Hello Everyone:
We are happy to report that all systems are up and running again.
We did run into some roadblocks on a couple of items but have managed to
update the OS on the servers and have updated the hardware issues on our
storage server. We did not take up upgrading the virtual machines and
hosts as we had run out of time of the announced downtime. We will take
this up at a later date. The affected users for that downtime will be a
much smaller set from the NBER staff.
Please do report any problems or other inconsistencies you encounter that
could be a result of our upgrade work today so we can try to fix them.
We thank everyone for the cooperation and apologize for any inconvenience
this operation may have caused.
Happy 4th!
Thanks.
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NBER IT Team.
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On Sun, 4 Jul 2021, Mohan Ramanujan wrote:
> This is just a heads up that we will be starting our operations at 9:00am
> today (in 10 mins). Thank you.
>
> --
> 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 - 19:17:28 EDT
