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Monthly Archives: September 2003
EMail Server Failure – Incoming Internet Mail Rejected
Mail coming to the EMU email server from the Internet was rejected between 5:00pm and 6:40pm today (Wed, 9/17). We estimate this involved about 1,000 messages, many of which were likely spam. The senders of this mail should have received error messages.
Early Morning Calendar Outage
The calendar server was taken offline for about 30 minutes in order to make a backup image of the server OS.
Calendar Server Login Failure
Logins to Calendar Server from non-web clients failed. Problem was a repeat of an occurence on 08/31/2003. Problem seems to have occurred only since the upgrade to 9.0.4 was performed.
Jeremy is tracking the details of these failures so that a complete description can be given to Oracle in order to open a support ticket.
Blackboard server outage 7 AM Sept 5
A patch was applied to Blackboard at 7:45 AM. Application was unintrusive and system unavailability lasted only a few seconds.
Very Short Network Outage Early Monday, 9/1
Very brief planned outage required to activate a new version of the central router’s operating system. This is needed to correct a flaw that prevents use of a new component added in July 2003 that provides gigabit connectivity for various servers.
It is possible that no outage will be perceived. If there is an outage all network services would be affected (i.e. email, Internet, Novell, Blackboard, Sirsi/Sadie (Library), AS400, Calendar).
This outage moved us from IOS 7.6(1) to 7.6(3). This did not take care of the problem with the 6148 Gig blade. Cisco states there is a hardwaree/software flaw where packets are being dropped. There is no resolution for this as of now They will be sending us a 6516 blade to use as a loaner till this problem is resolved.