System Status
System Interuptions - Winter Break, Jan. 2009
| System(s) | Change & Date | Interuption Time | Durration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classroom | Upgrades - Mon. 1/5 | 12:00pm | 25 min. |
| Intro Lab Desktops | Upgrades - Mon. 1/5 | Evening | 25 min. per machine |
| SVN Server | Moved - Tues. 1/6 | 3:00pm | under 10 min. |
| Systems Monitor | Moved - Tues. 1/6 | 3:30pm | under 15 min. |
| Network Info Server | Moved - Tues. 1/6 | 4:20pm | under 1 min. |
| Print Server | Moved - Tues. 1/6 | 10:00pm | under 15 min. |
| DNS & DHCP Server | Moved - Wed. 1/7 | 2:15pm | under 1 min. |
| Secondary Web Server | Moved Wed. 1/7 | 9:30pm | under 10 min. |
| Primary Web Server | Moved Wed. 1/7 | 10:00pm | under 15 min. |
| Curr. Adv. Lab Desktops | Upgrades - Wed. 1/7 | Early Eve | 10 min. per machine |
| Faculty Linux Desktops | Upgrades - Wed. 1/7 | 10:00pm | 10 min. |
| Remote Access Server | Upgrades - Fri. 1/9 | 9:00am | about 30 min. |
| Sometime the week of 1/12 00 more details as it gets closer | |||
| File server | Early the week of 1/12 00 more details as it gets closer | ||
Additional Changes over Break
- Printer Comsc2 will be taken out of the office, it is currently offline.
- Printer Loaner will be taken out of the Intro lab.
- Al81 (desktop adv lab linux box) is going out for repairs
- Room 113 Windows desktops will become Linux desktops for this next semester.
- An Instructors desktop machine will be added to the Intro Lab.
- Next release of DrScheme will be installed as soon as it comes out, it is expected just prior to the first week of classes.
Printing Again! Dec. 16
At 3:30pm EST on Dec. 16 the print server was rebooted. — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/12/16 15:47
Printing - Dec. 2
We had some printing problems that may have been the result of insufficient temp space on our print spooler. I have doubled its memory and given it 4 times as much temp space. I think it should now be up to the task.
So, it was rebooted twice between 5:30pm and 6:00pm on Tuesday Dec. 2nd. when applying and testing these changes.
Please let me know if you continue to have any printing issues.
-Greg — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/12/02 17:48
New Printer
The printer asprey is now a new HP LaserJet and is full duplex. Loaner is still on line, but if you have a multipage job, please send it to asprey and save some paper.
— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/11/07 09:04
Oct. 7th 8pm - 9pm Web and Print Servers down
This was a scheduled outage for maintanance to the host hardware for those servers. -Greg
Network problems Sat. Eve, Oct. 4
We have been having some ongoing network problems tonight. More as I am sure of it. — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/10/04 23:41
Printing back up
Friday Oct. 3
Our print spooler had some problems Friday afternoon and I moved it to a different host. Our older xen (virtual machine) server is having some problems. I am in the process of moving its hosts to another xen server.
Printing is back up now and should stay that way,
-Greg — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/10/03 18:10
Server Repairs Friday Morning September 12
As of 10:30am all our servers are up and running again.
We were down from 8:30am until 10:30am.
We changed the machines that our firewall was running out of due to a bad power supply, and we moved the machine that our mail server was running out of. What was the mail server, after fan repair became the firewall and the mail server seems happy in it’s new home which is a repaired machine with more processing power that the old one had.
So, all is done, all is up and running. Now I order parts...
— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/09/12 10:48
Sept. 8 2008 Squirrelmail was off line late night
Our Squirrelmail server was offline for part of last night. It has been back since early this morning (Sept. 9). It should be fine now, but if you are currently experiencing any problems with it please let me know. — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/09/09 07:06
Sept. 8 2008
Monday, shortly before 6AM a hard drive on our oldest server died. This drive served a few older sections of our web site as well as the usr/local section of solaris programs. We had a clean backup, and the partitions have been restored. — Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/09/08 17:11
IsoHome: You CAN take it with you!
If you are leaving Vassar, don’t forget to pack your CS computer account! We have written a script to automate the process of creating a CD image of your account see. For information and instructions see:
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sysnews/isohome
Watch this space for updates.
More as I know it,
Greg
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— Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/02/05 22:56