News - Jul 2004

Jul 28 2004 - The tigger system will be down from 1:30AM until 3:00AM early Wednesday morning July 28 for emergency file system maintenance.

Jul 28 2004 - The tigger system will be down again for further repair work on corrupted file systems. It will be brought down at the completion of its backup at 10:00PM, and will probably remain down until 4:00AM.

We regret the multiple extended downtime periods for this, however we feel it is necessary since all of everyone's email inboxes on tigger are at risk until this is resolved.

Jul 21 2004 - The new AIX 5.2 operating system on tigger has been reporting instances of logical data corruption in the 100+GB storage container that holds all of the email inboxes. We hope this is the new OS doing a better job of detecting problems that went unnoticed in the old.

As a precaution, we will bring tigger down tonight at 10pm to run a tool that will check and fix any logical problems in the file system. Tigger should be back up by 2am. We regret any inconvenience caused by this outage.

Jul 17 2004 - Tigger's operating system has been upgraded to AIX version 5.2. The upgrade took much longer than we had planned and we regret any inconveniences caused. Please report any serious problems that you believe may be related to this upgrade via email to systems@uic.edu or a call to the NOC at 312-413-8080 ext 2.

Jul 13 2004 - We are experiencing some disk problems and have taken tigger down while we work to fix it. We hope to be back up sometime around midnight.

Jul 03 2004 - The server that runs the ADSM Backup Service has crashed with a hardware problem. Service will probably be slow to arrive due to the holiday weekend. Watch the left side of this UpReport page for when it is back up.