[Update 20:58] All systems are patched and rebooted. Please contact support with any questions. —- SDSC will be applying critical patches to Centos 7 Linux systems tonight, 22 January 2019, starting at 17:00. This maintenance will require a reboot of all systems listed below. Please contact support@sdsc.edu with any questions or concerns. Updates will be …
Category Archive: News
General announcements
SDSC Planned Maintenance – Linux update/reboot – 18 Dec 2018, 17:00-23:00
[Update : 21:31] All systems are online. [Update : 20:48] Patching has been completed on all systems. One system (komiyama-compute1) is still to reboot. If you have concerns or questions, please email support or contact the SDSC Helpdesk. — On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 between 17:00 and 23:00, general system maintenance, including patching and reboots, …
SDSC Planned Maintenance – Portmapper block at network border – 28 Nov 2018
On Wednesday, 28 November 2018, SDSC’s Security Team will implement a network border block that prevents hosts running the RPC Portmapper service (port 111/udp) on SDSC’s networks from becoming unwilling participants in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This change will not affect port 111/tcp. Please contact Winston Armstrong (SDSC CISO) or Scott Sakai (SDSC Security Analyst) …
SDSC Outage Notification – Firewall Network Issues – 26 Nov 2018, 14:35-14:50
On 26 November 2018 between roughly 14:30 and 14:50, systems behind the SDSC firewalls experienced limited network connectivity. Engineers have corrected the issue and systems are accessible. Please contact SDSC Operations or regular support channels with further questions.
SDSC Maintenance – Routine VMware host patching, 19-20 Nov 2018
Starting this evening, SDSC will patch underlying VMware ESXi hosts to address security vulnerabilities. These patches have been tested and have shown no issues. This will not affect the running VM guests as each ESXi server will be placed into maintenance mode which performs a live-migration to other hardware.
SDSC Planned Maintenance – Linux Patch/Reboot – 16 Oct 2018, 17:00-23:00
[update – 19:59] All Linux maintenance has been completed. Please contact support if you have any questions or concerns. — On Tuesday, 16 October 2018 between 17:00 and 23:00, general system maintenance, including patching and reboots, will occur for the following systems. Systems will be unavailable during reboots. Please save all work prior to the …
SDSC Network Maintenance (data center and offices), Tuesday, 9 Oct 2018, 1900-2300
[update – 00:30] All services have been restored at this time. Maintenance complete. [update – 22:57] Storage and network engineers continue to work on the switches which connect the Universal Scale Storage service. The maintenance on this switch group will run beyond 23:00 and is expected to be resolved by 01:00, 10 Oct 2018 [update …
SDSC Power Outage
0510 – UPS system restored to proper operation. All systems stable at this time. 0350 – UPS (non-emergency) system placed into bypass, and power restored. CPT technician en route – ETA 0500 – to restore battery protection. 0327 – Power restored to building, and systems normalizing. At 0159 we sustained a power …
SDSC Outage Notification – Project Storage ps-078:/ps-data/yeolab – 25 Sept 2018, 10:45
[Update – 11:19] The JBOD was brought back online and verified. The JBOD storage for ps-078:/ps-data/yeolab has faulted and the array is offline. Engineers are investigating and working to repair the array.
SDSC Planned Maintenance – Windows desktops patch/reboot – 18 Sept 2018, 17:00-23:00
[Update – 22:57] All maintenance has been completed and SC-VAULT has been migrated to the new server. Please contact support if you have trouble accessing the shares. — On 18 Sept 2018 at 17:00, IT Systems will be patching SDSC AD Windows desktop and laptops against recently released vulnerabilities. The installation of the patches should …