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SDSC PM Notification: 5:00pm – 9:00pm 2/21/2012 – Solaris patching

>On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM, preventive >maintenance will be done on the following Solaris systems: > > billthecat blc carlsbad clark dmv franklin hydra > kimball luray morton multivac pauline ps-c01-2 > ps-c02-1 ps-c02-2 russell statham sybil was-srb > >Each system will be patched and rebooted twice (patch, reboot, …

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NFS outage to be complete at 8 AM

6:44 AM US/Pacific The migration of files from UFS to ZFS file systems is complete, and most services are expected to be restored by about 8 AM.

SDSC PM Notification: 12/20/2011, 5:00pm-7:00pm, VM guest disk

December 20th at 5PM, IT Systems will be migrating the VM disk for the SDSC samba services, the FlexLM license server and the general linux login machine to the new NFS file system. During this time all access to the samba drives both internal and external will be unavailable. Please make sure that any connections …

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SDSC PM Notification: 5:00pm – 9:00pm 12/20/2011 – Solaris

On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM, thefollowing Solaris systems will be patched and rebooted twice (patch,reboot, patch, reboot): eiger glomar matterhorn montblanc niagara niagara-alef niagara-betniagara-dalet niagara-gimel pechanga ps-test-1 shanti silicositu spare5 spare8 spare9 srb-mcat-01 viren vitro vivo Each reboot is expected to take about 5 minutes, and the servicesprovided by …

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SDSC PM Notification, 9:00pm 12/27/11 – 9:00am 12/28/11, SDSC NFS

Dear colleagues, On Tuesday, 12/27/2011, starting at 9:00 PM, SDSC will begin a filesystem migration to ZFS on the core NFS server. During this migration and final rsync all NFS services will need to be stopped. The process is expected to be completed by 9:00am on Wednesday, 12/28/2011. Event status will be provided on http://status.sdsc.edu and …

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Network/Power Interruptions reported, 12/1/11

There are numerous outages to various LA/Riverside CSU and community  colleges due to power outages caused by the high winds in the Southern California regions.  We expect more outages as the winds move south into San Diego and Imperial county. We will provide additional information as it is reported to us.  

(Completed) SDSC Emergency Maintenance, 11/28/11, 2:10pm, /Archive

Zeno.sdsc.edu has been returned to service and all SAM QFS filesystems= are available. If you are still experiencing prob= lems please contact SDSC Operations at (858)534-5090 or operations@sdsc.edu.  SDSC Operations staff are available 24/7 to assist you and can route your issue= to the appropriate staff. Thank you, Matt Kullberg From: Matthew Kullberg <mck@sdsc.edu> Date: Mon, …

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SDSC Emergency Maintenance, 11/28/11, 2:10pm, /Archive Filesystems,

Dear colleagues, The system “zeno.sds= c.edu” which serves as the data login for SAM QFS is currently undergo= ing emergency maintenance.  Users may still access these filesystems v= ia the alternate server “archive0.sdsc.edu”.   SAM QFS NFS shares are unaffected. Affected FS: /archive/science /archive/science2 /archive/users /archive/mdhpss We will provide an update= as soon as more information …

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SDSC PM Notification, 12/6/2011 5:00pm, Solaris patching

Dear colleagues, On Tuesday, 12/6/2011, between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM, the following Sol= aris systems will be patched and rebooted: Utero.sdsc.edu Ptlc.sdsc.edu Knuth.sdsc.edu ns0.sdsc.edu Rojo.sdsc.edu spare2.sdsc.edu Time.sdsc.edu Each reboot is expected to take 5-10 minutes, and the services provid= ed by each host will be unavailable during this time.  To protect your data, please log off and/or …

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11/20/11 ~12PM: Routing problem between UCSD and certain commercial ISPs

There appears to be a routing problem between UCSD and some commercial ISPs.   UCSD’s upstream provider, CENIC, has received similar reports from other southern California schools and is investigating.  They believe a problem exists with ther peering connections to some ISPs and are actively working on the problem UCSD is working on this problem.  for …

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