Re: NBER Computing Facilities Downtime, Sunday, July 4, 2021 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST.

From: Mohan Ramanujan <mohan_at_nber.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 08:50:52 -0400 (EDT)

This is just a heads up that we will be starting our operations at 9:00am
today (in 10 mins). Thank you.

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NBER IT Team
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, Mohan Ramanujan wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> We are expecting lower than usual activity during July 4th holiday and are 
> going to take that opportunity
> to performance some maintenance work on our servers and systems.
>
> When: Sunday, July 4, 2021 from 9:00 AM to about 5:00 PM EST.
>
> What is being done:
>  * upgrade of OS on computing servers
>  * upgrade of OS and hardware replacement on storage server behind the VPN.
>  * upgrade of Virtual Machine OS and utilities affecting Accounting and 
> other staff systems
>
> What will be affected:
> * standard (non-VPN - servers nber0 ... nber9) compute servers will be 
> rebooted.
>   We will get these done before noon so after noon it should be safe to 
> start long-running jobs again
>   Tunnel service for Remote Desktop will also be down until the above 
> servers are rebooted.
> * the servers behind the VPN will remain down through out the scheduled 
> downtime
>   because the storage server will be repaired and upgraded.
> * The accounting servers will be down, including PSA for timesheet entry & 
> FCOI.
>
> What will not be affected:
> * the internet uplink at 1050 Mass Ave will remain up
> * the public web site www.nber.org [www.nber.org] and all back office web 
> functions, including WP
>   submission, admin/tools, etc, will remain up
> * email will remain up
>
>
> 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
> Alex Aminoff:    617-588-0353
> Mohan Ramanujan: 617-588-0367
>

Received on Sun Jul 04 2021 - 08:51:00 EDT