Dear All:
I would like to inform that we have run our upgrades and most systems and
functions are back up and open for use. We did run into some problems and
the following are still not up:
1) storage volume /disk/eagedisk1 is unavailable.
(affect only a select set of project/users)
2) servers nber3 and agesas1 are still down.
We are working on these. At the moment we cannot give an ETA on these
items as we need to figure out the reason and a solution.
All web, email, administrative, accounting services and computing servers
are up other than the ones mentioned above.
What was done?
1) Firewall firmware updated.
2) OS has been updated.
3) R was upgraded from version 3.5.1 to 4.0.3 (latest).
(some of you may have locally installed R libraries. These may have to
be updated as we moved to R4.0.3. R3.5.1 is still available. You can
use the commands R3 or R3script).
4) Other packages were updated as well.
Please let us know if you encounter any issues.
We thank you all for the patience and consideration and apologize for any
inconveniences this operation may have caused.
--
NBER IT Team.
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On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, Mohan Ramanujan wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> NBER IT Team
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> 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 Sat Oct 31 2020 - 18:53:10 EDT
