Title | Date/Time | Duration | Impact | Reason | Description of Work | Planned/ Unplanned | Status |
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Matlab Licence Server | 19/7/2012 | 0800 - 1200 | Licenses not being served. | Unplanned | |||
Plone WCMS server | 16/6/2012 | 04:30 - 08:40 | Loss of access to Plone sites hosted on wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk | Apparent hardware failure | Server rebooted and checked. | Unplanned | complete |
Home directories | 31/5/2012 | 07:00 - 10:00 | loss of access to some home directories | following an essential server reboot | planned reboot but unplanned consequence | complete | |
student.compute | 31/5/2012 | 12:30 - 14:30 (max) | loss of service | upgrading from sl6.1 to sl6.2 | see email to UG/MSc students on 28/5/2012 | planned | complete |
staff.compute | 31/5/2012 | 09:00 - 11:00 (max) | loss of service | upgrading from sl6.1 to sl6.2 | see email to staff/PhDs on 25/5/2012 | planned | complete |
student.login | 25/5/2012 | 09:00 - 11:00 (max) | loss of service | upgrading from sl6.1 to sl6.2 | see email to students on 21/5/2012 | planned | complete |
staff.login | 24/5/2012 | 09:00 - 11:00 (max) | loss of service | upgrading from sl6.1 to sl6.2 | see email to staff/phd's on 18/5/2012 | planned | complete |
mailman lists | 30/3/2012 - 15:53 | mail.inf, lists.inf and postbox.inf unavailable | Possible missing mailman lists | unplanned | mailman and sendmail have now been restarted (16:18) | ||
staff.compute | 29/03/2012 | 08:00 - 13:00 (max) | loss of service | server being upgraded to sl6 (64 bit) | See reminder email to staff 27/3 | Planned | Completed |
School Database Upgrade | 23/03/2012 08:00 | 4 hours | Theon UI read-only for the duration; loss of legacy / direct client access; no sync updates. Portal unaffected. | Major upgrade to school database server | The school database server 'cake' is to be upgraded to DICE SL6 and to the latest PostgreSQL 9.1.x release. This involves data preservation in a variety of formats and creation of a readonly mirror, moving services to the mirror, then a full reinstallation of the server and restoration and QA of the data to ensure integrity. | Planned | Pending |
staff.login | 19/03/2012 | 2 hours max | Minimal loss of service | server being replaced so new SSH RSA key. Redundant aliases being removed. | See email to staff 16/3 | Planned | Completed |
heffalump |
11/03/2012 | ongoing | Loss of service | Hardware failure on this host is rendering it unusable at present. | Unplanned | Investigations are ongoing. | |
SL6 SAN work - tibs | 5/12/2011 14:00 | 2 hours | Loss of tibs backup server - no selfmanaged backups will be possible | The tibs server also uses the SATABeast for storage | See above | Planned | Complete |
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