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NBER: Re: Completed - NBER Computing Facilities Downtime, Friday, Jan 7, 2022 6pm-9pm EST and Sat, Jan 8, 2022 9:00am-3:00pm.
Re: Completed - NBER Computing Facilities Downtime, Friday, Jan 7, 2022 6pm-9pm EST and Sat, Jan 8, 2022 9:00am-3:00pm.
Dear Mohan,
Thank you and the rest of the team for working on this over the weekend! I
can confirm that email is now working again!
Happy New Year!
Debby
On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 5:26 PM Mohan Ramanujan <mohan_at_nber.org> wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> We are happy to report that all systems are up and running again.
>
> What was accomplished:
> 1) Firmware on storage NAS servers were updated.
> 2) Firewall appliance is replaced.
> - For those who use the VPN, it will work with both "customized
> port" 10443
> as well as the standard https (port 443)
> 3) Operating system on Research computing servers was updated.
> 4) R was upgraded from 4.0.3 to 4.1.2.
> 5) Python was upgraded from 3.7 to 3.9
> 6) Stata was updated for both stata16 and stata17, and default stata now
> is stata17.
>
> Please do report any problems or other inconsistencies you might 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.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> 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
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2021, Mohan Ramanujan wrote:
>
> > Dear All:
> >
> > Happy Holidays!
> >
> > As in previous years, we would like to take the opportunity of lighter
> than
> > expected usage during the AEA's ASSA meetings (Jan 7-9, 2022) to upgrade
> and
> > update Operating Systems, firmware on our computing cluster and upgrade
> our
> > firewall.
> >
> > This time we are splitting our operations over two days as it involves
> > two major items on the agenda.
> >
> > --------------------- PART I ----------------------------------
> > When (Part I): Friday, Jan 7, 2022 6:00pm - 9:00pm EST.
> > What (Part I): Upgrade OS of file servers that affects all VPN side
> > servers.
> > What will be affected(Part I):
> > All research computing servers on the VPN side
> age1...age17,
> > agesas1...agesas3, etc,
> > will hang and stop responding, but jobs are expected(but
> not
> > certain)
> > to resume when the fileserver is upgraded and is back up.
> >
> > What will not be affected (Part I):
> > No other service is expected to be down and it includes
> > website,
> > back-office, admin/tools, email, staff computing or network
> > shares.
> > Research computing servers - nber0..nber9 will also
> function
> > normally.
> >
> >
> > --------------------- PART II ----------------------------------
> > When (Part II): Saturday, Jan 8, 2022 9:00am - 3:00pm EST.
> > What (Part II):
> > * Swap in new firewall
> > * Upgrade to compute server OS
> > * Enabling connection to default https port for VPN
> > connection. This will
> > minimize configuration changes for VPN client setup.
> >
> > What will be affected (Part II):
> > * Network will be down. Login from both inside and
> > remotely will be down.
> > * While the email servers, accounting servers, back-office
> > servers will remain up, access to them will be down as
> the
> > network will be down. Once the new firewall is installed
> > email, back-office, and accounting servers will resume
> > working. Any emails sent from email clients may be
> > queued on the client and will be sent out once the email
> > server is accessible.
> > * Back-office and database related functions like, WP
> > submissions,
> > conference submissions and notifications, admin/tools
> will
> > all be
> > down till the firewall is installed.
> > * Wifi will be down till the new firewall is installed.
> > * All Research computing servers - nber0...nber9, and
> > age1...age17,
> > agesas1...agesas3, and other servers -
> > will be rebooted. This means any running jobs will get
> > terminated and they would have to be run again.
> > * VPN will be down as long as the firewall is down.
> >
> > What will not be affected (Part II):
> > * Website - www.nber.org will remain up but as mentioned
> > WP submissions and conference notifications will be down.
> >
> > Configuration changes to VPN users will be sent separately. The
> > existing configuration is expected to work as is so immediate change
> > to your setup is not necessary.
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > We will send another email once we have restored all services.
> > 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 Jan 08 2022 - 17:42:01 EST
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