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SDSC PM Notification – 5 June 2012, 5pm – Network, Linux, Solaris

Title: SDSC PM Notification – 5 June 2012, 5pm – Network, Linux, SolarisDescription: – Hardware maintenance on East Colo Arista switch to replace failed fans. Hosts attached directly to the East Arista will lose connectivity. Scheduled outage is 5pm – 5:45pm PDT. – Network maintenace to update VR ID numbers on VLANs provided through routers …

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[Resolved] Power outage on ‘orange’ system in West Data Center

SDSC customers, Today at ~3:30PM and again at ~8:30PM the ‘orange’ power system failed causing an outage to a number of colo customers.  Those customers were contacted directly.  During this outage we have replaced critical equipment that should result in a once again stable power source.  We will monitor both power and cooling systems closely …

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SDSC PM Notification: 5:00pm – 9:00pm 5/1/2012 – Solaris patching and reboot

On Tuesday, 1 May 2012, between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM the following Solaris systems will be patched and rebooted (once each): iedb insilico ps-c01-2 ps-c02-1 ps-c02-2 sam-qfs-01 sam-qfs-02 sam-qfs-03 sam-qfs-04 sanka seqtool Each reboot is expected to take about 5 minutes, and the services provided by each host will be unavailable during this time. To …

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SDSC PM Notification, 5pm – 9pm, 5/1/12, merrimac.sdsc.edu /

On Tuesday, May 1, 2012, from 5:00-9:00pm IT Systems will be patching and rebooting the general Linux login host merrimac.sdsc.edu, also known as ll.sdsc.edu and login-linux.sdsc.edu. Please log out before 5pm to avoid losing any in progress work. During this maintenance the login host will be unavailable

SDSC PM Notification: 5/1/12, 5pm – 9pm, Samba service maintenance

Tuesday, May 1st at 5pm, IT Services will be performing maintenance on hosts serving the SDSC Samba service. Please save any work before the 5pm maintenance period.

SDSC PM Notification: 5/1/12, 5pm – 9pm, Red Hat Linux Xen VM

Tuesday, May 1st at 5pm, IT Services will be patching all production Red Hat Linux Xen guests and Xen servers for regular maintenance. Please save any work before the 5pm maintenance period. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. The follow systems will be patched and rebooted: artemis bss-prod bss-staging bss-test …

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RESOLVED: Emergency Maintenance, 2/29/12, 11:00pm, Commvault: SAMQFS

  Services have been restored. Thank you. We experienced unexpected downtime of the SAMQFS tape archive starting at 10:06pm which has caused the Commvault jobs to pause. Technicians are actively working to resolve the outage and we will post notification once Commvault is back online.    

SDSC PM Notification: 2/21/2012, 5:00pm-8:00pm, VM Guest Windows

>Tuesday, February 21st at 5PM, SDSC IT Systems will be patching the base >operating systems of VM guests to protect against recently released >vulnerabilities. Services may be intermittently unavailable as the VM >guests are rebooted between 5PM and 8PM.

SDSC PM Notification: 5:00pm – 9:00pm 2/7/2012 – Solaris patching

>On Tuesday, 7 February 2012 between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM, the following >Solaris systems will be patched and rebooted twice (patch, reboot, >patch, reboot): > > ace1 kdc1 kdc2 lager ns1 pastor ps-c01-1 > ps-c03-1 ps-c03-2 romaine wmd yuban > >Each reboot is expected to take 5-10 minutes, and the services >provided by each …

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SDSC PM Notification, 2/7/12, 5:00-9:00pm – SDSC Web Services

>On Tuesday, February 7th 2012, from 5pm to 9pm, IT will be patching and >rebooting the Red Hat Linux reference systems that host many of our web >applications. During the reboot, web services on these hosts will be >unavailable. The total downtime is expected to be 5-10 minutes for each >host, but unexpected complications could …

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