This email is a quick reminder of the upcoming power outage at NBER
tomorrow morning. We have been given a revised start time of 6:00am
instead of 7:00am.
Please make sure you have saved your work, and logged out.
We will send another notification when the computing facilities are
restored.
Thank you.
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NBER IT Team
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Mohan Ramanujan wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> We have been informed by our building management that electricity will be
> shut off for several hours
> starting at 7:00 am on Saturday, Oct 31, 2020. We are taking this
> opportunity to also upgrade operating
> systems of our servers. All servers and office desktop computers will power
> down when the electricity
> is turned off. An estimate of 6-8 hours of power outage has been given to us.
> Then we will need some time
> to make sure all systems come up on the updated operating system. Certain
> services may come up faster
> but you may expect some irregularity in service.
>
> When: Saturday, Oct 31, 2020 from 7:00 AM to about 5:00 PM EST.
>
> What is being done:
> * Upgrade of OS on Computing Servers
> * Security patches.
> * Some storage volume moved to a newer server.
> * Firewall OS upgrade.
>
> What will be affected:
> * Internal and external network will be down.
> * Access to network drive(s) will be down.
> * Email will be down. Anyone sending you emails will be queued at the
> sender's server and will eventually get delivered to you. You will
> not be able to send emails yourself via NBER servers.
> * Accounting servers will be down.
> * Administrative tools for staff will be down.
> * Database(s) will be down.
> * Web based WP submission, Conference invitations and acceptance will
> be down.
> * VPN and servers behind the VPN will be down (only affects those who
> need to use the VPN)
> * WiFi will be down.
>
> What will not be affected:
> * www.nber.org website will remain up, but things related to
> database,
> e.g. WP submissions will be down.
>
> We will send another email once we have restored all services.
> Once again, thank you and we appreciate your support accommodating this
> inconvenience.
>
> NBER IT Team.
> support_at_nber.org or it-staff_at_nber.org
>
> Dan Feenberg: 617-863-0343
> Mohan Ramanujan: 617-588-0367
> Alex Aminoff: 617-588-0353
>
Received on Fri Oct 30 2020 - 16:04:52 EDT
