News - Apr 2006

Apr 26 2006 - UICalendar is down again this morning due to the failure of the usually ultra-reliable Network Appliance Filer (file server).

Network Appliance has dispatched an engineer and some parts and we hope they will begin working on repairs 10:00am.

At this point we feel it is not worth going to a backup of the UICalendar database made Tuesday AM, due to the fact that some recently added events may be lost. We may reconsider this decision if the filer is not quicky repaired.

Apr 26 2006 - Network Appliance replaced several NVRAM cards and the file server is up again. We are now running a backup of the UICalendar database. When that is finished, we'll run a database consistency check/fix tool to insure against any database corruption. At this point we're hoping to have UICalendar up and running by 1pm.

Apr 26 2006 - The Network Appliance technician replaced several NVRAM cards by 11:30 am, but later we found that the technician had not removed a protective label which was preventing the NVRAM batteries from re-charging. So, we had to stop the file server and re-open it, resulting in an additional hour of delay.

After the file server was up and running again, we had to run the Oracle Calendar Database Consistency Check+Fix tool to insure against database corrupion. This process took another hour. UICalendar was finally running at 1:15 pm Wednesday.

Apr 25 2006 - We're experiencing problems with the UICalendar file server and are checking into it.