instructional technology systems on Wednesday mornings should be planned for.

Mar 23 2004 - Tigger will be down TUESDAY MARCH 24 (tonight!) 9:00 PM-12:00 Midnight, for hardware and microcode maintenance.

While tigger is down, incoming email will be held and will be delivered when the system is back up. If you still have a tigger-only password, you will be unable to use it for Bluestem authentication, such as to use the dialup lines. You can avoid this problem by setting a new Common Password now at http://passwords.accc.uic.edu . Personal Web pages hosted on tigger of the form http://www.uic.edu/~netid will be unavailable. Departmental web pages of the form http://anything.department.uic.edu will remain available, except those that use many cgi scripts, such as formmail, pbupdate, and others, which will be unavailable.

Roger Deschner
ACCC Basic Systems Group

Mar 22 2004 - We're experiencing problems with the web client access to UICalendar and are working on it.

Mar 22 2004 - We could not get the web client working properly so we will bring down the entire server at 5pm for system reset.

Mar 20 2004 - Icarus will be down for software maintenance starting at noon on Saturday March 20th, 2004. We expect to have Icarus back up by 5pm, possibly earlier.

Mail delivered to Icarus, Webpages hosted on Icarus, and shell access to Icarus will be unavailable during this time.

- ACCC Systems

Mar 03 2004 - The ADSM Network Backup sservice will be down Wednesday March 3 from 11:00AM to 1:00PM to complete the hardware upgrades started on Monday.

On Monday, with the system already down and disassembled on the floor, we found we were missing one vital part. I just got that part in, so now we can finish the job.

Roger Deschner
ACCC Basic Systems Group

Mar 03 2004 - We lost power to router 22 for a short period of time around 3 PM this afternoon due to a dislodged power cable. Cable was reinserted promptly, service restored. A small number of departmental distribution subnets were affected. Jack Gallagher ACCC NOC

Mar 02 2004 - We are currently experiencing problems with Mailserv. We do not have an estimate as to when it will be back up.

Mar 02 2004 - One of our servers was overloaded with processes causing problems for Mailserv, the server has been rebooted and mailserv is back up.

Mar 02 2004 - mailserv will be down for maintenance from 11:00 PM Tue Mar 2 to 2:00 AM Wed Mar 3. Users of Webmail and Eudora who have their mailbox located on mailserv will not be able to access their mail in that interval. Mail directed to people on mailserv will be queued so none will be lost.

Mar 01 2004 - The ADSM network backup service will be down for hardware upgrades all day Monday March 1, from about 10:00AM until 5:00PM. No backups or restores will be possible between that time. All previously backed up files will be safe, and will be available for restore when it is back up again. Mid-day is the quiet time for this system - it does its heavy work in the evening. We are planning to have it running again before the nightly backup cycle begins at 5:00PM. These upgrades should speed both backups and restores, and provide the capacity for the increasing number of increasingly larger computers we are backing up.

Roger Deschner
ACCC Basic Systems Group