A drive failed in server STAPPS – one of the 2 4G sys drives.
The drive was reseated and it rebuilt.
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AS400 Journal Reset
All AS400 users will need to sign off the AS/400 at 12 noon today for 15 minutes. A journal needs to be restarted and everyone will need to be off the system. A message will be sent when it has been restarted. Thank you.
Loretta Zimmerman Hawkins
Message sent at 12:15pm
WWW taken offline briefly
Webserver taken offline due to errors.
AS400/Campus Web Op Sys Upgrade, Apr 11-12
The AS400 Administrative Computing system will be taken off-line Friday, 4/11/03 at 5:00pm for an upgrade to the operating system. It should be returned to service by noon on Saturday, 4/12/03.
In addition to the usual administrative system such as Acct Receivable, Accts Payable, HR, Registrar and Fin Aid, the new WebModule (CampusWeb) also runs on this computer and will not be available during the upgrade process.
IMAP Slowdown
IMAP logins, including WebMail, were slow around noon today. The precise reason for the slow-down is under investigation, and InfoSys is watching the server for any repeat occurances.
Half Day Server Maintenance Outage
Beginning at 6:00am on Saturday, 3/29, Info Systems proposes to take all Novell servers off-line for some routine maintenance procedures and to test one, in particular, for possible hardware anomalies. All servers should be back on-line by noon unless the testing reveals problems that need correction.
Systems affected include all Novell file and print services and access to WebMail (the IMAP email server). The EMU web server and the Blackboard server will be unaffected.
Novell servers FS and FSAPPS were rebooted
The server FS and FSAPPS was rebooted to resolve some locked file and locked user issues. It appears to have worked. While the servers were down images were also made.
FS did not go down gracefully. To bring it down I had to power it off. There were several users with files open – were they “really” open, or were they in an ambiguous locked state similar to the files we were trying to free up? Because of this I had to run vrepair on all volumes – there were many errors on userdata. After the server was back up, there were not any problems with the files we were trying to “free”.
BB went down because of a power managment problem
BB went down because of a power managment problem – came back up clean.
BB and DNS outage
Blackboard and Dad Servers went off line. This was due to the power to the UPS going out, causing the power managment software to gracefully shut down the servers. Power was restored and servers brought back on-line.
Faculty/Staff Novell Server Failure
Faculty/Staff Novell server experienced a hard failure on the SYSTEM drives. Both drives in the mirrored set failed. Various restart efforts attempted. Ultimately the SYSTEM disk had to be restored from the daily backups but numerous problems were encountered during the restore.
Dan Marple Jr directed the recovery effort beginning at 7:30am, 3/6. The server was returned to service about 5:00pm.
The server appears to be stable but a final assessment will be made first thing on Friday morning, 3/7. Faculty/Staff can once again use their network drives and printers by restarting their computers and logging in to Novell.